It is surprising how many tunes in the traditional jazz repertoire have with the passage of time acquired more than one title. There must have been various reasons for this, one of which was that a later performer wanted to disguise the fact that he was plagiarising a tune from an earlier band. But I am sure there were other reasons too, that had more to do with mere memory loss.
Here are over fifty examples. Maybe you can send me some more?
Algiers Strut is You're all I Want for Christmas (composed by Glen Moore and Seger Ellis)
Astoria Strut is also known as Climax Rag
Atlanta Blues (final strain) is also known as Make Me a Pallet on the Floor
Atlanta Blues (final strain) is also known as Make Me a Pallet on the Floor
Babik is a variation on I Got Rhythm
Barnyard Blues is also known as Livery Stable Blues
Barnyard Blues is also known as Livery Stable Blues
Black Bottom Stomp is also known as Queen of Spades
Blame it on the Blues is also known as Quincy Street Stomp
Blame it on the Blues is also known as Quincy Street Stomp
Blue Bells Goodbye was actually composed in 1905 as Bright Eyes Goodbye
Bogalusa Strut is a re-interpretation of the first two strains of Scott Joplin's Rose Leaf Rag
Bugle Boy March is also known as American Soldier
Bugle Boy March is also known as American Soldier
California Blues is also known as Blue Yodel No. 4
Can I Sleep in Your Arms Tonight, Lady? is the same tune as Red River Valley and is the same tune as We Shall Walk Through the Streets of the City
Chant of the Tuxedos is virtually the same as Ol' Man Mose
Chicago Breakdown is the same as Stratford Hunch
Chimes Blues is also known as Mournful Serenade
Corrinne Corrinna is also known as Alberta Blues
Creole Love Call is basically the middle theme from Camp Meeting Blues
Creole Song is also known as L'Autre Can Can and is also known as Madame Pedoux
Can I Sleep in Your Arms Tonight, Lady? is the same tune as Red River Valley and is the same tune as We Shall Walk Through the Streets of the City
Chant of the Tuxedos is virtually the same as Ol' Man Mose
Chicago Breakdown is the same as Stratford Hunch
Chimes Blues is also known as Mournful Serenade
Corrinne Corrinna is also known as Alberta Blues
Creole Love Call is basically the middle theme from Camp Meeting Blues
Creole Song is also known as L'Autre Can Can and is also known as Madame Pedoux
Dauphine Street Blues (first strain) is also known as Nobody Knows the Way I Feel This Morning
Deep Bayou Blues is also known as The Three Sixes
Dippermouth Blues was re-created by the Fletcher Henderson Orchestra as Sugarfoot Stomp
Do Lord (tune) is also known as It Takes a Worried Man to Sing a Worried Song
Do Lord (tune) is also known as It Takes a Worried Man to Sing a Worried Song
Don't Go 'Way, Nobody (tune) is also known as How Come You Do Me Like You Do Do Do? and is also known as Everybody's Talking About Sammy and is also known as I'm a Ding Dong Daddy from Dumas and is also known as If It Don't Fit, Don't Force It and is much the same as Walk Right In
Don't You Feel My Leg is also known as Don't Make Me High
Down Home Rag is also known as Black Rag
Duke's Place is also known as C-Jam Blues
Fidgety Feet is also known as War Clouds
Frogimore Rag (trio) is also Sweetheart of Mine
Down Home Rag is also known as Black Rag
Duke's Place is also known as C-Jam Blues
Fidgety Feet is also known as War Clouds
Frogimore Rag (trio) is also Sweetheart of Mine
Frosty Morning Blues is also known as Lost Your Man Blues
The Eyes of Texas (tune) is also known as I've Been Working on the Railroad
The Eyes of Texas (tune) is also known as I've Been Working on the Railroad
Garbage Man Blues is also known as Call of the Freaks and is also known as New Call of the Freaks
Get a Working Man is identical to Pinchbacks, Take 'Em Away (and the chorus is harmonically the same as It's a Long Way to Tipperary)
Golden Leaf Strut is also known as Milenberg Joys
Golden Leaf Strut is also known as Milenberg Joys
Good Time Flat Blues is also known as Farewell to Storyville
Hesitating Blues is also known as How Long, How Long Blues
Hiawatha Rag is also known as Lizard on a Rail and as A Summer Idyll
Hiawatha Rag is also known as Lizard on a Rail and as A Summer Idyll
San Jacinto Stomp is based on You Can't Escape from Me and is also known as In the Groove and is also known as Baby, I Don't Mean Maybe and is harmonically identical to The Kat's Got Kittens
I Hope Gabriel Likes My Music is also known as I Hope You Like My Music
In The Highways (I'll Be Somewhere Working for My Lord) is pretty much the same as Down By The Riverside
In The Sweet By and By is also known as The Preacher and the Slave
In The Sweet By and By is also known as The Preacher and the Slave
Joe Avery's Piece is also known as Victory Walk and also as The New Second Line
Jones Law Blues is also known as Muscles Blues
La Harpe Street Blues (theme) is also known as We Sure Do Need Him Now
Jones Law Blues is also known as Muscles Blues
La Harpe Street Blues (theme) is also known as We Sure Do Need Him Now
Lily of the Valley is also known as Everybody Ought To Know and was probably plagiarized from the final theme of Red Onion Drag
London Blues is also known as Shoe Shiner's Drag
Lotus Blossom is also known as Sweet Lotus Blossom (it started out as Sweet Marijuana, of course; but that title came to be considered politically incorrect)
Loveless Love is also known as Careless Love
Love Me Tender is also known as Aura Lee
Martha is also known as Mazie
Love Me Tender is also known as Aura Lee
Martha is also known as Mazie
Memphis Blues is also known as Mr. Crump
Milneberg Joys is usually mis-spelt Milenberg Joys [The New Orleans suburb took its name from Scotsman Alexander Milne]
Midnight Mama - see under Tom Cat Blues
Mississippi Wobble is also known as Quality Shout
Montmartre is also known as Django's Jump
Mood Indigo is also known as Dreamy Blues
Mood Indigo is also known as Dreamy Blues
Moonlight and Roses is actually Lemare's 'Andantino'
The chorus of Celestin's My Josephine (1926) is remarkably similar to Some of These Days
The chorus of Celestin's My Josephine (1926) is remarkably similar to Some of These Days
New Orleans Bump is also known as Monrovia
Old Stack o'Lee Blues (not Stack o'Lee Blues) is virtually identical to Faraway Blues
Oriental Jazz was called Soudan by its composer
The 1919 March is also known as The Rifle Rangers
Oriental Jazz was called Soudan by its composer
The 1919 March is also known as The Rifle Rangers
China Boy is also known as Pacific Rim Stomp
Poor Old Joe is also known as Old Black Joe
Lazy Luke (composed in 1905 by George J. Philpot) was misleadingly renamed Red Flannel Rag by Turk Murphy when he recorded it many years later
Moanful Blues is actually Some Day Sweetheart
My Good Man Sam is virtually identical to Doctor Jazz
After You've Gone (1917) seems to have plagiarized Peg o' My Heart (1913)
Riverboat Shuffle was originally Free Wheeling
Riverside Blues is also known as Dixieland Shuffle
Root Hog or Die is virtually the same as Bei Mir Bist Du Schoen
The final theme of Royal Garden Blues is also the main theme of Georgia Bo Bo
Savoyager's Stomp is also known as Muskrat Ramble
Sidewalk Blues is also known as Fishtail Blues
Silver Bell (second theme) is also known as Sometimes My Burden's Too Hard to Bear
Si Tu Vois Ma Mère is also known as Lonesome
Soap Suds is also known as Fickle Fay Creep
South is also known as Pork Chop
South is also known as Pork Chop
Storyville Blues is also known as Those Drafting Blues and is also known as Bienville Blues
Gully Low Blues is also known as S.O.L. Blues
Original Dixieland One-Step (final strain) is also known as That Teasing Rag
Take My Hand, Precious Lord is the same tune as Maitland
Tar Paper Stomp is also known as Hot and Anxious (one theme) and is also known as In The Mood
The Midnight Special is also known as Shine a Light on Me
Till Times Get Better and Smokehouse Blues are almost identical to Up a Lazy River
Ting-a-ling started its life as Waltz of the Bells
Tar Paper Stomp is also known as Hot and Anxious (one theme) and is also known as In The Mood
The Midnight Special is also known as Shine a Light on Me
Till Times Get Better and Smokehouse Blues are almost identical to Up a Lazy River
Ting-a-ling started its life as Waltz of the Bells
Tom Cat Blues is also known as Midnight Mama (or Midnight Papa)
Two Nineteen Blues is also known as Mamie's Blues
Uptown Bumps was originally The Long Lost Blues (by Paul Wyer, 1914). Its final theme is also known as The Bucket's Got a Hole in It. It also became Keep a Knockin' But You Can't Come In. The Bucket's Got a Hole in It is also known as Ta-Wa-Bac-A-Wa and was used again in If You Don't Want Me, Please Don't Dog Me Around
Viper Mad is also known as Pleasure Mad
Uptown Bumps was originally The Long Lost Blues (by Paul Wyer, 1914). Its final theme is also known as The Bucket's Got a Hole in It. It also became Keep a Knockin' But You Can't Come In. The Bucket's Got a Hole in It is also known as Ta-Wa-Bac-A-Wa and was used again in If You Don't Want Me, Please Don't Dog Me Around
Viper Mad is also known as Pleasure Mad
Washington and Lee Swing is also known as Tulane Swing and Louisiana Swing
Way Down upon the Swanee River is also known as The Old Folks at Home
Weary Blues is also known as Travelling Blues and much of it is often played as Shake It And Break It (but note there is also a different Shake It And Break It recorded by King Oliver)
When Shadows Fall is also known as Home
Weary Blues is also known as Travelling Blues and much of it is often played as Shake It And Break It (but note there is also a different Shake It And Break It recorded by King Oliver)
When Shadows Fall is also known as Home
Yaaka Hula Hickey Dula is also known as Hawaiian Love Song
BUT:
Please note that Red Onion Rag (by Abe Olman, 1912) is a quite different tune from Louis Dumaine's Red Onion Drag.
Correspondent Robert Duis writes:
BUT:
Please note that Red Onion Rag (by Abe Olman, 1912) is a quite different tune from Louis Dumaine's Red Onion Drag.
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