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

[Stan Brager]

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-----
From: Dick Baker [mailto:djml at dickbaker.org] 
Sent: Tuesday, June 11, 2013 7:58 PM
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Subject: [Dixielandjazz] Brunswick 4936, Cab Calloway's "Gotta Darn Good
Reason Now"

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.

I haven't been able to locate that label, but I've found that record indexed
in two very thorough collections (LC SONIC and Univ of Missouri), and in
both cases they say Berle-Wilson-Tauber, so I suspect that's what's on the
disc.

Hope you can help.


--Dick Baker
Working on an updated version of the Stomp Off Records Tune Titles and
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