Two of the tunes Jere Ryder submitted for identification are familiar
to me because they appear on the cob roller organ.
[ http://www.mmdigest.com/Gallery/Sounds/ryder_Mermod.html
Tune #8 is "Silver Heels", which, according to sources on the Internet,
is by Charles N. Daniels and dates from 1905. To hear the roller organ
version of it, go to http://www.rollerorgans.com/ it is cob #1152.
Tune #7 is to me clearly "Feather Your Nest" but, interestingly, that
is a much later tune than the others (1896, 1897 and 1905), with sheet
music dating from 1920. That tune was #1256 on the roller organ.
I will try to identify some of the other four unidentified tunes as well,
but none of the titles immediately jumps out at me.
Richard Dutton
[ A jolly banjo recording of "Silver Heels" from 1919 is at
[ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YXtXIBHNvfA
[ A piano roll of "Feather Your Nest", Imperial 91204, is at
[ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OnqL6-QOAFk
[ -- Robbie
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