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Artist: James P. Johnson's Harmony Eight
Author: Henry Creamer/Turner Layton
Label: Okeh
Year: 1921
Without James P. Johnson. First part clearly influenced by spiritual Deep River (1916). Copyright holder Harry T. Burleigh's furious reaction upon hearing the similarity, targetted black coauthors Creamer & Layton in the first place. How could brothers turn sacred material into ordinary jazz? ("How can it be stopped?") Creamer & Layton also cowrote After You've Gone and Way Down Yonder In New Orleans.
Covers:
Paul Whiteman [for Victor]
Paul Robeson [as Deep River]
Original Wolverines [without Bix Beiderbecke]
Noble Sissle Orch. [with Sidney Bechet]
Dr. John [with Nicholas Payton]
If you noticed blunt omissions, mis-interpretations or even out-and-out errors,
please let me know:
Arnold Rypens
Rozenlaan 65
B-2840 Reet (Rumst)