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Innocent Ingenue Baby (Brian Hooker–William Daly–George Gershwin)Frederick Hodges 1333Confirmed by 12/6/22 copyright reg., w. BH/m.WDGG. From Hayseed.Instantaneous (Walter P. English)Pierce College Symphonic Winds 1297Aha, actually copyrighted as “Instantaneous”;“rag” is a genre marker:INSTANTANEOUS; rag, by W. P. English, ofU.S.; band. 4to. © June 8, 1915; 2 c. June 8,1915; E 364229; J. W. Jenkins sons musicco., Kansas City, Mo.International Rag, The(Irving Berlin)Bob Pelland & Bob Pilsbury CD 1212On CD as “International Rag.” Oops, the 1914sheet music cover (pub. Waterson, Berlin &Snyder) isTHATINTERNATIONAL RAGBut the copyright page is (and most of myrecordings adhere to this usage), isThe International RagInto Each Life Some Rain Must Fall(Allan Roberts–Doris Fisher)Albion JB 1249CD said Allen Roberts.2013 review: Strange, vast number of sourcesagree that it’s Allan Roberts-Doris Fisher 1944,pub. Sun Music Co., but it’s not in copyrightbooks 1943-45. Found several copies of thesheet music on sale online, all agree.Irish Black Bottom (Percy Venable)Peruna Jazzmen 1003Bent Persson’s London Stompers 1167Down Home JB 1171St. Louis Ragtimers 1267Bob Schulz & His Frisco JB 1315M ’N’ M Trio 1319Pam Pameijer’s New Jazz Wizards 1363All our records showed Venable-Armstrong ascomposers.Rec. Hot Five, 11/27/26, OKeh 8447, Odeon279787, HJCA HC-3.OOPS, copyright isIrish black bottom; pf. by Percy Venable; ©1 c. Dec. 20, 1926; E 654631; Consolidatedmusic pub. house, Chicago.AND the composer credit on OKeh 8447 is justVenable. This is another case where theperformer who popularizes a tune getscredited as a co-composer. This wasformalized earlier when Percy Venable’s“Butter and Egg Man” was republished manyyears later as by Armstrong and Venable.That’s nuts! Half the jazz titles in this index areknown today because a great jazz musicianrecorded them and made them popular/famous. We can’t go back and make the jazzstar a co-composer in all those cases.Irish Confetti (George L. Cobb)George Foley 1088Confirmed by 1918 sheet music in folio--odly,not in 1918 copyright book.Irresistible Blues, The (Luckey Roberts)Tom Roberts 1345Confirmed by Vocalstyle 11463 piano roll label(but not in copyright book for 1918-20).Is It True What They Say About Dixie?(Gerald Marks–Irving Caesar–Sammy Lerner)Peter Ecklund’s Melody Makers 1175Confirmed 1/22/36 copyright reg., w. IC-SL/m.GM. No ? in copyright book, but it’s on boththe cover and copyright page of severaleditions of the sheet.Isle of Capri (Will Grosz–Jimmy Kennedy)Pam Pameijer Trio 1172Zenith Hot Stompers 1248Confirmed by 7/27/34 copyright reg., w. JK/m.WG.It All Belongs to Me (Irving Berlin)Keith Nichols Cotton Club Gang 1242Confirmed by 7/15/27 copyright reg.It All Depends on You (B.. G. De Sylva–Lew Brown–Ray Henderson)Barbara Rosene 1368ASM, 1928, De Sylva, Brown & Henderson.It Belongs to You (Albert Brunies–Glyn Lea Long)One More Time JB 1410