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piano. And there was Sunday Rag -- in agreat, highly decorated version.Sundown Mama (K. O. Eckland)Frisco Syncopators 1245Was on Merry Makers LP by Turk in 1984,which calls it a “recent composition” byEckland. And Lord says that was the firstrecording of it, so I guess that’s the hardestevidence of authorship we’ll get.Sunny Disposish (Philip Charig–Ira Gershwin)Chalumeau Serenaders 1394Rec. Goldkette, 2/3/27, Victor 20493, HMV5289. New Yorkers Tanzorchester, Berlin,9/28/27, Homochord 4-2420 (as GeorgeCarhart’s New Yorkers Jazz Orch.BG, 10/19/37, Columbia ML-4590, et al.Confirmed by 8/16/26 copyright reg., w. IG/m.PC, from Americana.Sunny Side Up (B. G. De Sylva–Lew Brown–Ray Henderson)San Francisco Starlight Orchestra 1364Oops, copyright is odd:Sunnyside up; words and music by B. G. DeSylva, Lew Brown and Ray Henderson.[Words and melody only] © 1 c. June 18,1929; E unp. 8124; De Sylva, Brown &Henderson, inc., New York.And later the pub. version:Sunnyside up; from the photoplay, wordsand music by B. G. De Sylva [pseud, ofGeorge Gard De Sylva], Lew Brown and RayHenderson. © July 29, 1929; 2 c. July 31; Epub. 8017; De Sylva, Brown & Henderson,inc., New York. 16835S&P say from film Sunny Side Up. Andseveral other tunes from the film are in thisbook and flagged as “from Sunny Side Up”(I’m a Dreamer, Aren’t We All?; You Find theTime, I’ll Find the Place; Carnival Prelude;Melodrame). But If I Had a Talking Picture ofYou is flagged as “from Sunnyside Up,” somaybe LC is confused.That must be the case: found copies in threedifferent library collections, all showed “SunnySide Up.”Sunset Cafe Stomp (Percy Venable)Peruna Jazzmen CD 1003Peruna Jazzmen 1020South Frisco JB 1035Scaniazz 1038Tomas Örnberg’s Blue Five 1043Leigh–Dapogny Mysterious Babies 1087Down Home JB 1190Bob Schulz & His Frisco JB 1288Bob Helm’s JB 1310Neville Dickie 1341Pam Pameijer’s New Jazz Wizards 1363Yerba Buena Stompers 1369John Gill’s Jazz Kings 14012011 hindsight says that’s very poor authority,to be used when all else fails. Sheet music?LC cy card?2013 review: Pinsker’s take:Apparently, the manager of the Sunset Cafeentertainment was Percy Venable, whocopyrighted just the tune as "Sunset Stomp":Sunset stomp; melody by Percy Venable;c 1 c. Dec. 20, 1926; E 654632; Consolidatedmusic pub. house, Chicago.Actually, I cannot find a copyright for SunsetCafe Stomp, hence I cannot identify thelyricist.Rec. Hot Five (vcl May Alix), 11/16/26, OKeh8423, Odeon 279788 et al. Lu Watters YBJB,3/29/42, Jazz Man 14. Hard to imagine noothers in Rust.Original OKeh label saysSUNSET CAFE STOMP(From “Sunset Cafe Revue”)(Venable)Watters JM 14 also Cafe, Venable.So Louis never should have been there tobegin with. And in spite of the copyright title, itwas published as “Sunset Cafe Stomp.”Sunshine (Irving Berlin)Keith Nichols Cotton Club Orchestra 1234ASM, 1928, Irving Berlin.Sunshine (Ikey Robinson)Original Salty Dogs JB 1233The original release on Champion 50073 byRobinson credited him as composer. I’m surewe’ll never see sheet music for it.Sunshine Capers (Roy Bargy)Elliott Adams 1299Confirmed by Victor 19320 label; not in 1923-26 copyright books.Sunshine of Your Smile, The(Lilian Ray–Leonard Cooke)Albion JB 1249Rec.Fred Allen (really Fred Brown, sax + orch),8/29/16, Columbia A2099.Quintette of HotClub of France, as Ton DouxSoorire, 4/35, Ultraphon AP-1484, 14288;Oriole LV-104, LB-1004; Joe Davis DA-17-2;Royale 1807; Varsity 8380.T. Dorsey (vcl Sinatra), 9/26/41, Victor 27638,HMV BD-1230 et al.These dates are hard to believe: MyArcheophone reissue of Six Brown Bros.credits Cooke-Ray, as does my reissue of theSinatra/Dorsey record 35 years later!Chronological Classic Django reissue creditsRay.But the sheet music is in several libraries:Indiana has w. LC/m. LR, (c) Francis, Day &Hunter; pub. T. B. Harms & Francis, Day &Hunter.And sure enough, they’re all playing the sametune.Sunshine on My Black and Blue Bottom(medley arr. by Andy Stein of Sunshineand Black and Blue Bottom, both byJoe Venuti–Eddie Lang)Andy Stein Blue Five 1390Hmmm...Not in Rust. Oh, Christ, it’s becauseStein took two Venuti-Lang tunes andcombined them in an ABCB medley. Blackand Blue Bottom was 9/29/26, Columbia 914-D et al (copyright 12/4/26). Sunshine was1/24/27, OKeh 40762; Parlophone R-3340, R-2493 (copyright 4/8/27).Superior Rag (Jelly Roll Morton)Ophelia Ragtime Orchestra 1108Oops, not in Rust. Ophelia leader MortenGunnar Larsen calls it “very obscure,” says,The piece was mentioned in the Blesh andJanis book They All Played Ragtime (1950),where it was listed as an unpublishedcomposition from circa 1915. “SuperiorRag” has been recorded in later years by“Knocky” Parker, but otherwise it has beenpaid little attention to. The first two strainsare both in G minor and do not resembleanything else by Morton. The form of thetrio is similar to those found in “ShreveportStomps,” “Chicago Breakdown” and “Pep,”but has also its own individuality, e.g., theuse of the Charleston rhythms. The nameindicates that the piece was probablycomposed in conjunction with “PerfectRag,” when the “Lord of New Orleanspiano” was traveling about proving that hewas far more “superior” and “perfect” thanthe ragtimers, on whose playing he loved tolook down.Indeed, it’s on Parker’s complete Morton set.The “mention” on TAPR is just that, the title ona list of Morton compositions, no amplification.I guess we have to take Knocky’s word for it.Supraton in Marrakouch(François Rilhac)Paris Washboard 1338