In one interview, Laine said that the composer was Achille Baquet. Members of Papa Jack Laine's band said song was known in New Orleans as "Number Two" before the Dixieland Jass Band copyrighted it. Including Ray Lopez under the title "Weary Weasel" and Johnny De Droit under the title "Number Two Blues". Others copyrighted the melody or close variations of it, Other New Orleans musicians claimed that the song, or at least portions of it, had been a standard in the city before it was recorded. "Tiger Rag" and "Oh Didn't He Ramble" were played long before the first jazz recording, and the names of Buddy Bolden, Jelly Roll Morton, Bunk Johnson, Papa Celestin, Sidney Bechet, King Oliver, Freddie Keppard, Kid Ory, and Papa Laine were already well known to the jazz community." "But even before the first recording, several musicians had achieved prominence as leading jazz performers, and several numbers of what was to become the standard repertoire had already been developed. This authorship has never been challenged legally. In subsequent releases, the ODJB members received authorship credit. "Tiger Rag" was first copyrighted in 1917 with music composed by Nick LaRocca. The song was copyrighted, published, and credited to band members Eddie Edwards, Nick LaRocca, Henry Ragas, Tony Sbarbaro, and Larry Shields in 1917. The first release of "Tiger Rag" on Aeolian Vocalion in 1917īut the second recording on Mafor Victor was a hit and established it as a jazz standard.
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