Waller recorded “I Can’t Give You…” in 1938, playing the tune but making fun of the lyrics the recording was with Adelaide Hall who had introduced the song to the world at Les Ambassadeurs Club in New York in 1928. Maurice Waller’s biography similarly notes his father’s objections to hearing “On the Sunny Side of the Street” playing on the radio. Machlin comments that the Singer conjecture has “considerable justification”.Waller’s son Maurice wrote in his 1977 biography of his father that Waller had once complained on hearing the song, and came from upstairs to admonish him never to play it in his hearing because he had had to sell it when he needed money. He further supports the conjecture, noting that early handwritten manuscripts in the Dana Library Institute of Jazz Studies of “Spreadin’ Rhythm Around” (Jimmy McHugh ©1935) are in Waller’s hand. Biographer Barry Singer conjectured that this jazz classic was written by Waller and lyricist Andy Razaf and provided a description of the sale given by Waller to the New York Post in 1929-he sold the song for $500 to a white songwriter, ultimately for use in a financially successful show (consistent with Jimmy McHugh’s contributions to Harry Delmar’s Revels, 1927, and then to Blackbirds of 1928). The song was made famous by Adelaide Hall in the broadway show Blackbirds of 1928. Standards attributed to Waller, sometimes controversially, include “I Can’t Give You Anything but Love, Baby”. Waller is believed to have composed many novelty tunes in the 1920s and 1930s and sold them for small sums, attributed to another composer and lyricist.[
Fellow pianist and composer Oscar Levant dubbed Waller “the black Horowitz”. He was also a prolific songwriter, and many songs he wrote or co-wrote are still popular, such as “Honeysuckle Rose”,”Ain’t Misbehavin'” and “Squeeze Me”.
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