Victor Artists
John Barnes Wells (tenor vocal)
On this Date...
May 19th, 1925
The chain gang song (Matrix BVE-31906, take 3) was recorded by Vernon Dalhart in Camden, New Jersey
George W. Meyer (composer)
Matrixes marked with 
indicate recordings are available for online listening.
Matrix No. |
First Recording Date |
Title |
Primary Performer |
Description |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| B-6348 | 8/13/1908 | Cheer up, cherries will soon be ripe | Byron G. Harlan |
Male vocal solo, with orchestra |
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| B-6712 | 1/11/1909 | Summer-time reminds me of you | Arthur C. Clough |
Male vocal solo, with orchestra |
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| B-6745 | 1/22/1909 | In those good old country days | Harry Tally |
Male vocal solo, with orchestra |
|
| B-6759 | 1/29/1909 | Love me like I like to be loved | Clarice Vance |
Female vocal solo, with orchestra |
|
| B-6975 | 4/9/1909 | Whistle, and I'll wait for you | Ada Jones |
Female vocal solo, with orchestra |
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| B-6983 | 4/13/1909 | Summer reminds me of you | Walter Van Brunt |
Male vocal solo, with orchestra |
|
| B-7075 | 5/13/1909 | Under the Irish moon | Billy Murray |
Male vocal solo, with orchestra |
|
| B-8002 | 5/21/1909 | Oh, you lovin' gal | Collins and Harlan |
Male vocal duet, with orchestra |
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| B-8014 | 5/28/1909 | I am awfully glad I met you | Ada Jones ; Billy Murray |
Female-male vocal duet, with orchestra |
|
| B-8081 | 6/28/1909 | Let's go back to baby days | Peerless Quartet |
Male vocal quartet, with orchestra |
|
| B-8148 | 8/11/1909 | 'Red head' medley two-step | Victor Orchestra |
Orchestra |
|
| B-8152 | 8/18/1909 | My prairie song bird | Henry Burr ; Frank C. Stanley |
Male vocal duet, with orchestra |
|
| B-8219 | 9/9/1909 | Lonesome | Haydn Quartet ; Harry Macdonough |
Male vocal quartet and male vocal solo, with orchestra |
|
| B-8319 | 10/26/1909 | Little Miss Golden Curls | Byron G. Harlan |
Male vocal solo, with orchestra |
|
| B-8572 | 1/21/1910 | You'll come back | Elida Morris ; Billy Murray |
Female-male vocal duet, with orchestra |
|
| B-8687 | 3/2/1910 | Cupid's I.O.U. | Ada Jones ; Billy Murray |
Female-male vocal duet, with orchestra |
|
| B-9403 | 9/1/1910 | Somebody else, it's always somebody else! | American Quartet |
Male vocal quartet, with orchestra |
|
| B-9666 | 11/21/1910 | That's the fellow I want to get | Billy Murray |
Male vocal solo, with orchestra |
|
| B-9667 | 11/21/1910 | You never miss the water till the well runs dry | Billy Murray |
Male vocal solo, with orchestra |
|
| B-9668 | 11/22/1910 | Nightingale | American Quartet |
Male vocal quartet, with orchestra |
|
| B-9817 | 1/16/1911 | Nightingale | "That Girl" Quartet |
Female vocal quartet, with orchestra |
|
| B-9984 | 2/21/1911 | Honey love | "That Girl" Quartet |
Female vocal quartet, with orchestra |
|
| B-10147 | 4/5/1911 | That was before I met you | Walter Van Brunt |
Male vocal solo, with orchestra |
|
| B-10153 | 4/5/1911 | I'm crazy 'bout the turkey trot | Collins and Harlan |
Male vocal duet, with orchestra |
|
| B-10377 | 5/24/1911 | Night time's the right time | "That Girl" Quartet |
Female vocal quartet, with orchestra |
|
| B-10524 | 6/9/1911 | Love's sentence | Ada Jones ; Billy Murray |
Female-male vocal duet, with orchestra |
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| B-10805 | 7/18/1911 | We all fall | Billy Murray |
Male vocal solo, with orchestra |
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| B-11051 | 10/3/1911 | A girlie was just made to love | Walter Van Brunt |
Male vocal solo, with orchestra |
|
| B-11405 | 12/20/1911 | In Dixie Land with Dixie Lou | "That Girl" Quartet |
Female vocal quartet, with orchestra |
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| B-11416 | 12/28/1911 | The darkies' ragtime ball | Collins and Harlan |
Male vocal duet, with orchestra |
|
| B-11476 | 1/22/1912 | Nothing to do until to-morrow | Billy Murray |
Male vocal solo, with orchestra |
|
| B-11542 | 2/1/1912 | I live uptown | Ada Jones ; Billy Murray |
Female-male vocal duet, with orchestra |
|
| B-11566 | 2/5/1912 | Bring back my golden dreams | Peerless Quartet |
Male vocal quartet, with orchestra |
|
| B-11733 | 3/15/1912 | Brass band Ephraham Jones | Al Jolson |
Male vocal solo, with orchestra |
|
| B-12330 | 9/4/1912 | That mellow melody | Walter Van Brunt |
Male vocal solo, with orchestra |
|
| B-12511 | 10/14/1912 | That syncopated boogie boo | American Quartet |
Male vocal quartet, with orchestra |
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| B-12717 | 12/13/1912 | Underneath the cotton moon | Collins and Harlan |
Male vocal duet, with orchestra |
|
| B-12880 | 2/6/1913 | Always take a girl named Daisy ('cause daisies won't tell) | Henry Burr ; Albert Campbell |
Male vocal duet, with orchestra |
|
| C-13542 | 7/8/1913 | 'Underneath the cotton moon' medley | Conway's Band |
Band |
|
| B-13627 | 7/23/1913 | That naughty melody | Billy Murray |
Male vocal solo, with orchestra |
|
| B-13642 | 7/28/1913 | Ragtime wedding bells | Peerless Quartet |
Male vocal quartet, with orchestra |
|
| B-13684 | 8/11/1913 | Curly head | Walter Van Brunt |
Male vocal solo, with orchestra |
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| B-13686 | 8/12/1913 | When I first met you | American Quartet |
Male vocal quartet |
|
| B-13832 | 9/19/1913 | Isch ka bibble | Ed Morton |
Male vocal solo, with orchestra |
|
| B-14077 | 11/14/1913 | Wilhelm, the grocer | Ada Jones |
Female vocal solo, with orchestra |
|
| B-14311 | 1/13/1914 | 'Cross the Great Divide (I'll wait for you) | American Quartet |
Male vocal quartet, with orchestra |
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| B-14403 | 1/30/1914 | 'Cross the Great Divide (I'll wait for you) | Haydn Quartet |
Male vocal quartet, with orchestra |
|
| B-14526 | 2/27/1914 | She got even with Stephen | Billy Murray |
Male vocal solo, with orchestra |
|
| B-14961 | 6/16/1914 | The high cost of loving | Peerless Quartet |
Male vocal quartet, with orchestra |
|
| B-15047 | 7/7/1914 | When you're a long, long way from home | Will Oakland |
Male vocal solo, with orchestra |
|
| B-15135 | 8/17/1914 | When you're a long, long way from home | Henry Burr |
Male vocal solo, with orchestra |
|
| B-15266 | 10/9/1914 | Corker | Pietro Deiro |
Accordion solo |
|
| C-15836 | 3/26/1915 | Don't take my darling boy away | Victor Military Band |
Band |
|
| B-16585 | 10/4/1915 | There's a little lane without a turning (on the way to home sweet home) | Henry Burr |
Male vocal solo, with orchestra |
|
| C-16870 | 12/9/1915 | I'm simply crazy over you | Victor Military Band |
Band |
|
| B-16979 | 1/6/1916 | My mother's rosary | Charles Harrison |
Male vocal solo, with bells and orchestra |
|
| B-17006 | 1/12/1916 | I'm a lonesome melody | Olive North |
Female vocal solo, with cello and orchestra |
|
| B-17239 | 3/1/1916 | Oh promise me (that you'll come back to Alabam') | Billy Murray ; Will Oakland |
Male vocal duet, with orchestra |
|
| B-17240 | 3/1/1916 | Long live the ladies | Billy Murray |
Male vocal solo, with orchestra |
|
| B-17241 | 3/1/1916 | Roll your Yiddish eyes for me | Rhoda Bernard |
Female vocal solo, with orchestra |
|
| C-17430 | 4/4/1916 | Yaaka hula hickey dula | Victor Military Band |
Band |
|
| B-17474 | 4/10/1916 | Where did Robinson Crusoe go with Friday on Saturday night? | American Quartet |
Male vocal quartet, with orchestra |
|
| B-17814 | 6/7/1916 | My mother's rosary | Avon Comedy Four |
Male vocal quartet, with orchestra |
|
| B-18184 | 8/7/1916 | Since Maggie Dooley learned the hooley-hooley | Marguerite Farrell |
Female vocal solo, with orchestra |
|
| B-18186 | 8/7/1916 | Come on and baby me | Marguerite Farrell |
Female vocal solo, with orchestra |
|
| B-18554 | 10/17/1916 | Way down in Iowa, I'm going to hide away | Irving Kaufman |
Male vocal solo, with orchestra |
|
| B-18892 | 12/29/1916 | Yaddie kaddie kiddie kaddie koo | Van and Schenck |
Male vocal duet, with orchestra |
|
| B-19057 | 1/17/1917 | Yaddie kaddie kiddie kaddie koo | Louise and Ferera |
Guitar duet (Hawaiian) |
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| B-19065 | 1/18/1917 | For me and my gal | Wright and Dietrich |
Female-male vocal duet, with orchestra |
|
| B-19145 | 1/30/1917 | Dance and grow thin | Gene Greene |
Male vocal solo, with orchestra |
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| B-19328 | 3/1/1917 | Dance and grow thin | Van and Schenck |
Male vocal duet, with orchestra |
|
| B-19329 | 3/1/1917 | For me and my gal | Van and Schenck |
Male vocal duet, with orchestra |
|
| B-19367 | 3/13/1917 | From here to Shanghai | Victor Military Band |
Band |
|
| B-19779 | 5/14/1917 | Dance and grow thin | Joseph C. Smith's Orchestra |
Jazz/dance band |
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| C-19780 | 5/14/1917 | For me and my gal | Joseph C. Smith's Orchestra |
Jazz/dance band |
|
| B-19848 | 5/9/1917 | For me and my gal | Six Brown Brothers |
Saxophone sextet |
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| B-20812 | 10/1/1917 | In the land of wedding bells | Henry Burr ; Albert Campbell |
Male vocal duet, with orchestra |
|
| B-20835 | 10/4/1917 | Hello, aloha, hello | Shannon Four |
Male vocal quartet, with orchestra |
|
| B-21403 | 1/3/1918 | Homeward bound | Peerless Quartet |
Male vocal quartet, with orchestra |
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| B-21670 | 4/8/1918 | Just like Washington crossed the Delaware, General Pershing will cross the Rhine | Peerless Quartet |
Male vocal quartet, with orchestra |
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| B-22176 | 7/25/1918 | Everything is peaches down in Georgia | American Quartet |
Male vocal quartet, with orchestra |
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| B-22222 | 9/5/1918 | You'll find old Dixieland in France | Arthur Fields |
Male vocal solo, with orchestra |
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| B-22493 | 12/31/1918 | In the land of beginning again (where broken dreams come true) | Charles Harrison |
Male vocal solo, with orchestra |
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| B-22557 | 1/24/1919 | Johnny's in town | Arthur Fields |
Male vocal solo, with orchestra |
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| B-22646 | 3/21/1919 | You'll find old Dixieland in France | Pietro [i.e., Pietro Deiro] |
Accordion solo |
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| B-22666 | 3/31/1919 | Anything is nice if it comes from Dixieland | American Quartet |
Male vocal quartet, with orchestra |
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| B-22679 | 4/10/1919 | Friends | Henry Burr |
Male vocal solo, with violin and orchestra |
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| B-23168 | 9/22/1919 | There's a lot of blue-eyed Marys down in Maryland | Shannon Four |
Male vocal quartet, with orchestra |
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| B-23416 | 10/16/1919 | My baby's arms | Pietro [i.e., Pietro Deiro] |
Accordion solo |
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| B-23699 | 2/24/1920 | You ain't heard nothing yet | All Star Trio |
Instrumental trio |
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| B-23747 | 2/24/1920 | I'm always falling in love with the other fellow's girl | Elliott Shaw |
Male vocal solo, with violin duet and orchestra |
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| B-23752 | 2/27/1920 | Hiawatha's melody of love | Sterling Trio |
Male vocal trio, with orchestra |
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| B-23775 | 3/16/1920 | The hen and the cow (only a dream of the past) | Artie Mehlinger |
Male vocal solo, with orchestra |
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| B-24605 | 9/30/1920 | Nobody to love | Esther Walker |
Female vocal solo, with cello and orchestra |
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| B-24758 | 12/22/1920 | Now I lay me down to sleep | Charles Hart ; Elliott Shaw |
Male vocal duet, with orchestra |
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| B-24759 | 12/22/1920 | Beautiful Annabelle Lee | Charles Hart ; Elliott Shaw |
Male vocal duet, with harp and orchestra |
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| C-25005 | 3/16/1921 | All for you | Paul Whiteman Orchestra |
Jazz/dance band |
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| B-25117 | 3/26/1921 | Beautiful Annabelle Lee | Blue and White Marimba Band [i.e., Marimba Azul y Blanco] |
Marimba band |
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| B-25532 | 8/24/1921 | Tuck me to sleep (in my old 'Tucky home) | Criterion Trio ; Vernon Dalhart |
Male vocal solo and male vocal trio, with orchestra |
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| B-25707 | 9/30/1921 | Tuck me to sleep in my old 'Tucky home | Roy Bargy ; Benson Orchestra of Chicago |
Jazz/dance band |
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| B-25832 | 11/30/1921 | Cry baby blues | Horace Davis ; Sam Moore |
Octo-chorda and guitar duet |
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| B-25970 | 1/23/1922 | I've got the wonder where he went and when he's coming back blues | Victor Arden ; Phil Ohman |
Piano duet |
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| B-26323 | 4/28/1922 | Kicky-koo, kicky-koo | Green Brothers Marimba Orchestra |
Jazz/dance band, with guitars (Hawaiian) |
|
| B-26520 | 6/8/1922 | My cradle melody (just carries me back to old Virginia) | Peerless Quartet |
Male vocal quartet, with orchestra |
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| B-26563 | 6/21/1922 | Kicky-koo, kicky-koo (you for me, me for you) | Billy Murray ; Ed Smalle |
Male vocal duet, with mandolin and orchestra |
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| B-26848 | 8/29/1922 | No wonder I'm lonesome | Billy Murray ; Aileen Stanley |
Female-male vocal duet, with orchestra |
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| B-27133 | 11/10/1922 | Open your arms my Alabamy | Zez Confrey Orchestra |
Jazz/dance band |
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| B-27262 | 12/27/1922 | Come on home | Ross Gorman ; Isabelle Patricola ; The Virginians |
Female vocal solo, with orchestra |
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| B-27786 | 4/30/1923 | Down among the sleepy hills of Ten-Ten-Tennessee | Billy Murray ; Ed Smalle |
Male vocal duet, with orchestra |
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| B-27802 | 4/4/1923 | Down among the sleepy hills of Ten-Ten-Tennessee | Great White Way Orchestra |
Jazz/dance band |
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| B-28594 | 9/26/1923 | Sittin' in a corner | Paul Whiteman Orchestra |
Jazz/dance band |
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| B-28845 | 11/6/1923 | Sittin' in a corner | Elliott Shaw |
Male vocal solo, with cello and orchestra |
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| B-29048 | 11/30/1923 | If she was what she was, when she was sixteen | Henry Burr |
Male vocal solo, with orchestra |
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| B-29589 | 3/7/1924 | Cover me up with the sunshine of Virginia | Brox Sisters |
Female vocal trio, with piano |
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| B-29805 | 3/25/1924 | I must have company | Phil Spitalny Orchestra |
Jazz/dance band |
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| B-29814 | 3/28/1924 | Cover me up with the sunshine of Virginia | Jean Goldkette Orchestra |
Jazz/dance band |
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| B-30697 | 9/4/1924 | Mandy, make up your mind | Brox Sisters |
Female vocal trio, with piano |
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| B-30820 | 9/15/1924 | Mandy, make up your mind | Paul Whiteman Orchestra |
Jazz/dance band |
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| B-31091 | 11/7/1924 | Dixie dreams | George Olsen and his Music |
Jazz/dance band |
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| B-31124 | 10/27/1924 | On the road back home | Peerless Quartet |
Male vocal quartet, with orchestra |
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| B-31958 | 2/17/1925 | Take me back to your heart | Dan Gregory Orchestra |
Jazz/dance band, with male vocal solo |
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| BVE-32741 | 6/23/1925 | Row! Row! Rosie | George Olsen and his Music |
Jazz/dance band, with male vocal duet |
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| BVE-33456 | 10/8/1925 | Brown eyes, why are you blue? | Franklyn Baur |
Male vocal solo, with orchestra |
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| BVE-33500 | 9/22/1925 | Brown eyes, why are you blue? | B. F. Goodrich Silvertown Cord Orchestra ; Joseph M. Knecht |
Jazz/dance band, with male vocal solo |
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| BVE-35734 | 6/30/1926 | Someone is losin' Susan | Phil Spitalny Orchestra |
Jazz/dance band |
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| BVE-36119 | 8/18/1926 | Her beaus are only rainbows | Pennsylvanians ; Fred Waring |
Jazz/dance band, with male vocal solo |
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| BVE-39171 | 9/12/1927 | Blue river | The Revelers |
Male vocal quartet, with piano |
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| BVE-49253 | 12/12/1928 | The sun is at my window | Johnny Marvin ; Ed Smalle |
Male vocal duet, with instrumental ensemble |
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| BVE-53432 | 5/23/1929 | Broadway baby dolls | Nathaniel Shilkret ; Victor Orchestra |
Orchestra |
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| BVE-53830 | 6/12/1929 | My song of the Nile | Melody Three |
Male vocal trio, with orchestra |
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| BVE-55641 | 7/30/1929 | My song of the Nile | Burt Lorin [i.e., Scrappy Lambert] ; The Troubadours |
Jazz/dance band, with male vocal solo |
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| BVE-55659 | 8/29/1929 | If I can't have you | High Hatters ; Leonard W. Joy ; Frank Luther |
Jazz/dance band, with male vocal solo |
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| BVE-55660 | 8/29/1929 | You can't believe my eyes | High Hatters ; Leonard W. Joy ; Klara Madjette |
Jazz/dance band, with female vocal solo |
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| BVE-57091 | 11/14/1929 | My song of the Nile | Miguel Ruggeri |
Male vocal solo, with orchestra |
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| BVE-57487 | 11/27/1929 | Mi canción del Nilo | Ángel Soto |
Male vocal solo, with instrumental ensemble |
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| BVE-57965 | 12/30/1929 | My song of the Nile | Giulietta Morino |
Violin solo, with instrumental ensemble |
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| [Trial 1921-02-08-01] | 2/8/1921 | Beautiful Annabelle Lee | Conly Concert Company |
Mixed vocal quartet, with piano |
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| [Trial 1921-08-24-01] | 8/24/1921 | Melody in F | Horace Davis ; Sam Moore |
Octo-chorda and harp-guitar duet |
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| BVE-Test-621 | 3/4/1929 | The sun is at my window | Irving Karo |
Male vocal solo |