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<DIV>As to PD songs - I was on the copyright committee</DIV>
<DIV>for ASMA (The American Society Of Music Arrangers)</DIV>
<DIV>back in the 1950's. We were petitioning congress to</DIV>
<DIV>consider music arrangers as co-composers.</DIV>
<DIV>It never happened.</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>I am currently working on a web page of 100 (pd) songs </DIV>
<DIV>copyrighted by Hal Leonard in 1991.</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>I own much of the original sheet music with the original publishers</DIV>
<DIV>name and date. To quote Jolson - "If you don't hear about me then </DIV>
<DIV>you'll know I'm in jail." - Toot, Toot Tootsie</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>If you want titles check out <A
href="https://alevy,com/midi/nostal.html">https://alevy,com/midi/nostal.html</A></DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>Lots of early Gershwin, Irving Berlin, Gus Kahn, George M. Cohan</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>Maybe I am "losing it" but I can't stop singing "Mandy, there';s a</DIV>
<DIV>minister handy" </DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>The company included a few really old folk songs I guess to fill</DIV>
<DIV>the book. It probably totals about two to three hours of music.</DIV>
<DIV>Almost all the songs have the verse included. The old, original</DIV>
<DIV>piano arrangements are "fun". The new "contrived" arrangements </DIV>
<DIV>are for the most part dull. I made up one or two just because I
couldn't</DIV>
<DIV>take what was written in the book. I also made corrections when I
found</DIV>
<DIV>lazy or mistaken editing.</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>A.L.</DIV>
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