<html><head></head><body><div class="ydp5a50b338yahoo-style-wrap" style="font-family: verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">Pronounced "Few-sally-ah!" of course, as the man Ralph Sutton called Wellstride insists on a sleevenote (wonderful sleevenotes he wrote, Dick Wellstood!) <br></div><div class="ydp5a50b338yahoo-style-wrap" style="font-family: verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><br></div><div class="ydp5a50b338yahoo-style-wrap" style="font-family: verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">Dick also composed tunes, and what he called, for instance in compositions by even Earl Hines, pretty well non-tunes. The ideal of the stride non-tune composition was for Dick to have as many changes as possible, for the fact of having to make the change endowed the composition with a built-in accent. A conspiracy to corner tunes in the interest of stride pianists? <br></div><div class="ydp5a50b338yahoo-style-wrap" style="font-family: verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><br></div><div class="ydp5a50b338yahoo-style-wrap" style="font-family: verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">So I have to worry whether my friend, and the man of whose constituency I hope I am a worthy member and neighbour, Ken, not to mention china, ken, might not take amiss the suggestion that Mr. Hyman published doctored chords. <br></div><div class="ydp5a50b338yahoo-style-wrap" style="font-family: verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><br></div><div class="ydp5a50b338yahoo-style-wrap" style="font-family: verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">LIMEHOUSE BLUES conforms to an early definition of Blues, meaning a slow and mournful and melancholy song by no means necessarily on the twelve-bar pattern, and presumably also falls under the cloud raised by Edward Said under the heading ORIENTALISM, and having been composed with an intention to sound "Chinese" -- Limehouse being the area of East London associated with Sherlock Holms, Fu Manchu, opium and chinoiserie -- might be none the worse for the occasional ingenious tweak. As an example of the accursed and 'buked and scorned ORIENTALISM the composition is thus politically incorrect after a fashion which should offend only paranoiacs and can be recommended accordingly, <br></div><div class="ydp5a50b338yahoo-style-wrap" style="font-family: verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><br></div><div class="ydp5a50b338yahoo-style-wrap" style="font-family: verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">Chuberry Ciao!</div><div class="ydp5a50b338yahoo-style-wrap" style="font-family: verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">Robert R. Calder<br></div></body></html>