[Dixielandjazz] Re: Composer of "Black Cat On The Fence"?

[Bruce Stangeland]

Thanks for your help with "Black Cat On The Fence".

I'll go with Charlie Love in 1949 as being close enough.

Cheers,
Bruce

> From: Bill Haesler <bhaesler at bigpond.net.au>
> Date: Wed, 01 Jun 2005 09:29:59 +1000
> To: Louis Lince <louislince at neworleansmusic.demon.co.uk>, Bruce Stangeland
> <stangeland at earthlink.net>, dixieland jazz mail list
> <dixielandjazz at ml.islandnet.com>
> Subject: Re: Composer of "Black Cat On The Fence"?
> 
> Dear Louis,
> Thank you for your confidence!
> My sources say tpt player Charlie Love composed "Black Cat On The Fence".
> He recorded it with Louis Delisle's Band (Love; cltist Big Eye Louis Nelson
> Deslisle; tbnist Louis Nelson; Johnny St Cyr, g & Austin Young, d.) for Bill
> Russell's American Music label in NO on 19 July 1949.
> According to Bill Russell, Charlie Love (at the session) "laughed and
> explained that 'Black Cat on the Fence' was the only polite title they told
> the girls when they asked the name of the piece".
> Ken Colyer's first version was made in New Orleans on 23 Feb 1953 (I have it
> on a Dawn Club 12025 LP).
> He also recorded it in London for English Decca (I have the Lake 5006 LP
> reissue) in Oct/Nov 1956.
> From then on it became a favourite with the New Orleans 'revivalists'.
> Sorry Bruce, no date, but assume that it is from the 1940s.
> However, Charlie Love was around for a long time (1885-1963) and had been
> playing since 1925.
> Kind regards,
> Bill. 
> 
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From: <louislince at neworleansmusic.demon.co.uk>
Date: Tue, 31 May 2005 15:01:33 -0400 (EDT)

Depending on which source you seek there are two contenders for authorship,
year unknown - Narvin Kimball and Emanual Sayles.

I have no definitive view, but some-one(Bill Haesler!!) I am sure will let
us know

Best

Louis
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