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Spikes bros. and Carter music house, LosAngeles.and later yet:Someday sweetheart; words and music byJohn C. Spikes, rev. by Harold Weeks [ofU.S.]Seattle, Melody shop. © Jan. 18,1922; 2 c. Jan. 30, 1922; E 530806; HaroldWeeks, Seattle. [Copyright is claimed onnew matterand later yet:Someday sweetheart; w and m John C.Spikes and Benjamin Spikes, both of U.S.© Mar. 1, 1924; 2 c. Mar. 3; E 584645;Melrose bros. music co., Chicago.Pinsker continues:The fact that the listed composer is just JohnC. Spikes (not including his brother "Reb"(Benjamin) is in agreement with my sheet.This one has an extremely complicatedhistory, in fact. If we listen to what Mortonactually tells Lomax in 1938, he doesn'texactly lay credit to composing the tune,either! He says that it was in part based on atune that his buddy "Kid" North gave him,called "Tricks Ain't Walkin' No More". Hedemonstrates the tune a cappella, and it'snot at all clear that the chorus has anythingmuch to do with "Someday Sweetheart". It isthe verse, to which he can't quite rememberthe lyric, that is used as the verse of"Someday Sweetheart". To further complicatematters, Clarence Williams andSpencer Williams copyrighted a tune entitled(guess what!) "Trix Ain't Walking No More" in1919, which has a little bit to do with thetune Morton sings, which he said he gotfrom (Robert) "Kid" North. I would concludethat Morton doesn't make a strong case forhimself as a composer of any of "SomedaySweetheart". Certainly no one thinks weshould put "Robert North" as a co-composeron this tune, do they?Recording is JRM JB, 10/30/23, OKeh 8105,Biltmore 1058 et al. OKeh title spelled as threewords: Some Day Sweetheart, credit just J. C.Spikes.Aha, Pinsker sends his copy, which explainsHarold Weeks. It’s actually the secondpublished version. Composer credit on titlepage is Original by John C. Spikes, revised byHarold Weeks. Copyright credits at bottomareCopyright 1919 by Spikes Bros. and CarterCopyright transferred 1922 to Harold WeeksPublished by the Melody Shop—HaroldWeeks—Seattle.Or as Pinsker puts it:But of course, Harold Weeks indeed is goingto sneak in! What I have is the REVISEDversion, revised and published by, ofcourse, Harold Weeks in Seattle in 1922. Iguess those rascally Spikes Bros. tripledippedon this song, first publishing in LAthemselves in 1919, then selling it to HaroldWeeks in January 1922, then sold it again toMelrose Bros. in 1924!So it was copyrighted and published bySpikes Bros., and recorded by Jelly Roll, witha single composer, John C. Spikes. Then itwas sold to Weeks, who republished—andrecopyrighted—it, again crediting just John C.Spikes. Finally, it was sold to Melrose, whorepublished and recopyrighted it addingBenjamin Spikes as composer.Well, the Spikes Brothers had it to begin with,and they certainly would know if Benjamin hadanything to do with it. And it was bothpublished as sheet music and recorded byJelly Roll with the John C. Spikes credit, so Ithink we must reject the later edition withBenjamin added, although, clearly, that’s theedition (since it was published by Melrose)that got the most copies into circulation.So I’m going back to just John C.Somersault (Stephen Kent Goodman)Univ. of Wisconsin Symphony Band 1246Goodman was guest conductor of the band.Something Doing (Scott Hayden–Scott Joplin)Frank French & Scott Kirby 1306Confirmed by my 1903 sheet music.Something for Annie (Turk Murphy)Steve Waddell’s Creole Bells 1301The poignant copyright:SOMETHING FOR ANNIE; m Turk Murphy.© Anne Moon; 4Feb64; EU809790.In Jim Goggin’s Turk Murphy: Just for theRecord, Turk tells of rushing to get it written asshe lay dying of cancer.Sometimes My Burden Is So Hard toBear (traditional)Grand Dominion JB 1291