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“Put Your Arms Around Me, Honey”(I Never Knew Any Girl Like You)More often, we find what we must consider a subtitle setin smaller type under the main title, as inOh Daddy BluesYou Won’t Have No Mamma At AllSince an index in our format can’t deal with over-andundercentering and relative font sizes, we must rendersuch subtitles in parentheses, thusOh Daddy Blues (You Won’t Have No Mamma at All)Complicating the issue are the many instances in whichpublishers use the same format to place helpful hints tothe potential purchaser as to the style of the composition,e.g.,LouisianaRag Two-Step“Cleanin’ Up” in GeorgiaCake-Walk Patrol or Two-StepCoon Hollow CapersMarch and Two-StepIt is our approach that such “genre-markers” are publishers’notes to potential buyers, analogous to theubiquitous (Oriental Fox-Trot) to be found under the titlesof so many c. 1920 78s. They are not proper subtitles.The Problem of Sidney Bechet& French TitlesCe Mossieu qui parle (Sidney Bechet)Dans les rues d’Antibes (Sidney Bechet)Egyptian Fantasy (Sidney Bechet-John D. Reid)I Remember When [Si tu vois ma mère] (Sidney Bechet)I Want You Tonight (Sidney Bechet)I’m Through, Goodbye (Sidney Bechet)Love Me with a Feeling (Sidney Bechet)Out of the Gallion (Sidney Bechet-Mezz Mezzrow)Sobbin’ and Cryin’ (Sidney Bechet)Southern Sunset (Sidney Bechet)Viper Mad (Sidney Bechet)Waste No Tears (Sidney Bechet)