[78-L] Phil Harris/Andy Razaf

[Randy Watts]

No. Harris made his first recording of the song for Vocalion in 1937.

Randy

--- On Tue, 11/10/09, RAY KILCOYNE <kil at roadrunner.com> wrote:

> From: RAY KILCOYNE <kil at roadrunner.com>
> Subject: Re: [78-L] Phil Harris/Andy Razaf
> To: "78-L Mail List" <78-l at klickitat.78online.com>
> Date: Tuesday, November 10, 2009, 4:11 AM
> Shouldn't the Harris date be 1947
> instead of 1937?
> RayK
> >
> 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.)"