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Alstyne-Williams] via your note of 5/29/93.Lissauer confirms these composers.}--3>BUT Kinkle lists it as It Looks Like a Big NightTonight by Van Alstyne-Kahn, 1908.But wait: I just rechecked Lissauer, and thetitle there is really It Looks to Me Like a BigNight Tonight, Van Alstyne-Williams, 1908.Warren Craig, Sweet and Lowdown: America’sPopular Songwriters (1978), says, “It LooksLike a Big Night Tonight from 1908 show‘Nearly a Hero,’ Egbert Van Alstyne & HarryWilliams.”OK, found the 1908 sheet music in Levy onlinecollection: It’s It Looks Like a Big Night Tonight(note the hyphen, but on the cover it’sspelled as two words [TO NIGHT]) words byHarry Williams (no initial; see below); music byEgbert Van Alstyne. Wonder how all thoseother listings came about.And here’s our answer to where Time camefrom: Long before they recorded it for you,Bilk and Colyer had recording that tune underthe Time title, and other Brits followed suit,including Brits who came to America andrecorded for Stomp Off, such as the Albionand Grand Dominion bands. But clearly thetune is well known under the Time title, so wemust put that here as an alternative title.MORE ON HARRY [H.] WILLIAMSBob, I think we may have gotten misdirectedon his middle initial. I did in fact find it on thecopyright page (although not the cover) of Inthe Shade of the Old Apple Tree. This camewhen we were trying to sort out whether theAmerican Harry Williams was the same chapwho co-wrote It’s a Long Way to Tipperary,so it seemed logical to apply the H. toAmerican Harry to help make the distinction.But since then I’ve run into Harry Williams onother sheet music (see above), in articles, inbooks, and he’s never referred to as anythingbut Harry Williams, with no initial.Which is logical, since with rare exceptions,people don’t use a middle initial with anickname: Dick A. Baker and Bob R. Erdoslooks strange. Unless we can find that H. onsome other sheet music, I’m going to kill theH.It Makes My Love Come Down(Bessie Smith)Pierre Atlan’s Piccadilly Revelers 1181Pam Pameijer’s New Jazz Wizards 14322013 review: Rec. Bessie 8/20/29, Columbia14464-D, Biltmore 1038. Confirmed by9/27/29 copyright reg. And aha: LC SONICshows Bessie as composer on Columbia14464-D, but a Humphrey Lyttelton onParlophone credited Clarence Williams, whichis what Elvers must have seen.It Makes No Difference Now(Floyd Tillman–Jimmie Davis)Chris Tyle’s NO Rover Boys 12358/23, from Library of Congress copyrightregistration card as researched by MatthewCaulfield:Unpub. 5-25-38, w/m by Floyd Tillman; pub.1-29-39, w/m by Jimmie Davis & FloydTillman.It Must Be Love (Harry Dial)Hot Antic JB 1058Rec. by Harry Dial’s Blusicians, 5/15/30,Vocalion 1515.Copyright:It must be love; words and music by H. Dial.© 1 c. Oct. 9, 1930; E unp. Harry Dial,Chicago.But note that there were four more songs ofthat title copyrighted in 1930, most notablyone by Mack Gordon & Abner Silver for SwingHigh. But Hot Antics specifically said they’replaying the Harry Dial tune.It Takes a Good Woman (to Keep aGood Man at Home) (Jack Yellen–Milton Ager)Helm–Leigh Jazz & Blues Review 1331We missed the subtitle on this one. Rustshows it, and LC SONIC has a bunch ofrecordings, all showing it.Copyright reg. 9/22/26 w. Yellen/m. Ager, asjust “It Takes a Good Woman,” but later rereg.for mechanical reproduction rights adds “tokeep a good man at home” to the title,obviously because that had been put on mostof the recordings of it.It Takes Love to Cure the Heart’sDisease (James P. Johnson)Marquet–Persson Melody Boys 1229Definitely on a Johnson piano roll (Biographhas reissued it twice). YouTube video ofplayer piano says QRS, 1921, and says it’sone of his own songs. Not in copyright books1920-22. Never found a primary source, butPerfesser Bill and zillions of other refs say hewrote this.It Was Only a Sun Shower(Irving Kahal–Francis Wheeler–Ted Snyder)Barbara Rosene & Her New Yorkers 1422Confirmed by 1927 sheet music pub.Waterson, Berlin & Snyder. w. IK-FW/m.Snyder.It’s a Long [Long] Way to Tipperary(Jack Judge–Harry Williams)Chris Tyle’s Silver Leaf JB 1258Bob Schulz & His Frisco JB 1315Canary Cottage Dance Orchestra 1400