[Dixielandjazz] Joe Avery Blues & Rock Around The Clock

[tcashwigg at aol.com]

Yep they do Bill, and this is exactly the fodder that keeps the RIAA,  
ASCAP and BMI and SESAC AND the US COPYRIGHT OFFICE, IN BUSINESS AND 
THIER LAWYERS GETTING FATTER AND FATTER still trying to settle the 
first lawsuit they filed years ago, same old story different day.    
All the old and many of the new songwriters borrowed lines and riffs 
 from each others songs and in many cases just outright stole them in 
the first place.   Hence old what's his name that refused to ever 
record cause he didn't won't nobody stealin' his music.    Hummm the 
old boy had something there huh?   Even W.C. Handy and Clarence 
Williams were not beyond stealing a tune or two or God Forbid  Saint 
Jelly roll Morton, :))    It obviously became enough of a problem that 
they had to create ASCAP and BMI  & the copyright office to deal with 
it.


When the Hell are they gonna start suing the damned DJs??


Cheers,

Tom  "there outta be a law" Wiggins  :))



-----Original Message-----
From: Bill Gunter <jazzboard at hotmail.com>
To: barbonestreet at earthlink.net; dixielandjazz at ml.islandnet.com
Sent: Tue, 31 Jan 2006 04:05:33 +0000
Subject: RE: [Dixielandjazz] Joe Avery Blues & Rock Around The Clock

   Hi all, 
 
 Steve B wrote (Regarding Joe Avery Blues and Rock Around the Clock): 
 
  >My two cents is with Sheik's take. The tunes are different . . that 
is . . 
  >as different as blues tunes can be, given the similar chord 
structures. 
 
  I'm attaching a .pdf file of a lead sheet of Joe Avery Blues from the 
Firehouse Fake Book. You can look at it and make your own determination 
if it is similar (and to what degree) it is to Rock Around the Clock. 
The song lis listed also as "The New Second Line." 
 
  This excerpt from the Firehouse Fake Book also includes the notation 
that "Joseph 'Kid' Avery as a New Orleans trombonist and bandleader 
born in 1892. He took the very old "Holler Blues" melody and made it 
his own." 
 
 I guess a lot of blues tunes owe something to the "Holler Blues" - 
 
 Respectfully submitted, 
 
 Bill "Rockin' around the clock" Gunter 
 jazzboard at hotmail.com 
 
  
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