[78-L] Phil Harris/Andy Razaf

[RAY KILCOYNE]

Shouldn't the Harris date be 1947 instead of 1937?
RayK
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From: "Randy Watts"
The following is from J. R. Taylor's notes in the compact disc AMERICAN 
SONGBOOK SERIES: WALLER/RAZAF (Smithsonian), offered for what it's worth.

Randy

"On his own [Razaf] wrote "That's What I Like 'bout the South," which Cab 
Calloway sang in a 1933 Cotton Club revue. (In 1937, Jack Benny's radio 
bandleader Phil Harris sang a hit record of this song; he also said he'd 
written it. Razaf sued. Harris copyrighted a slightly different lyric, 
replaced "'bout" with "about" in the title, and continued to claim 
authorship.)"