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(where’d he get that?), it was arranged byMary Lou.Sorry, but composers get composer credits,not arrangers.Messin’ Around (Charles L. Cooke–Johnny St. Cyr)Scaniazz 1004Charquet & Co 1039Chicago Rhythm 1164Rusty Taylor’s New Jazz Review 1186Paramount JB of Boston 1205Chris Tyle’s Silver Leaf JB 1311Le Petit Jazzband de Mr Morel 1344Copyright reg. for this shown below, in thesecond Messin’ Around. Audrey’s sheetmusic confirms this version, pub. Will Rossiter1926.For what it’s worth, the Blake-Sissle Messin’Around was recorded by Meade Lux Lewis in1938.Cooke or Cook? RHJA says really Charles L.Cooke (and really had a doctorate in music),but often performed as Doc Cook. Wikipediaarticle on him says same thing. So whyCharles L. Cook on that copyright reg.?Longer biography at answer.com saysCharles L. Cooke (he dropped the final "e"from his last name early in his career) wasborn in Louisville, Kentucky, on September3, 1891.Both Blame It on the Blues and this tune(Audrey rechecked her sheet music, bothcover and copyright page, were Cooke, sowhile he performed as Doc Cook, hecomposed as Charles L. Cooke, in spite of themissing ‘e’ in the copyright registration.Messin’ Around (Tiny Parham)South Frisco JB 1035Mojo Jazzin’ Five 1086Pam Pameijer’s Classic Jazz Aces 1194Two Clarinet <strong>Stomp</strong>ers 1259One More Time JB 1410Blythe on all <strong>Stomp</strong> <strong>Off</strong> recordings, althoughIv’e seen Blythe-Smith several other places.Rec. Jimmy Blythe & His Ragamuffins, withTrixie Smith vcl, June-July 1926, Chicago,Paramount 12376, Century 3029, Signature906, Jazz Classics L-28, Association FrancaiseA-051, with Adams Apple on flip side.Not copyrighted, although Blythe registeredtwo other tunes that year and (and 14 in 1925and 9 in 1927). The other two Blythe tunes in1926 were registered by Chicago Music Co.(see Tiny Parham below). Couldn’t find any ofthe Blythe labels. RHJA says Jimmy Blythe-Trixie Smith for Paramount 12376. LC SONIIChas Jazz Collector L-28 (no credits); Century3029 and Signature 906 (no credit on Messin’Around, but—tellingly—credit of Blythe onAdam’s Apple) on both discs.Other Messin’ Arounds copyrighted 1926:Messin' around; words and melody byStrathdene Parham. © 1 c. Aug. 3, 1926: E643490; Chicago music pub. co.. inc.,Chicago.Messin' around; words and music by JohnA. St. Cyr and Charles L. Cook; pf. andukulele acc. © July 21, 1926; 2 c. July 21; E644628; Will Rossiter, Chicago.Messin' around; words and melody by NobleSissle and Eubie Blake. © July 1, 1926; E644168; Clarence Williams music pub. co.,inc., New York.I’m going to have to see the originalParamount label before I’ll be sure that Blytheor Blythe-Smith should get credit for this.There’s simply no other evidence for it.Haesler responds with data from Vreede’sParamount book: no apostrophe, nocomposer credits, and it’s RAGMUFFINS, notRAGAMUFFINS, which is in error in Rust. ANDaha! Both Haesler and Sonny McGown founda photo of the label in a Frog CD reissue ofBlythe: As Vreede said, Ragmuffin, noapostrophe, and no composer credit. BUT getthis: the flip side, Adam’s Apple, does have acomposer credit of Blythe according toVreede, so it’s not just a case of Paramount’schoosing not to give credits.For now, this changes to unknown, but I’mreally keen to pursue another theory:Southern Music Co. filed copyrights for twotunes by Jimmy Blythe in 1926 (Anna MinaForty and Thirty Eight and Two), and acopyright for Tiny Parham’s Messin’ Around.But Parham didn’t record a Messin’ Around,while Blythe did. Isn’t it more than a littlepossible that for some reason, Southern Musicclient Parham’s song was given to SouthernMusic client Blythe to record? Perhaps theywanted Trixie Smith to sing it and shepreferred to work with Blythe.Obvious solution lies in finding the Parhamlead/lyric sheet that was filed with copyrightdeposition to see if it’s the Blythe-Smith song.And this is interesting: Finally thought to dogoogle search on that title plus Parham, andfound that a Polish LP set, released in 1979,reissued the Blythe recording with credit toTiny Parham. Seehttp://www.discogs.com/Various-Jazz-Legends/release/35969838/2/13--Bingo! I learned from Alex Hassan thatMarty Eggers had done extensive research inMusic Reading Room, so I sent my theory tohim. His response:Your copyright info is correct. The Parham"Messin' Around" is the one recorded byTrixie Smith with Blythe et al.While at the LoC this past May, I didsearch for Parham and found a lead line withlyrics plus a lyric sheet for "Messin' Around."The copyright number and date match yourinfo.As to why the tune was recorded the wayit was done, there is nothing in my findingsto indicate the answer. Unfortunately,without a statement from one of theinterested parties or some other sort ofpositive evidence, we can only conjectureabout the reason Parham didn't record it.For example, another possibility is thatBlythe was an established recording artistby 1926 whose records would presumablysell, while Parham was just beginning torecord. Along that line, maybe Blythe likedParham and recorded it to help him out. Ormaybe he just liked the tune. Or some otherreason. In other words, we may never knowthe real reason Parham didn't record it whileBlythe did.Hope this helps you in some way. At thevery least, the composer credit for theBlythe record of "Messin' Around" should goto Parham and no one else.8/16/13 Eggers followed up with scans of theParham copyright deposits and an analysisconfirms that it’s Parham’s tune.Messin’ Around with the Blues(Fats Waller–Phil Worde)Neville Dickie 1176LP said just Waller.Rec. Waller 1/14/27, Victor 20655.Oops, the copyright:Messin' around with the blues; by PhilWorde and Thomas Waller, arr. by P.Worde; pf. © 1 c. July 21, 1927; E 672293;Ralph Peer, New York.Worde’s for real, he wrote music for sevenother songs in 1927, with lyricists such asAndy Razaf, Sidney Easton, Edgar Dowell.Also co-wrote two melodies wth ThomasMorris and one with Allie Moore. And the flipside of Victor 20655 is one of those, <strong>Stomp</strong>in’the Bug, by Mercedes Gilbert & Phil Worde.Couldn’t find label for Messin’ Around with theBlues, but Victor Project confirms cocomposerPW.Meteor Rag (Arthur C. Morse)Elite Syncopators 1286Confirmed by my 1920 sheet music.Mexicali Rose (Jack B. Tenney–Helen Stone)Ernie Carson & the Castle JB 1283

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