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above, has only recently become well known to collectors. Many I others, as good or better, remain obscure.
One very interesting set of Dodds rarities, which ought to be clarified, appears on Gennett, Champion and Paramount, j Paramount 12525, by the Dixie| land Thumpersi-, Weary Way Blues i (855) and There'll Come A Day I (856), has been established as a Dodds and Natty Dominique recj ord, with a pianist who doesn't ! sound much like Jimmy Blythe, j and a washboard drummer. (This disc is not to be confused with Paramount 12594 by the Dixieland J_ug_ Thumpers, Oriental Man j (20240) and Sock That Thing 1 (-2 0241 )wh ich Bill Love reported I (J.I. 1/26/40) as a Dodds-Domin ique-Blythe item.)
The same two titles, Weary Way Blues and There'll Come A Day (without master numbers) appear on -Champ i on! 15344 under the name of Blythe's Blue Boys. Comparison of the Champion and Paramount indicates that they are different; but the personnel appears to be the same, and the differences in performances are such as often occur between two masters made at the same recording session.
Love also reported Weary Way Blues and Cootie Stomp (no master numbers), on Gennett 6232 by the State Street Ramblers, in J.I. 1/26/40. And Robert Waller of San Francisco has just written this column about a Champion 15399 of Cootie Stomp by Blythe's Blue Boys, which he says has Dodds and Dominique.
Doing a little guesswork, it seems likely that Weary Way Blues and Cootie Stomp, original ly issued as by the State Street Ramblers on Gennett, was reissued (from the same or different masters) on Champion under the name of Blythe's Blue Boys. No Gennett issue of There'll Come A Day has been re
ported so far; which suggests that this may be another Paramount-Gennett-Champi on tie-up such as occurred with some Cow Cow Davenport piano solos (see J.I. 6/7/40).
If this guess is a good one, the discography of these records would read something like this (disregarding master variations): Weary Way Blues
Para 12525, Gen 6232, Ch 15344 There '11 Come A Day
Para 12525, , Ch 15344
Cootie Stomp
, Gen 6232, Ch 15399
with different names for the band on each label. Whether or not this reconstruction is accurate cannot be known until the seven sides involved and any others which may turn up, have been compared.
These undoubted Dodds records, by the way, must not be confused with the common Champions by the State Street Ramblers and Blythe's Blue Boys, none of which appear to have Dodds. The latter, reissued on Decca under the name of the Blue Jay Boys, are Pleasure Mad, Endurance Stomp, etc. The State Street Ramblers feature the remarkable New Orleans trombone playing of Roy Palmer (Sugar Johnny Smith's sidekick), although the rest of the band is inferior. Sic 'Em Tige (17627), on Champion 40070, •is an especially good example. The 40,000 series on Champion are largely or entirely reissues of earlier Champions or Gennetts; but the records mentioned in this paragraph are entirely different from the Dodds items which appeared under the same names .
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