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<span id="smartReply53385">I've been looking for a lead sheet to a Bo Carter tune called I'm So Blue. </span></div>
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<span>There's a very good version on youtube by Tuba Skinny but I can't find a sheet anywhere.</span></div>
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<span>All the best</span></div>
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<span>Grahame Parker</span></div>
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<div id="divRplyFwdMsg" dir="ltr"><font face="Calibri, sans-serif" color="#000000" style="font-size:11pt"><b>From:</b> alevy@alevy.com <alevy@alevy.com><br>
<b>Sent:</b> Saturday, February 16, 2019 5:12 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> Grahame Parker<br>
<b>Cc:</b> List<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [Dixielandjazz] [ ]Limehouse Blues</font>
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<div>Thanks to all who went out of their way to help.</div>
<div>Believe it or not I really appreciate the response.</div>
<div>My query was tongue in cheek.</div>
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<div>Paragraph 4 should have given me away.</div>
<div>"I think whom ever edited or typeset this song was STANDING when </div>
<div>he should have been sitting down!"</div>
<div>a reference to the topic I was "changing"</div>
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<div>It was truly a criticism of the monster called "Hal Leonard."</div>
<div>From January 1949 through August 1955 I worked in the Brill Building. </div>
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<div>That's 1619 Broadway, if my memory is right. I knew just about every</div>
<div>publisher going. There were some in Radio City and many in what we</div>
<div>called the "Irving Berlin" building, 1650 Broadway.</div>
<div> </div>
<div>To make a long story longer;</div>
<div> </div>
<div>In the year 1993 or there about's I called "Famous Music", the publishing</div>
<div>company belonging to Paramount Pictures. The voice on the other end</div>
<div>answered the phone with "Good Afternoon, Hal Leonard."</div>
<div> </div>
<div>What!, oh well, I took a shot and asked for a person I knew. He was still</div>
<div>working there and we reminisced for a while. I asked for a copy of a</div>
<div>Four Freshman tune that have never been published. They had a</div>
<div>hand written lead sheet. My buddy was very generous and</div>
<div>faxed the tune to me. I in turn created a real Piano / vocal score </div>
<div>with Finale and mailed it to him, with a "Famous Music" copyright notice.</div>
<div> </div>
<div>I took it upon myself to call about 50 other publishers, mostly small companies</div>
<div>who had small catalogs, primarily jazz. Holy Mackerel, every company I called</div>
<div>responded with "Hello, Hal Leonard". They bought up the entire industry, well</div>
<div>almost all. Frank Loesser "Frank Music" managed to hang on.</div>
<div> </div>
<div>My current anger was created by a book called "Nostalgia Songs", given to</div>
<div>me by a friend a few years ago. I didn't crack it open until last month.</div>
<div>The songs are all Public Domain but have a Hal Leonard copyright.</div>
<div>It is easy enough, for me, to know which tunes are Hal Leonard sheets,</div>
<div>and which sheets are from the original sheet music.</div>
<div> </div>
<div>"Limehouse" was a H.L. piano sheet. Many obvious mistakes. </div>
<div>I am enjoying the book for two reasons. Many of the tunes are</div>
<div>not found in any fake book (I have 30 different) so I am putting</div>
<div>them on line. I am also getting a great "feel" for Americana at</div>
<div>the turn of the century. 1900 - 1930.</div>
<div> </div>
<div>There are tunes by George M. Cohan, Irving Berlin, Jerome kern</div>
<div>George Gershwin, and others that are great fun to analyze, </div>
<div>learn the lyrics and play.Many are suprising and have quite a bit of humor.</div>
<div> </div>
<div>"I Have Bells On My Fingers" - I never knew that was about an</div>
<div>Irishman cast away on an African Island.</div>
<div> </div>
<div>"If I Knock The "L" Out Of Kelly". sounds like a fight. Not so,</div>
<div>it is more wonderful Irish humor.</div>
<div> </div>
<div>Having lived through "Women's Lib", "Gay Lib." "Black Lib.",</div>
<div>the tunes in this book are helping me to hear "Irish Lib" which</div>
<div>I never even heard about. George M. Cohan obviously was</div>
<div>determined to gain respect for his heritage! "Harrigan, That's Me!"</div>
<div> </div>
<div>The book is fun except for the pitiful arrangements created by the</div>
<div>Hal Leonard staff. And they have the Chutzpa (nerve) to copyright</div>
<div>songs like "The Banana Boat Song" - calypso folk tune,</div>
<div>"Casey Jones" - American Folk Tune and destroy standards with</div>
<div>really bad sheets.</div>
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<div>Just for the record: My last editing "job" was at M.T.I., the company </div>
<div>formed by Frank Loesser, Don Walker and somebody else, I forgot who.</div>
<div>,,, senior moment (Music Theater International)</div>
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<div>I had to edit the London score of "Les Miserables" down to size, both in</div>
<div>time and number of instruments, for high school and local theater groups.</div>
<div>One of the logistic problems: cut x number of measures but keep the </div>
<div>measure numbers the same as the original score.</div>
<div>I know this is not trad but music publishing effects all of us, standing</div>
<div>or sitting.</div>
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<div>'nuff said,<br>
Al<br>
Please visit me at<br>
<a href="http://alevy.com">http://alevy.com</a></div>
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