[Dixielandjazz] Some of These Days

[ROBERT R. CALDER]

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Date: Sun, 10 Aug 2008 12:16:08 -0400
From: tduncan <tduncan at bellatlantic.net>
Subject: [Dixielandjazz] Some of These Days
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The composer of the song was Shelton Brooks, 
who died in 1975 aged 89. There is a Brooks website

http://www.jass.com/sheltonbrooks/

of sorts, and of course you can also read Ms. 
Tucker's reminiscence of meeting Brooks and how she recorded
the song in 1910-11, when it was new. 
There is a very good performance of it by Willie the Lion
Smith, with an intricate left hand,  and a 1927 recording
by Fletcher Henderson is one of the few recordings on which
his band really "stomps" as Coleman Hawkins remembered it did 
live.  

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In searching for copyright info to obtain a mechanical license for a
 CD, Iwas referred by the Harry Fox site to "the publisher". Harry Fox said
 they could not license this tune.
 
ASCAP lists a number of "composers", but they may be arrangers also.
 Can
anyone help with the appropriate contact to obtain the license for this
 tune
(as done by Sophie Tucker, for instance - but, our own arrangement)
 
Thanks,
 
Tom Duncan
Doctor Dubious and the Agnostics
PO Box 2118      Teaneck, NJ 07666
P   (201)836-6076     FAX   (201)833-4143
www.doctordubious.com <http://www.doctordubious.com/> 
 


 
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