Hello MMD.  Those Meloto Dance Rolls of the late 1920s and 1930s are
really well arranged.  One of my 88-note examples was an unboxed dog
in a carton full of like rolls, or so it seemed.  The leader had been
ripped off and someone had glued on a brown paper replacement that
covered two or three of the very first notes.  It was called "Lawd,
You Made The Night Too Long" and I imagined it would be a dreary
spiritual of some sort.  However, I steamed off the brown paper, made
a new leader and rehabilitated those first few notes.  The rewards
were great; it's anything but dreary and not very spiritual -- it
just rocks along!

John Phillips in Hobart, Tasmania

 [ Louis Armstrong sang "Lawd..." in 1932, with great success,
 [ whereupon comedian Milton Berle composed this parody:
 [
 [   You made the coat and vest fit the best
 [   You made the lining nice and strong
 [   but Sam, You Made the Pants Too Long!
 [
 [ -- Robbie