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Justin RinglebenCy Seymour = William C. PollaJohn Siras = Ira SchusterJules K. Stein = Julius K. Stein, Jule Styne’sreal nameLillie Taylor = Lovie AustinDorothy Terriss = Theodora MorseH. Vincenzo Luzerno = Hugo FreyEd Werac = Roy CarewHugh Williams = Will GroszKing Zany = Charles W. (Jack) DillDRAFT NOTES FOR SIXTH EDITION:This sixth edition of the Stomp Off tune index was compiledby Dick Baker, who joins with Bob Erdos inexpressing profound gratitude to the many musicians,collectors, and scholars who contributed to the effort.There are too many to list in full, but we are especiallygrateful to Rob Bamberger, Matthew Caulfield, MikeDurham, Frank Dutton, Erwin Elvers, Alex Hassan, MikeMontgomery, Bob Pinsker, Frank Powers, RobbieRhodes, Dave Robinson, Don Rouse, Vince Saunders,Ray Smith, Trebor Tichenor, Audrey Van Dyke, NancyWyndham, Tex Wyndham, and Dick Zimmerman. Butspecial credit is reserved for Australian scholar/banjoist/bandleader Bill Haesler, who spent nearly as much timeas I did working on this edition in the course of 2013.Sources for titles and composers, roughly in order ofauthority, are original sheet music, the original issuedrecord label, Library of Congress copyright registrationfiles, the several published compilations listed below, andweb site databases. Every effort was made to learn thefirst names of less well-known composers. Initials areused when first names could not be found or when thecomposer is known by his initials, e.g., W. C. Handy. Weinvite additional information and corrections. NOTE TOSELF: Create a Stomp Off page on dickbaker.org withlink to draft index (and later to final clean index) andmailto: link. Please write to Dick Baker, 5050 Gann StoreRoad, Hixson, TN 37343 (email sos@dickbaker.org).Published Reference Sources (roughly in order of usefulness):Brian Rust. Jazz Records 1897–1942 (4th revised andenlarged edition). New Rochelle: Arlington HousePublishers, 1978. (A 5th edition was issued in 1986.)Shapiro, Nat, and Bruce Pollock. Popular Music, 1920–1979: A Revised Cumulation. Detroit: Gale ResearchCompany, 1985.Kinkle, Roger D. The Complete Encyclopedia of PopularMusic and Jazz: 1900–1950. New Rochelle, NY:Arlington House, 1974.Lissauer, Robert. Lissauer’s Encyclopedia of PopularMusic in America: 1888 to the Present. New York:Paragon House, 1991.Ewen, David. American Popular Songs: From the RevolutionaryWar to the Present. New York: Random House,1966.World Wide Web Sites (roughly in order of usefulness):REVIEW AND REDO THISThe Lester S. Levy sheet music collection at JohnsHopkins University in Baltimore:levysheetmusic.mse.jhu.edu.The Center for Popular Music at Middle Tennessee StateUniversity in Murfreesboro: popmusic.mtsu.edu/research.html.Los Angeles Public Library Songs Index (includes theChuck Anderson Fake Book): dbase1.lapl.org/pages/allsong.htm.American Memory Collections at the Library of Congress:memory.loc.gov/ammem/amhome.htmlA Note on SubtitlesAs we said above, we consider published sheet music tobe the primary, most authoritative, source for tune titlesand composer credits. But we’ve learned that sheetmusic covers occasionally differ from copyright pages,presumably due to miscommunication with, or to artisticlicense given to, the designer. (The cover says“Nightingale Rag,” for example, while the copyright pagesays “Ragtime Nightingale.”) We intend to adhere to thecopyright page when it differs from the cover.But then we have the problem of subtitles. The coverartist has a wide variety of typographical devicesavailable with which to render subtitles, while thecopyright page is more limited. Sometimes thecomposer or publisher makes his intentions obvious byputting the subtitle in parentheses for us, as in