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Hmm, Parrish says unpub., rec. 1927 byBanta. Not in Rust. Pub. on 78 or piano roll?Not in 1926-28 copyright books. Not in Online78.But it’s in the well-researched KeyboardWizards of the Gershwin Era series by ArtisWodehouse on Pearl, by Banta, rec. 8/2/27,Banner 6066--but no subtitle. Nor was there asubtitle on my old Black & White Ragtime LPon Biograph. Also on Rivermont reissue ofBanta titles, but without subtitle.Oddly, Online 78 says Sailing Along onBanner, and I saw that title variant elsewhere,but it may represent just an inadvertent oroverly punctilious correcting of Sailin’.BUT I can’t find any use of an extended orsubtitle anywhere. Terry, where’d you get it?A detailed listing in Tantalizing Tingles: ADiscography of Early Ragtime, Jazz andNovelty Piano Recordings 1889-1934, by RossLaird (why haven’t I seen this before?--because it’s a $90 specialty book ), revealsthat he was Jimmy Andrews on Banner 6066and Imperial 1831, and R. Lawton on Oriole1002.Aha--Jasen & Tichenor list a “Sailing AlongOver the Keys” by Silvio De Rienzo, March 5,1928. Pub. Bibo, Bloedon & Lang, NY.And sure enough, it’s in the copyright bookthat way. (His other tune that year,copyrighted the same day, was “SpinalChords,” a brilliant title!)Sent Parrish a query 9/8/13, but I think it’spretty safe to remove that subtitle from outlisting. It just had to have slipped in from theother tune. 1/7/14 realized no response fromParris; repeated request.Sailing Down the Chesapeake Bay(George Botsford–Jean C. Havez)Terry Waldo 1002Gale Foehner 1023Ronn Weatherburn 1107ASM, 1913, Jerome Remick; w. Havez/m.Botsford.St. Germain Dance (Claude Luter)Jacques Gauthé’s Creole Rice YBJB 1256This won’t be easy. Only other recording ofthis tune in Lord is by Luter Quartet, Paris,1959, Vogue (F)EPL7727, LD499. Bruyninckxsays same thing.Found the Vogue EPL.7.727 cover, but itdoesn’t have composer credits. Mustconcede this one without hard evidence, butscarcely seems in doubt. Gauthè was an oldchum of Luter, so he should know as well asanybody.St. James Infirmary (Joe Primrose*)Keith Nichols Red Hot Syncopators 1135Yerba Buena Stompers 1369Independence Hall JB 1371