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OK, we know our credit is good, but how inthe world did a song written by those worthiesand recorded on a major label like Brunswicknot get copyrighted?Love Me with a Feeling(Sidney Bechet)Hot Antic JB 1058Rent Party Revellers 1220South Frisco JB 1240Too late for Rust. Chrono Classics says rec.6/8/49, Circle J1060, by Bechet with BobWilber & His JB; credits Bechet. Bruyninckxconfirms this. Circle J 1060 appears to be oneof three 78s (1059-61) in Circle S-27, a threediscalbum.Hmm...Not in copyright books 1949-50, and—according to Bruyninckx and Lord—neverrecorded by Bechet again. Makes me thinkthis was something off the top of Bechet’shead at and for that session with Wilber. Andyet it had great influence: I have two reissuesof the Bechet-Wilber session plus that tune oneight other albums.Really no way to confirm this, although noreason to doubt it. No mention of it inBechet’s biography, other than listing it at thatsession. Couldn’t find the Circle label, but LCSONIC has the record, confirms Bechet ascomposer credit on it.Love Nest, The (Louis A. Hirsch–Otto Harbach)Wally Fawkes & His Soho Shakers 1144Louis Mazetier & François Rilhac 1218Paris Washboard 1308Black Eagle JB 1356Confirmed by 4/9/20 copyright reg., w. OH/m.LAH, from Mary.Love Remembers(Willie “The Lion” Smith)Tom Roberts 1392ASM, 1935, Leo Feist.Love Songs of the Nile (NacioHerb Brown–Arthur Freed)Black Eagle JB 1048New Orleans Rascals 1074Golden Eagle JB 1192Red Rose Ragtime Band 1399Confirmed by 3/6/33 copyright reg, w. AF/m.NHB.Love Will Find a Way (Eubie Blake–Noble Sissle)New Orleans Ragtime Orchestra 1213Louis Mazetier & François Rilhac 1218John Gill’s Novelty Orchestra 1270Dan Levinson’s Roof Garden JB 1361ASM, 1921, M. Witmark.Love, You’re Not the One for Me(Benny Carter)Jean-François Bonnel & Friends 1131LP credited Carter-Mezzrow.Rec. Carter 3/14/33, Columbia CB-636, DO-987; Prestige PR 7643 (LP). Mezzrow 11/6/33,Brunswick 6778, 01762, A-500370.Copyright isLove, you're not the one for me; w andmelody. E unp. 57237; © 1 c. June 6, 1932;Bennie Carter.LC SONIC says Carter CB 636 creditedCarter; Mezzrow Brunswick 6778 creditedCarter-Mezzrow. Jazz Classics for BennyCarter credits him alone for CB 636. Found aGerman list that said Carter-Mezzrow for theBrunswick 6778.Well, here we have it. Carter copyrighted it inJune 1932, recorded it the next March, with hisname alone. Eight months after that, Mezzrowrecorded it and put both names on the label.I’d be tempted to reject Mezzrow’s claimexcept for one thing: playing reeds andsinging the vocal on that Mezzrow and hisorchestra recording was . . . Benny Carter.One must presume that he acquiesced ingiving Mezzrow co-credit.But Mezzrow doesn’t claim any credit for it. Inhis autobiography, Really the Blues, Mezzrowdescribes what happened after he negotiatedthat recording session with Jack Kapp:Then I flew over to see Benny Carter. Weonly had a week to prepare ourarrangements, so I sat down and wrote“Dissonance, and also dug up one Alex andI had done called “Swingin’ with Mezz.”Benny came up with two of his own, “FreeLove” and “Love, You’re Not the One forMe.”Loved One (see I Like That)Loveless Love (see Careless Love)ASM has it by W. C. Handy, pub. 1921 Pace &Handy. But we’ve established, I believe, thatit’s really same as Careless Love.Lovely Oriental (Tom McDermott)Tom McDermott 1024Lover Man (Oh, Where Can You Be?)(Jimmy Davis–Roger “Ram” Ramirez–Jimmy Sherman)Ray Skjelbred 11242013 review: Surprisingly, couldn’t find incopyright books. MTSU has sheet, confirmscomposers, renders title as “Lover man.|Oh,where can you be?” which is the equivalent ofours in their format. Wikipedia article on songagrees too.Wait a minute! discography.com refers toJimmy Houston “Lover Man” Davis, formergovernor of Louisiana. We know him here as“Jimmie” Davis. Same guy? Separate entrythere calls him James Houston “Jimmie”Davis. But the extensive article on Gov.Jimmie at Wikipedia doesn’t mention “LoverMan,” so maybe not. Especially since the Wikiarticle on this tune refers to Jimmy Davis withno suggestion that he’s Gov. Jimmie. AndLover Man was copyrighted by Ram Ramirez& Jimmy Davis, New York.And definitely NO: article athttp://illkeepyouposted.typepad.com/ill_keep_you_posted/2012/02/jimmy-davis-lover-man-1.html confirms that Jimmy Davis was a“Julliard-trained pianist and a close, intimatefriend of both Langston Hughes and Carl VanVechten.” Not the same guy.Lover’s Lane Glide(C. L. Woolsey)David Thomas Roberts 1317Pub. by the composer in 1914, says Roberts.And confirmed by 10/19/14 copyright reg.Loves of Yesterday, The (J. RusselRobinson–Marguerite A. Robinson)Ian Whitcomb & Dick Zimmerman 1017ASM, 1911, So. Cal. Music, m. J. RusselRobinson/w. M. A. Robinson. GuessWhitcomb & Zimmerman knew her first name.And I confirmed it online.Lovey Came Back (Lou Handman–Sam M. Lewis–Joe Young)Back Bay Ramblers 1279ASM, 1923, Irving Berlin; m. Handman/w.Lewis-Young.Lovin’ Sam (The Sheik of Alabam’)(Milton Ager–Jack Yellen)John Gill’s Novelty Orchestra 1270