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Eureka, I finally found the instrumental version,but it’s titled just “Hawaiian Moonlight” onboth cover and copyright page, with a genremarkerof Valse Pathétique. It’s dated 1917,and can be found athttp://webapp1.dlib.indiana.edu/inharmony/detail.do?action=detail&fullItemID=/lilly/devincent/LL-SDV-221074Lord, what a mess:1917: instrumental copyrighted and publishedas “Hawaiian Moonlight” by Klickmann.1918: published in song version as “SweetHawaiian Moonlight (Tell Her of My Love),”with lyrics by Frost, but no copyrightregistered.1919: Instrumental version reregistered as“Sweet Hawaiian Moonlight” with subtitle“Lazy Jazz Waltz.”1920: Song version copyright registrationfinally catches up with the 1918 sheet music.Next big question is what version Vermazencould have been using. He dated it 1920, andup popped that so-far overlooked Jazzy Waltzsubtitle.Aha, the word from Vermazen:We were using a published orchestration,bearing a 1920 copyright date, which helater sent:SWEET HAWAIIAN MOONLIGHTLAZY JAZZ WALTZAS PLAYED BY THE SIX BROWN BROTHERSI, too, was puzzled by this strangeness, soI did some research. The song "SweetHawaiian Moonlight" was copyrighted in1917, then in 1919 copyrighted again, withsome slight changes, as you noted. By thetime the orchestration came out, "Lazy JazzWaltz," seemingly a subtitle, had beenelevated to the title. The slight changesmostly have to do with changing the notevalues here and there from duples of eighthnotes to dotted-eighth-and-sixteenthpatterns. To make it jazzy, no doubt. Butharmonically and melodically, they are justtwo pieces with the same name.Well, since we’ve recorded a publishedorchestration, we must keep that title, but:“Sweet Hawaiian Moonlight” is not a propersubtitle on the orchestration, but an indicationof the song that was being orchestrated, sowe change that to an alternative title and put across-reference from it.Lazy Luke (A Raggy Drag) [RedFlannel Rag] (George J. Philpot)Turk Murphy JB 1155Down Home JB 1316