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== Events ==
  
== Info ==
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'''06 October / 02 November / 16 November 2011'''<br/>
 
'''06 October / 02 November / 16 November 2011'''<br/>
Camden Arts Centre, Arkwright Road, London, NW3 6DG <br/>
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[http://www.camdenartscentre.org Camden Arts Centre], Arkwright Road, London, NW3 6DG <br/>
www.camdenartscentre.org 020 7472 5500<br/>
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''FREE EVENTS''
 
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=== Wednesday 02 November 7.00 – 8.00pm ===
 
=== Wednesday 02 November 7.00 – 8.00pm ===
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'''Live performance: [http://www.leafcutterjohn.com Leafcutter John]'''<br/>
 
'''Live performance: [http://www.leafcutterjohn.com Leafcutter John]'''<br/>
 
Electronic artist Leafcutter John re-visits the material collected for the 6th October DJ set for an exclusive new live performance.
 
Electronic artist Leafcutter John re-visits the material collected for the 6th October DJ set for an exclusive new live performance.
  
 
=== Wednesday 16 November 7.00 – 8.00pm ===
 
=== Wednesday 16 November 7.00 – 8.00pm ===
'''Live performance: [http://www.mechanical–bride.com Lauren Doss AKA Mechanical Bride]'''<br/>
 
Mechanical Bride works with the material from the 6th October DJ set and plugs her fractured, stripped back approach to vocals and melody into the project.
 
  
Live performances approx 20 mins with accompanying DJ set. Listen live www.thisistomorrow.info
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== Sources: Out-of-copyright Lyrics ==
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'''Live performance: [http://www.mechanical-bride.com Lauren Doss AKA Mechanical Bride]'''<br/>
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Mechanical Bride works with the material from the 6th October DJ set and plugs her fractured, stripped back approach to vocals and melody into the project.
  
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[http://bambuser.com/channel/thisistomorrow/broadcast/2132953 Listen to an extract from Mechanical Bride's live set working with the Song Division source materials]
  
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=== Song Division Preamble ===
  
=== Guiding Star ===
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lyrics by Anne Caldwell (died 1936) &copy; expired 2007<br/>
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''<strike>music by Harry Tierney (died 1965)</strike> &copy; expires 2036''
 
  
We stood beneath a summer sky,
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== Listen ==
When the mood was blue, love.
 
We saw a star that shone on high,
 
Named the star for you.
 
Promised that when those rays I should see,
 
If I send a loving thought to you,
 
You’ll send one to me.
 
  
REFRAIN:
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=== Eileen Simpson and Ben White Source mix ===
Shine on, my silver star,
 
I call you from afar,
 
Sweetheart, I am your own,
 
Only yours alone.
 
Your arms shall hold me fast,
 
While life and love may last,
 
Though far apart we are,
 
You’re my shining silver star!
 
  
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'''recorded 06 October 2011 at Camden Arts Centre, London'''
  
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=== Here’s to the Old Days (Good Bye Old Pals) ===
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lyrics by Anne Caldwell (died 1936) &copy; expired 2007<br/>
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My good pals, jolly old pals,
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[http://bambuser.com/channel/thisistomorrow/broadcast/2095628 Listen to an extract from Leafcutter John's live set working with the Song Division source materials]
What a time it is since friendship first began.
 
I’m leaving, don’t be grieving
 
For I soon shall be a happy married man.
 
  
We’re thinking of the times we shall be missing you,
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When at a flowing bowl we gaze.
 
While I’m home by the fireside, dreaming of my daring, dashing bach’lor days.
 
  
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Here’s to the old days,
 
Here’s to the old ways,
 
Here’s to the old friends,
 
Loyal and clever,
 
Here’s to the great nights,
 
Here’s to the late nights,
 
Memories grand will last forever.
 
  
Quaffing a flacon of bachelor size,
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Under the stars until sunrise.
 
Here’s a farewell to liquor and gals,
 
Good luck and Goodbye old Pals.
 
Here’s to the Pals.
 
  
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=== Love is Like a Song ===
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Researcher: Matthew White
 
 
lyrics by Anne Caldwell (died 1936) &copy; expired 2007<br/>
 
''<strike>music by Harry Tierney (died 1965)</strike> &copy; expires 2036''
 
 
 
Life is strange;
 
Fate is grim and tragic
 
Till with wond’rous magic
 
Love comes to the door,
 
Turnig days that were sad and grey days
 
Into glad and gay days
 
Never known before.
 
Though the sun hides behind the shadows,
 
Still your sky shall be ever blue;
 
I’ll be ever near,
 
For I love you, dear.
 
 
 
REFRAIN:
 
Love is like a song, a lovely song,
 
That sings to me the whole day long:
 
“Sweetheart, dear heart, my heart.”
 
 
 
Symphony of dreams, for in a dream
 
I hold you close in love supreme;
 
Sweetheart, dear heart, my heart.
 
 
 
And when I think of you, at morning, night or noon;
 
That beloved tune will start
 
Telling me in melody divine,
 
That I am yours and you are mine,
 
Sweetheart, dear heart, my heart
 
 
 
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=== Mr & Mrs Sippi ===
 
 
 
lyrics by Anne Caldwell (died 1936) &copy; expired 2007<br/>
 
''<strike>music by Harry Tierney (died 1965)</strike> &copy; expires 2036''
 
 
 
Black water flow along, carry me on
 
Over the lonely bay, You-oo!
 
That old lonely feelin’ on me stealin’ makes me blue.
 
  
Blue water that I love callin’ to me,
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Thanks to James Smith and [http://www.thisistomorrow.info This Is Tomorrow] for broadcasting the events.
Down the levee I come, Babe;
 
My heart’s all a shiver,
 
To that blessed river,
 
I’se a comin’ home.
 
  
Mister and Missis Sippi,
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Commissioned by [http://www.camdenartscentre.org/ Camden Arts Centre] to accompany the Haroon Mirza and Nathalie Djurburg exhibitions
I miss you so, I’se just dippy.
 
One day you’re so level and mild
 
As you flow down to the sea;
 
Next day you’se a devil, too wild for a poor black child like me.
 
 
 
You’re just like my Mammy and Pappy.
 
When I’se beside you I’m happy
 
Because I was born by you;
 
I’se part o’you,
 
The heart o’you
 
Mister and Missis Sippi!
 
 
 
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=== My One Ambition is You ===
 
 
 
lyrics by Anne Caldwell (died 1936) &copy; expired 2007<br/>
 
''<strike>music by Harry Tierney (died 1965)</strike> &copy; expires 2036''
 
 
 
He:
 
Though I’m rather sentimental,
 
Girls have made me very shy.
 
I thought love was accidental,
 
Like a cinder in your eye.
 
 
 
Never felt that I was falling,
 
Till I took you by the hand,
 
Now the cuckoo birds are calling,
 
Oh, gosh! Ain’t love grand.
 
 
 
She:
 
I’m so sincere and believing,
 
I hope you’re never deceiving.
 
There’s no one I like like I like you,
 
You make me cry like big babies do.
 
 
 
Believe me, honey,
 
There’s nobody who
 
Can creep in my arms
 
The way that you do.
 
 
 
My heart you juggle,
 
My head you spin,
 
Without a struggle
 
I just give in
 
 
 
I have a mission
 
I’ve got to put through,
 
My one ambition is you!
 
 
 
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=== A Tear, A Kiss, A Smile ===
 
 
 
lyrics by Anne Caldwell (died 1936) &copy; expired 2007<br/>
 
''<strike>music by Harry Tierney (died 1965)</strike> &copy; expires 2036''
 
 
 
When you’re in love nothing else counts at all,
 
And deep in love even the wisest fall.
 
I’m telling you true,
 
I’m in love with you;
 
Don’t take me to task dear,
 
Here’s all that I ask, dear:
 
 
 
A tear, a kiss, a smile.
 
A smile, a kiss, a tear
 
Is all I have in all the world
 
To give to you, my dear.
 
 
 
A smile for when we meet,
 
A tear when we must part,
 
A kiss that tells you,
 
That my love is yours alone, sweetheart!
 
 
 
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=== Whistling the Blues Away ===
 
 
 
lyrics by Anne Caldwell (died 1936) &copy; expired 2007<br/>
 
''<strike>music by Harry Tierney (died 1965)</strike> &copy; expires 2036''
 
 
 
She:
 
When you are on duty marching all around
 
I shall hear you passing by my door.
 
 
 
He:
 
Precious little beauty you’ll be safe and sound,
 
Guarded as you never were before.
 
 
 
She:
 
When your footsteps are away
 
Maybe I’ll get blue
 
Lest my eyes I cry away,
 
Tell me what to do?
 
 
 
He:
 
When you get blue, just whistle for me dear,
 
 
 
She:
 
[Whistles]
 
 
 
He:
 
I’ll promise you I will never fail to hear,
 
 
 
She:
 
[Whistles]
 
 
 
He:
 
Then I’ll pretend it’s just a little bird,
 
 
 
She:
 
[Whistles]
 
 
 
He:
 
I’ll find my baby without another word.
 
 
 
She:
 
[Whistles]
 
 
 
She:
 
When in the shade dear,
 
Someone you’ll see
 
Don’t be afraid dear,
 
For it’ll be little me.
 
 
 
Both:
 
We’ll cuddle close until the break of day,
 
 
 
Both:
 
[Whistle]
 
Whistling the blues away.
 
 
 
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=== Any Place Will Do With You ===
 
 
 
lyrics by Harold Atteridge (died 1938) &copy; expired 2009<br/>
 
''<strike>music by Sigmund Romberg (died 1951)</strike> &copy; expires 2022''
 
 
 
On the river ‘neath the silv’ry gleam
 
Then the fascinated lovers dream
 
Don’t forget the moon above for love
 
And twinkling stars that beam
 
 
 
In the night time in a dream canoe
 
O’er the bay a love song comes to you
 
What arrangements you must always make
 
For sweet love’s sake.
 
 
 
You call on nature for a scene serene serene
 
For love you must have atmosphere
 
If cupid needs that to appear
 
He’s not sincere.
 
 
 
REFRAIN:
 
Any place at all will do with you
 
We’ll find Romance without skies of blue
 
We won’t need moonlight
 
To help along
 
No dimmered lights or dreamy song
 
No stars twinkling or a scented breeze
 
As a reason for a stolen squeeze
 
No flow’ry bower, for only two
 
Any place at all will do with you
 
 
 
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=== In Old Grenada ===
 
 
 
lyrics by Harold Atteridge (died 1938) &copy; expired 2009<br/>
 
''<strike>music by Sigmund Romberg (died 1951)</strike> &copy; expires 2022''
 
 
 
At the dusk of day
 
By Grenada Bay
 
My love waits for me so vainly
 
Gazing over the sea;
 
 
 
Shadows bring the night,
 
Then a beacon light bright,
 
Its rays all roam across the foam to see if I am coming home
 
I must start
 
 
 
REFRAIN:
 
My heart is down in old Grenada,
 
Back in that quaint old saintly town;
 
My fondest mem’ry tells of gold-tipped citadels
 
Of mystic temple bells
 
At evening tide
 
I picture wandering through the dim cathedrals
 
What love tales old
 
They could unfold!
 
My love I’ll hold and pledge devotion,
 
Boundless as the ocean;
 
Way down in old Grenada town.
 
 
 
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=== California ===
 
 
 
lyrics by Harold Atteridge (died 1938) &copy; expired 2009<br/>
 
''<strike>music by Sigmund Romberg (died 1951)</strike> &copy; expires 2022''
 
 
 
Miss California,
 
Miss California,
 
You have won my heart completely;
 
And since I met you I can’t forget you,
 
Oh, how dear you are to me!
 
 
 
California, I adore you!
 
California, I am for you!
 
There is nothing I’d not do for your sake;
 
All your palm trees as they’re waving,
 
In my heart awake a craving.
 
 
 
When I leave you all the fondest mem’ries then awake,
 
Ev’ry bit of love I’d shower,
 
Even on your smallest flower,
 
I love everything beneath your skies blue.
 
 
 
From the smallest leaf that’s growing,
 
To the scented breeze that’s blowing,
 
California I am strong for you.
 
 
 
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=== On a Modern Wedding Day ===
 
 
 
lyrics by Harold Atteridge (died 1938) &copy; expired 2009<br/>
 
''<strike>music by Sigmund Romberg (died 1951)</strike> &copy; expires 2022''
 
 
 
In a marriage now,
 
Really up to date,
 
It is by eugenics that you choose your mate;
 
You will have to train for the lifelong fight;
 
At a modern wedding it’s quite a sight.
 
 
 
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Here comes the bride
 
She has a real athletic stride
 
She glows with pride
 
Her perfect mate is by her side
 
They have trained the months away with those wedding chimes are
 
I raised to the minute they’re tied
 
For their happy wedding day.
 
 
 
While the bride makes loving eyes,
 
Looking at the groom
 
All the guests take exercise
 
Prancing round the room.
 
They throw dumbells with their might,
 
As the couple starts away
 
And it’s like a fight
 
Up on a modern wedding day.
 
 
 
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=== I Dare Not Love You ===
 
 
 
lyrics by Harry B Smith (died 1936) &copy; expired 2007<br/>
 
''<strike>music by Sigmund Romberg (died 1951)</strike> &copy; expires 2022''
 
 
 
Rudolf:
 
Through the dark of night one may wander on
 
By a single star led to the gleam of dawn
 
Flavia:
 
I would rather say that you lost your way
 
In the primrose path astray.
 
 
 
Rudolf:
 
Youth must have its fling
 
So the poets sing
 
Pleasure’s siren song called you away too long
 
 
 
Rudolf:
 
I confess you’re right I’m repentant quite
 
There’s a change in you ‘tis true.
 
 
 
Rudolf:
 
Yes now that my destiny leads me to you,
 
I see my life from a new point of view.
 
Flavia:
 
But why no strangers are we
 
You seem so different to me
 
Whatever has changed you I welcome the change;
 
 
 
Rudolf:
 
Love has a magical influence strange.
 
Flavia:
 
You love me then?
 
Rudolf:
 
I Love you more than I dare say!
 
Flavia:
 
You never spoke in this way.
 
Rudolf:
 
Love’s a flash of light
 
In the darkest night
 
All the world concealed is to your eyes revealed.
 
It is strange to me and I cannot say
 
Why I find you changed today.
 
 
 
Rudolf:
 
I have led a careless life deserving your disdain,
 
Flavia:
 
If I can be proud of you, my prayr’s are not in vain,
 
Rudolf:
 
For a crown and for a throne
 
I’d care not I own!
 
Flavia:
 
A man I should be proud to love I have longed for you to be.
 
 
 
REFRAIN:
 
Rudolf:
 
I dare not love you, still dream about you
 
Vainly I tried not to dream of you.
 
So far above me
 
How can you love me?
 
Hope’s star will be my guide, till my dreams come true!
 
 
 
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=== I’m Gonna Sit Right Down and Write Myself a Letter ===
 
 
 
words by Joe Young (died 1939) &copy; expired 2010<br/>
 
''<strike>music by Fred E Ahlert  (died 1953)</strike> &copy; expires 2024''
 
 
 
The mail man passes by
 
And I just wonder why
 
He never stops to ring my front door bell.
 
There’s not a single line
 
From that dear old love of mine
 
No, not a word since I last heard “farewell”
 
 
 
CHORUS:
 
I’m Gonna Sit Right Down And Write Myself A Letter
 
And make believe it came from you.
 
I’m gonna write words oh, so sweet,
 
They’re gonna knock me off my feet.
 
A lot of kisses on the bottom,
 
I’ll be glad I got ‘em,
 
I’m gonna smile and say, “I hope you’re feeling better”
 
And close “with love” the way you do.
 
I’m Gonna Sit Right Down And Write Myself A Letter
 
And make believe it came from you.
 
 
 
Since you stopped writing me
 
I’m worried as can be,
 
I miss each little love word now and then.
 
You’re in my ev’ry thought,
 
You don’t know how much I’ve fought
 
To find a way to feel O.K. again.
 
 
 
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=== Babs: Fox-Trot Song ===
 
 
 
words by Joe Young (died 1939) &copy; expired 2010<br/>
 
''<strike>music by Fred E Ahlert  (died 1953)</strike> &copy; expires 2024''
 
 
 
Let me introduce to you,
 
A brand new little “five foot two” called Babs,
 
Sweet Babs.
 
Latest heartbreak for the boys,
 
Those who love to play with toys like Babs,
 
Sweet Babs.
 
How they gather ‘round her is a scream,
 
She’s no “deb”, no big “celeb”,
 
But she’s a dream:
 
 
 
[CHORUS] (Boy Version)
 
Babs with her funny little “doo dabs”,
 
In her finery there’s no finer “she” than Babs.
 
Just look at Babs steppin’ in and out of new cabs,
 
All the cabbies swear there’s no finer fare than Babs.
 
Certain gals say she holds nothin’,
 
Would you call that jealousy?
 
I’d say she holds nothin’,
 
Nothin’ but T.N.T.
 
I love that Babs with her funny little “doo dabs”.
 
Take those other dolls
 
In their folderols
 
And I’ll take Babs.
 
 
 
She’s so easy on the eyes,
 
The winner of each beauty prize, is Babs,
 
Sweet Babs.
 
When she enters in a test,
 
There’s no contest, she’s the best, that’s Babs,
 
Sweet Babs.
 
She’s tough competition; why compete?
 
She’s got “It” and more of “It” than any sweet:
 
 
 
[CHORUS] (Girl Version)
 
Babs with her funny little “doo dabs”,
 
In her finery there’s no finer “she” than Babs.
 
Just look at Babs steppin’ in and out of new cabs,
 
All the cabbies swear there’s no finer fare than Babs.
 
Certain gals say she holds nothin’,
 
Would you call that jealousy?
 
I’d say she holds nothin’,
 
Nothin’ but T.N.T.
 
I mean that Babs with her funny little “doo dabs”.
 
Take a tip from me,
 
Take a look and see
 
And you’ll like Babs.
 
 
 
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=== Disappointed and Disgusted ===
 
 
 
words by Joe Young (died 1939) &copy; expired 2010<br/>
 
''<strike>music by Fred E Ahlert  (died 1953)</strike> &copy; expires 2024''
 
 
 
Ev’rything was wonderful life was so sublime
 
Ev’rything was beautiful but that was once upon a time
 
That’s why I’m
 
 
 
[CHORUS]
 
Disappointed
 
And Disgusted
 
‘cause the only one I ever loved and trusted
 
Turned out to be such a meany to me.
 
 
 
Disappointed
 
And Disgusted
 
Must it worry me because she left me, must it?
 
How could she be such a meany to me!
 
I thought that love was bigger than the world and all
 
I got burned and then I learned the world couldn’t be so small,
 
So I’m Disappointed
 
And Disgusted
 
‘Cause the only one I ever loved turned out to be
 
Such a meany to me.
 
 
 
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=== The Doughboy’s in the Dough Again ===
 
 
 
words by Joe Young (died 1939) &copy; expired 2010<br/>
 
''<strike>music by Fred E Ahlert  (died 1953)</strike> &copy; expires 2024''
 
 
 
By bus, by train,
 
From ‘Frisco to Maine;
 
Crowds are moving ev’ry where,
 
They’re on the land and In the air,
 
No one’s marching in time,
 
And no one’s saying, “Brother, can you spare a dime?”
 
The doughboy’s in the dough again,
 
Cash in hand on the go again;
 
From ev’ry village and farm,
 
He’s hittin’ for town with a gal on his arm.
 
The doughboy’s learned to smile again;
 
No more you’ll see him with a worried brow,
 
He’s in the money with his honey now.
 
The world is glad to know again
 
The doughboy’s in the dough again.
 
 
 
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=== Drop a Nickel in the Slot ===
 
 
 
lyric by Joe Young (died 1939) &copy; expired 2010<br/>
 
''<strike>music by Fred E Ahlert  (died 1953)</strike> &copy; expires 2024''
 
 
 
I dropped inside a roadside inn,
 
One rainy afternoon,
 
I heard a phonograph within that played the latest tune;
 
I saw the couples dancing ‘round
 
And a stranger all alone,
 
And when they shut the music down I heard that stranger moan:
 
 
 
[CHORUS]
 
Drop A Nickel In The Slot,
 
Make the music play
 
Drop A Nickel In The Slot,
 
Take my blues away
 
In ev’ry record I find romance
 
Then I lose my dream girl, at the end of the dance:
 
Drop A Nickel In The Slot,
 
Try a new refrain,
 
Drop A Nickel In The Slot,
 
Bring her back again,
 
It’s the only way to have my dream girl stay,
 
Drop A Nickel In The Slot,
 
And make the music play.
 
 
 
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=== Ain’t That the Way it Goes? ===
 
 
 
words by Roy Turk (died 1934) &copy; expired 2005<br/>
 
''<strike>music by Fred E Ahlert  (died 1953)</strike> &copy; expires 2024''
 
 
 
What a mix up!
 
What a mess!
 
I’m against the wall,
 
I’m in love with someone who can’t see me at all;
 
And somebody cares for me,
 
Whom I cannot stand.
 
Here’s the thing in a nutshell:
 
Who said love was grand?
 
 
 
REFRAIN:
 
[Male]
 
I’m so in love with Mary,
 
I’m bored to tears with Rose,
 
Rose is the one who loves me;
 
AIN’T THAT THE WAY IT GOES?
 
I dance my best with Mary,
 
I step on Rose’s toes,
 
Rose says I dance divinely;
 
AIN’T THAT THE WAY IT GOES?
 
What a fix!
 
Oh, Gee! I’m in an awful tight one!
 
Poor unlucky me!
 
I’m in wrong with the right one.
 
I get the air from Mary,
 
I get the “turned up nose”,
 
And I still care for Mary;
 
AIN’T THAT THE WAY IT GOES?
 
 
 
Not one single thing I do –
 
ever turns out right,
 
When I feel like “Whoopee”,
 
I’m left alone at night.
 
When it comes to making love,
 
There’s the deuce to pay;
 
Now just take for example,
 
What I’m gonna say!
 
 
 
REFRAIN:
 
[Female]
 
I’m so in love with Billy,
 
I want no other beaux,
 
Jim is the one who loves me;
 
AIN’T THAT THE WAY IT GOES?
 
I dance my best with Billy,
 
I step on Jimmie’s toes,
 
Jim says I dance divinely;
 
AIN’T THAT THE WAY IT GOES?
 
What a fix!
 
Oh, Gee! I’m in an awful tight one!
 
Poor unlucky me!
 
I’m in wrong with the right one.
 
I get the air from Billy,
 
I get the “turned up nose”,
 
And I still care for Billy;
 
AIN’T THAT THE WAY IT GOES?
 
 
 
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=== Good Times Are Here (When My Baby is Near) ===
 
 
 
words by Roy Turk (died 1934) &copy; expired 2005<br/>
 
''<strike>music by Fred E Ahlert  (died 1953)</strike> &copy; expires 2024''
 
 
 
How I love my baby,
 
And oh how she loves me,
 
We’ve gone together now for years,
 
That’s a novelty,
 
Had no time for reading,
 
About hard times of late,
 
You say there’s a depression?
 
Times with me are great.
 
 
 
[CHORUS]
 
Good times are here when my baby is near,
 
And she’s “gonna” be near me tonight.
 
I’m very happy when we are alone,
 
Tho’ I have no money, there’s one thing I own,
 
I own a share in a big love affair,
 
With a wonderful profit in sight,
 
Yes good times are here when my baby is near,
 
And she’s “gonna” be near me tonight.
 
 
 
Any time I’m gloomy,
 
I’ve got a recipe,
 
I call my baby on the phone,
 
Let her talk to me,
 
If I get a headache,
 
Or if I’m feeling ill,
 
A minute with my baby,
 
Does more than a pill.
 
 
 
|}
 
 
 
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=== Grand ===
 
 
 
words by Roy Turk (died 1934) &copy; expired 2005<br/>
 
''<strike>music by Fred E Ahlert  (died 1953)</strike> &copy; expires 2024''
 
 
 
Bought a dictionary,
 
Started on page one,
 
Didin;t give up reading it
 
Till the book was done;
 
Looking for a love word
 
Suitable for you,
 
Till they think up better words,
 
This one word will do,
 
 
 
[CHORUS]
 
GRAND!
 
You’re what I call GRAND!
 
All that you demand, I’d gladly do.
 
GRAND!
 
You’re my fav’rite brand,
 
Tell me that I stand a chance or two,
 
Oh! You! You’re GRAND!
 
Cutest in the land,
 
No one holds a candle dear, to you,
 
Add up ev’rything that’s wonderful and lovable,and,
 
That’s you
 
Gee! You’re simply GRAND!
 
 
 
I could call you ducky,
 
I could call you cute,
 
I could call you many things
 
But they wouldn’t suit;
 
Don’t forget, I love you,
 
Si it has to be,
 
Some one word that just describes
 
You right to a T
 
 
 
|}
 
 
 
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=== All Alone in a City Full of Girls ===
 
 
 
lyrics by Rida Johnson Young (died 1926) &copy; expired 1997<br/>
 
''<strike>music by Sigmund Romberg (died 1951)</strike> &copy; expires 2022''
 
 
 
Back Home, in Ireland
 
It never was like this,
 
Just one only man alone, alone
 
With a hundred girls to kiss .
 
Back home in Ireland,
 
We don’t do things that way,
 
But I’m strong for this and I think it’s bliss,
 
It’s here I will stay.
 
Each man must do his duty
 
And I hear my duty call,
 
I’ll not be taking one war bride;
 
Bless your hearts, I’ll take you all!
 
 
 
[REFRAIN]
 
I have a heart that’s like the ocean,
 
Sure it is big and deep and wide;
 
So come now, if you have the notion,
 
There’s lots of room for all of you inside.
 
I like the little redhead colleen,
 
I love the brunette with the curls;
 
The only man you see, it’s fine to be, yes,
 
In a city full of girls.
 
Oh, glory be!
 
Oh, oh, oh, my machree!
 
Just girls.
 
 
 
|}
 
 
 
== Sources: Out-of-copyright Music ==
 
 
 
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|}
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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|
 
 
 
=== “Another” Rag (A Raggy Rag) ===
 
 
 
Music by Theodore Morse (died 1924) &copy; expired 1995<br/>
 
''<strike>Words by D.A Esrom (died 1953)</strike> &copy; expires 2024''
 
 
 
[http://www.openmusicarchive.org/audio/songdivision/%3fAnother%3f%20Rag%20(A%20Raggy%20Rag)%20-%20The%20American%20Quartet.aiff.zip “Another” Rag (A Raggy Rag) - The American Quartet] (zipped AIFF file  3.5Mb)
 
 
 
|}
 
 
 
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|
 
 
 
=== ‘Lizabeth Ann (A Southern Love Song) ===
 
 
 
Music by Theodore Morse (died 1924) &copy; expired 1995<br/>
 
''<strike>Words by D.A Esrom (died 1953)</strike> &copy; expires 2024''
 
 
 
[http://www.openmusicarchive.org/audio/songdivision/%3fLizabeth%20Ann%20(A%20Southern%20Love%20Song)%20-%20Campbell%20and%20Burr.aiff.zip ‘Lizabeth Ann (A Southern Love Song) - Campbell and Burr] (zipped AIFF file  4.1Mb)
 
 
 
|}
 
 
 
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|
 
 
 
=== Blue Feather Indian Love Song ===
 
 
 
Music by Theodore Morse (died 1924) &copy; expired 1995<br/>
 
''<strike>Words by Jack Mahoney (died 1945)</strike> &copy; expires 2016''
 
 
 
[http://www.openmusicarchive.org/audio/songdivision/Blue%20Feather%20Indian%20Love%20Song-%20Ada%20Jones%20and%20Billy%20Murray.aiff.zip Blue Feather Indian Love Song - Ada Jones and Billy Murray] (zipped AIFF file  2.5Mb)<br/>
 
 
 
|}
 
 
 
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|
 
 
 
=== Every Lover Must Meet his Fate ===
 
 
 
Music by Victor Herbert (died 1924) &copy; expired 1995<br/>
 
''<strike>Lyric by Bob Wright (died 2005) and Chet Forrest (died 1999)</strike> &copy; expires 2076''
 
 
 
[http://www.openmusicarchive.org/audio/songdivision/Every%20Lover%20Must%20Meet%20his%20Fate%20-%20Jeanette%20MacDonald%20and%20Nelson%20Eddy.aiff.zip Every Lover Must Meet his Fate - Jeanette MacDonald and Nelson Eddy] (zipped AIFF file  3.5Mb)
 
 
 
[http://www.openmusicarchive.org/audio/songdivision/Every%20Lover%20Must%20Meet%20his%20Fate%20-%20Jimmy%20Carroll%20%26%20The%20Railroad%20Hour%20Orchestra.aiff.zip Every Lover Must Meet his Fate - Jimmy Carroll & The Railroad Hour Orchestra] (zipped AIFF file  11.5Mb)
 
 
 
[http://www.openmusicarchive.org/audio/songdivision/Every%20Lover%20Must%20Meet%20his%20Fate%20-%20Reed%20Miller.aiff.zip Every Lover Must Meet his Fate - Reed Miller]  (zipped AIFF file  1.4Mb)
 
 
 
|}
 
 
 
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|
 
 
 
=== I Love the Name of Mary ===
 
 
 
Music by Chauncey Olcott (died 1932) and Ernest R Ball (died 1927) &copy; expired 2003<br/>
 
''<strike>Lyric by Geo. Graff Jr (died 1973)</strike> &copy; expires 2044''
 
 
 
[http://www.openmusicarchive.org/audio/songdivision/I%20Love%20the%20Name%20of%20Mary%20-%20Walter%20Van%20Brunt.aiff.zip I Love the Name of Mary - Walter Van Brunt]  (zipped AIFF file  3.5Mb)
 
 
 
|}
 
 
 
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|
 
 
 
=== Needle in a Haystack ===
 
 
 
Music by Con Conrad (died 1936) &copy; expired 2007<br/>
 
''<strike>Words by Herbert Magidson (died 1986)</strike> &copy; expires 2057''
 
 
 
[http://www.openmusicarchive.org/audio/songdivision/Needle%20in%20a%20Haystack%20-%20Henry%20King.aiff.zip Needle in a Haystack - Henry King] (zipped AIFF file  16.5Mb)
 
 
 
[http://www.openmusicarchive.org/audio/songdivision/Needle%20in%20a%20Haystack%20-%20Ruth%20Etting.aiff.zip Needle in a Haystack - Ruth Etting] (zipped AIFF file  2.2Mb)
 
 
 
|}
 
 
 
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[[Image:20082054.png|200px]]
 
 
 
|
 
 
 
=== Oh Gee! – Oh Joy ===
 
 
 
Music by George Gershwin (died 1937) &copy; expired 2008<br/>
 
''<strike>Words by I Gershwin (died 1983) and P G Wodehouse (died 1975)</strike> &copy; expires 2054''
 
 
 
[http://www.openmusicarchive.org/audio/songdivision/Oh%20Gee!%20%3f%20Oh%20Joy%20-%20Bix%20Beiderbecke%20and%20Lou%20Raderman.aiff.zip Oh Gee! – Oh Joy - Bix Beiderbecke and Lou Raderman]  (zipped AIFF file  21.3Mb)
 
 
 
[http://www.openmusicarchive.org/audio/songdivision/Oh%20Gee!%20%3f%20Oh%20Joy!%20-%20Ben%20Selvin.aiff.zip Oh Gee! – Oh Joy! - Ben Selvin] (zipped AIFF file  14.8Mb)
 
 
 
[http://www.openmusicarchive.org/audio/songdivision/Oh%20Gee!%20%3f%20Oh%20Joy!%20-%20Johnny%20Johnson%20.aiff.zip Oh Gee! – Oh Joy! - Johnny Johnson] (zipped AIFF file  22.5Mb)
 
 
 
|}
 
 
 
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[[Image:19952076.png|200px]]
 
 
 
|
 
 
 
=== On Parade ===
 
 
 
Music by Victor Herbert (died 1924) &copy; expired 1995<br/>
 
''<strike>Lyric by Bob Wright (died 2005) and Chet Forrest (died 1999)</strike> &copy; expires 2076''
 
 
 
[http://www.openmusicarchive.org/audio/songdivision/On%20Parade%20-%20Nelson%20Eddy.aiff.zip On Parade - Nelson Eddy] (zipped AIFF file  2.6Mb)
 
 
 
|}
 
 
 
== Credits ==
 
 
 
Researcher: Matthew White
 

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Events

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06 October / 02 November / 16 November 2011
Camden Arts Centre, Arkwright Road, London, NW3 6DG
020 7472 5500

FREE EVENTS

Artists Eileen Simpson and Ben White develop a series of experimental events exploring the sonic potentials of materials gleaned from the edges of the public domain. Simpson and White have sourced a range of songs from early commercial releases that are currently subject to a conflict in copyright status through a split in ownership between lyrics and musical composition. Manuscripts and recordings have been edited, redacted, cut-up and processed to suppress copyright-secured elements and enable the release of public domain layers from the proprietary control of commercial publishers. Invited guests process the collected material through short live performances.

This hauntological experiment plugs into the beginnings of the recording industry at a time when emerging models of peer-to-peer distribution and collaborative production are urgently problematising established notions around the authorship, ownership and distribution of culture.

The material generated for the project forms the basis of a soundtrack for the artists’ ambitious upcoming film Auditory Learning.

Thursday 06 October 7.00 – 8.30pm

DJ set: Eileen Simpson and Ben White
1920s, 30s and 40s recordings are altered and encoded through autotune, reversed playback and flipped lyrics — techniques ported from R&B and HipHop production. The resultant filtering ensures the suppression of layers still under proprietary ownership but enables the escape of copyright-expired elements that are, for the first time, released into the public domain.

Wednesday 02 November 7.00 – 8.00pm

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Live performance: Leafcutter John
Electronic artist Leafcutter John re-visits the material collected for the 6th October DJ set for an exclusive new live performance.

Wednesday 16 November 7.00 – 8.00pm

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Live performance: Lauren Doss AKA Mechanical Bride
Mechanical Bride works with the material from the 6th October DJ set and plugs her fractured, stripped back approach to vocals and melody into the project.

Live performances approx 20 mins with accompanying DJ set. Listen live www.thisistomorrow.info

Listen to an extract from Mechanical Bride's live set working with the Song Division source materials

Song Division Preamble

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Read a transcript of the Song Division preamble

Listen

Eileen Simpson and Ben White Source mix

recorded 06 October 2011 at Camden Arts Centre, London

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1920s, 30s and 40s recordings are re-edited and loopeed, altered and encoded through autotune, reversed playback and flipped lyrics — techniques ported from R&B and HipHop production. The resultant redaction and filtering ensures the suppression of layers still under proprietary ownership but enables the escape of copyright-expired elements that are, for the first time, released into the public domain.

Leafcutter John live

recorded 02 November 2011 at Camden Arts Centre, London

Listen to an extract from Leafcutter John's live set working with the Song Division source materials

Sources

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Click here for source material

Poster

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Download Poster (PDF file)

Credits

Researcher: Matthew White

Thanks to James Smith and This Is Tomorrow for broadcasting the events.

Commissioned by Camden Arts Centre to accompany the Haroon Mirza and Nathalie Djurburg exhibitions