[78-L] "Willie the weeper" & co.

[Stephen Davies]

No sooner do I close one difficult cataloguing entry than another pops up.

"Willie the Weeper" (1927) is credited to Grant Rymal, Marty Bloom & either
Will or Walter Melrose.  Bloom partnered in a publishing business with
brothers Walter and Lester Melrose.

I wondered if "Will" was a nickname for Walter, or was Will a third
Melrose, or was the Internet just wrong, again?  ASCAP credits Walter, so
that's good enough for me.

I hadn't realized that Willie preceded "Minnie the Moocher" (1931).  The
genre continued with "Winnie the Wailer" (1933), and I don't know how many
others.

Someone should create a mini-jazz opera by combining the different
parodies, sequels etc in this vein.  Unless there is no variation in the
tunes.  That would be tedious.

- Stephen D
in Calgary




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