J. Fred Helf (composer)
Matrixes marked with
indicate recordings are available for online listening.
Matrix No. |
First Recording Date |
Title |
Primary Performer |
Description |
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| [Pre-matrix A-]538 | 11/24/1900 | Every race has a flag but the coon | Arthur Collins ; Metropolitan Orchestra |
Male vocal solo, with orchestra |
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| [Pre-matrix A-]683 | 2/16/1901 | The fatal rose of red | Joseph Natus |
Male vocal solo, with piano |
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| [Pre-matrix A-]744 | 4/26/1901 | That's what the Germans sang | Dan W. Quinn |
Male vocal solo |
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| [Pre-matrix B-]744 | 4/26/1901 | That's what the Germans sang | Dan W. Quinn |
Male vocal solo |
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| [Pre-matrix C-]744 | 7/11/1902 | That's what the Germans sang | Dan W. Quinn |
Male vocal solo |
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| [Pre-matrix A-]768 | 5/3/1901 | In the house of too much trouble | Harry Macdonough |
Male vocal solo |
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| [Pre-matrix B-]768 | 11/20/1901 | In the house of too much trouble | Harry Macdonough |
Male vocal solo |
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| [Pre-matrix A-]796 | 5/14/1901 | I ain't got no happy home to leave | Silas Leachman |
Male vocal solo |
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| [Pre-matrix B-]796 | 5/14/1901 | I ain't got no happy home to leave | Silas Leachman |
Male vocal solo |
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| [Pre-matrix A-]830 | 5/21/1901 | A picture no artist can paint | J. W. Myers |
Male vocal solo, with piano |
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| [Pre-matrix B-]830 | 5/21/1901 | A picture no artist can paint | J. W. Myers |
Male vocal solo, with piano |
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| [Pre-matrix A-]865 | 6/12/1901 | There are two sides to a story | Steve Porter |
Male vocal solo, with piano |
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| [Pre-matrix A-]1467 | 7/10/1902 | I'll be your rainbow | Dan W. Quinn |
Male vocal solo |
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| [Pre-matrix B-]1467 | 7/10/1902 | I'll be your rainbow | Dan W. Quinn |
Male vocal solo |
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| [Pre-matrix C-]1467 | 7/10/1902 | I'll be your rainbeau | Dan W. Quinn |
Male vocal solo |
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| [Pre-matrix A-]1631 | 9/18/1902 | If money talks, it ain't on speaking terms with me | Arthur Collins |
Male vocal solo |
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| [Pre-matrix B-]1631 | 9/18/1902 | If money talks, it ain't on speaking terms with me | Arthur Collins |
Male vocal solo |
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| [Pre-matrix A-]1643 | 9/30/1902 | Rainbeau medley | Metropolitan Orchestra |
Orchestra |
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| [Pre-matrix B-]1643 | 9/30/1902 | Rainbeau medley | Metropolitan Orchestra |
Orchestra |
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| [Pre-matrix B-]1858 | 1/12/1903 | Tobie, I kind o' likes you | Silas Leachman |
Male vocal solo |
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| [Pre-matrix A-]1858 | 1/12/1903 | Tobie, I kind o' likes you | Silas Leachman |
Male vocal solo |
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| [Pre-matrix B-]2069 | 3/17/1903 | I'll be your rainbeau | Minnie Emmett |
Female vocal solo |
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| [Pre-matrix A-]2069 | 3/17/1903 | I'll be your rainbeau | Minnie Emmett |
Female vocal solo |
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| [Pre-matrix B-]3114 | 2/16/1901 | The fatal rose of red | Joseph Natus |
Male vocal solo, with piano |
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| [Pre-matrix B-]3286 | 4/26/1901 | That's what the German sang | Dan W. Quinn |
Male vocal solo |
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| [Pre-matrix B-]3312 | 5/3/1901 | In the house of too much trouble | Harry Macdonough |
Male vocal solo |
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| [Pre-matrix B-]3352 | 5/14/1901 | I ain't got no happy home to leave | Silas Leachman |
Male vocal solo, with piano |
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| [Pre-matrix B-]3392 | 5/21/1901 | A picture no artist can paint | J. W. Myers |
Male vocal solo, with piano |
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| [Pre-matrix B-]3467 | 6/12/1901 | There are two sides to a story | Steve Porter |
Male vocal solo |
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| B-421 | 9/16/1903 | In the house of too much trouble | Harry Macdonough |
Male vocal solo, with piano |
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| A-421 | 9/16/1903 | In the house of too much trouble | Harry Macdonough |
Male vocal solo, with piano |
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| B-562 | 10/14/1903 | In the house of too much trouble | Harry Macdonough |
Male vocal solo |
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| A-766 | 12/2/1903 | That's what the Germans sang | Frank Wilson |
Male vocal solo (yodeling), with piano |
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| B-766 | 12/2/1903 | That's what the Germans sang | Frank Wilson |
Male vocal solo (yodeling), with piano |
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| A-1033 | 2/10/1904 | That's what the Germans sang | Brothers Wilson |
Male vocal ensemble (with yodeling) |
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| B-1033 | 2/10/1904 | That's what the Germans sang | Brothers Wilson |
Male vocal ensemble (with yodeling), with "conversation" |
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| A-1034 | 2/10/1904 | Under the mistletoe bough | Bob Roberts |
Male vocal solo, with piano |
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| B-1034 | 2/10/1904 | Under the mistletoe bough | Bob Roberts |
Male vocal solo, with piano |
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| A-1063 | 3/2/1904 | Under the mistletoe bough | Dan W. Quinn |
Male vocal solo, with orchestra |
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| B-1063 | 3/2/1904 | Under the mistletoe bough | Dan W. Quinn |
Male vocal solo, with orchestra |
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| C-1063 | 3/2/1904 | Under the mistletoe bough | Dan W. Quinn |
Male vocal solo, with orchestra |
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| B-1180 | 4/4/1904 | That's what the Germans sang | Dan W. Quinn |
Male vocal solo, with piano |
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| A-1185 | 4/4/1904 | Du, Du Lichs mir im Herzen or, the wearing of the green | Dan W. Quinn |
Male vocal solo, with piano |
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| B-1185 | 4/4/1904 | Du, Du, lichs mir im Herzen | Dan W. Quinn |
Male vocal solo, with piano |
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| A-1332 | 5/20/1904 | A bit o' blarney | Arthur Pryor's Band |
Band |
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| B-1332 | 5/20/1904 | A bit o' blarney | Arthur Pryor's Orchestra |
Orchestra |
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| A-1339 | 5/23/1904 | When the coons have a dreamland of their own | Bob Roberts |
Male vocal solo, with orchestra |
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| B-1339 | 5/23/1904 | When the coons have a dreamland of their own | Bob Roberts |
Male vocal solo, with orchestra |
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| A-1579 | 7/11/1904 | A bit o' blarney | Billy Murray |
Male vocal solo |
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| B-1579 | 7/11/1904 | A bit o' blarney | Billy Murray |
Male vocal solo, with piano |
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| A-1593 | 7/13/1904 | A bit o' blarney | Vess L. Ossman |
Banjo solo |
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| B-1593 | 7/13/1904 | A bit o' blarney | Vess L. Ossman |
Banjo solo |
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| B-1895 | 11/3/1904 | Mamma's boy | Byron G. Harlan |
Male vocal solo, with orchestra |
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| B-2347 | 2/27/1905 | Here's to our absent brothers | Frank C. Stanley |
Male vocal solo, with orchestra |
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| C-2347 | 2/27/1905 | Here's to our absent brothers | Frank C. Stanley |
Male vocal solo, with orchestra |
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| B-2432 | 3/31/1905 | The waltz must change to a march, Marie | Byron G. Harlan |
Male vocal solo, with orchestra |
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| B-2759 | 9/19/1905 | I'll be waiting in the gloaming, sweet Genevieve | Byron G. Harlan |
Male vocal solo, with orchestra |
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| B-2761 | 9/19/1905 | Bye-bye, ma Eva | Collins and Harlan |
Male vocal duet, with orchestra |
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| C-2937 | 12/11/1905 | I'll be waiting in the gloaming, sweet Genevieve | Alan Turner |
Male vocal solo, with orchestra |
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| B-3081 | 2/2/1906 | Someone thinks of some one | Harry Macdonough ; Frank C. Stanley |
Male vocal duet, with orchestra |
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| B-3082 | 2/2/1906 | When the whip-poor-will sings, Marguerite | Harry Macdonough ; Frank C. Stanley |
Male vocal duet, with orchestra |
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| B-3131 | 2/21/1906 | Is there any room in heaven for a little girl like me? | Byron G. Harlan |
Male vocal solo, with orchestra |
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| B-3420 | 5/29/1906 | Colleen Bawn | J. W. Myers |
Male vocal solo, with orchestra |
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| B-3472 | 6/14/1906 | Susan, kiss me good and hard | Collins and Harlan |
Male vocal duet, with orchestra |
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| E-3472 | 6/14/1906 | Susan, kiss me good and hard | Collins and Harlan |
Male vocal duet, with orchestra |
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| C-3502 | 7/6/1906 | Ain't you coming back to old New Hampshire, Molly? | Harry Macdonough |
Male vocal solo, with orchestra |
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| E-3502 | 7/6/1906 | Ain't you coming back to old New Hampshire, Molly? | Harry Macdonough |
Male vocal solo, with orchestra |
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| B-4174 | 1/15/1907 | Meet me, sweet Kathleen, in honeysuckle time | Byron G. Harlan |
Male vocal solo, with orchestra |
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| B-4559[a] | 6/5/1907 | Captain Baby Bunting | Byron G. Harlan |
Male vocal solo, with orchestra |
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| B-4612 | 6/21/1907 | When you know you're not forgotten by the girl you can't forget | Haydn Quartet |
Male vocal quartet, with orchestra |
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| B-4811 | 9/16/1907 | Gesundheit waltz | Arthur Pryor's Band |
Band |
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| B-4901 | 11/4/1907 | 'Neath the old acorn tree, sweet Estelle | Haydn Quartet ; Harry Macdonough |
Male vocal quartet and male vocal solo, with orchestra |
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| B-4911 | 11/7/1907 | When summer tells autumn goodbye | Harry Macdonough ; Frank C. Stanley |
Male vocal duet, with orchestra |
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| B-6096 | 4/10/1908 | When it's moonlight, Mary darling, 'neath the old grape arbor shade | Albert Campbell |
Male vocal solo, with orchestra |
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| B-6239 | 5/29/1908 | Tipperary | Billy Murray |
Male vocal solo, with orchestra |
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| B-6292 | 7/7/1908 | Somebody that I know and you know too | Arthur C. Clough |
Male vocal solo, with orchestra |
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| B-6295 | 6/16/1908 | I lost my heart when I saw your eyes | Haydn Quartet |
Male vocal quartet, with orchestra |
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| B-6347 | 8/13/1908 | I think I see my brother coming now | Arthur Collins |
Male vocal solo, with orchestra |
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| B-6388 | 9/3/1908 | I don't want the morning to come | Dorothy Kingsley |
Female vocal solo, with orchestra |
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| B-6421 | 9/18/1908 | New Tipperary march | Arthur Pryor's Band |
Band |
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| B-6430 | 9/21/1908 | A wee bit o' Scotch | Arthur Pryor's Band |
Band |
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| B-6465 | 9/25/1908 | I'm tying the leaves so they won't come down | Byron G. Harlan |
Male vocal solo, with orchestra |
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| B-6466 | 9/25/1908 | Mister Dinkelspiel | Arthur Collins |
Male vocal solo, with orchestra |
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| B-6515 | 10/6/1908 | Tipperary | John Kimmel |
Accordion solo, with piano |
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| B-7091 | 5/18/1909 | You can look and you can listen, but M-U-M is the word | Ada Jones |
Female vocal solo, with orchestra |
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| B-7094 | 5/18/1909 | Make a noise like a hoop and roll away | Ada Jones |
Female vocal solo, with orchestra |
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| B-7095 | 5/18/1909 | Make a noise like a hoop and roll away | Street piano |
Street piano |
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| B-8142 | 8/11/1909 | Just a little word called 'welcome' | Karl Fritz |
Male vocal solo, with orchestra |
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| B-8164 | 8/20/1909 | When the sheep are in the fold, Jennie dear | Manuel Romain |
Male vocal solo, with orchestra |
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| B-8165 | 8/20/1909 | When we listened to the chiming of the old church bell | Manuel Romain |
Male vocal solo |
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| B-8171 | 8/24/1909 | Little Willie | American Quartet |
Male vocal quartet, unaccompanied |
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| B-8309 | 10/21/1909 | Wedding bells | American Quartet |
Male vocal quartet, unaccompanied |
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| B-8373 | 11/12/1909 | Wedding bells | Haydn Quartet |
Male vocal quartet, with orchestra |
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| B-8407 | 11/30/1909 | I'd rather say hello than say good-bye | Hamilton Hill |
Male vocal solo, with orchestra |
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| C-8408 | 11/30/1909 | My love is greater than the world | Hamilton Hill |
Male vocal solo, with orchestra |
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| B-8592 | 2/2/1910 | Where the ivy's clinging, dearie, 'round an old oak tree | Haydn Quartet |
Male vocal quartet, with orchestra |
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| B-8668 | 3/1/1910 | Teddy da Roose' | Billy Murray |
Male vocal solo, with orchestra |
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| B-9044 | 6/2/1910 | The morning after the night before | Billy Murray |
Male vocal solo, with orchestra |
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| B-9155 | 7/6/1910 | I'm longing for the old days, Marguerite | Haydn Quartet |
Male vocal quartet, with orchestra |
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| B-9527 | 10/10/1910 | The new Tipperary | William H. Reitz |
Xylophone solo, with orchestra |
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| B-10632 | 6/30/1911 | Wanted, a harp like the angels play | Henry Burr |
Male vocal solo, with orchestra |
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| B-10696 | 7/10/1911 | Hands up | Ada Jones ; Billy Murray |
Female-male vocal duet, with orchestra |
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| B-11757 | 3/21/1912 | A wee little drop o' the Cruiskeen lawn | Peerless Quartet |
Male vocal quartet, with orchestra |
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| B-12495 | 10/8/1912 | Fables | Bob Roberts |
Male vocal solo, with orchestra |
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| B-12496 | 10/8/1912 | You won't get a nickel out of me | Bob Roberts |
Male vocal solo, with orchestra |
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| B-12526 | 10/22/1912 | You're just as sweet at sixty as you were at sweet sixteen | American Quartet ; Walter Van Brunt |
Male vocal solo and male vocal quartet, with orchestra |
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| B-17046 | 1/21/1916 | Lazy Mary, will you get up | Billy Murray |
Male vocal solo, with orchestra |
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| B-25940 | 1/7/1922 | The new Tipperary | Pietro Deiro |
Accordion solo |
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| BVE-33831 | 10/30/1925 | The Lightning Express | Vernon Dalhart |
Male vocal solo, with violin and guitar |
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| BVE-56417 | 10/17/1929 | My two sweethearts | Jimmie Wilson's Catfish String Band |
String band, with male vocal solo |
