[78-L] "Shine", "St. Louis Blues" and copyright legislation

[David Lennick]

The flip side is another Handy tune, Hesitating Blues, recorded two months 
earlier (October 21, 1915). I have no idea if I have this one but I usually 
pick up any twelve-inchers by Prince. There are too many places where it might be.

dl (who ALSO has an autographed copy of Lost Sounds)

Michael Biel wrote:
> Tbroo at aol.com wrote:
>>  
>> The first recording of "St. Louis Blues", an instrumental, was indeed  the 
>> Columbia by Prince's Band in December 1915. It's a fascinating recording,  
>> full of musical intricacies (including the habanera counterpoint during the  
>> opening bars).
> 
> As I mentioned recently in the thread about dances, at one of the annual 
> seminars at the Great American Brass Band Festival held at Centre 
> College and Danville, Kentucky, there was a presentation about the 
> unremembered popularization of ragtime and early jazz by military bands 
> such as Sousa, Prince, Creatore, etc.  It was a natural because march 
> tempo is much the same as dance tempo, and until 1922 most of the 
> records used for dancing were 12-inchers.  St. Louis Blues was probably 
> spread throughout the nation by the very. very popular military and 
> concert band concerts that were frequently held in every city, town, and 
> hamlet in those days. 
> 
> I'm not sure if I have this record, but obviously Tim does although 
> nobody else seems to have ever seen it.  Ironic, since Tim is the most 
> fervent critic of Osborne's Pop Memories which cites this rarely 
> encountered record as a #4 hit.  As Tim has written and Don C hinted at, 
> shouldn't "hit" records be among the least rare records?
> 
> Mike (who also has Lost Sounds, and it's even autographed) Biel  
> mbiel at mbiel.com