| Lists of works whose copyrights should have expired. Anything copyrighted from 1923-1928 should have entered the Public Domain by the year 2004. A great list of works has been researched by ASU law professor Dennis S. Karjala and can be found on his Subverted Public Domain List. We have added the following recordings for later years. Feel free to send us further additions. 1928 Popular Hit Recordings "Is There Anything Wrong In That?" by Helen Kane "I Wanna Be Loved By You" by Helen Kane "Jazz Holiday" by Ted Lewis & His Jazz Band "(Goodbye, Broadway) Hello, Montreal!" by Ted Lewis & His Jazz Band "My Man" by Fanny Brice "That's My Weakness Now" by Paul Whiteman & His Orchestra featuring Bing Crosby "Because My Baby Don't Mean Maybe Now" by Ruth Etting "Let's Misbehave" by Helen Kane "Mississippi Mud" by Paul Whiteman's Orchestra "Makin' Whoopie" by Eddie Cantor "Let's Misbehave" by Irving Aaronson & His Commanders "Little Orphan Annie" by the Coon Sanders Nighhawks "Diga Diga Doo" by Duke Ellington & His Cotton Club Orchestra Other Important Recordings "West End Blues" by Louis Armstrong "Pinetop's Boogie Woogie" by Pinetop Smith "The Mooche" by Duke Ellington "Muggles" by Louis Armstrong 1927 Popular Hit Recordings "Sweetheart Of Sigma Chi" by Ted Lewis & His Band "My Blue Heaven" by Gene Austin "Mine, All Mine" by the Coon-Sanders Nighthawks "Mary (What Are You Waiting For?)" by Paul Whiteman & His Orchestra "Changes" by Paul Whiteman & His Orchestra "Blue Skys/Falling In Love With You" by Jesse Crawford "Fifty Million Frenchmen Can't Be Wrong" by Sophie Tucker with Miff Mole & His Little Molers "Shaking The Blues Away" by Ruth Etting "Varsity Drag" by Ruth Etting "It All Belongs To Me" by Ruth Etting "In A Little Spanish Town" by Carson Robison "My Pretty Girl" by Jean Goldkette & His Orchestra "Back Water Blues" by Bessie Smith "I'm Coming, Virginia" by Bix Beiderbecke "Lucky Lindy" by Nat Shilkret "I'm Gona Meet My Sweetie Now" by Jane Green "Black and Tan Fantasy" by Duke Ellington & His Orchestra "Honky Tonk Train Blues" by Meade Lux Lewis, first boogie woogie hit Other important recordings "Singin' The Blues" by Frankie Trumbauer's Orch., with Bix & Lang "Potato Head Blues" by Louis Armstrong "Stardust" by Hoagy Carmichael top 
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