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Now that’s the way my folks would alwayssing to meWhen I was just a blossom on my fam’ly treeBut when I got around to datin’ my first chickThis is what said ’n’ did she spread it thick:Then comes a section labeled “Chorus (UglyChile),” which has the lyrics we know as “UglyChile.” The interlude and second chorus havea separate copyright credit: 1946 by Shapiro,Bernstein & Co. Inc., NY.LA Public Library Database says,The chorus of "YOU'RE SOME PRETTYDOLL" is used here as the verse to "UGLYCHILE" followed by an eight bar interlude,tying the two together. (See [AndersonFakebook] p.934 for the original version)Recorded by Johnny Mercer on Capitol No.268 (194?)I’m awfully tempted to second-guess myself.If we don’t find anything more substantial thatthe label on a Commodore 78 as evidence,how can we credit George Brunis?The sheet music evidence is that ClarenceWilliams updated his own old song. I foundsheet in CW folder in music reading room afterI’d been to copyright files, so I’ll go back andsee if anything in the copyright files sheds anyfurther light on this, but right now it looks likeour song ought to beUgly Chile (You’re Some Pretty Doll)(Clarence Williams)1/25/01: No cy card under Ugly Chile. Did findthe original cy card for You’re some pretty doll,w/m CW, pub. 10/16/17, Williams-Piron (andASM turned out to have this sheet). Odd, noclaimant card for Ugly Chile under Shapiro-Bernstein.1/29/01 got this report back from a query I puton on the Dixieland Jazz Mailing List. It’s froma chap named Stan Brager, who identifieshimself as a “Trombonist-in-Training”:I have the 78rpm recording by GeorgeBrunis and His Jazz Band of "Ugly Chile" onCommodore. The label credits ClarenceWilliams and George Brunis as composerswith Williams writing the music and Brunis asthe lyricist. I've read that when EddieCondon wanted to record Brunis' "UglyChile", Fats Waller was sitting at the pianoand objected to Brunis' parody of his friend'scomposition. They wound up recording"You're Some Pretty Doll".Bob, learning that both Brunis’s and Williams’snames were listed on the original Commodorerecording makes me inclined to leave ourcredit as it stands.Ukulele Blues, The (James P.Johnson–Merton Bories)Keith Nichols Cotton Club Orchestra 1320“Ukelele” on CD.