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own handwriting, as "Frog-i-more Rag." S&Psay Froggie Moore, 1923, w/m JRM-BenjaminF. Spikes-John C. Spikes. Blue cat uses"Froggie Moore," but we probably ought tohave cross-ref from Frog-I-More [Rag]."Hagert goes with Frog-I-More, as doesSaunders; both note that it was also recordedas "Sweetheart o’ Mine."Erdos: [chose "Froggie Moore [Frog-I-More]"--2>--4>!!see notes after talk with Erdos 7/25/07decided that we need “Frog-i-more Rag” aswell in this mix. But Bob, it sure looks to me,based on earlier copyright card and the JellyRoll manuscript in Lomax, that “Frog-I-More(Rag) should be the primary title, with theothers listed as alternatives.I’ll be darned: 30 minutes after writing theabove, I found your note of 4/5/11 suggestingthe same thing. Consider it done.And for what it’s worth, John Gill sent me acopy of the sheet music from 1923 with title“Frogie Moore” by Spikes-Spikes-Morton.For what it’s worth some more: ASM has“Sweetheart o’ Mine (1926, Melrose Bros.; w.Walter Melrose/m. Ferd Morton. But the coverslug is “The Ballad Beautiful” and the lyrics aresyrupy and maudlin. How could this possiblybe the frisky Froggie Moore.Found this in the liner notes to a NewLeviathan LP:“Frog-I-More Rag” was composed in 1908by Ferdinand Joseph Lamothe, aka JellyRoll Morton... In 1923, the songwriting andpublishing Spikes Brothers added wordsand published it as “Froggie Moore”....Three years later, it was brought further intothe American music mainstream when theMelrose Music Co. had Charles L. “Doc”Cooke turn it into a lushly orchestrated foxtrotballad with a verse and lyrics by partnerWalter Melrose. At the same time, they gaveit a new name, “Sweetheart o’ Mine.”It’s sure hard to listen to Froggie Moore andSweetheart and connect them as the sametune. And it’s a hell of a stretch to suggestthat “Sweetheart o’ Mine” is but an alternativetitle to Froggie Moore. It’d take a keenmusician’s ear to find the Frog in Sweetheart.Frolic Sam (Cootie Williams)Paris Washboard 1347Rec.Barney Bigard, 12/19/36, Variety 525,Vocalion/OKeh 3813, Parlophone R-3199.Duke Ellington, 6/25/38, Jazz Panorama LP-14(LP).Confirmed by 11/5/37 pub. copyright reg. andby Variety label.From Monday On (Harry Barris–Bing Crosby)Barbara Lashley & Ray Skjelbred 1152Keith Nichols Cotton Club Gang 1242ASM, 1928, Shapiro, Bernstein.From Sunrise to Sunset (FromSunset Till Dawn (BennyMcLaughlin–Jack Miller)San Francisco Starlight Orchestra 12961296 had “From Sunrise to Sunset,” but bothcover and (c) page showFrom Sunrise to Sunset(From Sunset Till Dawn)ASM, 1929, Irving Berlin.Frosted Chocolate (Harry Reser)Howard Alden with Dick Hyman 1200Not in Rust. Confirmed by 1/19/35 copyrightreg.Frotti Frotta (Claude Luter)Jacques Gauthé’s Creole Rice YBJB 1256A search returns it more often without thehyphen, which is how it appears in the onlineCopyright Encyclopedia, which indicates thatit was copyrighted 1956, renewed 1984.Nearly all the French sites are without hyphen,so we’ll go there too.Frozen Bill (Arthur Pryor)Univ. of Wisconsin Symphony Band 1246Glenn Jenks & Dan Grinstead 12921909 sheet music (pub. Carl Fischer) confirms.RAG is fairly prominent on cover, but stillsmaller than title; on cy page it’s veryobviously a genre marker.Funny Bones (C. L. Woolsey)David Thomas Roberts 1132ASM, 1909, Jerome Remick, as C. L. Woolsey.WHEN I GET here and check this one, lookaround and see if there’s really any reason tokeep calling him by all three names. Heseems to have published only as C. L. Seeexample of M. L. Lake. Queried Tom Brier,who said,It looks like we may know him as Calvin LeeWoolsey, but to his sheet-music buyingpublic he was always C. L. Woolsey, both ascomposer and publisher (he self-publishedmost of his own music). If he was ever Calvinin print, I've never seen it (and I have ninescores, including a march and two songs).Funny, Dear, What Love Can Do(Joe Bennett–George A. Little–Charley Straight)Barbara Rosene & Her New Yorkers 1422Funny dear what love can do; words andmusic by George A. Little, Charley Straightand Joe Bennett. [Words and melody only]© 1 c. July 20, 1929; E unp. 9039; Leo Feist,inc., New York.Found the cover online, and it has thecommas, but some online refs don’t. But AlexHassan has the sheet, and confirms that thecy page has the commas.Funny Feathers (Victoria Spivey)Des Plantes’ Washboard Wizards 1357Rec. Spivey 7/10/29, OKeh 8713, ParlophoneR-2177, Jazz Classic 568. Red Allen 9/24/29(w/Spivey vcl), Victor V-38088, Bluebird B-6588.Conf. 12/7/29 copyright reg.Funny Fumble (Harry Dial)Hot Antic JB 1154Chicago Rhythm 1164Rec. Dial 5/15/30, Vocalion 1515.Oops, copyright isFunny (The) fumble; by H. Dial. © 1 c. May19, 1930; E unp. 21971; Harry Dial, Chicago.But no, the Vocalion label has no The, so Iguess they thought better of it when theypublished.Funny Honey (Raina Reid–Andy Leggett)Charleston Chasers 1314Reid was a member of the band; her husband,Andy, had been a member earlier.Fussy Mabel (Jelly Roll Morton)Terry Waldo’s Gotham City Band 1201Pam Pameijer’s New Jazz Wizards 1335Rec. 3/20/30, Victor V-38135, 70-0003.Confirmed by 6/5/30 copyright reg.Futuristic Rhythm (Jimmy McHugh–Dorothy Fields)Hot Antic JB 1099Dick Sudhalter & Connie Jones 1207Louisiana Washboard Five 1398ASM, 1928, Mills, w. DF/m. JH.GGaby Glide, The (Louis A. Hirsch–Harry Pilcer)Waldo’s Jazz Entertainers 1377ASM, 1911, Shapiro; w. Harry Pilcer/m. LouisA. Hirsch (1377 had just Louis Hirsch).Galion Stomp (Lovie Austin)Art Hodes Blues Serenaders 1184Pam Pameijer’s New Jazz Wizards 1382Rec. Austin 8/26, Paramount 12380, 14030.No credit on Paramount 14030, no copyrightreg. 1927-29. We have nothing but secondarysources: RHJA, Online 78. And fact thatHodes attributed it to her--he was active inChicago when she was.