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ig questions is this: Is she singing the “On aChinese Honeymoon” version with Shockley’slyrics or the later “Shanghai Honeymoon”version with the Melrose lyrics?Well, I bought both sheets, and we’ve still gota bit of a mystery, since what Barbara andMilton Brown sing is quite a bit (but certainlynot entirely) different from either of the above.The 1923 On a Chinese Honeymoon chorus isOn a Chinese honeymoonIn the merry month of JuneAnd together we will wanderWhere the lotus flowers bloomWe’lll buy a toy baloonAnd sail up to the moonAnd together we will wanderOn a Chinese honeymoonThe 1926 Shanghai Honeymoon chorus isShanghai honeymoonIn the merry month of JuneWe will always be togetherWhere lotus flowers bloom.There beneath a Chinese moonWe will croon an old love tuneAnd together we will wanderOn our Shanghai honeymoon.I can only guess that she learned it off theMilton Brown recording, and that he simplyaltered the lyrics of Chinese Honeymoon tosuite himself. What he sings is closer toChinese Honeymoon than to ShanghaiHoneymoon.But the next big question is, are the melodiesthe same? Robbie Rhodes answered that:Chinese is in waltz time, 3/4; Shanghai is in cuttime, 2/2, for dancing the fox trot. AND all ourrecordings use the 1926 ShanghaiHoneymoon melody.Shanghai Lil (Harry Warren–Al Dubin)West Jesmond Rhythm Kings 1255Confirmed by 8/28/33 copyright reg., fromFootlight Parade.Shanghai Shuffle (Larry Conley–Gene Rodemich)Charquet & Co 1053Keith Nichols Cotton Club Orchestra 1275Paramount JB of Boston 1340San Francisco Starlight Orchestra 1364New Century Ragtime Orchestra 1385Les Rois du Fox-Trot 1429Rec.Charlie Frye, 10/7/24, Edison 51416.Fletcher Henderson, 10/13/24, Pathe 036157,Perfect 14338; again 11/7/24, Vocalion14935 et al.Sam Wooding, Berlin, 7/25, Vox 01890.Fletcher Henderson, 9/11/34, Decca 158 et al.Buster Bailey, 12/28/34, Vocalion 2887; DeccaF-5492; Parlophone R-2612; Brunswick A-500525; Columbia 35677 & DO-2262. How?Confirmed by 10/20/24 copyright reg., w/mboth.Shave ’em Dry (Sam Wishnuff)Elliott Adams 1299Confirmed by 5/10/17 copyright reg., enteredby Stark in St. Louis!She Lives Down in Our Alley(Charles R. McCarron–Charles A. Bayha)Ian Whitcomb & His Merry Bands 1276ASM, 1915, Shapiro, Bernstein; but no middleinitials for either composer. Found tenMcCarron songs on Levy, they were 5/5 R./noR. Bayha too is A./No A. on different sheets,so we’ll keep his initial too.She May Have Seen Better Days(James Thornton)Imperial Serenaders 1351Not in Rust, will be early--Buddy Bolden era—Looks like pub. T. B. Harms 1894, and it’s inthe 1894 copyright book as well.She Was Just a Sailor’s Sweetheart(Joe Burke)Rent Party Revellers 1220Rec. Calif. Ramblers,9/16/25, Banner 1623,Domino 3595 et many al. Earl Gresh, 6/30/25,Columbia 424-D. University Six, 9/18/25,Harmony 36-H, Regal G-8517 as CoronaDance Orch.Confirmed by 1/9/25 copyright reg.She Winked at You (Nicolas Montier)Les Rois du Fox-Trot 1434Montier is a reed player with the band.Sheik (of Araby), The (Ted Snyder–Harry B. Smith–Francis Wheeler)Magnolia Jazz Five/Jimmy Mazzy 1137LP had “Sheik of Araby.”