Origins: Is 'Daddy Roll 'Em' Public Domain?

Subject: RE: Origins: Is 'Daddy Roll 'Em' Public Domain?
From: Joe Offer
Date: 18 Oct 10 - 02:39 AM

The Harry Fox Agency's songfile.com Website has two listings for songs titled "Daddy Roll 'Em." One was written by Will Holt and recorded by J.D. Woods. The other was written by Joel Gibson, and recorded by Bob Gibson and by Billy Strange.
The Gibson lyrics are posted above. I couldn't find a recording of the Will Holt song.

-Joe-

Subject: RE: Origins: Is 'Daddy Roll 'Em' Public Domain?
From: Q (Frank Staplin)
Date: 19 Oct 07 - 12:13 AM

Not cowboy, but does it have to have a handle? More about a type of person.

Subject: Lyr Add: DADDY ROLL 'EM (Bob Gibson)
From: Jim Dixon
Date: 18 Oct 07 - 11:35 PM

Lyrics copied from Digital Dream Door:

DADDY ROLL 'EM
Written by Bob Gibson
© Melody Trails (BMI)

They call me daddy, daddy roll 'em, they call me daddy roll 'em down, down, down.
And when I roll 'em, I really roll 'em, they call me daddy roll 'em down.
They call me daddy, daddy drive 'em, they call me daddy drive 'em down, down, down.
And when I drive 'em, I really drive 'em, they call me daddy drive 'em down.

Ten more miles and we'll make that mountain roar.
Ten more miles and we're on hard ground.
Julie gal can't you hear me callin' to ya.
They call me daddy roll 'em down.

They call me daddy, daddy roll 'em, they call me daddy roll 'em down, down, down.
And when I roll 'em, I really roll 'em, they call me daddy roll 'em down.
They call me daddy, daddy drive 'em, they call me daddy drive 'em down, down, down.
And when I drive 'em, I really drive 'em, they call me daddy drive 'em down.

Julie gal can't you hear me callin' to ya.
Julie gal don't you understand.
So many miles that I can hardly count 'em now.
I feel you pullin' me by my hand.

They call me daddy, daddy roll 'em, they call me daddy roll 'em down, down, down.
And when I roll 'em, I really roll 'em, they call me daddy roll 'em down.

[As sung by Roger McGuinn on "Live From Mars," 1996.

[I've also listened to a couple of sound samples of Bob Gibson & Bob Camp, and it sounds like they're singing "Junie", not "Julie".

[Also, I'm not sure this is the song requested. It doesn't sound much like a cowboy song to me.]

Subject: RE: Origins: Is 'Daddy Roll 'Em' Public Domain?
From: Q (Frank Staplin)
Date: 14 Oct 07 - 07:10 PM

Thanks. Looks like one I already should have had.

Subject: RE: Origins: Is 'Daddy Roll 'Em' Public Domain?
From: Peace
Date: 14 Oct 07 - 06:49 PM

I had the pleasure of hearing Bob Gibson do the song late one night at his place in the west Village. Man, he could sing and play and write.

Subject: RE: Origins: Is 'Daddy Roll 'Em' Public Domain?
From: Midchuck
Date: 14 Oct 07 - 06:46 PM

Recommended recording of "Daddy Roll Em?

Bob Gibson & Bob Camp at the Gate of Horn

Peter

Subject: RE: Origins: Is 'Daddy Roll 'Em' Public Domain?
From: Q (Frank Staplin)
Date: 14 Oct 07 - 01:49 PM

The bio posted by Peace interested me because of Holt's part in the Kurt Weill show.
Also have a lot of cowboy and western songs.

Recommended recording of "Daddy Roll Em?

Subject: RE: Origins: Is 'Daddy Roll 'Em' Public Domain?
From: Q (Frank Staplin)
Date: 13 Oct 07 - 03:36 PM

ASCAP website: ASCAP
Clearance line 212-621-6160

(Five Will Holt's listed with ASCAP)
WILL HOLT (US)- DADDY ROLL EM is title code 340001036
Publisher-Administrator:
Bax Music %Leslie Baxter Eaton, P. O. Box 7181, Santa Monica, CA 90406, tel. [phone].

Subject: RE: Origins: Is 'Daddy Roll 'Em' Public Domain?
From: Peace
Date: 12 Oct 07 - 11:56 PM

"Biography for
Will Holt (II)

Mini Biography
Songwriter ("Lemon Tree", "Those Were the Days", "One of Those Songs"), composer, singer, guitarist, director and producer, educated at Phillips Exeter Academy, Williams College and the Richard Dyer Bennett School of Minstrelsy. He was a singer and guitarist in nightclubs, toured for Columbia Concerts and, eventually, co-founded St. Louis' Crystal Palace. He wrote, produced and appeared in the off-Broadway revue "Signs Along the Cynic Route", directed and appeared in "The World of Kurt Weill in Song", and he directed "Leonard Bernstein's Theatre Songs". Joining ASCAP in 1959, his other popular-song compositions include "Sinner Man", "Raspberries, Strawberries", "Daddy, Roll 'Em", "The Pergola", "Till the Birds Sing in the Morning", "Watching the World Go By", "Adieu, Madras", "Days of the Waltz", "Luv" and "Marieke"."





Check with ASCAP.

Subject: Origins: Is 'Daddy Roll 'Em' Public Domain?
From: GUEST,woodsmoke
Date: 12 Oct 07 - 11:44 PM

I'm getting ready to record "Daddy Roll 'Em", a hard-drivin' cowboy song. Can ANYbody tell me for sure whether or not this song is in the Public Domain or will I have to get a mechanical license for it? I've been everywhere I can think of to come up with an answer and I can't find a trace of an author/composer.