[Dixielandjazz] Why I was looking for that Bessie Smith record, or...

[Bill Haesler]

Dick Baker wrote [in part]:

> What's right?  Well, my feeling is that the original publication title is definitive.  If the original publication of a tune was sheet music, you use that.  If it was a recording, you use the title on the record label.

Dear Dick,
I wholeheartedly agree.

> So the Stomp Off index will list it under the Bessie Smith title, but since Clarence Williams was both the composer and a famous musician too, we'll put his OKeh label version as an alternative.  And if you look for it as "I've got...," you'll find a cross-reference:  See "I Got..."

Notwithstanding that Bessie sings "I've Got.." all the way through, indicating that Columbia mislabelled the tune?
Jus' kiddin', jus' stirrin'.
8>)

> ...in 1925, Lucille Hegamin recorded the exact Williams copyright title on Cameo 254

Try 1922.

> ...but that was a song by Turk & Robinson from "Plantation Revue."  

This is interesting
   http://www.ovrtur.com/show/120647
even though we have this evidence:
   http://www.worthpoint.com/worthopedia/1920s-jazz-blues-78s-cameo-label-133066947

> AND also in 1925 Papa Charlie Jackson copyrighted a song by that same title.

With label credit to (Davis-Jackson). Davis being Selma Davis =  A la Moore = Aletha Dickerson.  

All I seem to be doing is keeping you away from your Stomp Off task. 
And you mine.
8>)

Very kind regards,
Bill.