JELLY ROLL MORTON - COPYRIGHTS & COMPOSITIONS

Jelly Roll Morton
Copyrights & Compositions

COPYRIGHTS & COMPOSITIONS
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COMPOSITION INDEX

A	B	C	D	E	F	G	H	I	J	K	L
M	N	O	P	Q	R	S	T	W	Y	Z	U

Title

Aaron Harris (was a bad, bad man) (Cl E unp 137631)
Bad Man Song
For Voice and Piano [1]

Claimant or
Publisher

Estate of JRM

Deposited or
Published

Jun 1, 1948

After You’ve Gone
(Henry Creamer — J. Turner Layton)

Broadway Music

1918

Alabama Nights [MT]

unknown

Albert Carroll’s Blues (Cl E unp 153986)
For Piano

Estate of JRM

Dec 20, 1939

All That I Ask Is Love
(Herbert Ingraham — Edgar Selden)

Maurice Shapiro

1910

The Angel’s Serenade
(Gaetano Braga)

Oliver Ditson & Co.

1877

Any Ox [G] [MT]

unknown

Anamule Dance (Cl E unp 209908)
For Piano — Lead Sheet

Tempo-Music

Dec 20, 1939

Ballin’ The Jack
(Chris Smith — James Reece Europe)

Joseph W. Stern

1914

Beale Street Blues
(W.C. Handy)

W. C. Handy

1916

Benny Frenchy’s Defeat (Cl E unp 160066)
For Piano [1]

Estate of JRM

Mar 11, 1949

Bert Williams (Cl E unp 137615)
Characteristic Piano Solo
a.k.a. The Pacific Rag [q.v.]
For Piano [1]

Estate of JRM

Jun 29, 1948

Betty [HNOC]

HNOC

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Big Fat Ham (Cl E unp 170499)
a.k.a. Big Foot Ham [q.v.] and Ham and Eggs [q.v.]
For Piano — Lead Sheet

Roy J. Carew

Jun 14, 1949

Big Fat Ham (Cl E pub 100761)
a.k.a. Big Foot Ham [q.v.] and Ham and Eggs [q.v.]
For Piano [1]

Roy J. Carew
Illustrated Cover

Jul 16, 1956

Big Foot Ham (Cl E 568564)
a.k.a. Big Fat Ham [q.v.] and Ham and Eggs [q.v.]
Holograph — For Piano

Lloyd Smith

Aug 11, 1923

Big Lip Blues (Cl E unp 212838)
For Piano — Lead Sheet

Tempo-Music

Jan 20, 1940

Big Lip Blues (Cl E unp 215608)
For Voice and Piano — Lead Sheet

Tempo-Music

Mar 7, 1940

Big Time Woman
(Wilton Crawley)

unknown

Billy Goat Stomp (Cl E 667827)
For Piano

Melrose Bros.
Illustrated Cover

Jul 5, 1927

Billy Goat Stomp
Score and Parts — For Small Orchestra [11]

Melrose Bros.

1927

Black Bottom Stomp
originally titled: Queen of Spades [q.v.]

Melrose Bros.

Sep 18, 1926

Black Bottom Stomp (Cl E 648730)
originally titled: Queen of Spades [q.v.]
Score and Parts — For Small Orchestra [3]

Melrose Bros.
Illustrated Cover

Oct 4, 1926

Blue Blood Blues (Cl E unp 40325)
For Piano — Lead Sheet

Majestic Stomp [FJR] [BE]
(Hector Marchese)

Southern Music Co.

May 20, 1931

Blues

unknown

This title does not appear to have been originally copyrighted or published and its existence is known only from The Baltimore Acetates recording session dated before April (?) 1938.

Boogaboo
a.k.a. Gold Fish Blues [q.v.]

Melrose Bros.

Aug 15, 1928

Boogaboo
a.k.a. Gold Fish Blues [q.v.]
Score and Parts — For Small Orchestra [11]

Melrose Bros.

1928

Boogie Woogie Blues (Cl E unp 153987)
a.k.a. The Crazy Chord Rag [q.v.]
For Piano

Estate of JRM

Jan 17, 1949

Bucktown Blues (Cl E 612147)
(Boyd Senter)
(arranged by Carleton Colby)

Melrose Bros.

1924

Buddy Bertrand’s Blues (Cl E unp 153985)
For Piano

Estate of JRM

Jan 17, 1949

Buddy Bolden’s Blues (Cl E pub 48163)
(I Thot I Heard Buddy Bolden Say) — Song
For Voice and Piano [1]

Tempo-Music
Illustrated Cover

Jul 14, 1950

Buddy Carter Rag (Cl E unp 160067)
For Piano [1]

Estate of JRM

Mar 11, 1949

Buffalo Blues (Cl E 688478)
a.k.a. Mr. Joe [q.v.]
Holograph — For Piano — Lead Sheet

Triangle

Apr 2, 1928

Burnin’ The Iceberg (Cl E unp 11383)
For Piano — Lead Sheet

Southern Music Co.

Sep 28, 1929

C. C. Rider
(Lena Arrant and Ma Rainey)
a.k.a. See See Rider

unknown

Cadillac Rag

unknown

“While there [at the Cadillac Café in Los Angeles], Morton wrote a tune called Cadillac Rag.” [D]

Call Of The Freaks
(Paul Barbarin — Luis Russell)

unknown

Can-Can
a.k.a. C’était n’aut’ can-can, payez donc

unknown

Cannon Ball Blues (Cl E 654852)
(with Charlie Rider & Marty Bloom)
For Piano

Melrose Bros.

Dec 27, 1926

Card Dealer’s Song

unknown

The Chant — A Spooky Serenade (Cl E 644871)
(Mel Stitzel)
Score and Parts — For Small Orchestra [4]

Melrose Bros.

Aug 2, 1926

Chicago Breakdown
a.k.a. Stratford Hunch [q.v.] and Stratford Huntch

Melrose Bros.

Jan 12, 1926

Chicago Breakdown (Cl E 633467)
a.k.a. Stratford Hunch [q.v.] and Stratford Huntch
Score and Parts — For Small Orchestra [3]

Melrose Bros.

Feb 15, 1926

Clarinet Marmalade
(Larry Shields — Henry Ragas)

Leo. Feist

1918

Climax Rag
(James Scott)

John Stark

1914

Courthouse Bump (Cl E unp 14982)

Southern Music Co.

Dec 26, 1929

The Crave (Cl E unp 209909)
For Piano — Lead Sheet

Tempo-Music

Dec 20, 1939

The Crave (Cl E pub 49473)
Characteristic Piano Solo
For Piano [1]

Tempo-Music
Illustrated Cover

Sep 25, 1950

The Crazy Chord Rag
a.k.a. Boogie Woogie Blues [q.v.]

—

Crazy Chords (Cl E unp 50291)
For Piano — Lead Sheet

Southern Music Co.

Jan 7, 1932

Creepy Feeling (Cl E unp 387773)
For Piano

Roy J. Carew

Aug 25, 1944

An unpublished manuscript exists at HNOC, transcribed by J. Lawrence Cook. This is taken from the 1938 Jazz Man recording. [BT]

Dead Man Blues (Cl E 642855)
(words by Anita Gonzales)
For Voice and Piano — Lead Sheet

Melrose Bros.

Jul 3, 1926

Dead Man Blues (Cl E 650996)
For Piano [4]

Melrose Bros.

Oct 22, 1926

Dead Man Blues
Score and Parts — For Small Orchestra [4]

Melrose Bros.

1926

Dear Ole Lonnon [HNOC]

HNOC

—

Deep Creek (Cl E unp 32288)
For Piano — Lead Sheet

Southern Music Co.

Dec 17, 1930

Deuces Wild [G]

unknown

Dirty, Dirty, Dirty (Cl E unp 214465)
For Piano — Lead Sheet

Tempo-Music

Feb 5, 1940

The Dirty Dozen
(Clarence M. Jones — Jack Frost)

unknown

1917

Discordant Jazz (Cl E unp 138395)
For Piano [1]

Estate of JRM

Jun 29, 1948

Dixie Knows (Cl E pub 26782)
(with Mel Stitzel)

Melrose Bros.

Nov 18, 1931

Don’t Tell Me Nothin’ ’Bout My Man (Cl E unp 19138)

Don’t Tell Me Nothing ’Bout My Man [DJR] [BE]
(Smith & Garrison)

Southern Music Co.

Mar 14, 1930

Don’t Tell Me Nothin’ ’Bout My Man (Cl E unp 31154)
For Voice and Piano — Lead Sheet

Don’t Tell Me Nothing ’Bout My Man [DJR] [BE]
(Smith & Garrison)

Southern Music Co.

Nov 25, 1930

Don’t You Leave Me Here (Cl E unp 203984)
a.k.a. I’m Alabama Bound [q.v.]
For Piano — Lead Sheet

Tempo-Music

Sep 26, 1939

Don’t You Leave Me Here (Song) (Cl E unp 213811)
a.k.a. I’m Alabama Bound [q.v.]
For Voice and Piano — Lead Sheet

Tempo-Music

Feb 17, 1940

Down My Way (Cl E unp 18079)

Southern Music Co.

Mar 5, 1930

Each Day (Cl E unp 65475)
For Piano — Lead Sheet

Sing A Little Song Each Day [FJR] [DJR] [BE]
(Harrison Smith — Ben Garrison)

Southern Music Co.

Dec 22, 1932

Everybody Loves My Honey Now
(Walter H. Brown)

Southern Music Co.

unknown

Exit Gloom (PA-118-926)

Denton & Haskins

unknown

Fast Ragtime (Cl E unp 138392)
For Piano [1]

Estate of JRM

Jun 29, 1948

Fat Meat And Greens
(A. Dickerson)

unknown

Fickle Fay Creep (Cl E unp 33439)
a.k.a. Soap Suds [q.v.]
For Piano — Lead Sheet

Just A Lonely Echo [DJR] [BE]
(Harrison Smith & Ben Garrison)

Southern Music Co.

Jan 10, 1931

The Finger Breaker (Cl E unp 316156)
a.k.a. Fingerbuster
For Piano

Roy J. Carew

Nov 23, 1942

Mike Meddings is in possession of an unpublished manuscript edited by J. Lawrence Cook. [1]

Fish Tail Blues
(Lee Collins)
a.k.a. Side-Walk-Blues [q.v.] and Sidewalk Blues [q.v.]

unknown

Flee As A Bird To The Mountain
(Mrs. Mary S. B. Dana — arr. by George Frederick Root)

Oliver Ditson & Co.

1857

Frances (Cl E unp 33437)
a.k.a. Fat Frances
For Piano — Lead Sheet

Southern Music Co.

Jan 10, 1931

Freakish (Cl E unp 11378)
For Piano — Lead Sheet

—

Sep 28, 1929

Freakish (for Cl E unp 11378, not a copyright deposit)
For Piano — Lead Sheet

Copyright renewed and assigned to:
Edwin H. Morris & Company, Inc., New York.

Southern Music Co.

1929

Froggie Moore (Cl E 559684)
a.k.a. Sweetheart O’ Mine [q.v.]
and Frog-I-More Rag [q.v.]
(words by Benjamin F. Spikes and John C. Spikes)
For Piano and Voice

Spikes Bros.

Apr 16, 1923

Frog-i-More Rag (Cl E 439269)
a.k.a. Sweetheart O’ Mine [q.v.]
and Froggie Moore [q.v.]
Holograph — For Piano

Fred [sic] Morton

May 15, 1918

Frog-i-More Rag (Cl E pub 15486)
a.k.a. Sweetheart O’ Mine [q.v.]
and Froggie Moore [q.v.]
For Piano [1]

Roy J. Carew

Jun 20, 1947

Fussy Mabel (Cl E unp 22881)
For Piano — Lead Sheet

Southern Music Co.

Jun 5, 1930

Futuristic Blues
(Wilton Crawley)

unknown

Gambling Jack (Cl E unp 50292)
For Piano — Lead Sheet

All Girls Are Beautiful Girls [DJR] [BE]
(Smith & Garrison)

Southern Music Co.

Jan 7, 1932

Game Kid Blues (Cl E unp 153988)
For Piano

Estate of JRM

Jan 17, 1949

Ganjam (PA-948-874) [HNOC]

HNOC

May 27, 1999

Georgia Swing (Cl E 699057)

Melrose Bros.

Aug 15, 1928

Georgia Swing (Cl E pub 7068 — not a Deposit Copy)
Score and Parts — For Small Orchestra [12]

Melrose Bros.

1928

Get The Bucket (Cl E unp 214467)
For Piano — Lead Sheet

Tempo-Music

Feb 5, 1940

Get The Bucket (Cl E unp 215610)
For Voice and Piano — Lead Sheet

Tempo-Music

Mar 7, 1940

Gold Fish Blues [HNOC]
a.k.a. Boogaboo [q.v.]

HNOC

—

Golden Leaf Strut
(Paul Mares — Leon Roppolo)

unknown

1925

Golden Leaf Strut was, in part, the same as Milenburg Joys, with the omission of Jelly Roll’s name as composer.

Golden Weding [sic]

Waltz version of Shreveport Stomp

unknown

Good Old New York (Cl E unp 187163)
(The World’s Fair Song)
(Lyrics by Ed Werac)
For Voice and Piano

Tempo-Music

Feb 9, 1939

Grandpa’s Spells (Cl E 570417)
Holograph — For Piano

Melrose Bros.

Aug 20, 1923

Grandpa’s Spells (Cl E 618136)
Score and Parts — For Small Orchestra [3]

Melrose Bros.

May 21, 1925

Ham & Eggs (Cl E 688479)
a.k.a. Big Fat Ham [q.v.] and Big Foot Ham [q.v.]
Holograph — For Piano — Lead Sheet

Triangle

Apr 2, 1928

Harmony Blues (Cl E unp 25073)
For Piano — Lead Sheet

Honeymoon Farm [DJR] [BE]
(Ben Garrison)

Southern Music Co.

Jul 18, 1930

Hello Central! Give Me — Doctor Jazz
(Joseph Oliver — Walter Melrose)

Melrose Bros.
Illustrated Cover

1927

Hen House [HNOC]

HNOC

—

Hesitation Blues
(Scott Middleton — Billy Smythe)

unknown

1915

High Brown Baby Mine
(with Karl Kramer)

unknown

High Society
(Porter Steele)

E. J. Denton

1901

Hog Function [HNOC]

HNOC

—

Honey Babe (Cl E 699058)

Melrose Bros.

Aug 15, 1928

Honeysuckle Rose
(Fats Waller — Andy Razaf)

Santly Bros.

1929

Honky Tonk Blues
a.k.a. Honky Tonk Music [q.v.]

—

Honky Tonk Music (Cl E unp 111225)
a.k.a. Honky Tonk Blues [q.v.]
For Piano

Tempo-Music

Jan 6, 1948

Hyena Stomp (Cl E 665816)
For Piano

Melrose Bros.

Jun 27, 1927

Hyena Stomp
Score and Parts — For Small Orchestra [3]

Melrose Bros.

1927

I Ain’t Got Nobody
(Charles Warfield — Spencer Williams — Roger Graham)

Craig & Co.
Frank K. Root

1915

I Hate A Man Like You (Cl E unp 15137)
Holograph — For Voice and Piano — Lead Sheet
(Typescript of Chorus and Verses Laid In)

Ferd Morton

Jan 2, 1930

I Hate A Man Like You (Cl E unp 39108)
For Voice and Piano

Ferd Morton

Apr 22, 1931

I Thot I Heard Buddy Bolden Say (Cl E unp 204808)
(Buddy Bolden’s Blues)
For Piano — Lead Sheet

Tempo-Music

Sep 19, 1939

I Thot I Heard Buddy Bolden Say (Cl E unp 213810)
(Song)
For Voice and Piano — Lead Sheet

Tempo-Music

Feb 17, 1940

I Thot I Heard Buddy Bolden Say (Cl E unp 53731)
(Buddy Bolden’s Blues)
Characteristic Piano Arrangement and Solo
For Voice and Piano

Tempo-Music

Nov 20, 1946

I Thot I Heard Buddy Bolden Say (Cl E unp 53732)
(Buddy Bolden’s Blues)
Orchestration by Jelly Roll Morton
For Voice and Small Orchestra

Tempo-Music

Nov 20, 1946

I Would Do Anything For You
(A. Hill — R. Williams — C. Hopkins)

unknown

1932

If I Was Whiskey And You Was A Duck

unknown

If Someone Would Only Love Me (Cl E unp 53717)
For Piano — Lead Sheet

Southern Music Co.

Mar 22, 1932

(Gee I Be Happy) If Someone Would Only Love Me [DJR] [BE]
(Smith & Garrison)

If You Don’t Shake, Don’t Get No Cake

unknown

If You Knew — How I Love You (Cl E pub 72466)
(Lyrics by Ed Werac)
For Voice and Piano

Tempo-Music
Illustrated Cover

Oct 31, 1938