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Frederick Hodges 1333CD just had “Chong” as title.Found sheet music. Copyright page isCHONG(He Come from Hong Kong)Cover is same, but no parens on subtitle, it’sjust on second line in much smaller type.And the copyright confirms:CHONG HE COME FROM HONG-KONG; fox trot, byHarold Weeks [of U.S.]; band. 4to. (c) Apr.23, 1919; 2 c.. Apr. 24, 1919; E 448529; LeoFeist, inc. New York.Note hyphen in copyright entry, but none onsheet music.Choo Choo (I Gotta Hurry Home)Dave Ringle–Bob Schafer–Duke Ellington)Des Plantes’ Washboard Wizards 1409We had (Gotta Hurry Home) as subtitle, whichis what Rust shows in index. Rec.The Ambassadors, 10/24, Vocalion 14916, X-9523.Original Memphis Five, 10/14/24, PatheAktuelle 036151, 10989; Pathe 6759; Perfect14332.Goofus Five, 10/24/24, OKeh 40233.Earl Randolph’s Orchestra, c. 10/23/24,Paramount 10358, Triangle 11431.Bailey’s Dixie Dudes, 11/12/24, Gennett 5602,Claxtonola 40397.Washingtonians [Ellington], 11/24, Blu-Disc T-1002, 5001; Pennington 1437; Rex 28003.Kentucky Blowers, 11/12/24, Gennett 5602.(Wow, did this ever take the country by storm!)Oops! The first first recording of it,Ambassadors on Vocalion, showed thesubtitle as “I Gotta Hurry Home,” confirms ourcomposer last names. Couldn’t find anyMemphis Five labels, but Online 78 lists ourcomposers and “I Gotta Hurry Home” assubtitle. Goofus Five on OKeh also is “I GottaHurry Home,” cites all three composers bycomplete names, but does have hyphen inChoo Choo. The Duke Ellington MusicSociety web site uses “I Gotta Hurry Home” asthe subtitle. No subtitle on Washingtonians T-2005 or Blu-Disc 5001.Well, the fact is that wherever I actually find thesubtitle on a label, it begins with I.And here’s the clincher:Choo choo, I gotta hurry home; w DaveRingle and Bob Schafer, m Duke Ellington,arr. William H. Heagney, both of U.S. © 1 c.July 19, 1924; E 5960000; Broadway musiccorp.. New York.It appears to me that Rust overlooked the Iand everybody followed him.Choo-Choo Blues (Elmer Barr–Mort Bosley–Henry Santrey)Chris Tyle’s Silver Leaf JB 1298Rust saysFrank Westphal aho, 10/12/22, Columbia A-3743.The Virginians, (as Choo-Choo with hyphen)10/24/22, Victor 18978, HMV B-1855,Zonophone 3496.Art Landry’s Syncopatin’ Six, 6/16/23, Gennett5184.Trixie Smith, 12/24, Paramount 12245,Silvertone 3565 (as Tessie Ames).—but thisis a different song, by J. Guy Suddoth.1922 copyright book showsChoo-choo blues; words by Mort Bosley,music by Elmer Barr [of U.S.], ed. and arr.by Jean Walz; piano with words. © 1 c. Sept.7, 1922; E 543691; Irving Berlin, inc.. NewYork.Choo-choo blues; words by Mort Bosley andHenry Santrey, music by Elmer Barr [of U.S.]© Oct. 11, 1922; 2 c. Oct. 12; E 548659;Irving Berlin, inc., New York.Copyrighted by Bosley-Barr Sept 7; then recopyrightdOct. 11 adding Santrey as lyricist,then rec. by Westphal the next day. My guessis that Berlin or Westphal wanted the lyricsmassaged a bit before recording the song,and Santrey did the job.Note that copyrights had the hyphen.Labels? Couldn’t find Westphal’s Columbialabel, but but LC SONIC says its Barr only, nohyphen, which is how the Columbia mastercatalog reads.The Virginians Victor label has hyphen, creditfor Barr only. (Victor project same, but has anote at composer listing: “Composerinformation source: Disc label”; usually theyhave their own recording session records toconsult.)Art Landry on Gennett is no hyphen, butcomposer credit is Barr-Creager.Am ambivalent on this one, so I guess we juststick with Choo Choo and Barr, as we had it.NO! Later search found the sheet music, pub.by Irving Berlin, 1922, w. Mort Bosley & HenrySantry, m. Elmer Barr. Hyphen on copyrightpage but not on cover.Chromatic Capers (George L. Cobb)George Foley 1088Confirmed with 1925 sheet music.Chrysanthemum, The (An Afro-American Intermezzo) (Scott Joplin)Trevor Richards New Orleans Trio 1222ASM, 1904, Stark.Chunnel Boogie (Louis Mazetier–Neville Dickie)Louis Mazetier & Neville Dickie 1289Church Street Sobbin’ Blues(Anton Lada–Joe Cawley–Alcide Nunez)Swedish Jazz Kings 1122Des Plantes’ Washboard Wizards 1325ASM, w. Spencer Williams/m. Lada-Cawley-Nunez.(c) 1919 Feist(c) renewal 1947 Feist.Presumably a song version that came later.Cinderella Girl (Dave Dallwitz)Steve Waddell’s Creole Bells 1348Several confirming sources, incl. VictorianJazz Archive and “Australian JazzCompositions: By Composers” online atjazzramble.com.Circus Day in Dixie (Albert Gumble–Jack Yellen)Univ. of Wisconsin Symphony Band 1284We just had Gumble, but ASM shows w. JackYellen/m. Gumble; 1915, Jerome Remick.Confirmed by online search as the originalpublication of the song, so we must addYellen.Ciribiribin (Alberto Pestalozza–Carlo Tiochet)New Orleans Rascals 1113LP had “Chiribiribin” by A. Pestalozza-Tiochet.