[Dixielandjazz] Brunswick 4936, Cab Calloway's "Gotta Darn Good Reason Now"

[Dick Baker]

Stan,

Possible, I suppose, but I'm now pursuing another theory.  I've 
learned that Brunswick 4096 was issued twice (Rust confirms this, as 
does the published Brunswick discography).  The first time, it was 
ascribed to The Jungle Band (a pseudonym for Calloway), and 
definitely carried the Berle-Wilson-Tauber composer credit.  But it 
was later reissued, this time ascribed properly to Cab Calloway and 
His Orchestra.  Since I've found so many references crediting it to 
Wheeler-Wright, I suspect that the reissued version gave them 
composer credit--perhaps because they wrote the Calloway arrangement 
of the song and Calloway or Brunswick wanted to give them credit for 
it.  What I'd REALLY like to find now is a copy of that reissue 
version.  But it must be pretty rare:  So far I've tracked down six 
copies of Brunswick 4096, and all six have been the Jungle Band release.

At 07:04 PM 6/12/2013, Stan Brager wrote:
>Dick;
>
>Just checked ASCAP - they show the same as what you found. Now, it also may
>be the case, as it was no entirely uncommon, that Wheeler and Wright may
>have sold the music to Berle and Tauber (or their agents).
>
>Stan
>Stan Brager
>
>-----Original Message-----
>Friends, I really need a look at this record label, recorded by Cab Calloway
>as The Jungle Band.  All the popular sources say it was written by his
>sidemen De Priest Wheeler and Lammar Wright.
>
>But the copyright will startle you:
>
>          Gotta darn good reason now for bein' good; lyric by Milton Berle
>          and Leonard Wilson, music by Doris Tauber; pf. and ukulele acc.
>          C Aug. 7. 1930; 2 c. Aug. 30; E pub. 17506; Mills music, inc.,
>          New York.

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      Dick Baker
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