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Bunk Johnson, Conrad Janis, JimRobinson."How about that!Steve Abrams: I don’t have the Lissauerbook but somewhere else I also got PaulBarnes copyright 1900, so it must have beenoff the sheet music."OK - Paul Barnes--3>--4>2013 review: Well, the original 1900 copyrightisDown by the riverside. Song composed byPaul Barnes. Copyright bv Theo. F. Morse,New York, 'N.Y. 1900, class C, no. 16251,Oct. 31; 2 copies rec'd Oct. 31, 1900.[Was recopyrighted Dec. 31 by Howley,Haviland & Dresser, NY.]Beware that this Paul Barnes frequently getsconfused with the New Orleans reed player ofthe same name, who wasn’t born until 1901.Of our Paul Barnes, the Toledo Blade reportedon June 8, 1922:WAR SONG WRITER DIES BLIND PAUPERThat Paul Barnes, who died in Manhattanstate hospital, Ward’s island, May 8, insane,blind and a pauper, was the author of“Good-bye, Dolly Gray,” the battle chant ofAmerican soldiers and sailors in the waragainst Spain, became known recently.Barnes was the author of many othersongs once popular. Among some 50 are“Josephine, My Joe,” “Down by theRiverside,” “Dreamin’,” “Venetian Moon,”and “Mammy Jenny’s Lullaby.”The last appearance of Paul Barnes was inthe English music halls just at the outbreakof the war. When he and his wife, whoworked with him, returned to Broadway theyfound themselves forgotten and soon,through worry, Barnes became insane.So “Study War No More” is by no means theoriginal or “correct” title; rather, it’s anothercase of a song becoming known by arepeated line in the lyric. But actually, it’salternative title is far more often rendered as“Ain’t Gonna Study War No More,” so that’swhat we’ll use.Down Hearted Blues (Alberta Hunter–Lovie Austin)Mahogany Hall Stompers 1221We had “Downhearted,” but both cover & (c)page say Down Hearted. ASM, 1923, JackMills; w. AH/m. LA.[New] Down Home Blues(Tom Delaney)John Gill’s Original Sunset Five 1126Jacobi’s Bottomland Orchestra 1336Manhattan Ragtime Orchestra 14191126 & 1419 were Down Home Blues byDelaney; 1336 was New Down Home Blues byDelaney.Rec.Ethel Waters, 4-5/21, Black Swan 2010,Paramount 12169. BS label is Tom Delaney,no TheMamie Smith, 8/30/21, OKeh 4446. Credit TomDelaney, no TheAlice Leslie Carter, 9/21, Arto 9103; Bell P-103;Globe 7103; Hy-Tone K-103.Mary Stafford, 9/28/21, Columbia A-3511.Composer credit Albury!Tampa Blue Jazz Band, c. 11/14/21, OKeh4499.Waring’s Pennsylvanians, 3/26/24, Victor19303. (this is a different tune entirely, bysomebody named Morde).Ethel Waters, 7/28/25, Columbia 14093-D.label is Tom Delaney, No TheRec. as New Down Home Blues by Cl.Williams -- see notes on that title below.Copyright:Down (The) home blues; words and musicbv Tom Delaney [of U.S.] © Sept. 24, 1921;2 c. Sept. 26, 1921 E 519500; Albury &Delaney music pub. co., New York.Well, I couldn’t find that any of the labels usedthe definite article The in their titles, but Iguess we can leave it.BEWARE: AM PRETTY SURE THIS IS SAMEAS NEW DOWN HOME BLUES/RAG BYCLARENCE WILLIAMS. IF CONFIRMED,MOVE THEM ALL HERE.8/7/13 Robbie Rhodes confirms my suspicionthat New Down Home Blues/Rag is just the1921 tune played faster.Robbie also notes,"Down Home Blues" by Delany was theinspiration for another great tune, "Last Go'Round Blues", credited to Jimmy Cox (9May 1922) and recorded by Eva Taylor,among several others, copyright byClarence Williams Music Publ. Co., Sept. 25,1922.A piano roll, QRS 2363 (Sept. 1923), wasrecorded by Thomas Waller at the QRSrecording piano, the same machine used byEubie Blake and James P. Johnson. Anannouncement of this roll appears inPRESTO, August 11, 1923.Much credit is due Waller's editor, J.Lawrence Cook, who coaxed all the melodyvariations out of Waller and then spent hoursmaking a cohesive piano roll performance.Needless to say, Cook greatly admiredThomas 'Fats' Waller.WHAT FOLLOWS IS MY ORIGINAL NOTES TONEW DOWN HOME BLUES. Movedeverything here 8/7/13New Down Home Blues (Tom Delaney)Jacobi’s Bottomland Orchestra 1336Rec. Cl. Williams aho, 8/28, QRS R-7005;Broadway 1348; Paramount 12885, 14008*;JC L-32*; XX 12* (*as New Down HomeRag, and XX 12 as by “ComradePajandrasayarthi Chundernagore VyshinskiRam Srinavinegar and His Red Indians”!).No composer credit on QRS label, nor onParamount 14008 “Rag” label, nor XX 12“Rag” label--which I actually found online);nor JC L-32 label).Not in 1928-29 copyright books, althoughmany other Delaney pieces are there. Butwait a minute: Delaney’s “The New DownHome Blues” was copyright in 1921 andrecorded by many people. Is this just arerecording of the 1921 tune with “new”stuck on to refer back to the earlier piece?We had that with [New] Moten Stomp andelected to put all recordings under MotenStomp.I’m sure that’s the case. The “New” tunesby Williams and Jacobi sound to me exactlylike the 1921/25 Waters and John Gillrecordings, just speeded up. Will askRobbie to compare them. [He did—seenote above.]But one last note: It looks like I added the“The” to the title clear back at the 3rd edition;only basis I can see for that in old notes is thatS&P had it. But none of the SOS records hadThe, nor did any of the original recordings, soit probably never should have been there. (Inthe absence of published sheet music, recordlabels outweigh copyright registrations.)(Just Try to Picture Me) Down [Back]Home in Tennessee (WilliamJerome–Walter Donaldson)Heliotrope Ragtime Orchestra 1427