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If I Could Be with You (James P.Johnson–Henry Creamer)Louis Mazetier & François Rilhac 1218Trevor Richards NO Trio CD 1222Duke Heitger’s Big Four 1367Paul Asaro & Neville Dickie 1404ASM, 1926, Jerome Remick. Subtitle “(OneHour To-night)” is on cover but not copyrightpage.If I Ever Cry (You’ll Never Know)(Sylvia Clark–Bobbie Kuhn–Eddie Kuhn)John Gill’s Novelty Orchestra 1270ASM, 1925, Milton Weil.If I Had a Million Dollars(Matty Malneck–Johnny Mercer)Rusty Taylor’s New Jazz Review 1186Dick Sudhalter & Connie Jones 1207San Francisco Starlight Orchestra 1334Rec. Boswell Sisters, 10/4/34, Brunswick 7302,01957, A-9672; Columbia 36523 et al. JoeHaymes, 10/9/34, Banner 33222, Melotone13189, Oriole 3016, Perfect 16008 et al. GeneKardos, 10/8/34, Vocalion 2814.Confirmed 8/30/34 copyright reg., w/m both.If I Had a Talking Picture of You(B. G. De Sylva–Lew Brown–Ray Henderson)Peter Ecklund’s Melody Makers 1175Ingham–Grosz Hot Cosmopolites 1285San Francisco Starlight Orchestra 1364Confirmed by my 1928 sheet music.If I Had My Way (James Kendis–Lou Klein)Ronn Weatherburn 1107Canary Cottage Dance Orchestra 1400ASM, 1913, James Kendis; w. Klein/m. Kendis.If I Had You (Ted Shapiro–Jimmy Campbell–Reg. Connelly)John Gill Sentimental Serenaders 1424Interesting: Wikipedia says that it’s by IrvingKing (pseudonym for Campbell & Connelly)and Shapiro, and from 1928. And it’s not to beconfused with the Irving Berlin song of thesame title. Strangely, all of my recordings of itthat mention composers mention our three,none mentions Irving King.Rec. by Crosby in 1929, says Gill (and this isa Crosby tribute).Copyright reg. isIf I had you; fox-trot, words and music byTed. Shapiro, Jimmy Campbell and Reg.Connelly; pf. acc., with ukulele arr. by HankLinet. © Dec. 28, 1928; 2 c. Dec. 29: E pub.2627; Robbins music corp., New York.And MTSU has sheet, makes no mention ofIrving King. Same with IN Harmony. To hellwith the Irving King red herring.If I Let You Get Away with It Once,You’ll Do It All of the Time(Fred Rose–Jack Frost)Newberger–Mazzy–Thompson 1352CD has second part of title in parens assubtitle, and did not have “of.”Rec. Margaret Johnson, 10/19/23, OKeh 8107,Parlophone E-5187. Not in copyright catalog1923-24, but I did learn that Jack Frost really isH. G. Frost. Odd: Rust indexes using ourcomplete title, although with commaseparator, while the entry for Johnson is just “IfI let you get away with it.”Aha! The OKeh 8107 label isIF I LET YOU GET AWAY WITH IT ONCEYOU’LL DO IT ALL OF THE TIME(Fred Rose-Jack Frost)both lines same font, so it’s one long title, nota subtitle.It was copyrighted in 1921:IF I LET YOU GET AWAY WITH IT ONCE,YOU'LL DO IT ALL OF THE TIME; lyric byJack Frost, music by Fred Rose [of U.S.] ©May 2, 1921; 2 c. May 6, 1921; E 510472;McKinley music co., Chicago.I’ll suggest that they didn’t put that comma onthe record label because the line break camethere--the comma would look odd hanging outthere. But both the record label and thecopyright indicate that it’s all one long title, nota title and subtitle.If It Ain’t Love (Fats Waller–Andy Razaf–Don Redman)Grosz–Ingham Paswonky Serenadrs 1214James Dapogny & Butch Thompson 1183Independence Hall JB 1386Neville Dickie 1397ASM, 1932, Davis, Coots & Engel.(Gee, I’d Be Happy) If SomeoneWould Only Love Me (Ben Garrison–Harrison G. Smith)South Frisco JB 1143< Bob, your Jan 2000 note says to changecomposer to Ben Garrison on the firm basis of“I can’t recall why I know this; I think from JimDapogny. I’ll call him.”Clear back at the 2nd edition, VinceSaunders told us:If Someone Would Only Love Me (ThenI’d Be Happy) by Ben Garrison/HarrisonSmith. Morton’s business partnerssupposedly stole this from him.Your response at the time was just, “Wright’sMr. Jelly Lord confirms our current title,” withno mention of the composer discrepancy.Looks like we need to go back to work on thisone.Morton recorded it in 1930, Victor 23321.Victor Project says Morton is composer, basedon Victor ledgers; LCSONIC agrees.Anderson fake book: If Someone WouldOnly Love Me [no subtitle mentioned], BenGarrison/Harrison Smith, 1930; rec. by JellyRoll Morton.9/1/00: LC copyright card is If SomeoneWould Only Love Me, melody by Jelly Roll(pseud. of Ferd) Morton, 3/22/32, SouthernMusic Co., NY, unpublished.This gets hard. Our ears tell us it’s a Mortoncomposition, and he did indeed submit it forcopyright, but perhaps two years after twoother fellows.Sheet music collectors, was this everpublished?11/9/00: Dave Jasen is sure it was neverpublished, so Garrison-Smith credit inAnderson fake book isn’t worth much. I mustconfess that I overrated it in my notes above.After all, there is a Jelly Roll card in LC cy files;there is not a Garrison-Smith card.11/15/00: But now comes copy of copyrightpage of sheet music (from Tex W.), dated1930, that calls it (Gee, I’d Be Happy) IfSomeone Would Only Love Me, music Ben.Garrison, words Harrison Smith. Seems to mewe have to go with this unless we getsomething more definitive.If the Rest of the World Don’t WantYou (Go Back to Mother and Dad)(Dave Dreyer–Alex Gerber)Ernie Carson & the Castle JB 1277Convoluted story, this one: Gerber (w) &Dreyer (m) copyrighted it 10/30/23 as “If therest of the world don’t want you (go back toyour mother and dad). Then on Nov. 17 theyreregistered it without the your in the title.The sheet music was published by IrvingBerlin without the your in the title.Albert Hunter recorded it 2/24 on Paramount12093 with the “your” title, but many otherrecordings in Jan. 1924 either without the yourin the title or with just a shortened title withoutthe subtitle.In any case, the published sheet music willout.If Those Lips Could Only Speak(Charles Ridgwell–Will Godwin)Grand Dominion JB 1330We had Ridgewell, which appears to be acommon mistake--but the 1906 copyright andthe serious sheet music indexes tell us he’sactually Ridgwell.