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Jazzing the Blues Away (Dick Heinrich–Jeff Branen)Canary Cottage Dance Orchestra 1400ASM: Cover and (c) are Jazzing (we hadJazzin’); w. Branen/m. Heinrich; 1918, A. J.Stasny.Jeanie with the Light Brown Hair(Stephen Foster)Canary Cottage Dance Orchestra 1415This is strange...IN Harmony had two copies,one titled Jeannie with the light brown hair, theother I dream of Jeannie. But I couldn’t viewthem. What’s more bizarre is other sites thathad dozens and dozens of Stephen Fostersongs but not this one, under either title!In LC collection I found Pretty Tunes for LittleFolks No. 14: Beautiful Melodies by StephenFoster Arranged by James Bellak, pub. 1884.In there it was “Jeannie with the Light BrownHair.”At UCLA Consortium found several copiestitled “Jeannie with the Light Brown Hair,” allreissues in the 20th century, as well as an “IDream of Jeannie, with the Light Brown Hair.”But aha, the Wikipedia article on Fosterreproduced the original 1854 cover, which wasindeed “Jeannie with the Light Brown Hair.”Jeannine (I Dream of Lilac Time)(Nat Shilkret–L. Wolfe Gilbert)Dick Sudhalter & Connie Jones 1207Ingham–Grosz Hot Cosmopolites 1323Canary Cottage Dance Orchestra 1415Barbara Rosene & Her New Yorkers 1422Found this several ways online--as one solidtitle, with comma after Jeannine, with subtitlein parens, so I just bought the sheet music(Leo Feist, 1928): Cover and copyright pageare the same:Jeannine(I Dream of Lilac Time)Jelly Bean Blues (Ma Rainey–Lena Arrant)Uptown Lowdown JB 1030Golden Eagle JB 1080Jimmy Mazzy & Eli Newberger 1109Original Salty Dogs JB 1115Magnolia Jazz Five/Jimmy Mazzy 1137Lyttelton–Fawkes Troglodytes 1238Black Eagle JB 1257Grand Dominion JB 1268Red Rose Ragtime Band 14122013 review: Rec. Rainey 10/16/24, Paramount12238, 14016; UHCA 84, et al. Clara Smith,5/3/26 Columbia 14292-D. Copyright isJelly bean blues; w and rn Lena Arrant, ofU.S. © 1 c. Dec. 4, 1924; E 601943; Chicagomusic pub. co., Chicago.(and note that Mother of the Blues: A Study ofMa Rainey, by Sandra R. Lieb, also refers toher as Arrant.)The Rainey Paramount label does have bothnames, but label I found wasn’t clear enoughto distinguish Arant or Arrant. Label on Pm14016 had no composer credits. Oh, NO: Ifound a different copy of 12238 that creditsonly Rainey! LC SONIC has several of theother Rainey issues, on Jazz Collector L-10(Rainey), Jazz Info 8 (Rainey-Arant), UHCA 84(Rainey), AFCDJ A 02 (Rainey).Found evidence that Lena has been spelledboth ways--we have her on See See Rider aswell with same query about spelling. So let’sbreak off here for now and investigate thatsong.And it’s the same story in both cases: LenaArrant with 2 r’s copyrighted the song. Raineyrecorded it and either made changeswarranting her inclusion as composer or justinsisted on a cut for recording it (notuncommon)--or even worse, on some issuesgrabbed sole credit). On the record label,Lena’s name was misspelled.Jelly Roll Blues [Original Jelly RollBlues] [Chicago Blues](Jelly Roll Morton)London Ragtime Orchestra 1081Paramount Theatre Orchestra 1089Turk Murphy JB 1161Jim Cullum JB 1254Ted Shafer’s Jelly Roll JB 1278Black Eagle JB 1303Pam Pameijer’s New Jazz Wizards 1335Yerba Buena Stompers 13752013 review: The one thing we never did waslook for copyrights, record labels, publishedsheet music.Rust indexes it under Jelly-Roll Blues, butactual listings show it both with and withouthyphen, and also as Original J-R Blues.JRM pno, as J-RB, 6/9/24, Gennett 5552 et al.Gennett label is Jelly Roll Blues by Ferd (JR)Morton.JRM RHP, as OJ-RB, 12/16/26, Victor 20405,Bluebird B-10255 et al. Victor is Original J-RBlues by J-R Morton’s RHP.Huh? No recordings by Jelly Roll asChicago Blues? Many recordings of ChicagoBlues in Rust, but none has JRM as sideman.Bucktown Five, 2/25/24, Gennett 5419 is byBiese-Altieve-Williams.Lillian Goodner, 12/23, Ajax 17020.Fletcher Henderson, 2/24, Pathe 036069,Perfect 14250 is Biese-Altiere-Williams.James P., 6/18/28, Columbia 14334-D is byBiese-Altiere-Williams.Luella Miller, 8/1/28, Vocalion 1234. By Millersays Online 78Clara Smith, 1/31/24, Columbia 14009-D, is byBiese-Altiere-Williams.In Jelly’s Blues, Gaines and Reich write ofJelly in Chicago:Nor had anyone else published the jazzmusic that was starting to win convertsacross the country, until Morton did onSeptember 22, 1915, when Will Rossiterreleased “Jelly Roll Blues” both as a writtenpiano solo and in orchestrated form. . . .“Jelly Roll Blues swept [Chicago], requestedso often by listeners that Morton brieflyretitled it “The Chicago Blues.”And Lomax quotes Jelly as saying,Up to this time the published arrangementsof hot music were simply a matter of writingdown the ragtime tunes played by sometheater band. Then “Jelly Roll Blues”became so popular with the people ofChicago that I decided to name it in honor ofthe Windy City.Several web site references (like Saundersearly on in our research) describe it the otherway around, that “Chicago Blues” was Jelly’s“original” name for “Jelly Roll Blues,” but thatseems to be a fiction.Copyrights:Jelly (The) roll blues; by Ford. Morton, ofU.S.; piano. © Sept. 22, 1915; 2 c. Sept. 25,