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So it was copyrighted by Oliver alone, but hisvery first recording of it credits Oliver andPicou. One is tempted to hark back to thosebooks cited above and suspect that the tuneeither is entirely something Picou wrote butnever copyrighted or is an adaptation of it byOliver. But if Oliver was willing to cheat Picouout of his share of the credit when hecopyrighted the tune, why would he givePicou credit on the record? He wasn’t knownfor such sneakiness, was he?The two secondary copyright book mentionsas Stomps are puzzling, but must bediscounted, since the primary entry is Stomp,and Oliver and everybody else recorded it thatway.I guess we stick with Oliver-Picou based onthat original record label, but I remain troubledby this one.Dave Sager, on his extensively documentedArcheophone release of the 1923 Olivers, didthe same thing. When I pressed him abouthow Picou might have got on the label, hewrote, “He shows up as co composer on abunch of Oliver tunes, so, I assume it's legit. I'llrun up and re check the card files again, but Iimagine that he just simply did't get his nameon the lead sheet.” And later: “The copyrightregistration card and the claimant card bothindicate ‘melody only.’ Perhaps Picou did theharmonization.”Cheatin’ On Me (Jack Yellen–LewPollack) (On 1082 the tune labeledCheatin’ On Me is really I KnowThat My Baby Is Cheatin’ On Me)Neville Dickie 1324S&P confirm w JY/m LP, Advanced MusicCorp., 1925, intro’d by Sophie Tucker.Cheatin’ On Your Baby (seeIf You’re Cheatin’ On Your Baby)Cheek to Cheek (Irving Berlin)Bob Pilsbury with Friends 1265S&P confirm, Irving Berlin Music Corp., 1935,from Top Hat.Cheerful Little Earful (Harry Warren–Ira Gershwin–Billy Rose)San Francisco Starlight Orchestra 1296S&P confirm w. IG & BR/m. HW, New WorldMusic Corp., 1930, intro’d in musical Sweetand Low.Copyright differs as to musical introduction:Cheerful little earful; from Corned beef androses, words by Ira Gershwin and Billy Rose,music by Harry Warren; with ukulele arr. ©Nov. 5, 1930; 2 c. Nov. 8; E pub. 19011;Remick music Corp., New York.Cheerin’ Rag (Roefie Hueting)Miss Lulu White’s Red Hot Creole JB 1370Liner notes by Keith Nichols say, “a newcomposition by Roefie Hueting, leader of theDown Town Jazzband.” [Holland]Cheese and Crackers (Homer Denney)John Hancock 1025Found the cy page online:Cheese and Crackers.A NEW RAG.Looks like 1909, but can’t read publisher’sname. Bill Edwards confirms. Found coverelsewhere, which shows publishers as the Jos.Krolage Music Pub. Co., Cincinnati.For what it’s worth, it appears that there’s atune by the same title by Joe Venuti.Chef Menteur Joys (Johnny Wiggs)Hall Brothers JB 1031Only other recording of it I have that shows acomposer is by the Jazz Fiddlers onSupraphon, agrees on Wiggs. Looks like itappears (first?) on a Jazzology LP called PapaLaine’s Children, and several sources creditLaine. But the Silver Leaf JB of NO recordedsomething called “Silver Leaf Strut” on a GoodTime Jazz GTJ-15001 c. 1994; reviewer HalSmith in Mississippi Rag wrote,There are four rarely heard Johnny Wiggscompositions in the program: “CongoSquare;” “Silver Leaf Strut” (actually called“Chef Menteur Joys;”) “Bourbon StreetBounce” and “Gallatin Street Grind.”And aha: copyright August 1946 by J. W.Hyman; John Wigginton Hyman was JohnnyWiggs’s real name.Chelsea (Fats Waller)Keith Nichols 1159This is the first “movement” of Waller’s LondonSuite. Hmmm...rec. by Fats in in London1939, but the only London Suite-relatedcopyright entry in1939-40 is for anothersection of it, “Bond Street.”Chelsea on Down (Robin Wetterau)Ted Shafer’s Jelly Roll JB 1278Seems like I researched this years ago, but nonote. I have seven other recordings of it; thefour that have a composer credit agree onWetterau. Salty Dogs notes for On the RightTrack say Wetterau wrote it while he waspianist with the Red Onion JB. Guy namedCraig Johnson wrote this on DJML listserve in2004:I’ve often wondered about the derivation ofthe title “Chelsea on Down.” Ted Shafer justenlightened me. Robin Wetterau, thecomposer of that tune, was on a gig inBoston and was bitching that there was nota decent restaurant there “from Chelsea ondown” (meaning from the north borderingtown southward). The comment stuck andbecame the title of his piece.Had to give up finding this in LC copyrightbooks--later ones just don’t seem to be as welldocumented online as earlier ones, but wehave plenty of evidence to stick with Wetterau.Cherie (An American Foxtrot Songwith a Parisian Twist) (Irving Bibo–Leo Wood)Rosy McHargue 1253Found sheet music online at IN Harmony,confirms subtitle cover and (c), w. Wood/m.Bibo (NMI), 1921, Leo Feist.Irving Bibo: On some sheets he’s Irving, onsome he’s Irving M., but the NMI versionseems to be far more prevalent, so I guesswe’ll keep him that way throughout.Cherry (Don Redman)Baker–Baldwin Radiogram Wshbrds 1243