[Dixielandjazz] Stardust Written By Lucky Roberts?

[Robert Ringwald]

This from another email list. Comments?


> I'm curious to know if any other musician/singer/
> composer has made the claim, as Hendricks does in
> this interview, that "Stardust" was composed not
> by Hoagy Carmichael but by Luckey Roberts. It's
> the first time I have heard that assertion.
As concerns the claim of ASCAP keeping out black songwriters: Luckey Roberts has
13 songs in the ASCAP catalog. 293 songs by Fats Waller. 103 songs by James P. Johnson.
183 songs by Jon Hendricks. I don't know what years ASCAP published these.
I don't recall the Louis Armstrong recording Hendricks cited where Armstrong credited
Luckey Roberts as the writer of "Stardust". Anyone have a link to it?
I've always thought "Stardust" was heavily influenced by Hoagy's friend Bix Beiderbecke.
Sounds much more like Bix than stride piano.