Victor Artists
Boris Hambourg (cello)
On this Date...
May 18th, 1914
Oft in the stilly night (Matrix B-14840, take 1) was recorded by Christine Miller in Camden, New Jersey
Frank E. Banta (instrumentalist : piano)
Frank E. Banta as pictured in a Victor catalog
Matrixes marked with 
indicate recordings are available for online listening.
Note on name: Son of composer Frank P. Banta.
Matrix No. |
First Recording Date |
Title |
Primary Performer |
Description |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| B-18860 | 12/20/1916 | Teasing the cat | Van Eps Trio |
Instrumental trio |
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| B-18861 | 12/20/1916 | On the Dixie Highway | Van Eps Trio |
Instrumental trio |
|
| B-20160 | 6/25/1917 | Posies | Frank E. Banta |
Piano solo |
|
| B-20161 | 6/25/1917 | Watermelon trust | Frank E. Banta |
Piano solo |
|
| B-20500 | 8/13/1917 | Razzberries | Van Eps Trio |
Instrumental trio |
|
| B-20501 | 8/13/1917 | Ching-chong | Van Eps Trio |
Instrumental trio |
|
| C-22347 | 12/16/1918 | Head over heels | Joseph C. Smith's Orchestra |
Jazz/dance band, with piano duet |
|
| C-22390 | 2/27/1919 | Chong | Joseph C. Smith's Orchestra |
Jazz/dance band, with male vocal solo |
|
| C-22395 | 3/4/1919 | Oh, my dear | Joseph C. Smith's Orchestra |
Jazz/dance band |
|
| B-22712 | 3/13/1919 | Silver heels | Fred Van Eps |
Banjo solo, with piano |
|
| B-22713 | 3/13/1919 | Keep off the grass | Fred Van Eps |
Banjo solo, with piano |
|
| B-22741 | 4/9/1919 | Oh, Susie, behave | Van Eps Trio |
Instrumental trio |
|
| B-22742 | 4/9/1919 | Monte Cristo, Jr. | Van Eps Trio |
Instrumental trio |
|
| B-22977 | 7/25/1919 | Roses at twilight | Frank E. Banta ; Hugo Frey |
Piano duet |
|
| B-23298 | 10/10/1919 | Patches | Joseph C. Smith's Orchestra |
Jazz/dance band |
|
| B-23300 | 10/15/1919 | Nobody ever | Joseph C. Smith's Orchestra |
Jazz/dance band |
|
| B-23325 | 11/5/1919 | My laddie | Joseph C. Smith's Orchestra |
Jazz/dance band |
|
| C-23859 | 3/19/1920 | Ching-a-ling's jazz bazaar | Joseph C. Smith's Orchestra |
Jazz/dance band, with 2 pianos and male vocal solo |
|
| B-24084 | 6/15/1920 | Scandal walk | Van Eps Quartet |
Instrumental quartet |
|
| B-24085 | 6/15/1920 | So long Oo-long (how long you gonna be gone?) | Van Eps Quartet |
Instrumental quartet |
|
| B-24291 | 9/22/1920 | A bunch of rags | Fred Van Eps |
Banjo solo, with piano |
|
| B-24292 | 9/22/1920 | Turkey in the straw medley | Fred Van Eps |
Banjo solo, with piano |
|
| B-24540 | 10/21/1920 | Old folks at home | Fred Van Eps |
Banjo solo, with piano |
|
| B-25614 | 9/20/1921 | Why, dear? | Joseph C. Smith's Orchestra |
Jazz/dance band, with piano duet |
|
| B-26268 | 3/23/1922 | California | Clyde Doerr Orchestra |
Jazz/dance band |
|
| B-26269 | 3/23/1922 | Lovey dove | Clyde Doerr Orchestra |
Jazz/dance band |
|
| B-26337 | 5/3/1922 | Pick me up and lay me down in dear old Dixieland | Clyde Doerr Orchestra |
Jazz/dance band |
|
| B-26901 | 9/27/1922 | To-morrow | Great White Way Orchestra |
Jazz/dance band |
|
| B-26902 | 9/27/1922 | Lovely Lucerne | Great White Way Orchestra |
Jazz/dance band, with yodeling |
|
| B-28567 | 9/18/1923 | Souvenir | Rudy Wiedoeft |
Saxophone solo, with piano |
|
| B-28568 | 9/18/1923 | Saxarella | Rudy Wiedoeft |
Saxophone solo, with piano |
|
| B-29532 | 2/20/1924 | Wonderful one | Henry Burr |
Male vocal solo, with saxophone and piano |
|
| BVE-29532 | 1/4/1926 | Wonderful one | Henry Burr |
Male vocal solo, with piano and saxophone |
|
| B-30642 | 8/15/1924 | Knock at the door | Frank Crumit |
Male vocal solo, with piano |
|
| B-30643 | 8/15/1924 | No one knows what it's all about | Frank Crumit |
Male vocal solo, with piano |
|
| B-31038 | 10/22/1924 | Valse mazanetta | Rudy Wiedoeft |
Saxophone solo, with piano |
|
| B-31057 | 10/29/1924 | Kiss me again | Rudy Wiedoeft |
Saxophone solo, with piano |
|
| B-31532 | 12/19/1924 | Get yourself a broom and sweep your troubles away | Frank Crumit |
Male vocal solo, with ukulele piano |
|
| B-31541 | 12/23/1924 | Insufficient sweetie | Frank Crumit |
Male vocal solo, with piano, ukulele, and kazoo |
|
| B-31735 | 1/14/1925 | Dear one | Henry Burr |
Male vocal solo, with saxophone and piano |
|
| CVE-31874 | 2/26/1925 | A miniature concert | "The Eight Popular Victor Artists" |
Vocal medley, with saxophone and piano |
|
| C-31874 | 2/26/1925 | A miniature concert, part 1 | "The Eight Popular Victor Artists" |
Vocal medley, with saxophone and piano |
|
| C-31875 | 2/26/1925 | A miniature concert, part 2 | "The Eight Popular Victor Artists" |
Vocal medley, with saxophone and piano |
|
| CVE-31875 | 2/26/1925 | A miniature concert | "The Eight Popular Victor Artists" |
Vocal medley, with saxophone and piano |
|
| B-31937 | 2/12/1925 | Honest and truly | Henry Burr |
Male vocal solo, with saxophone and piano |
|
| B-32065 | 3/6/1925 | Sportsman | Orquesta Internacional |
Orchestra |
|
| B-32066 | 3/6/1925 | En tus brazos duermo | International Novelty Orchestra |
Orchestra |
|
| B-32067 | 3/6/1925 | Munay soncco | Orquesta Internacional |
Orchestra |
|
| BVE-32883 | 6/9/1925 | The melody that made you mine | Frank E. Banta |
Piano solo |
|
| BVE-32884 | 6/9/1925 | My sugar | Frank E. Banta |
Piano solo |
|
| BVE-32886 | 6/10/1925 | My mother's humming lullaby | Frank Crumit |
Male vocal solo, with violin, guitar, and piano |
|
| BVE-32887 | 6/10/1925 | My sweetie turned me down (what do I care, what do I care) | Frank Crumit |
Male vocal solo, with ukulele and piano |
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| BVE-32888 | 6/10/1925 | I married the bootlegger's daughter | Frank Crumit |
Male vocal solo, with ukulele and piano |
|
| BVE-33180 | 8/20/1925 | Give me just a little bit (of your love) | Aileen Stanley |
Female vocal solo, with piano |
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| BVE-33181 | 8/20/1925 | You're in wrong with the right baby (so you'd better kiss yourself good-bye) | Aileen Stanley |
Female vocal solo, with piano |
|
| BVE-33182 | 8/25/1925 | Keep your skirts down, Mary Ann | Billy Murray ; Aileen Stanley |
Female-male vocal duet, with piano |
|
| BVE-33183 | 8/25/1925 | Want a little lovin' | Aileen Stanley |
Female vocal solo, with piano |
|
| BVE-33197 | 9/3/1925 | Old Uncle Bill | Frank Crumit |
Male vocal solo, with ukulele and piano |
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| BVE-33199 | 9/3/1925 | Sonya (yup, alay yup!) | Frank Crumit |
Male vocal solo, with piano |
|
| BVE-33239 | 8/20/1925 | Mighty blue | Aileen Stanley |
Female vocal solo, with piano |
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| BVE-33240 | 8/20/1925 | I know someone loves me | Aileen Stanley |
Female vocal solo, with piano |
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| BVE-33309 | 8/14/1925 | Sonya (yup, alay yup!) | Monroe Silver |
Male vocal solo, with piano |
|
| BVE-33310 | 8/14/1925 | Becky (I ain't coming back no more) | Monroe Silver |
Male vocal solo, with piano |
|
| BVE-33311 | 8/14/1925 | Vanity | Rudy Wiedoeft |
Saxophone solo, with piano |
|
| BVE-33328 | 8/19/1925 | La cinquantaine | Rudy Wiedoeft |
Saxophone solo, with piano |
|
| BVE-33329 | 8/19/1925 | You forgot to remember | Henry Burr ; Rudy Wiedoeft |
Male vocal solo, with saxophone and piano (takes 1-4 and 9-12); with violin, saxophone, and piano (takes 5-8) |
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| BVE-33330 | 8/19/1925 | Alone at last | Henry Burr |
Male vocal solo, with violin, saxophone, and piano |
|
| BVE-33356 | 8/28/1925 | Red hot Henry Brown | Frank Richardson |
Male vocal solo, with piano |
|
| BVE-33503 | 9/22/1925 | If I had a girl like you | Billy Murray ; Aileen Stanley |
Female-male vocal duet, with piano |
|
| BVE-33751 | 11/4/1925 | I wonder where my baby is to-night | Frank E. Banta |
Piano solo |
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| BVE-33752 | 11/4/1925 | Sweet man | Frank E. Banta |
Piano solo |
|
| BVE-33772 | 11/10/1925 | I wonder where my baby is to-night? | Henry Burr ; Carl Mathieu ; Billy Murray |
Male vocal trio, with piano |
|
| BVE-33822 | 10/28/1925 | No man's mamma | Aileen Stanley |
Female vocal solo, with piano |
|
| BVE-33961 | 12/3/1925 | Rainbow ripples | George Hamilton Green |
Xylophone solo, with piano |
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| BVE-33962 | 12/3/1925 | Triplets | George Hamilton Green |
Xylophone solo, with piano |
|
| BVE-33985 | 12/9/1925 | Masculine women! Feminine men! | Billy Murray |
Male vocal solo, with piano |
|
| BVE-33986 | 12/10/1925 | Caprice viennois | Sammy Herman |
Xylophone solo, with piano |
|
| BVE-33987 | 12/10/1925 | Vals bluette | Sammy Herman |
Xylophone solo, with piano |
|
| BVE-34073 | 12/31/1925 | I'm sitting on top of the world (just rolling along, just rolling along) | Frank Crumit |
Male vocal solo, with ukulele and piano |
|
| BVE-34195 | 1/4/1926 | Don't wake me up (let me dream) | Henry Burr |
Male vocal solo, with piano and vibraphone (takes 4-6); with instrumental quartet (takes 1-3) |
|
| BVE-34272 | 1/11/1926 | Don't be afraid to come home | Henry Burr |
Male vocal solo, with vibraphone and piano |
|
| BVE-34604 | 2/9/1926 | Poor Papa (he's got nuthin' at all) | Jane Green |
Female vocal solo, with piano |
|
| BVE-34605 | 2/9/1926 | Go south | Jane Green |
Female vocal solo, with piano |
|
| CVE-34614 | 2/12/1926 | Gems from Tip-toes | The Revelers |
Mixed vocal chorus and soloists, with 2 pianos |
|
| BVE-35164 | 5/26/1926 | Down by the gas house (the werry woist part of the town) | Billy Murray ; Aileen Stanley |
Female-male vocal duet, with 2 pianos |
|
| BVE-35393 | 5/12/1926 | What a man! | Aileen Stanley |
Female vocal solo, with piano |
|
| BVE-35394 | 5/12/1926 | I'd give a lot of love (to get a little love from someone) | Aileen Stanley |
Female vocal solo, with piano |
|
| BVE-35395 | 5/12/1926 | I wonder what's become of Joe? | Aileen Stanley |
Female vocal solo, with piano |
|
| BVE-35472 | 5/21/1926 | Hi-diddle-diddle | Billy Murray ; Aileen Stanley |
Female-male vocal duet, with orchestra |
|
| BVE-35473 | 5/21/1926 | Any ice to-day, lady? | Billy Murray ; Aileen Stanley |
Female-male vocal duet, with orchestra |
|
| BVE-35485 | 6/11/1926 | But I do, you know I do | Gene Austin |
Male vocal solo, with piano |
|
| BVE-35486 | 6/11/1926 | Here I am | Gene Austin |
Male vocal solo, with piano |
|
| BVE-35487 | 6/11/1926 | Tamiami Trail | Gene Austin |
Male vocal solo, with piano |
|
| BVE-35488 | 6/11/1926 | Sympathy waltz | Frank E. Banta |
Piano solo |
|
| BVE-35489 | 6/11/1926 | When the red, red robin comes bob, bob, bobbin' along | Frank E. Banta |
Piano solo |
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| BVE-35625 | 5/25/1926 | In the Orient | Rudy Wiedoeft |
Saxophone solo, with piano |
|
| BVE-35626 | 5/25/1926 | Sérénade badine | Rudy Wiedoeft |
Saxophone solo, with piano |
|
| BVE-35700 | 6/18/1926 | I ate the boloney! | Billy Murray ; Monroe Silver |
Male vocal duet, with piano |
|
| BVE-35701 | 6/18/1926 | I'm just wild about animal crackers | Billy Murray |
Male vocal solo, with piano |
|
| BVE-35706 | 6/22/1926 | Studentenlieder | Manhattan Quartet |
Male vocal quartet, with 2 pianos |
|
| BVE-35707 | 6/22/1926 | Volkslieder | Manhattan Quartet |
Male vocal quartet, with 2 pianos |
|
| BVE-35792 | 7/21/1926 | Two little bluebirds | Franklyn Baur ; Gladys Rice |
Female-male vocal duet, with piano |
|
| BVE-35793 | 7/22/1926 | Al fresco | Sammy Herman |
Xylophone solo, with piano |
|
| BVE-35802 | 7/12/1926 | Nola | Frank E. Banta |
Piano solo |
|
| BVE-35803 | 7/12/1926 | An operatic nightmare | Frank E. Banta |
Piano solo |
|
| BVE-35804 | 7/12/1926 | The girl friend | Billy Murray ; Gladys Rice |
Female-male vocal duet, with piano |
|
| BVE-35805 | 7/12/1926 | The girl is you and the boy is me | Franklyn Baur ; Gladys Rice |
Female-male vocal duet, with piano |
|
| BVE-36001 | 7/26/1926 | Abie's Irish blues | Jimmy Smith |
Harmonica solo, with piano |
|
| BVE-36002 | 7/26/1926 | Medley of reels | Jimmy Smith |
Harmonica solo, with piano |
|
| BVE-36003 | 7/26/1926 | I'm walking around in circles | Billy Murray |
Male vocal solo, with violin and piano |
|
| BVE-36004 | 7/26/1926 | Hello aloha, how are you? | Carl Mathieu ; Billy Murray |
Male vocal duet, with violin and piano |
|
| BVE-36025 | 8/6/1926 | Get away old man, get away | Frank Crumit |
Male vocal solo, with ukulele and piano |
|
| BVE-36026 | 8/6/1926 | Pretty little dear | Frank Crumit |
Male vocal solo, with ukulele and piano |
|
| BVE-36051 | 8/18/1926 | Chérie, I love you | Gladys Rice |
Female vocal solo, with piano |
|
| BVE-36052 | 8/18/1926 | Roses remind me of you | Franklyn Baur |
Male vocal solo, with piano |
|
| BVE-36053 | 8/19/1926 | I'd love to meet that old sweetheart of mine | Frank E. Banta ; Henry Burr ; Peerless Quartet |
Male vocal solo, with male vocal quartet and piano |
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| BVE-36054 | 8/19/1926 | I want a pardon for Daddy | Henry Burr ; James Stanley |
Male vocal duet, with piano |
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| BVE-36056 | 8/20/1926 | I can't get over a girl like you (loving a boy like me) | Billy Murray ; Aileen Stanley |
Female-male vocal duet, with piano |
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| BVE-36062 | 8/24/1926 | Who wouldn't | Billy Murray ; Aileen Stanley |
Female-male vocal duet, with piano and celeste |
|
| BVE-36063 | 8/24/1926 | Bridget O'Flynn (where've ya been?) | Billy Murray ; Aileen Stanley |
Female-male vocal duet, with bells and piano |
|
| BVE-36064 | 8/24/1926 | Christy Mathewson memorial song | Peerless Quartet |
Male vocal quartet, with piano |
|
| BVE-36068 | 8/26/1926 | Who could be more wonderful than you! | Billy Murray ; Aileen Stanley |
Female-male vocal duet, with piano |
|
| BVE-36325 | 9/17/1926 | The two of us | Franklyn Baur |
Male vocal solo, with piano |
|
| BVE-36564 | 10/22/1926 | Just a little longer | Frank E. Banta |
Piano solo |
|
| BVE-36565 | 10/22/1926 | For my sweetheart | Frank E. Banta |
Piano solo |
|
| BVE-36894 | 11/2/1926 | We're the Sunday drivers | Billy Murray's Trio |
Male vocal trio, with piano |
|
| BVE-37365 | 1/18/1927 | Open up de gates of glory | Peerless Quartet |
Male vocal quartet, with piano |
|
| BVE-37366 | 1/18/1927 | Way down upon the Swanee River | Peerless Quartet |
Male vocal quartet, with piano |
|
| BVE-37503 | 1/3/1927 | I love the moonlight | Peerless Quartet |
Male vocal quartet, with instrumental ensemble |
|
| BVE-37504 | 1/3/1927 | Perhaps you'll think of me | Henry Burr ; Carl Mathieu |
Male vocal duet, with instrumental ensemble |
|
| BVE-37507 | 1/4/1927 | Sunny disposish | Frank Crumit |
Male vocal solo, with piano |
|
| BVE-37508 | 1/4/1927 | High-high-high up in the hills (watching the clouds roll by) | Frank Crumit |
Male vocal solo, with piano |
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| BVE-37509 | 1/4/1927 | My lady | Frank Crumit |
Male vocal solo, with piano |
|
| BVE-37532 | 1/11/1927 | Crazy words, crazy tune (vo-do-de-o) | Frank Crumit |
Male vocal solo, with lute, ukulele, and piano |
|
| BVE-37533 | 1/11/1927 | I miss you, 'Lize | Frank Crumit |
Male vocal solo, with lute, ukulele, and piano |
|
| BVE-37792 | 2/17/1927 | I can't believe that you're in love with me | Johnny Marvin |
Male vocal solo, with 2 guitars and piano |
|
| BVE-37793 | 2/17/1927 | Strum my blues away | Johnny Marvin |
Male vocal solo, with clarinet, ukulele, and piano |
|
| BVE-38161 | 3/11/1927 | Spanish waltz in A minor | George Hamilton Green |
Xylophone solo, with piano |
|
| BVE-38162 | 3/11/1927 | Rain | George Hamilton Green |
Xylophone solo, with piano |
|
| BVE-38208 | 3/4/1927 | Mighty lak' a rose | Sammy Herman |
Xylophone solo, with piano |
|
| BVE-38349 | 4/15/1927 | Russian lullaby | Frank E. Banta |
Piano solo |
|
| BVE-38350 | 4/15/1927 | Ain't she sweet | Frank E. Banta |
Piano solo |
|
| BVE-38465 | 4/14/1927 | Ask me another | Carl Mathieu ; Billy Murray |
Male vocal duet, with piano |
|
| BVE-38466 | 4/14/1927 | Fifty million Frenchmen can't be wrong | Billy Murray |
Male vocal solo, with male vocal duet and piano |
|
| BVE-38484 | 4/22/1927 | The whisper song | Billy Murray |
Male vocal solo, with piano |
|
| BVE-38601 | 4/12/1927 | Sometimes I'm happy | Louise Groody ; Charles King |
Female-male vocal duet, with piano |
|
| BVE-39664 | 7/15/1927 | Caprice in C minor | George Hamilton Green |
Xylophone solo, with piano |
|
| BVE-40163 | 10/11/1927 | What do we do on a dew-dew-dewy day? | Frank E. Banta |
Piano solo |
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| BVE-40164 | 10/11/1927 | Are you thinking of me to-night? | Frank E. Banta |
Piano solo |
|
| BVE-45642 | 6/18/1928 | Dorothy | Frank E. Banta |
Piano solo |
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| BVE-45643 | 6/18/1928 | The world is waiting for the sunrise | Frank E. Banta |
Piano solo |
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| CVE-49077 | 1/18/1929 | Minstrel show of 1929 | Victor Minstrels |
Minstrels, with orchestra |
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| MVE-49705 | 1/31/1929 | Wrong again | Motion Picture Orchestra |
Motion picture soundtrack : Orchestra |
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| BVE-56702 | 9/19/1929 | Scotchie | Nathaniel Shilkret ; Victor Orchestra |
Orchestra |
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| [Trial 1926-04-22-02] | 4/22/1926 | Peggy o' Hooligan | James Stanley |
Male vocal solo, with piano |
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| [Trial 1926-04-22-03] | 4/22/1926 | To-morrow | James Stanley |
Male vocal solo, with piano |
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| [Trial 1926-02-09-01] | 2/9/1926 | The bonnie lass of Balloch Myle | George Kennedy |
Male vocal solo, with piano |
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| [Trial 1926-08-06-01] | 8/6/1926 | Lullaby medley | Gladys Rice |
Female vocal solo, with piano |
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| [Trial 1926-04-22-01] | 4/22/1926 | The blind ploughman | James Stanley |
Male vocal solo, with piano |
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| [Trial 1916-12-20-01] | 12/20/1916 | Money blues | Frank E. Banta |
Piano solo |