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Aug. 22, 1919; E 458166; Spencer Williams,New York.Followed later byBig fat ma; by Anton Lada and SpencerWilliams [of U.S.]; piano. © Dec. 6, 1919; 2c. Dec. 8, 1919; E 463588; Leo Feist, inc.,New York.Big Fat Ma and Skinny Pa(Richard M. Jones)Peruna Jazzmen CD 1003Peruna Jazzmen 1020Tomas Örnberg’s Blue Five 10431st rec.of Big Fat Ma and Skinny Pa was byArmstrong Hot Five in 1926 on OKeh 8379,which credits (I saw the label) “(Jones).”Extensive book on Hot Fives credits RichardM., as do all my other recordings.Confirmed by 9/7/26 copyright reg.Big Foot Ham [Big Fat Ham][Ham and Eggs] (Jelly Roll Morton)Oakley’s Lakeshore Serenaders 1013Butch Thompson & Hal Smith 1075West End JB 1085Bob Oliver’s Hot Seven 1312Bob Schulz & His Frisco JB 1315 Bob: based on this, why did we use Big Fatas primary? Shouldn’t Big Foot be primaryand the other two alternatives?Yes, he says. Adjust the cross-refs.--4>2013 review: 4/11/23 copyright is as Big FootHam, by JRM.Big Lip Blues (Jelly Roll Morton)Red Rose Ragtime Band 1128Pam Pameijer Trio 1172Jacques Gauthé’s Creole Rice YBJB 1256Red Rose Ragtime Band 1399Hmm, all my other sources say Morton, butBob Greene’s World of JR LP credits Morton-Carew. Doubtful, though: In John Chilton’sbook on Red Allen, he says,While the two men [Morton & Allen] weresharing some goodnatured banter at theJanuary 1940 recording session Mortondecided to name the piece they wereworking on “Big Lip Blues,” telling Red thathe was naming the song after him. . . .Some days later, on 18 January, in anotherletter to Carew, Morton again revealed thathe could be modest: “I just wrote ‘Big LipBlues’ in the studio and it don’t amount tomuch.Well, Rust doesn’t show Red Allen on that1/4/40 recording session, although he couldhave been there as an onlooker. In any case,Jelly’s letter to Carew takes Carew out of thecomposition of it.Copyright is:Big lip blues; melody Jelly Roll [i.e. Ferd]Morton. © 1 c. Jan. 20, 1940; E unp.212838; Tempo-music pub. co.,Washington.Big Mamou (Link Davis)Grand Dominion JB 13781378 had Lewis Lincoln Davis.This is the only one of my four recordings thathas a composer’s credit. No help in 1378 linernotes. S&P has a “Big Mamou” from 1953 byLink David, best-selling record by Pete Hanley(OKeh). [But many other sources say it’s LinkDavis.] Found the OKeh 45, credit is L. Davis.Many recordings by country stars as acajun/zydeco type of song—and that’s whatthe GDJB sounds like. So it’s the samesong—now whence “Lewis Lincoln” sted ofLink? OK, turns out Link Davis was performeras well as composer--found a zillion refs andhis recordings, and he’s always Link. Foundone serious bio sketch that confirmed that hisbirth name was Lewis Lincoln, but that’s justnot how he was known.Big Walkabout (Norm “Bud” Baker)Steve Waddell’s Creole Bells 1301Looks like Baker was a member of GraemeBell’s band, which recorded this in London in1951. Several confirmations, including theAustralian Jazz Compositions list.Billy Goat Stomp (Jelly Roll Morton)John Gill’s Dixieland Serenaders 1295Helm–Leigh Jazz & Blues Review 1331Confirmed by 1927 sheet music.Billy Meets Zez on 12th Street(Terry Parrish)Elite Syncopators 1358Parrish is pianist/leader of the band.Bimbo (Jack Palmer–Clarence Williams)Scaniazz 1038Dry Throat Five 1151Keith Nichols Cotton Club Orchestra 1210West Jesmond Rhythm Kings 1255Rec. CW aho 11/28 on QRS R-7034, Creole27; again 9/33 on Vocalion 2778.Found QRS label--no composer credit. Crediton Vocalion is just Williams-Palmer.Online 78 show CW/JP for both Vocalion andQRS, but I know QRS doesn’t have credits.Guess I just go with it--many secondarysources agree, although Red Hot archive hadSpencer Williams-Jack Palmer.2013 review: Oops, the copyright situation isproblematic. No Bimbo 1927-30, but there isI'm gonna take my bimbo back to theBambo [!] isle; from Bottomland, words andmusic by Spencer Williams and JackPalmer. © July 15, 1927; 2 c. Aug. 8; E672735; Clarence Williams music pub. co.,inc., New York.[!] is the Library’s version of (sic)And I had that title by CW aho on a MilestoneLP called The Immortal King Oliver, withcomposer credit Williams-Palmer, althoughRust doesn’t show it.We need to get the sheet music fromBottomland and see if they’re the same tune.Most of the Bottomland songs were byClarence, but Spencer and some others madecontributions as well. I’ll just bet that “Bimbo”is really the song from Bottomland and thateveryone has presumed that it was written byClarence.11/7/13 request to Audrey--I think she has allthe Bottomland sheet music. 11/8/13: no, shedoesn’t, but she’s pretty sure thatAlex does, although it’s not in his index.Aha, Tom Brier has a xerox copy of thecopyright deposit lead sheet for “I'm gonnatake my bimbo back to the Bamboo Isle”(spelled correctly], by Spencer W. & Jack P.Now just need to make sure that they’re thesame tune. 11/10/13 sent CW rec. of Bimboto Brier, asked him to compare them. Hisreport:Yes, I think they are the same tune, althoughthe recording bears as much resemblanceto the fake sheet I have as that recording of"Viper's Drag" did to *its* piano score. :)Doesn't help that the fake sheet is in adifferent key and doesn't give the chords...I supposed I’d better track down the actualsheet music to Bimbo to be sure.Bird-Brain Rag (Joseph F. Lamb)Matthew Davidson 1252Unpublished in his lifetime, posthumouslypublished in Joseph F. Lamb, RagtimeTreasures Piano Solos (New York, NY: MillsMusic, 1964), now out of print.And confirmed by 11/16/59 copyright reg.Birds Ball, The (R. M. Stults)Red Wing Blackbirds 1018LP had Bird’s.