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

[Tony Orr]

check the Ben Bernie and His Hotel Roosevelt Orchestra recording
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Yvh2uQFT30

Tony Orr
banjo - Wombat Jazz Band

On 16/05/2013 6:33 AM, Bruce Stangeland wrote:
> 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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> 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
>
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