Ballard MacDonald (lyricist)

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Matrix No.
First Recording Date
Title
Primary Performer
Description
 
B-9122 6/21/1910 Nix on the glow worm, Lena
Ada Jones
Female vocal solo, with orchestra
 
B-9345 8/16/1910 I've got the time, I've got the place, but it's hard to find the girl
Henry Burr
Male vocal solo, with orchestra
B-9381 8/29/1910 Nix on the glow-worm, Lena
Billy Murray
Male vocal solo, with orchestra
 
B-10152 4/5/1911 The Mississippi dippy dip
Collins and Harlan
Male vocal duet, with orchestra
B-10180 4/13/1911 Hello summer!
Billy Murray
Male vocal solo, with orchestra
 
B-12524 10/22/1912 On the Mississippi
American Quartet
Male vocal quartet
B-12984 3/12/1913 Roll on, Missouri
Collins and Harlan
Male vocal duet, with orchestra
 
B-12988 3/12/1913 The trail of the lonesome pine
Edna Brown [i.e., Elsie Baker] ; James F. Harrison [i.e., Frederick Wheeler]
Female-male vocal duet, with orchestra
 
B-13260 5/9/1913 It takes a little rain with the sunshine to make the world go round
Walter Van Brunt
Male vocal solo, with orchestra
B-13515 7/3/1913 There's a girl in the heart of Maryland (With a heart that belongs to me)
Harry Macdonough
Male vocal solo, with orchestra
B-13625 7/23/1913 I love the moonlight
Helen Clark ; Walter Van Brunt
Female-male vocal duet, with orchestra
B-14361 1/22/1914 Let's all go 'round to Mary Ann's
Collins and Harlan
Male vocal duet, with orchestra
B-14579 3/17/1914 Off with the old love, on with the new
Henry Burr ; Albert Campbell
Male vocal duet, with bells and orchestra
B-15157 8/28/1914 The fatherland, the motherland, the land of my best girl
Irving Kaufman
Male vocal solo, with orchestra
B-15406 11/18/1914 Tip-top Tipperary Mary
Peerless Quartet
Male vocal quartet, with orchestra
B-15612 1/20/1915 The little house upon the hill
James F. Harrison [i.e., Frederick Wheeler] ; James Reed [i.e., Reed Miller]
Male vocal duet, with orchestra
B-15963 4/28/1915 On my way to New Orleans
Collins and Harlan
Male vocal duet, with orchestra
 
B-16174 7/6/1915 Piney Ridge
Irving Kaufman
Male vocal solo, with orchestra
B-16224 7/16/1915 Down in Bom-Bombay
Collins and Harlan
Male vocal duet, with orchestra
B-17202 2/24/1916 Drip, drip, drip went the waterfall
Marie Cahill
Female vocal solo, with orchestra
 
B-17739 5/29/1916 The stormy sea of love
M. J. O'Connell
Male vocal solo, with xylophone and orchestra
B-18128 7/18/1916 She is the sunshine of Virginia
Henry Burr ; Albert Campbell
Male vocal duet, with orchestra
B-18170 8/1/1916 Mississippi days
Peerless Quartet
Male vocal quartet, with banjo and orchestra
B-18566 10/20/1916 How could Washington be a married man (and never tell a lie)
M. J. O'Connell
Male vocal solo, with orchestra
B-18715 11/16/1916 The lovelight in your eyes
Albert Wiederhold [i.e., Herbert Stuart]
Male vocal solo, with orchestra
 
B-18721 11/20/1916 I'm gone before I go
Arthur Collins
Male vocal solo, with orchestra
 
B-19165 2/12/1917 Indiana
Sterling Trio
Male vocal trio, with harp and orchestra
B-19537 3/30/1917 Mister Butterfly
Charles Harrison
Male vocal solo, with orchestra
 
B-19757 5/8/1917 Rolling in his little rolling chair
Willie Weston
Male vocal solo, with orchestra
 
B-20216 7/12/1917 The modern maiden's prayer
Eddie Cantor
Male vocal solo, with orchestra
B-20323 7/5/1917 The ragtime volunteers are off to war
Van and Schenck
Male vocal duet, with orchestra
B-20448 7/25/1917 Never forget to write home
Irving Kaufman
Male vocal solo, with orchestra
B-21463 2/21/1918 A little bit of sunshine
Charles Hart ; Shannon Four
Male vocal quartet and soloist, with orchestra
 
B-21485 3/5/1918 Three wonderful letters from home
Charles Hart
Male vocal solo, with violin duet and orchestra
 
B-22287 10/18/1918 At the Dixie military ball
Marion Harris
Female vocal solo, with orchestra
 
B-22288 10/22/1918 Dreaming of home sweet home
Charles Harrison
Male vocal solo, with orchestra
B-22470 12/16/1918 Beautiful Ohio
Alice Green [i.e., Olive Kline] ; Elizabeth Spencer
Female vocal duet, with orchestra
 
B-22474 12/19/1918 Beautiful Ohio
Marguerite Dunlap ; Olive Kline
Female vocal duet, with cello and orchestra
B-22623 3/12/1919 On a little farm in Normandie
Peerless Quartet
Male vocal quartet, with orchestra
 
B-23054 7/9/1919 Dreamy Alabama
Charles Hart ; Lewis James
Male vocal duet, with orchestra
B-23067 7/14/1919 Breeze (blow my baby back to me)
American Quartet
Male vocal quartet, with oboe, bassoon, and orchestra
B-23942 4/16/1920 Rose of Washington Square
Sidney Phillips
Male vocal solo, with orchestra
 
B-24955 2/21/1921 My old Jersey home
Gladys Rice ; Victor Roberts [i.e., Billy Jones]
Female-male vocal duet, with orchestra
 
B-24992 3/11/1921 My old New Jersey home
Billy Murray
Male vocal solo, with orchestra
B-25454 7/6/1921 Mimi
All Star Trio ; All Star Trio Orchestra
Jazz/dance band, with male vocal solo
B-25773 11/22/1921 He's the cat's meow
Isabelle Patricola
Female vocal solo, with orchestra
 
B-26479 5/22/1922 Pigtail
Frances White
Female vocal solo, with celeste and orchestra
 
B-30807 9/9/1924 Somebody loves me
Aileen Stanley
Female vocal solo, with orchestra
 
B-31123 10/27/1924 At the end of the road
Henry Burr ; Albert Campbell
Male vocal duet, with orchestra
 
B-31873 2/26/1925 At the end of the road
Pennsylvanians ; Fred Waring
Jazz/dance band, with male vocal solo
BVE-33225 8/14/1925 Our home town
Charlie Farrell ; Jim Miller
Male vocal duet, with guitar and mandola
 
BVE-33828 10/30/1925 Clap hands! Here comes Charley
George Price
Male vocal solo, with orchestra
 
BVE-33885 11/19/1925 Clap hands! Here comes Charley!
Jack Shilkret Orchestra
Orchestra
 
BVE-34304 1/7/1926 Mimí
Mariano Meléndez
Male vocal solo, with orchestra
 
BVE-36765 11/12/1926 Beautiful Ohio
Elsie Baker ; Olive Kline
Vocal duet (soprano and contralto), with orchestra
 
BVE-36856 10/22/1926 Bring back those minstrel days
American Quartet
Male vocal quartet, with orchestra
 
BVE-39167 9/8/1927 Since Henry Ford apologized to me
The Happiness Boys
Male vocal duet, with piano
 
BVE-39632 7/7/1927 If I had a lover
Franklyn Baur ; Nathaniel Shilkret ; Victor Orchestra
Orchestra, with male vocal solo
 
BVE-41190 12/20/1927 The song of the sewing-machine
Fanny Brice
Female vocal solo, with orchestra
 
BVE-46979 9/5/1928 What a night for spooning
Pennsylvanians ; Fred Waring
Jazz/dance band, with male vocal solo
 
BVE-47574 9/28/1928 I loved you then as I love you now
Franklyn Baur
Male vocal solo, with instrumental ensemble
 
BVE-47595 10/4/1928 I loved you then as I love you now
Lewis James ; The Troubadours
Jazz/dance band, with male vocal solo
 
BVE-47861 10/23/1928 Que noche de amores
José Bohr
Male vocal solo, with violin, cornet, and piano
 
BVE-56189 10/16/1929 Just a corner of heaven to me
John McCormack
Tenor vocal solo, with orchestra
 
BVE-56737 10/2/1929 A year from to-day
Leo Reisman Orchestra
Jazz/dance band, with male vocal solo
 
BVE-57135 11/6/1929 Hoosier hop
High Hatters ; Leonard W. Joy ; Frank Luther
Jazz/dance band, with male vocal solo
 
BVE-57137 11/6/1929 I'm following you!
High Hatters ; Leonard W. Joy ; Frank Luther
Jazz/dance band, with male vocal solo
 
BVE-57260 12/13/1929 I'm following you
Duncan Sisters
Female vocal duet, with orchestra
 
BVE-57261 12/13/1929 Hoosier hop
Duncan Sisters
Female vocal duet, with orchestra
 
BVE-57975 1/4/1930 Hoosier hop
Duncan Sisters
Female vocal duet, with instrumental ensemble.
 
BVE-57976 1/4/1930 I'm following you!
Duncan Sisters
Female vocal duet, with instrumental ensemble.
 
BVE-58612 1/21/1930 I'm sailing on a sunbeam
Pennsylvanians ; Fred Waring
Jazz/dance band, with male vocal solo