[Dixielandjazz] My Sunday Girl (or "Gal")

[Craig I. Johnson]

If you're an Anderson fake book user, or are interested in music research, read on.
-- Else, hit the delete button.
-cij-

As I've noted before Chas. Anderson's charts frequently point to tunes by the
same title as the chart being viewed, but many of those citations are erroneous
pointers to recordings  OTHER tunes by the same title. Notably, amongst the
citations for "My Sunday Gal" (Ruby, Cooper & Stept)  is a correct one to a
recording by Edwin McEnnely's Orchestra and 2 others which appear not to be the
same tune. One is Cab Calloway's Orchestra which in other notes I find is to a tune
called "My Sunday Gal" and  which appears to have been written by Mitchell Parrish and
Frank Perkins. The other one is to an outing of Duke Ellington's Orchestra listed as
"Rex Stewart's Orchestra" but it is also entitled "My Sunday Gal" not "girl". I can
find no notes crediting either Perkins/Parrish for the that song, nor Ruby/Cooper/Stept.
Rather, loose notes in writeups of the songs would appear to credit Ellington himself,
so it may be a third song by the same (or similar) title..

I have no access to any of the Calloway or Stewart/Ellington recordings at the moment and
cannot find samples on the web. I am sufficiently confident of the fact that the Calloway
recording is of the Perkins/Parrish composition, but would like to pin down the Stewart/Ellington
recording as to whose song it really is.
The recording in question is
Bluebird B-10946, recorded 11-2-1940
and reissued in 1966 on an RCA/Victor album featuring the Ellington band under the leaderships
of both Johnny Hodges and Rex Stewart. 
namely: "Things Ain't What They Used To Be (Johnny Hodges & Rex Stewart)"
and reissued again as a CD by Koch Rechords in 2001
Do you have access to any of these recordings where the liner notes may identify
the composer(s)? Or to listen to the record and see if it is the same tune as the
Cab Calloway Brunswick #6450 recording of 11-30-1932 ?
(The latter is prominent in a Google search as being reissued on CD.)
 
The above 2 (or 3) tunes are not to be confused with 
"A Zoot Suit for My Sunday Gal"  (L. Wolfe Gilbert / Bob O'Brien)
recorded by The Andrews Sisters, Kay Kyser, Elmer Bernstein 
and several others.

 And oh, by the way, I found other recordings of the original song
"My Sunday Girl" (Ruby/Cooper/Stept) at redhotjazz.com
besides McEnnely**, there are recordings by Reser's Clicquot Club Eskimos**,
Ben Selvin's Orchestra and Jack Hylton's Kit Kat Band.
(** indicates that redhotjazz.com has a track you can hear.)


If I had realized there would be so many of these incorrect citations in "Anderson", I would have
taken notes outside my lead sheets so I could publish an errata sheet, but
when I started I was ignorant of the quantity of these errors. My corrections are not so identifiable
in the Sibelius produced leadsheet files for me to write a program to pull them out
into a separate text sheet.

Regards,
Craig Johnson