[Dixielandjazz] "Borneo" by Walter Donaldson (?)

[Bruce Stangeland]

Dick,

I have a pdf scan of Donaldson's sheet music for "Borneo", 1928, copyright renewed in 1955.
Let me know if you'd like it.

Cheers,
Bruce Stangeland
Berkeley banjoist

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From: Dick Baker<dick at dickbaker.org>
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Do any of you have actual sheet music for the "Borneo" that Trumbauer
(with Bix) recorded in 1928 and that jazz bands have been playing
ever since?  It*may*  have been published by Donaldson Publishing Co. in 1928.

I went looking for it, figuring it would be easy to find, but it's
not in any of the big sheet music collections online.  And it's not
just that the sheet music isn't available for viewing; it's not even
*listed*  in the many big collections that index their holdings but
don't make them available for viewing online.

All I could find was "(I Wish That I'd Been Born) In Borneo," w.
Grant Clarke, m. Walter Donaldson, pub. by Irving Berlin in 1920 and
popularized (says the cover) by Eddie Cantor in a show called
"Broadway Brevities."

But that 1920 song is nothing like the song that Tram & Bix recorded
in 1928.  You can see the sheet at

          http://digital.library.msstate.edu/cdm/singleitem/collection/SheetMusic/id/3854/rec/1

You can hear the Cantor recording at

          http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EdY_Kpz7VHI

You can hear the Tram-Bix recording at

          http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R05g33jYYwY