Time Frame I.V.

[David Morris]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Country_Joe_and_the_Fish

Their biggest hit was the anti-war "I-Feel-Like-I'm-Fixin'-to-Die
Rag", which debuted the same year as the band [1966], but became best
known after Country Joe's solo acoustic performance of it at
Woodstock.

Country Joe was sued in 2001 by Kid Ory's daughter, Babette Ory, who
claimed Joe's "Fixin" Rag infringed her copyright to Kid Ory's
Dixieland jazz standard "Muskrat Ramble". In August 2003, the court
case was decided in Joe's favor, since Kid Ory, Babette Ory, and the
Muskat Ramble publisher had all known of Joe's song in the late 1960s
but no complaint was made for decades. Finding the complaint
objectively unreasonable, the court awarded McDonald some of his
attorney's fees and costs. Due to the long delay and prejudice,
including death of key witnesses, the court did not even reach the
lack of substantial similarity issue. Babette Ory and her attorney
appealed, and the appellate court affirmed the decision in favor of
Joe McDonald.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kid_Ory

Edward "Kid" Ory (December 25, 1886 – January 23, 1973) was a jazz
trombonist and bandleader. He was born in Woodland Plantation near
LaPlace, Louisiana.

Ory started playing music with home-made instruments in his childhood,
and by his teens was leading a well regarded band in South-East
Louisiana. He kept La Place as his base of operations due to family
obligations until his 21st birthday, when he moved his band to New
Orleans, Louisiana.

He had one of the best-known bands in New Orleans in the 1910s, hiring
many of the greats, including cornetists Joe "King" Oliver, Mutt
Carey, and Louis Armstrong; and clarinetists Johnny Dodds and Jimmie
Noone.

In 1919 he moved to Los Angeles, one of a number of New Orleans
musicians to do so at about that time, and he recorded there in 1922
with a band including Mutt Carey, clarinetist (also a pianist) Dink
Johnson, and string bassist Ed Garland. (Garland and Carey were
longtime associates who were still with Ory during his 1940s
comeback.) In 1925, Ory moved to Chicago, where he was very active,
working and recording with Louis Armstrong, Jelly Roll Morton, "King"
Oliver, Johnny Dodds, and many others.


Kid Ory's "Muskrat Ramble"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CtLtmAE2GNQ

"I-Feel-Like-I'm-Fixin'-to-Die Rag" at Woodstock:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s5btZWbViPA


On Tue, Dec 2, 2008 at 11:49 AM, Robin Landseadel
<robinlandseadel at comcast.net> wrote:
> I remember first hearing the "Feeling Like I'm Fixin' to Die Rag" on "underground radio KPPC" in 1967. It was pretty popular with the likes of DL and Zoyd back then.