B. G. De Sylva (lyricist)

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Also known as: De Sylva, Buddy

Matrix No.
First Recording Date
Title
Primary Performer
Description
  
B-24792 1/14/1921 Look for the silver lining
Edna Brown [i.e., Elsie Baker] ; Charles Harrison
Female-male vocal duet, with orchestra
  
B-25479 8/31/1921 Yoo-hoo
Hackel-Bergè Orchestra
Jazz/dance band, with male vocal solo
B-25954 1/16/1922 April showers
Yvette Rugel
Female vocal solo, with viola, cello, and orchestra
  
B-25979 1/27/1922 April showers
Charles Harrison
Male vocal solo, with viola, cello, and orchestra
B-26130 2/23/1922 Don't leave me, Mammy
Vernon Dalhart
Male vocal solo, with violin duet and orchestra
B-26885 9/19/1922 The Yankee Doodle blues
Billy Murray ; Ed Smalle
Male vocal duet, with orchestra
C-27318 12/14/1922 Gems from The Yankee princess
Victor Light Opera Company
Vocal chorus and soloists, with orchestra
C-27320 12/15/1922 Gems from Sally
Victor Light Opera Company
Vocal chorus and soloists, with orchestra
  
B-27584 3/1/1923 A kiss in the dark
Olive Kline
Female vocal solo, with violin, cello, and orchestra
B-28464 9/11/1923 A kiss in the dark
Amelita Galli-Curci
Soprano vocal solo, with harp, celeste, and orchestra
  
B-28912 11/5/1923 I won't say I will (but I won't say I won't)
Irene Bordoni
Female vocal solo, with piano and violin
B-29154 12/21/1923 Oh, baby! (Don't say no, say maybe)
Frank Crumit
Male vocal solo, with piano and ukulele
B-29356 1/28/1924 California, here I come
The Manhattan Merrymakers ; George Price
Male vocal solo, with jazz/dance band
B-29695 3/26/1924 Memory Lane
Pennsylvanians ; Fred Waring ; Tom Waring
Jazz/dance band, with piano and male vocal solo
B-30499 7/14/1924 Memory Lane
Lambert Murphy
Male vocal solo, with celeste and orchestra
B-30700 8/19/1924 Somebody loves me
Aileen Stanley
Female vocal solo, with orchestra
  
B-30807 9/9/1924 Somebody loves me
Aileen Stanley
Female vocal solo, with orchestra
  
B-30904 9/15/1924 Memory Lane
Amelita Galli-Curci
Soprano vocal solo, with orchestra
  
B-31265 12/9/1924 Keep smiling at trouble
Pennsylvanians ; Fred Waring
Jazz/dance band, with male vocal solo
B-31355 11/26/1924 Must it be goodbye?
Henry Burr
Male vocal solo, with orchestra
  
B-31637 1/8/1925 I'm gonna tramp, tramp, tramp
Billy Murray ; Ed Smalle
Male vocal duet, with orchestra
  
B-31677 1/13/1925 I'm gonna tramp, tramp, tramp
Billy Murray
Male vocal solo, with orchestra
  
B-31901 2/3/1925 Keep smiling at trouble (trouble's a bubble)
Shannon Quartet
Male vocal quartet, with guitar and orchestra
  
B-32646 5/20/1925 Alabamy bound
American Quartet
Male vocal quartet, with orchestra
  
BVE-32770 7/13/1925 I can't realize
Coon-Sanders Original Nighthawk Orchestra
Jazz/dance band, with male vocal duet
  
BVE-32805 5/15/1925 If you knew Susie (like I know Susie)
Jack Shilkret Orchestra ; Jack Shilkret
Orchestra, with male vocal solo
  
BVE-33393 9/18/1925 I'm goin' out if Lizzie comes in
Phil Romano Orchestra ; Phil Romano
Jazz/dance band, with male vocal solo
  
BVE-33572 10/16/1925 Sugar plum
George Olsen and his Music
Jazz/dance band, with male vocal solo
  
BVE-33755 11/4/1925 Whoopee!
Billy Murray
Male vocal solo, with orchestra
  
BVE-33819 10/27/1925 Just a cottage small
John McCormack
Tenor vocal solo, with orchestra
  
BVE-33827 10/30/1925 Mother me, Tennessee
George Price
Male vocal solo, with orchestra
  
BVE-33849 11/4/1925 What did I tell ya? (That's her, that's her)
Jack Smith
Male vocal solo, with piano
  
BVE-34100 11/25/1925 Save your sorrow (for to-morrow)
Gene Austin
Male vocal solo, with orchestra
  
BVE-34110 12/1/1925 Miami
George Olsen and his Music
Jazz/dance band, with male vocal trio
  
BVE-34938 3/9/1926 A night of love
Olive Kline
Soprano vocal solo, with orchestra
  
BVE-35287 4/6/1926 A night of love
B. F. Goodrich Silvertown Cord Orchestra ; Joseph M. Knecht
Jazz/dance band, with male vocal solo
  
BVE-35398 5/13/1926 Cross your heart
Roger Wolfe Kahn Orchestra
Jazz/dance band, with male vocal solo
  
BVE-35486 6/11/1926 Here I am
Gene Austin
Male vocal solo, with piano
  
BVE-35731 6/30/1926 Lucky day
George Olsen and his Music
Jazz/dance band, with male vocal trio
  
BVE-35769 7/14/1926 Lucky day
The Revelers
Male vocal quartet, with piano
  
BVE-35770 7/14/1926 The birth of the blues
The Revelers
Male vocal quartet, 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-36036 8/11/1926 The birth of the blues
Paul Whiteman Orchestra
Jazz/dance band, with male vocal trio
  
BVE-37459 3/24/1927 I wonder how I look when I'm asleep
Pennsylvanians ; Fred Waring
Jazz/dance band, with male vocal chorus
  
BVE-37460 3/22/1927 South wind
Pennsylvanians ; Fred Waring
Jazz/dance band, with male vocal solo
  
BVE-37728 1/21/1927 It all depends on you
Franklyn Baur
Male vocal solo, with pipe organ and piano
  
BVE-37828 2/18/1927 I wonder how I look when I'm asleep
Billy Murray
Male vocal solo, with orchestra
  
BVE-38310 3/29/1927 So blue
Paul Whiteman Orchestra
Jazz/dance band, with male vocal solo
  
BVE-38375 4/28/1927 South wind
Roger Wolfe Kahn Orchestra
Jazz/dance band (takes 5 and 6); with male vocal solo (takes 1-4)
  
BVE-38409 3/25/1927 So blue
The Revelers
Male vocal quartet, with piano
  
BVE-38465 4/14/1927 Ask me another
Carl Mathieu ; Billy Murray
Male vocal duet, with piano
  
BVE-38552 8/30/1927 Broken hearted
Carroll C. Tate
Male vocal solo, with piano (self-accompaniment)
  
BVE-38706 4/28/1927 You won't see me, if I see you (with anybody else at all)
Jack Smith
Male vocal solo, with piano
  
BVE-38722 5/4/1927 One o'clock baby
Johnny Hamp ; Kentucky Serenaders
Jazz/dance band, with male vocal solo
  
BVE-38778 5/24/1927 Broken hearted
Paul Whiteman Orchestra
Jazz/dance band, with male vocal trio
  
BVE-38779 5/24/1927 Magnolia (mix the lot, what have you got?)
Paul Whiteman Orchestra
Jazz/dance band, with male vocal trio
  
BVE-38786 5/26/1927 Magnolia
Aileen Stanley
Female vocal solo, with instrumental trio
  
BVE-38795 5/27/1927 When day is done
Franklyn Baur
Male vocal solo, with orchestra
  
BVE-39224 6/7/1927 Magnolia (mix the lot, what have you got?)
Johnny Marvin
Male vocal solo, with instrumental ensemble
  
BVE-39379 10/28/1927 The best things in life are free
Jack Smith
Male vocal solo, with piano (self-accompaniment)
  
BVE-39471 8/18/1927 Lucky in love
George Olsen and his Music
Jazz/dance band, with male vocal trio
  
BVE-39472 8/18/1927 Good news
George Olsen and his Music
Jazz/dance band, with male vocal trio
  
BVE-39473 8/18/1927 The best things in life are free
George Olsen and his Music
Jazz/dance band, with male vocal solo
  
BVE-39474 8/19/1927 The varsity drag
George Olsen and his Music
Jazz/dance band, with male vocal solo
  
BVE-39569 8/16/1927 Five-step
Paul Whiteman Orchestra
Jazz/dance band, with male vocal trio
  
BVE-39570 8/16/1927 Broadway
Paul Whiteman Orchestra
Jazz/dance band, with male vocal solo
  
BVE-39595 9/2/1927 Just a memory
Cooper Lawley ; Harold Yates
Male vocal duet, with piano and pipe organ
  
BVE-39637 7/8/1927 Broken hearted
Aileen Stanley
Female vocal solo, with orchestra
  
BVE-39653 7/13/1927 Manhattan Mary
Paul Whiteman Orchestra
Jazz/dance band, with male vocal trio
  
BVE-39943 8/5/1927 Baby feet go pitter patter (cross my floor)
Aileen Stanley
Female vocal solo, with orchestra
  
BVE-40137 9/29/1927 The best things in life are free
Franklyn Baur
Male vocal solo, with instrumental ensemble
  
BVE-40514 10/26/1927 The varsity song
The Revelers
Male vocal quartet, with piano
  
CVE-40570 11/14/1927 Just a memory
Nathaniel Shilkret ; Victor Concert Orchestra
Orchestra
  
BVE-41188 12/20/1927 Here am I, broken-hearted
Melville Gideon
Male vocal solo, with instrumental ensemble
  
BVE-41563 1/19/1928 Together
Pennsylvanians ; Fred Waring
Jazz/dance band, with male vocal solo
  
BVE-41566 1/20/1928 Together
Franklyn Baur
Male vocal solo, with orchestra
  
CVE-41635 1/21/1928 Together
Paul Whiteman Orchestra
Jazz/dance band, with male vocal solo
  
PBVE-42127 3/27/1928 The varsity drag
Edna Fischer
Piano solo
  
BVE-43107 2/23/1928 Without you, sweetheart
Johnny Marvin ; Nathaniel Shilkret ; Victor Orchestra
Orchestra, with male vocal solo
  
CVE-43533 4/5/1928 Selections from 'Good news'
Arden-Ohman Orchestra ; Victor Arden ; Phil Ohman
Piano duet, with orchestra and male vocal chorus and soloist
  
BVE-43569 4/16/1928 Sorry for me
Walter O'Keefe
Male vocal solo, with piano and guitar
  
BVE-43635 4/16/1928 Without you, sweetheart
Gene Austin
Male vocal solo, with instrumental ensemble
  
BVE-43798 5/15/1928 Sorry for me
Charlie Fry ; Million Dollar Pier Orchestra
Jazz/dance band, with male vocal solo
  
BVE-43916 4/25/1928 When day is done
Hallie Stiles
Female vocal solo, with piano
  
BVE-43926 4/27/1928 Good news
Juan Pulido
Male vocal solo, with orchestra
  
BVE-43972 5/11/1928 Mammy is gone
The Revelers
Male vocal quartet, with piano
  
BAVE-44414 Winter, 1929 Unidos
Libertad Lamarque
Female vocal solo
  
BVE-45355 6/12/1928 Pieśń Bajadera
Paweł Faut
Male vocal solo, with instrumental ensemble
  
BVE-45627 6/12/1928 Pickin' cotton
George Olsen and his Music
Jazz/dance band, with male vocal solo
  
BVE-45640 6/18/1928 I'm on the crest of a wave
George Olsen and his Music
Jazz/dance band, with male vocal solo
  
BVE-45641 6/18/1928 American tune
George Olsen and his Music
Jazz/dance band, with male vocal trio
  
BVE-45660 6/27/1928 Blue grass
Johnny Hamp ; Kentucky Serenaders
Jazz/dance band, with male vocal solo
  
BVE-45894 7/19/1928 What d'ya say?
Grace Hayes
Female vocal solo, with orchestra
  
BVE-45988 6/26/1928 For old times' sake
Jean Goldkette Orchestra
Jazz/dance band, with male vocal solo
  
BVE-46070 7/9/1928 Just imagine
Jean Goldkette Orchestra
Jazz/dance band, with female vocal solo
  
BVE-46097 7/12/1928 That's just my way of forgetting you
Jean Goldkette Orchestra
Jazz/dance band, with male vocal solo
  
BVE-46364 8/14/1928 What d'ya say
Johnny Hamp ; Kentucky Serenaders
Jazz/dance band, with male vocal solo
  
BVE-46375 11/13/1928 Maybe this is love
Pennsylvanians ; Fred Waring
Jazz/dance band, with male vocal chorus
  
BVE-46936 8/23/1928 California, here I come
Nathaniel Shilkret ; Victor Orchestra
Orchestra, with male vocal trio and whistling
  
BVE-46989 9/6/1928 Sonny boy
Eddie Cantor
Male vocal solo, with orchestra
  
BVE-47529 9/18/1928 Sonny boy
George Olsen and his Music
Jazz/dance band, with male vocal solo
  
BVE-47561 9/25/1928 Sonny Boy
Sam Coslow
Male vocal solo, with orchestra
  
BVE-47584 10/2/1928 Sonny boy
Elliott Shaw
Male vocal solo, with orchestra
  
BVE-47851 10/19/1928 You're the cream in my coffee
Ted Weems Orchestra
Jazz/dance band, with male vocal solo
  
BVE-48066 11/13/1928 Sonny boy
Josef Shoengold
Male vocal solo, with violin, cello, and piano
  
BVE-48113 11/1/1928 Pompanola
Pennsylvanians ; Fred Waring
Jazz/dance band, with male vocal chorus
  
BVE-48134 11/7/1928 Sonny boy
Gene Austin
Male vocal solo, with orchestra
  
BVE-48178 11/19/1928 Sonny boy
John McCormack
Tenor vocal solo, with orchestra
  
BVE-48182 11/20/1928 To know you is to love you
High Hatters
Jazz/dance band, with male vocal solo
  
BVE-48183 11/20/1928 Don't hold everything
High Hatters
Jazz/dance band, with male vocal chorus
  
BVE-48192 11/21/1928 The song I love
National Cavaliers
Male vocal quartet, with piano
  
BVE-48503 12/21/1928 My Tonia
Lewis James
Male vocal solo, with orchestra
  
BVE-48817 1/23/1929 Button up your overcoat
Pennsylvanians ; Fred Waring
Jazz/dance band, with male vocal trio
  
BVE-48832 1/28/1929 My lucky star
Pennsylvanians ; Fred Waring
Jazz/dance band, with male vocal solo
  
BVE-49236 12/6/1928 My Tonia
Frank Munn ; Nathaniel Shilkret ; Victor Orchestra
Jazz/dance band, with male vocal solo
  
BVE-49239 12/7/1928 The song I love
Pennsylvanians ; Fred Waring
Jazz/dance band, with male vocal solo
  
BVE-49648 1/15/1929 The song I love
Gene Austin
Male vocal solo, with orchestra
  
BVE-49657 1/17/1929 You're the cream in my coffee
Franklyn Baur ; Gladys Rice
Female-male vocal duet, with bass and 2 pianos
  
BVE-49671 1/22/1929 You wouldn't fool me, would you?
Johnny Marvin ; Nathaniel Shilkret ; Victor Orchestra
Orchestra, with male vocal solo
  
BVE-49672 1/22/1929 I want to be bad
Belle Mann ; Nathaniel Shilkret ; Victor Orchestra
Orchestra, with female vocal solo
  
BVE-49698 1/30/1929 Button up your overcoat
Helen Kane
Female vocal solo, with orchestra
  
BVE-49699 1/30/1929 I want to be bad
Helen Kane
Female vocal solo, with orchestra
  
BVE-49901 1/31/1929 Hijito mío
Juan Pulido
Male vocal solo, with orchestra
  
BVE-51132 4/8/1929 Why can't you?
Burt Lorin [i.e., Scrappy Lambert] ; Nathaniel Shilkret ; Victor Orchestra
Orchestra, with male vocal solo
  
BVE-51272 5/1/1929 Ponte el sobretodo
José Bohr
Male vocal solo, with instrumental ensemble
  
BVE-51602 4/3/1929 Why can't you?
Gene Austin
Male vocal solo, with orchestra
  
BVE-51603 4/3/1929 Little pal
Gene Austin
Male vocal solo, with orchestra
  
BVE-51605 4/4/1929 Used to you
Don Howard ; Nathaniel Shilkret ; Victor Orchestra
Orchestra, with male vocal solo
  
BVE-51606 4/4/1929 I'm in seventh heaven
Fran Frey ; George Olsen and his Music
Jazz/dance band, with male vocal solo
  
BVE-51607 4/4/1929 Little pal
Fran Frey ; George Olsen and his Music
Jazz/dance band, with male vocal solo
  
BVE-51608 4/5/1929 I'm in seventh heaven
Johnny Marvin
Male vocal solo, with orchestra
  
BVE-51609 4/5/1929 Used to you
Johnny Marvin
Male vocal solo, with orchestra
  
BVE-51620 4/12/1929 Little pal
John McCormack
Tenor vocal solo, with orchestra
  
CVE-51687 5/6/1929 Gems from Follow thru
Victor Light Opera Company
Vocal chorus and soloists, with orchestra
  
BVE-51872 7/23/1929 My sin
Jesse Crawford
Pipe organ solo, with male vocal solo
  
BVE-51968 5/2/1929 My sin
Clare Hanlon ; Pennsylvanians ; Fred Waring
Jazz/dance band, with male vocal solo
  
CVE-51970 5/3/1929 Gems from Hold everything
Victor Light Opera Company
Mixed vocal chorus and soloists, with orchestra
  
BVE-53579 6/24/1929 My sin
The Silver-Masked Tenor [i.e., Joseph M. White]
Male vocal solo, with orchestra
  
BVE-53913 7/10/1929 My sin
Franklyn Baur
Male vocal solo, with orchestra
  
BVE-53924 7/16/1929 Knopf dir deinen Mantel zu
Klara Madjette
Female vocal solo, with instrumental ensemble
  
BVE-53975 8/5/1929 Antos zapnij się
Klara Madjette
Female vocal solo, with instrumental ensemble
  
BVE-55687 9/13/1929 Sunny side up
Johnny Hamp ; Kentucky Serenaders ; Frank Luther
Jazz/dance band, with male vocal solo
  
BVE-55689 9/13/1929 If I had a talking picture of you
Johnny Hamp ; Don Howard ; Kentucky Serenaders
Jazz/dance band, with male vocal solo
  
BVE-55814 8/29/1929 Compañerito
Juan Pulido
Male vocal solo, with orchestra
  
BVE-56162 9/30/1929 You've got me pickin' petals off of daisies
High Hatters ; Leonard W. Joy ; Frank Luther
Jazz/dance band, with male vocal solo
  
BVE-56167 10/1/1929 I'm a dreamer, aren't we all?
High Hatters
Jazz/dance band, with male vocal solo
  
BVE-56729 9/30/1929 If I had a talking picture of you
Johnny Marvin
Male vocal solo, with orchestra
  
BVE-56730 9/30/1929 I'm a dreamer (aren't we all?)
Johnny Marvin
Male vocal solo, with orchestra
  
BVE-57191 12/4/1929 Turn on the heat
Fats Waller
Piano solo
  
BVE-57503 10/24/1929 Turn on the heat
Horace Heidt Orchestra
Jazz/dance band, with male vocal trio
  
BVE-57948 12/24/1929 Sunny side up
Chick Endor
Male vocal solo, with jazz/dance band
  
BVE-57986 1/9/1930 Good for you—bad for me
Pennsylvanians ; The Three Girl Friends ; Fred Waring
Jazz/dance band, with female vocal trio
  
BVE-57987 1/10/1930 Red hot Chicago
Pennsylvanians ; Fred Waring
Jazz/dance band, with male vocal solo
  
BVE-57988 1/11/1930 Thank your father
Wilbert Morgan ; Pennsylvanians ; The Three Girl Friends ; Fred Waring
Jazz/dance band, with male vocal solo and female vocal trio
  
BVE-58170 1/8/1930 Wasn't it beautiful while it lasted?
Stewart Churchill ; Pennsylvanians ; The Three Girl Friends ; Fred Waring
Jazz/dance band, with female vocal trio and male vocal solo
  
BVE-59164 2/14/1930 Soy un soñador
Tito Guizar
Male vocal solo, with instrumental ensemble
  
BVE-59165 2/14/1930 Si tu imagen me hablara
Tito Guizar
Male vocal solo, with instrumental ensemble
  
PBVE-275 4/22/1927 Mine
Horace Heidt Orchestra
Jazz/dance band, with male vocal solo
  
[Trial 1927-04-13-01] 4/13/1927 It all depends on you
Sunshine Boys
Male vocal trio, with piano
  
[Trial 1927-04-13-02] 4/13/1927 I wonder how I look when I'm asleep
Sunshine Boys
Male vocal trio, with piano
  
[Trial 1927-04-13-03] 4/13/1927 South wind
Sunshine Boys
Male vocal trio, with piano
  
[Trial 1927-08-19-01] 8/19/1927 The varsity drag
Zelma O'Neal
Female vocal solo, with orchestra
  
[Trial 1927-09-06-01] 9/6/1927 Do it again
Jessica Dragonette
Female vocal solo, with piano
  
BVE-Test-16 5/29/1928 Together
Don Dewey
Male vocal solo
  
BVE-Test-135 9/28/1928 Sonny boy
Eddie Cantor
Male vocal solo, with piano
  
BVE-Test-163 3/6/1929 Sonny boy
Barry Devine
Male vocal solo, with piano
  
BVE-Test-169 3/13/1929 The song I love
Lehman Bych
Male vocal solo, with piano
  
BVE-Test-425 6/25/1929 Button up your overcoat
Klara Madjette
Female vocal solo, with piano
  
BVE-Test-636 4/29/1929 You wouldn't fool me, would you?
Irene Delroy
Female vocal solo, with piano
  

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