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A Conversation on Twitter Today Regarding Band Names

By Marty Schwimmer on May 10, 2013
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Who were the first musicians to use suggestive or arbitrary group names?Louis Armstrong and His Hot Five?

— TrademarkBlog (@TrademarkBlog) May 9, 2013

@legallysocial @trademarkblog Jelly Roll Morton.1905

— Elizabeth King (@ElizabethKing) May 9, 2013

@elizabethking @legallysocial He wrote Jelly Roll Blues in 05 but didn’t perform as Jelly Roll then.But certainly a contender.

— TrademarkBlog (@TrademarkBlog) May 9, 2013

Bix Beiderbecke – 1920: Performed w/ “The Black Jazz Babies’bit.ly/10ubr0I

— TrademarkBlog (@TrademarkBlog) May 9, 2013

@elizabethking @trademarkblog The Wolverines (1924)? Red Hot Peppers (1926)?

— Darren Cahr (@legallysocial) May 9, 2013

@trademarkblog Maybe the Black and Tan Orchestra. Here’s a link to a good listhttp://www.redhotjazz.com/bands.html.

— Jon K. Perala (@Peralaw) May 9, 2013

Current leader, earliest known example ofband using an arbitrary or suggestive name: THE FOUR HOT HOUNDS, 1911.

— TrademarkBlog (@TrademarkBlog) May 9, 2013

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Martin Schwimmer is a partner in Leason Ellis, an IP law boutique in White Plains, NY. His practice is concentrated in the area of U.S. and international trademark law and domain name counseling, prosecution and litigation.

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