.... Bob Harings arrangement for piano of Harry Barris tune "Play It Red." (no comma).
Note the very important phrase at the top of the sheet,
Respectfully dedicated to "Red" Nichols.
Vince wishes he had the sheet music, but unfortunately, he does not.
I am a worrier, so I still have a question: was the dedication to Red in the original sheet music or was it in Harings piano arrangement? Regardless, it seems that the correct title of the tune is "Play It Red" without a comma. So, if it was dedicated to Red, what does the title imply? Play it as Red would? Play it in the Red Nichols manner?
One last comment. Note that the composition is described as "A Hot Fox Trot." Alberta pointed out that the composition "doesn't sound "red hot" to me, or to have much potential in that direction. It reminds me more of the Fud Livingston pieces with those interesting harmonies." Randy Sandke agrees (from the liners of the CD "The Rediscovered Louis and Bix"), "Play It Red" is an odd, multistrained, and harmonically adventurous tune that had been recorded by the Indiana Five, the Little Ramblers and Red Nichols in a later edition of the Memphis Five."
Does anyone have the Original Memphis Five version? Would he/she help with an mp3 to alberthaim@yahoo.com? Here is the Original Indiana Five version (from the redhotjazz archive).
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he does not.