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Dick Zimmerman confirms our original title.So do Mike Durham & Robbie Rhodes.--3>And ASM has the sheet music: 1929,Donaldson & Gumble; w. Leslie/m. Donaldson.’Tain’t Nobody’s Biz-ness If I Do(Porter Grainger–Everett Robbins)Jacques Gauthé’s Creole Rice YBJB 1256Neville Dickie & Louis Mazetier 1302Bob Oliver’s Hot Seven 1312M ’N’ M Trio 1319John Gill’s Dixieland Serenaders 13211/15/01: Oops, I helped lead us astray on thisone. Found the published sheet in the CWfiles at MRR, and cover and cy page bothagree that it’s Biz-ness.1/26: Bob, when we talked after 1/15, Irealized that I’d carefully checked the sheetmusic for the hyphen in Biz-ness but hadn’tnoticed the composer discrepancy, so I wentback and traced this trail:Cy card of 1/28/20: ‘Tain’t nobody’s bus’nessif I do, w/P. P. Grainger, m/P. P. Grainger &Everett Robbins. unpub. Porter P. Grainger,Chicago.Cy card of 9/25/22: ‘Tain’t nobody’s bizness ifI do; from Seven o’ Hearts. w/m PorterGrainger & Everett Robbins. pub. ClarenceWilliams Music Publishing Co. Inc.Cy card of 1/7/36: ‘Tain’t nobody’s bizness if Ido, w/mPorter Grainger, Graham Prince &Clarence Williams. Ed. by Clarence Williams &Graham Prince. pub. CWMP Co. Inc.Then found a pair of CWMP claimant cardsthat told the tale:1922: Composers Grainger & Robbins.1936: “application for copyright forrepublished musical composition with newcopyright matter.” “Author of new copyrightmatter”: Clarence Williams & Graham Prince.The copy I had found in the CW folder in theMRR was the 1936 revised version, althoughthere’s nothing on it to indicate that.Audrey Van Dyke turned out to have the 1922version in her collection (pub. ClarenceWilliams). Sure enough, the composer creditsthere are Porter Grainger & Everett Robbins.But Biz-ness has the hyphen on that copy aswell.SO: In 1936 Williams & Graham altered &republished the 1922 Grainger-Robbins tune,screwing Everett Robbins out of his credit inthe process. S&P, Lissauer, and Kinkle allrefer to this later version.We have the right listing, as shown here; I’mjust relaying all this for your information andedification.’Tain’t So, Honey, ’Tain’t So(Willard Robison)John Gill’s Dixieland Serenaders 1321ASM, 1928, Irving Berlin.Take a Good Look at Mine(Dan Dougherty– Phil Ponce)West Jesmond Rhythm Kings 12554/24/11: MANY online confirmations.2013 review: Bound to be right, be we havemore complete sources now. Goldkette Victorwas 1/24/29. 10/10/28 copyright reg. confirmsw. PP/m. DD.Take It Easy (Ken Colyer)Albion JB 1206This could be trouble. There were LOTS ofsongs by that title recorded between 1925 andColyer’s in 1960, including (but not limited to)Monette Moore, 1925; Duke Ellington, 1928;Frankie “Half Pint” Jaxon, 1929; Earl Hines,1933; Fats Waller, 1935; Orville Knapp, 1935;Isham Jones, 1936; Valaidaa Snow, 1940; BobCrosby, 1941; Glenn Miller, Harry James,Jimmy Dorsley, 1944; Vincent Lopez, 1946.We’ll be hard pressed to affirm that Colyerwasn’t playing something he heard earlier onhis America trip.Anyway, Colyer’s only recording of it was onLP titled This Is the Blues., rec. 12/7-8/60 &1/4/61, Columbia 33SX 1363. And I guesswe’re off the hook, since I found, of all things,the original liner notes of that LP by OwenBryce, who writes,And, of course, there is the lost art of playingLOUD and soft... which brings me to thevocal on Ken's own composition, “Take ItEasy.” This might almost be a sermon tothose trying to find jazz salvation: do as Kendoes, both in his singing and in his trumpetplaying. "Take it easy", as he does, in thebeautifully muted trumpet entry to his ownchorus...and then you're really with theblues.None of the other titles on the LP was byColyer, so I guess we can take this to thebank.Take It Easy (Duke Ellington)Blue Rhythmakers 1373Rec. Ellington aho, 1/19/28, OKeh 41013,Brunswick 7670, Parlophone R-144 et al.Then as The Washingtonians, Cameo 8188,Lincoln 2843, Romeo 618 et al. Then differentsession 3/21/28, Brunswick 4009 et many al.Confirmed by 7/7/28 copyright reg. and sevendifferent Ellington labels from the sessionsabove.Take It from Me, I’m Takin’ to You(Fats Waller–R. Stanley Adams)State Street Aces 1041Neville Dickie 1176Grosz–Ingham Paswonky Serenadrs 1214Neville Dickie & Louis Mazetier 1302