Under Copyright Law you can only Register a song once. You could Register a song for a 28 year period and re-register it once more for a length of 56 years. Then it goes into Public Domain. Since the song in question was probably registered in 1936 and was renewed once the copyright would run out in 1992. This is before the Registration period was changed to Life plus 70 years of the author or last surviving author if more than one.

One more non-expensive thing you could try is go to a music store and see if you can buy the sheet music. Copyright owner and date would be on the sheet music if there is still one. Good luck!

Last edited by Ray E. Strode; 11/15/15 01:44 PM.
Ray E. Strode