[Dixielandjazz] Re: Dixielandjazz Digest, Vol 33, Issue 19

[Dick Baker]

 From the Lissauer encyclopedia:

w. Mort Dixon, m. Harry Woods, 1931.  Featured and recorded by Kate Smith 
(Velvetone), Phil Harris (Victor), Art Jarrett with vocal with Jimmie 
Noone's band (Brunswick), Paul Robeson (Victor), Singin' Sam, the Barbasol 
Man (Conqueror), Erno Rapee and his Orchestra (Hit of the Week).  The song 
received additional popularity with the pantomime performance of Jimmy Savo 
in his one-man revue "Mum's the Word."  Savo made it a highlight of his 
vaudeville and nightclub act.


>From: "Brian Harvey" <pembroke.dock02 at ntlworld.com>
>Subject: [Dixielandjazz] Composer please.....
>
>  Can anyone please give me the composer's name for "River stay 'way from my
>door"?
>I'm planning to use a recording of it by the Thatcher-Blount-Vickers band
>and suspect that it might have been penned in response to the 1920's New
>Orleans great flood.
>brian Harvey
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   Dick Baker - Falls Church, Virginia, USA
             box2 at twotonbaker.com