[Dixielandjazz] Lou-Easy-An-Ia

[Don Robertson]

I happen to have that Pete Daily record, a 45 RPM.  The Johnson Rag on 
the flip side features an extremely "dirty" tenor sax solo by someone 
named Pud Brown.

Don Robertson
Napa, CA


On 9/23/2013 1:18 PM, Dick Baker wrote:
> Gary et al.,
>
> Here's what I came up with in my research for the Stomp Off Index:
>
> George Buck's notes to Salty Dogs in New Orleans (as Louisian-i-a) CD 
> say,
>
>         "Written in 1950 by Baton Rouge-born clarinetist Joe 
> Darensbourg while driving home from
>         an out-of-town gig with the Kid Ory band.  It was first 
> recorded by Pete Daily shortly
>         thereafter with the composer on clarinet and it became a New 
> Orleans standard."
>
> Looks like that record was Capitol 1370, rec. 12/20/50, with Johnson 
> Rag on flip side.
>
> Well, the copyright has no hyphens and no extra 'i' at the end:
>         LOUISIANA; w, m & (c) Joseph Darensbourg 27Oct50 EU220282.
>
> I found the original Capitol 1370 label, and indeed, the title there 
> is LOUIS-I-AN-IA.  I've
> put on my web site for you to check for yourself, at
>
> http://dickbaker.org/stompoff/Louis-i-an-ia--Capitol-1370.jpg
>
> George Lewis, he recorded it twice in 1953, the first as the bizarre 
> Lou-easy-an-i-a-i,
> the second as Louisian-i-a, which does most accurately mimic the 
> pronunciation
> of the word in the lyrics, and must be the version that most later 
> bands have followed.
>
> My approach in the Stomp Off Index is that an actual published version 
> of a tune, whether that is
> on sheet music or a record label, is definitive, since titles and even 
> composer credits frequently
> change between copyright and publication.
>
> So as far as I'm concerned, the title is the one on the first 
> recording, the Pete Dailey-Joe
> Darensbourg record, and thus is Louis-i-an-ia.
>
>
>> Can someone provide me with some history, insight or anecdotes
>> concerning Joe Darenbourg's "Lou-Easy-An-Ia"? The Anderson book has it
>> with this spelling written in 1949. I have seen it spelled differently
>> elsewhere (without the Easy). Does anyone know the real spelling?
>>
>> I had the great pleasure of playing with Joe when he did a master class
>> at UCLA while I was there. Of course, when Joe was around, we never
>> called this tune by its name but rather "Joe's Tune." He left us a
>> couple of years later.
>>
>> Gary Kiser
>
>
> --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
>
>
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