[78-L] AgerRe: 78-L Digest, Vol 3, Issue 1

[Nigel Burlinson]

Obviously some errors by the copyright departments here!

"Sugar" by Milton Ager, Jack Yellen, Frank Crum & Loring "Red" Nichols
is a completely different song from

"Sugar" (sub title - "That Sugar Baby O' Mine")
by Maceo Pinkard, Edna Alexander, Sidney D. Mitchell

although they were both first published in 1927!

from the Okeh matrix 82030 (December 8 1927)
the Library of Congress shows:

Okeh 41011 & Odeon 193161 to be the Ager, Yellen, Crum, Nichols title
Columbia 35951 to be the Pinkard work!

So which title was recorded?

http://www.redhotjazz.com/mcc.html

This sounds to me like the Pinkard work!

Compare it to the Original Indiana Five (May 1 1927)

http://www.redhotjazz.com/oi5.html

which is definitely the Pinkard work.

Nigel.

(ASCAP lists NO recordings of the Yellen work but 30 or more of the Pinkard 
one).

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> Date: Mon, 1 Dec 2008 17:29:18 +0100
> From: "Han Enderman" <jcenderman at solcon.nl>
> Subject: [78-L] China Boy and Sugar
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> Just checking label pictures of OK 41011 by MC KENZIE AND CONDON'S 
> CHICAGOANS, I found some errors on the labels:
>
> - China Boy has Spanish title '(Muchacho Chrmo)' - what should have been 
> the correct translation (... Chino??).
>
> - Sugar labels exist in 2 variants:
> 1 - with composers Yellen-Ager-Crum-Nichols;
> 2 - with composer Pinkard.
> Timeless CD 021 gives Pinkard-Mitchell-Alexander. These are also given on 
> UHCA 10 (not 9, as given in Rust, which is China Boy). Co 35951 (in C-43) 
> & Par R-2379 mention Pinkard only.
> Is Pinkard correct here, and were M-A later lyric writers?
> Was the Yellen-Ager variant the first pressing, and then the error was 
> noticed?
>
> French Odeon 165321 gives (Yellen-Ager) for Sugar, and also mentions the 
> (... Chrmo) subtitle.
>
> Han Enderman
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