[Dixielandjazz] Louis Armstrong music writing abilities

[Paul Edgerton]

Even if the leadsheet is in Lil's hand, that doesn't prove she *composed*
it.  She may have copied the leadsheet on deposit in LOC, but it could have
been composed by anybody.  What really matters is who has legal right of
ownership.

-- Paul Edgerton

On 5/7/07, confit at isp.com <confit at isp.com> wrote:
>
> Steve B. wrote...
>
> "Regarding Louis, at the time he probably could not write music. Lil
> could,
> and she was just as much an embellisher as anyone else. So IF Louis
> composed, Lil wrote it down and could easily put L. Armstrong down as
> composer fooling him while taking credit after they drifted apart. So I
> question who wrote what. Did the original composer credit say L. Armstrong
> or Lillian Armstrong? In the back of my mind is a nagging feeling that the
> composer credit was originally 'L. Armstrong.'"
>
> The Library of Congress has a lead sheet dated 1922 for "Cornet Chop
> Suey," clearly written in Armstrong's hand. Therefore he could write
> music. Other music from that time period, from his association with
> Oliver, is probably in Lil's hand. There are quite a lot of copyright
> deposits of tunes composed by Lil, Oliver and Louis and many appear to
> have been written by the same person.
>
> The big question is whether there is a copyright deposit on file for
> "Struttin." I have never seen one, but there is also a file card for each
> deposit of written music. If this music has gone astray, the file card may
> still exist, and the cards generally had more info on them than the music
> (full name of composer, addresses, publisher, etc.)
>
> Cheers,
> Chris
>
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