This was one of Confrey's two follow-ups to his smash hit song "Stumbling", all three using the hemiola rhythm idea that Confrey made famous (and which was very quickly picked up and mastered by QRS artist Victor Arden, among many others). The other follow-up was "Tricks". Both "Tricks" and "Dumbbell" were published as song sheets as well as made by several roll companies (and recorded by Confrey himself with his orchestra for Victor records, and possibly by other groups for other record companies, but I'm not positive about that), but were not nearly as successful as "Stumbling", which was recorded for practically every record and roll company then existing, as well as performed frequently across the country and whose sheet music sold extremely well. "Stumbling" is even cited in a scholarly musicological article about American popular music by Aaron Copland (I think) demonstrating the use of hemiola rhythm as syncopation in American pop music (this part of Mr. Copland's article is quoted in Alec Wilder's book "American Popular Song"). This must be a fairly rare QRS roll in original form (not totally scarce, but uncommon) since I think I've either never personally seen / owned a copy of it, or have only seen one or two copies for sale in the past several years. By contrast, the Confrey/Arden/Kortlander piano trio(!) roll of "Stumbling" turns up fairly often in original form.
I really appreciate your excellent work in doing this. I am sure it is very time-consuming to convert the midid file to readable sheet music. Wonderful job!
Hi, Fats Waller's roll of "Nobody But My Baby" has been transcribed into sheet music several times. The transcription that I think is most easily available today is the one done by Benjamin Intartaglia in France, available for purchase from him. He also has free piano roll transcriptions as downloads on his website as well as old sheet music, as well as other not-free roll transcriptions he's done for which one needs to pay. It is indeed a lot of hard work to do this and my hat is off to everyone who has so far: ragtime-france.fr/Ragtime/Bon/EBonus.htm and Benjamin's homepage where you can contact him. If you can't find a direct link to contact him, click the name of the webmaster, Christian Intartaglia at the bottom of each page, and send an email to him with your request: ragtime-france.fr/Ragtime/indexUS.htm
You can do that by viewing the video on your home computer and using the 'gearwheel' icon in the lower right end of the UA-cam screen, to adjust the playback speed to 1.25 percent :)
I gotta be real with y’all, 5 years later, I legitimately don’t think I commented this lol I don’t remember this and I don’t comment much on UA-cam. I watched the video to see if it’d jog my memory but I stg I’ve never heard this song in my life. I fr do not know wtf is going on
A brilliant job of transcribing. Thank you for sharing this glimpse into the piano roll era!
What a fun number!
love zez confrey
This was one of Confrey's two follow-ups to his smash hit song "Stumbling", all three using the hemiola rhythm idea that Confrey made famous (and which was very quickly picked up and mastered by QRS artist Victor Arden, among many others). The other follow-up was "Tricks".
Both "Tricks" and "Dumbbell" were published as song sheets as well as made by several roll companies (and recorded by Confrey himself with his orchestra for Victor records, and possibly by other groups for other record companies, but I'm not positive about that), but were not nearly as successful as "Stumbling", which was recorded for practically every record and roll company then existing, as well as performed frequently across the country and whose sheet music sold extremely well.
"Stumbling" is even cited in a scholarly musicological article about American popular music by Aaron Copland (I think) demonstrating the use of hemiola rhythm as syncopation in American pop music (this part of Mr. Copland's article is quoted in Alec Wilder's book "American Popular Song").
This must be a fairly rare QRS roll in original form (not totally scarce, but uncommon) since I think I've either never personally seen / owned a copy of it, or have only seen one or two copies for sale in the past several years. By contrast, the Confrey/Arden/Kortlander piano trio(!) roll of "Stumbling" turns up fairly often in original form.
I really appreciate your excellent work in doing this. I am sure it is very time-consuming to convert the midid file to readable sheet music. Wonderful job!
I love.
このアレンジめちゃくちゃ好き(⋈◍＞◡＜◍)。✧♡
This is a fun song to sing.
Wonderfull...please, i need a sheet music of nobody but my baby is getting my love fats waller...please...thanks
Hi, Fats Waller's roll of "Nobody But My Baby" has been transcribed into sheet music several times. The transcription that I think is most easily available today is the one done by Benjamin Intartaglia in France, available for purchase from him. He also has free piano roll transcriptions as downloads on his website as well as old sheet music, as well as other not-free roll transcriptions he's done for which one needs to pay. It is indeed a lot of hard work to do this and my hat is off to everyone who has so far:
ragtime-france.fr/Ragtime/Bon/EBonus.htm
and Benjamin's homepage where you can contact him. If you can't find a direct link to contact him, click the name of the webmaster, Christian Intartaglia at the bottom of each page, and send an email to him with your request:
ragtime-france.fr/Ragtime/indexUS.htm
I love too! But PLEASE speed it up by a ×1.25 factor!
That would be much more stridey.
You can do that by viewing the video on your home computer and using the 'gearwheel' icon in the lower right end of the UA-cam screen, to adjust the playback speed to 1.25 percent :)
The color of the music background is almost the same color as the UA-cam page background. ...I should go back to school and get my degree.
+Emry Brisky sTOP BEING A BITCH AND ENJOY THE MUSIC
@@Mr48194819 Not sure whether their comment was really a critique or just an observation with an unrelated statement at the end.
So what would your degree be in? Or would it depend on your background?
I gotta be real with y’all, 5 years later, I legitimately don’t think I commented this lol I don’t remember this and I don’t comment much on UA-cam. I watched the video to see if it’d jog my memory but I stg I’ve never heard this song in my life. I fr do not know wtf is going on
@@eabrisky Must have gotten hit in the head with a dumbell and forgotten.