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Got No Blues (Lil Hardin)Minerva JB 1117Mike Daniels’ Delta Jazzmen 1203Pam Pameijer’s New Jazz Wizards 1350Rec. Hot 7 12/9/27, OKeh 8551,Vocalion/OKeh 3204, Columbia 37536, et al.Got no blues; melody by Lill Hardin. © 1 c.May 10, 1928; E 690493; Consolidatedmusic pub. house, Chicago.John Gill also reports 5/10/28 copyrightdeposit, showing Lill Hardin.Got No Time (Gus Kahn–Richard A. Whiting)Barbara Rosene & Her New Yorkers 1422Confirmed 3/23/25 copyright, also sheetmusic.Got to Cool My Doggies Now (Got toCool My Puppies Now)(Bob Schafer–Babe Thompson–Spencer Williams)John Gill’s Original Sunset Five 1126Neville Dickie 1269And now we know why the confusion. ASMcopy (1922, Clarence Williams) hasGot to Cool My Doggies Now(Got to Cool My Puppies Now)(c) is like this, cover doesn’t have parens, butsecond line is much smaller.Gothenburg Rag (Peter Lundberg)Jack Rummel 1118Written by Swede Lundberg in 1966 after tripto Missouri in 1963, says Rummel. Pub. OakPublications, NY, he says. No 1965-66copyright. Lots of online confirmations, andpublished in 2nd ed of They All PlayedRagtime.Gotta Be, Gonna Be Mine(Fats Waller–Andy Razaf)Neville Dickie 1397Rec. Washboard Rhythm Kings, 12/14/32,Vocalion 1729, Decca F-3781, Brunswick A-81318, A-86017.Confirmed by 7/29/32 pub. copyright reg.Gotta Darn Good Reason Now(for Bein’ Good) (Milton Berle–Leonard Wilson–Doris Tauber)Back Bay Ramblers 12621262 had “Gotta Darn Good Reason Now” byDe Priest Wheeler-Lammar Wright.Frank Powers in notes says first rec. by CabCalloway under his own name, 1930, byWright, his trumpeter, and Wheeler, histrombonist.Oops, Rust says it’s got subtitle (for Bein’Good). Cab Calloway, 7/24/30, Brunswick4936, Lucky 5001. Rust also mentions (asdoes the extensive published Brunswickdiscography), that the original pressing of4936 was by The Jungle Band, but laterpressings were by Cab Calloway and HisOrchestra.But here’s what the copyright catalog has:Gotta darn good reason now for bein' good;lyric by Milton Berle and Leonard Wilson,music by Doris Tauber; pf. and ukulele acc.© Aug. 7. 1930; 2 c. Aug. 30; E pub. 17506;Mills music, inc., New York.An extensive search found at least five copiesin online collections or in the hands of privatecollectors. All were the early pressing by theJungle Band and all did indeed credit Berle-Wilson Tauber. (And had the subtitle)Unless I can find a copy of the later CabCalloway pressing, we can speculate thatmight have carried the credit of Wheeler-Wright. If so, we can speculate that perhapsthose two did the arrangement of the Berle-Willson-Tauber song that Calloway recordedand were being rewarded for that with credits.That certainly would account for all the onlinerefs to the recording that show Wheeler-Wrightas composers.But that really wouldn’t deter us from using theBerle-Wilson-Tauber credit: It was thecopyright credit, and it was the credit on theoriginal record release. That other credits gotput on a later release shouldn’t change that--although, if I were indeed to learn for sure thatthe later Calloway label carried the othercredits, it would merit a note in this entry toindicate that fact.The merriment continues: The credit on theBritish release (Brunswick 01574, as CabCalloway aho) is Burns-Schilling!Gotta Feelin’ for You (Louis Alter–Jo Trent)Ingham–Grosz Hot Cosmopolites 1323Rec.Frankie Trumbauer (as “Got A . . .,” says Rust),5/21/29, OKeh 41252, Parlophone R-434 etal. OKeh label is Gotta.Hot Air Men (Phil Napoleon), 5/23/29,Columbia 1850-D, 5562 et al. 1850-D labelis Gotta.High Hatters, 7/11/29, Victor 22041, HMV B-5719. Victor label is Gotta.Reuben Reeves, 7/22/29, Vocalion 15837.Teddy Joyce, 9/11/29, Harmony 1009-H.CopyrightGotta feelin' for you; from Hollywood revueof 1929, lyric by Jo' Trent, music by LouisAlter; pf. acc., with ukulele arr. by HankLinet. © May 27, 1929; 2 c. May 28; E pub.6348; Metro Goldwyn-Mayer corp., NewYork.Well, Rust indexes it under both titles, andsince the first release, by somebody asimportant as Trumbauer, had the variation, Isuppose we should include it.2013 review: have learned can’t always trustRust for getting record titles correct, so let’slook for them directly [notes inserted inrecording list above].And sure enough, Rust had it wrong forTrumbauer, so there’s no need to respect the“Got a . . .” variant.Gouge of Armour Avenue, The(W. C. Handy)Red Rose Ragtime Band 1399Rec. Faye Barnes, 5-6/24, Paramount 12209.Rust also says it’s on p. 715, which would beFletcher Henderson in 2nd half of 1924, butit’s not there or anywhere else in Hendersonlistings. But Online 78 says Hendersonrecorded it 7/31/24, on Vocalion 14859, asession that Rust presumably intended toprint, but dropped it for some reason.6/30/24 copyright reg. confirms it, as doesHenderson’s Vocalion label.Grace and Beauty Rag (James Scott)Waldo’s Gutbucket Syncopators 1032Red Rose Ragtime Band 1360ASM, 1909, Stark, has (A Classy Rag) insmaller type under title on (c) page, but thatlooks closer to a publicity blurb/genre markerthan to a subtitle.Grampa’s Rag (William R. Hayes)River Raisin Ragtime Revue 1417Hayes is music director of the band, wrote thisin 2003.Grand Boubousse (Sammy Price)Trevor Richards New Orleans Trio 1222Record credited Price-Omer Simeon.Looks like Omer Simeon Trio, with SammyPrice & Zutty Singleton, rec. 1955, Jazztone J-1014 (10" LP).The 1955 copyright book attributes it just toSammy Price. Only mention of Simeon in thebook is for “Lagniappe,” which he and Pricedid collaborate on.I queried Butch Thompson (who was on therecord), who forwarded my query to Richards.He responded that the Jazztone label had nocomposer information, he credited Simeonbecause the titles on that LP were in CreoleFrench and he didn’t figure that Sammy Price,a Texan, would know French. No label, so wego by the copyright, drop Simeon.