[Dixielandjazz] Composer of "Put 'em Down Blues"

Robert S. Ringwald robert at ringwald.com
Thu Sep 6 07:56:54 PDT 2007


 Bill Haesler wrote:
  
> Dear Phil and Bruce Strangeland,
> Unfortunately, I can add very little more.
> The original Okeh 8503 label of "Put 'em Down Blues" gives the composer 
> credit to (Armstrong).
> However, the ASCAP site has no information on the tune, nor does it 
> list it with compositions by Lil or Louis.
> The next recording of the tune was made 30 years later, to the month, 
> by Eddie Condon's All Stars on 24 Sept 1957.
(snip)

And that Condon recording is a gem!

--Bob Ringwald

 




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