[Dixielandjazz] Did King Oliver write "Sweet Mumtaz"?

[Dick Baker]

In my efforts to double-check and confirm every 
title in the Stomp Off catalog, I went to the 
Library of Congress copyright files to confirm 
the well-known fact that Luis wrote this tune, 
which he recorded twice, but nobody else did at 
the time.  Much to my surprise, I find a 
copyright that says Oliver wrote it, Russell just arranged it:

         Sweet Mumtaz; melody, J. Oliver, of U.S., arr. Luis C. Russell.
         © 1 c. June 6, 1925; E 616496; Joseph Oliver, Chicago.

I found most of the original 1926 record labels 
that Russell's recordings came out on, and they 
all credited Russell.  I checked my own record 
collection and found that in my 11 recordings of 
it, only one band, Buck Creek, had attributed it to Oliver.

Has anybody here every run across any information 
that would explain this discrepancy?





--Dick Baker
Working on an updated version of the Stomp Off 
Records Tune Titles and Composers Index
See working draft at http://dickbaker.org/stompoff/index.pdf