•I follow a convenient, practical and legal-ignorant method and have had no complaints from its consistent use. Where an article or publication or book is quoted which has been published for general sale, subscription or circulation such as a book, magazine, newsletter or web page, I assume that the...

•Hi Robbie, You write :- >[ Are you now ready to make roll transcriptions for customers, >[ Richard? What would be the cost to transcribe a 100-foot roll >[ for subsequent perforating? Not quite. My present prototype is held together with nails and sticky tape but I've persuaded an old friend who is...

•Ken Vinen wrote: > It is on the Columbia Label and is an acoustical recording. One side > is called 'Shadow Waltz', the other side 'Puppchen' one-step. Both > are listed as Circus Organ Solo, and identified as "International > Circus Organ." Price was 90 cents. Recording number is E2922. [snip] > I...

•John Farrell wrote: > In yesterday's MMD Joyce Brite said that Harry Warren's Shadow Waltz > is from the musical "42nd Street", however my records state that the > tune was introduced by Dick Powell and Ruby Keeler in the movie "Gold > Diggers of 1933", 1933 being the year of the original published...

•Hi All, Over the past year or two, numerous references have been made to the QRS player piano roll #186, 'Ching Chong', Jazz Arrangement, Key of G flat, Words and Music by Lee S. Roberts, played by Ted Baxter and Max Kortlander, Copyright by Lee S. Roberts, 1917. So, in the interest of history and ...

•Rose Howard makes reference to the police forbidding coin-op music machines in the San Francisco bordellos around 1911. I'd like to flesh-out the reference by quoting from the excellent (and sordid) history of the Barbary Coast in Herbert Asbury's book, "The Barbary Coast: An Informal History of th...

•I didn't respond to Albert de Boer's question about non-reproducing Duo-Arts (except with a crack that they're common; I have a 1927 one here...) because I thought most MMDigesters would have more info than me. The perpetrator of this ill-usage was, I am sorry to say, none other than the copyright ...

•On 14 January 1999 the Swiss government seized the computers of the International Lyrics Server (ILS), an Internet site based in Basel, Switzerland, which offered the words for more than 100,000 popular tunes. The seizure is the result of a lawsuit filed in Basel in November 1998 by the [American] ...

•A useful old utility from the world of MS-DOS about 10 years ago is SNOOPER.EXE 10402 bytes 1-26-89 I run it against an unknown executable and it returns all the ASCII strings it finds. I have not seen a comparable utility in recent years. I run it from the DOS prompt with the following command str...

•> Or, according to the immediate cartoon character precursor > of Bugs Bunny: > > Thirty days hath September, > April, June, and Montana > Except in the summer, > Which isn't very often. > >[ Oh, I love it! -- Especially since all this started with a sleepy >[ MMDer in Missoula, Montana. But who, p...

•Jim wrote: (corrected) > Or, according to the immediate cartoon character precursor > of Bugs Bunny: > > Thirty days hath September, > April, June, and Montana. > All the rest have cold weather, > Except in the summer, > Which isn't very often. Robbie wrote: >[ Oh, I love it! -- Especially since al...

•Ed Copeland wrote that he would like to get the listing of what instru- ments are playing what songs. It so happens that I just got a record at an estate sale titled "Nickel Music -- The Sound of the Nickelodeons at Paul Eakins' Gay Nineties Village", which was in Sikeston, Missouri. The only sligh...

•Hello all -- I would appreciate some help. For liner notes on a recording, I need info about three old songs. The songs are 1. "Nobody Loves Me" (maybe known as "Nobody Loves Me Now"); 2. "A Hundred Years From Today"; and 3. "Drizzle, Drizzle". Desired info is composer(s) and copyright or publicati...

•[ Re: 991015 MMDigest: CD of Josef Hofmann's Piano Roll Recordings In a related note, I just found a pair of records (LPs) of piano roll music while cleaning out a record collection belonging to my aunt, now retired to an Altzheimer's assisted care facility. The first (X-905) was of Josef Hofmann a...

•In response to Robbie Rhodes query regarding the 88-note roll, "Roll Em Girls, Roll Your Own", I have that roll with a QRS label that reads as follows: QRS 3332 Roll Em Girls (Roll Your Own) fox trot played by J. Lawrence Cook Copyright Joe Morris Music Co. 1925 Bill Masterman Tacoma, WA ...

•This was a _very_ popular song of the mid-twenties. I have a Billy Murray record of it, as well as an Ideal piano roll; info on label as follows: Ideal Word Roll, #03293 Roll Em Girls (Roll Your Own) By Marr and Fletcher Fox Trot Played by Ed Sheppard Copyright 1925 by Joe Morris Music I'm sure QRS...

•Robbie, Your posting in 000105 MMD of your 1986 note about a computerized music database (which would be a superhuman effort if it strived for completeness) prompts me to ask you if you are aware of the Lester S. Levy sheet music collection that is available at http://levysheetmusic.mse.jhu.edu/ Ma...

•In MMD 000113 D. L. Bullock inquired about the Victorian Song "An Hour Too Late." It took me a while to find it, but the music is printed in the 1971 Simon & Schuster book, "Trust Me With Your Heart Again, Turn- of-the-Century Sheet Music Collected by Norman Stillman", page 154. The title is "An Ho...

•It would seem to be time for the periodic referral to the 78 rpm mailing list, which covers topics much in common with interests here. This week the subscription is something like sending mail to ; let me know if that doesn't work. Some of the best 20's and 30's music sites are Jeff Lichtman's juke...

•This story was first published in The Bristol Press, Bristol, Connecticut, circa 1955. Reprinted in "Remember That Song", Vol. 19 No. 1, January 2000. Copyright by Bob Harrington, Terryville CT; reprinted in MMD with the kind permission of the author. - - - The Hit Song That Almost Didn't Happen by...