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Jimmy Noone Jr/Davies Rhythmic 5 1121Rent Party Revellers 1220Les Red Hot Reedwarmers 14359/10/96, LC copyright card confirms these plusHerb Scharlin. 1929I Got It Bad (and That Ain’t Good)(Duke Ellington–Paul Webster)Paris Washboard 1347ASM, 1941, Robbins; m. DE/w. PW showsI Got It BadAnd That Ain’t GoodOn both cover and (c) page.I Got the Stinger (Jabbo Smith)Scaniazz 1038Hot Antic JB 1044Rec. Jabbo 6/9/29, Brunswick 7120, JHCAHC-97. Confirmed by 10/14/29 copyright reg.and Brunswick label.I Got What It Takes (but It BreaksMy Heart to Give It Away)[I’ve Got What It Takes (It BreaksMy Heart to Give It Away)](Clarence Williams–Hezekiah Jenkins)Susan LaMarche/Waldo’s Gut. Sync. 1032Banu Gibson NO Hot Jazz Orch 1073Rusty Taylor’s Jazz Makers 1082Steve Waddell’s Creole Bells 12301st three as I Got, Waddell as I’ve got; both(but it breaks...)In Rust under I’ve Got... And if you lookaround, you’ll very commonly find both. Andit’s no wonder why:1. On May 13, 1929, Williams copyrighted it as“I've got what it takes, but it breaks my heart togive it away”2. Two days later, Bessie Smith recorded it onColumbia 14435-D as “I got what it takes (butit breaks my heart to give it away).”3. Then in October, Williams himself recordedit on OKeh 8738 as “I’ve got what it takes (itbreaks my heart to give it away).We’ll keep the Bessie version we had as theprimary title (it was, after all, the first“publication” of the song), but we must makenote of the fact that the composer himselfrecorded it under a slightly different title.(And note that in 1922, Lucille Hegaminrecorded the exact Williams copyright title onCameo 254, but that was a song by Turk &Robinson from Plantation Revue.). AND also in1925 there was “I've got what it takes, but itbreaks my heart to give it away, words &music by Charlie Jackson.I Got Worry (Love Is on My Mind)(Peter De Rose–Jo Trent)Back Bay Ramblers 1279HSM confirms subtitle; 1927, Broadway Music;w. Trent/m. De Rose.I Had Someone Else Before I Had You(and I’ll Have Someone After You’reGone) (Jack Stanley–Harry Harris–Joe Darcy)South Frisco JB 1035ASM has that sheet music too; 1924, LeoFeist.I Hate a Man Like You(Jelly Roll Morton)Newberger–Mazzy–Thompson 1352Rec. Lizzie Miles, acc. by JRM, 12/11/29,Victor V38571, Biltmore 1023. JRM in LC-Lomax interview, released on Circle 86-58.Confirmed by 1/2/30 copyright reg.I Hate Myself for Loving You(Billy Price*)Newberger–Mazzy–Thompson 1352Rec. Halfway House Orch, 4/26/28, butreleased only on VJM (Vintage Jazz Musiic)VLP-22.Confirmed by 11/22/26 copyright, which alsoconfirms our pseudonym listing.I Hate to Lose You(Archie Gottler–Grant Clarke)Down Home JB 1273ASM, 1918, Waterson, Berlin & Snyder; w.Clarke/m. Gottler. Cover has subtitle “I’m SoUsed to You Now,” but it’s not on thecopyright page.I Have to Have You (Leo Robin–Richard A. Whiting)Back Bay Ramblers 1355Barbara Rosene 1368Confirmed 11/13/29 copyright reg., w.Robin/m. Whiting, from Pointed Heels.I Just Want a Daddy (I Can CallMy Own) (Thomas A. Dorsey)Bob Oliver’s Hot Seven 1312Rec.Monette Moore, 1/23, Paramount 12028.Evidently no subtitle.Alice Carter, 6/1/23, OKeh 8076. Evidently nosubtitle.Chas. A. Matson Creole Serenaders, 7/30/23,Edison 51224. Label does have the subtitle.Maggie Jones, 8/23, Black Swan 14153,Paramount 12136. Evidently no subtitle.Copyright:I just want a daddy I can call my own; w andm Thomas Dorsey, of U.S. © July 20, 1923;2 c. July 26; E 568182; Jack Mills, inc., NewYork.OK, subtitle on copyright and at least onerecording, so we keep it.I Know Gabriel Hates That Music(Jean-Pierre Morel)Les Rois du Fox-Trot 1429Morel’s the cornetist/bandleader.I Know That My Baby Is Cheatin’ on Me(Chick Endor–Harry Steinberg–Eddie Lambert)Rusty Taylor’s Jazz Makers 1082Neely’s Royal Society Jazz Orch 1208And composers on 1208 were Endor-Steinberg.2013 review: Reminder: This wasmisidentified on 1082 as the Pollack-Yellen“Cheatin’ on Me” from 1925. This one is 1928,says Neely, rec. by Sophie Tucker (that’s whyit’s not in Rust). Confirmed 10/10/28 copyrightreg., w/m by both, and it’s Baby Is.But wait a minute: The Sophie Tucker labelColumbia 4995, British issue) confirms Baby Isbut says composers are Endor-Steinberg-Lambert; made in London with her pianist TedShapiro as Ted Shapiro aho (probably usingBritish musicians). I searched long and hard,