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Pig’s Feet and Slaw (Tiny Parham)Red Rose Ragtime Band 1128Pam Pameijer’s New Jazz Wizards 1281--4>2013 review: rec. Parham 10/25/29, Victor23410. Strange, not in copyright books 1928-30 even though Parham had a dozen or sotitles copyrighted in each of those years.Oops! The generally quite precise VictorProject ledgers confirms Parham as composerbut says title is “Pig’s Feet and Slaw” (sourceis disc label). And of my three Parhamreissues, two are Pig’s and one is Pigs’. Quitefrankly, I trust the Victor Project to copy thattitle off the record more than I trust Rust. Fornow must switch to Pig’s, but I’ll look aroundfor the disc.Found it! Or Bill Haesler did. Victor Projectwas right: Victor label is Pig’s Feet and Slaw.Pile of Logs and Stone(Called Home) (Maceo Pinkard)Scaniazz 1004Minerva JB 1117Des Plantes’ Washboard Wizards 1325Le Petit Jazzband 1389ASM confirms this cover & (c), 1925, ClarenceWilliams.Pine Apple Rag (Scott Joplin)South Frisco JB 1143Evergreen Ragtime Quartet 1383Red Rose Ragtime Band 1399Confirmed by my 1908 sheet music.Pink Poodle (Charles L. Johnson)Dick Zimmerman 1017ASM, 1914, Forster.Pirate Rag, The (E. A. Windell)David Thomas Roberts 13171904, says Roberts, pub. in Enid, Okla. Not incopyright book--poss. self-published. Butwait: found it in 1905:Pirate (The) "rag"; for piano, by E. A. Windell.© 86691, Jan. 14, 1905; 2 c, Jan. 14, 1905.)Windell (E. A.), Enid, Okla.But Brier has a copy of the sheet music,confirms title contains Rag.Pirouette (Tom Stuip)Tom Stuip & Delirium Tremolo 1433Plantations Joys (Luis Russell)Jazz O’Maniacs 1046Le Petit Jazzband de Mr Morel 1344We had Plantation Joys.Rec. Russell 11/17/26, OKeh 8424. Strange--only find what looks like a mechanical rightscopyright:Plantation joys. © Consolidated music pub.house, Chicago. Notice rec'd Dec. 9, 1926;recorded, v. p. 75.Stop the show: Found the OKeh label online,and title is definitely PLANTATIONS JOYS, andcomposer is Russell. RJHA calls it Plantationsto, and several indexing site have it that way.Rust screwed up.Planxty Jim Stewart (Glenn Jenks)Glenn Jenks 1179Play a Simple Melody (see SimpleMelody)Play Me Slow (Milt Hagen–Charles O’Flynn)Les Rois du Fox-Trot 1436Rec. Jean Goldkette, 11/25/24, Victor 19664.Fletcher Henderson, 1/23/25, Columbia 292-D.Mound City Blue Blowers, 2/9/25, Brunswick2849.Confirmed by 3/23/24 copyright reg., w/mboth.Wait a minute! Victor Project adds a thirdcomposer, Al Moquin, “source: Victorledgers.” He’s a real guy, with multiplecompositions to his credits in 1924-26copyright books.Oddly, couldn’t find the actual label, but LCSONIC has it, reports credits of O’Flynn-Hagen, so we’ll stick with that.Play That Barber Shop Chord(Lewis F. Muir–William Tracey–Ballard Macdonald)Chris Tyle’s Silver Leaf JB 1311Well, I’ve got the sheet music in hand fromASM, 1910, J. Fred Helf, which says w.Tracey/m. Muir, no Macdonald. MTSU has the1910 J. Fred Helf edition, and another, 1910by Shapiro, Bernstein, with same credits.Kinkle says Play That Barber Shop Chord,music Lewis Muir, lyrics William Tracey-BallardMacDonald, 1910. Lissauer agrees withKinkle exactly. Waldo’s This Is Ragtime has aphoto of the cover on p. 99; it is most likely alater reprinting of the song, but it says[...Barber Shop...], music by Lewis F. Muir,words by Wm. Tracey. Should Macdonald getthe boot?Erdos: Chris Tyle confirms the threecomposers shown by Kinkle & Lissauer. --4>Aha, here’s our answer: Parlorsongs.com hasa bio sketch of J. Fred Helf:In 1910 Helf published Play ThatBarbershop Chord, by Lewis Muir andWilliam Tracey, or at least that is how Helfpublished it. Songwriter Ballard Macdonaldhad begun work on the song and hadwritten dummy lyrics before leaving thesong behind. The piece was finished byLewis Muir and William Tracey, andMacdonald was incensed that Helf left hisname off the sheet music. He sued Helfsuccessfully, and the award of $37,500forced Helf into bankruptcy thus ending hisforay into publishing.Presumably Macdonald’s name was added tolater reprints and that’s what Tyle was lookingat. And I think we can leave Macdonald here,since a court of law ruled that he was acocomposer (see “O Sole Mio”). By the way,the typography on the original Helf cover hasvery tight spacing on words in the title, whichpresumably why many read it as solid, i.e.,Barbershop.Pleasant Moments (Scott Joplin)New Orleans Ragtime Orchestra 1213Bob Wright 1239Confirmed by 1910 sheet music.Please (Ralph Rainger–Leo Robin)Kustbandet 1178John Gill Sentimental Serenaders 1424Confirmed by 7/6/32 copyright reg., w. LR/m.RR, unpub.Please Don’t Talk About Me WhenI’m Gone (Sam H. Stept–Sidney Clare–Bee Palmer)Paris Washboard 11821182 said Stept & Clare.ASM, 1930, Remick, by Sidney Clare, Sam H.Stept and Bee Palmer. But Middle TN Statehas several copies (also 1930 Remick) andshows just Clare-Stept. But get this: Hassanhas both! Both copies 1930 Remick, one withClare as lyricist, one with Clare & Palmer. Iguess we must add her.FYI, she’s not on the 12/15/30 copyright reg.Pleasure Mad [Viper Mad]