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...opinion in the U. S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Philadelphia. What Judge Davis had to decide was whether or not David Graves George, a spare, hollow-cheeked old hillbilly who still works for the Southern Railroad, had written the version of the "Old 97" sung by Vernon Dalhart on a Victor phonograph record in 1924. Hillbilly George claimed that he wrote the song in 1903, a week after he had helped to pry nine bodies out of the wreckage. Victor sold a million copies of the Dalhart record. George claimed royalties, estimated at $375,000, which last year...
Last week the Circuit Court reversed the District Court, decided that George was not the author of the folksong that ranks close behind "Casey Jones." Judge Davis quoted the Dalhart version which Victor attributes to two other Virginians, Charles Noell and Henry Whitter who took Noell's poem, modified it a bit and sang it around on street corners and in plank taverns to a guitar and harmonica accompaniment. Dalhart made "The Old 97" go this...
...Cambridge the records purchased run to extremes, they may be one of the asbestos wrapped variety, they may be Beethoven, or they may be modernistic. Joe Venuti, Red Nichols, Ted Lewis, and Whitman are the favorite orchestras. least popular are "Hill-Billy", Frank Crumit, Vernon-Dalhart-Death-of little-Marion Parker, Victor Herbert, and sentimental recordings...