Sam M. Lewis (lyricist)
Matrixes marked with
indicate recordings are available for online listening.
Matrix No. |
First Recording Date |
Title |
Primary Performer |
Description |
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| B-12330 | 9/4/1912 | That mellow melody | Walter Van Brunt |
Male vocal solo, with orchestra |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| B-13627 | 7/23/1913 | That naughty melody | Billy Murray |
Male vocal solo, with orchestra |
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| B-13642 | 7/28/1913 | Ragtime wedding bells | Peerless Quartet |
Male vocal quartet, with orchestra |
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| 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 |
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| B-13832 | 9/19/1913 | Isch ka bibble | Ed Morton |
Male vocal solo, with orchestra |
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| B-14077 | 11/14/1913 | Wilhelm, the grocer | Ada Jones |
Female vocal solo, with orchestra |
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| 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 |
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| B-14526 | 2/27/1914 | She got even with Stephen | Billy Murray |
Male vocal solo, with orchestra |
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| B-15047 | 7/7/1914 | When you're a long, long way from home | Will Oakland |
Male vocal solo, with orchestra |
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| B-15135 | 8/17/1914 | When you're a long, long way from home | Henry Burr |
Male vocal solo, with orchestra |
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| B-16073 | 6/4/1915 | My little girl | Henry Burr ; Albert Campbell |
Male vocal duet, with orchestra |
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| B-16175 | 7/6/1915 | Put me to sleep with an old fashioned melody (Wake me up with a rag) | Irving Kaufman |
Male vocal solo, with orchestra |
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| 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 |
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| B-16979 | 1/6/1916 | My mother's rosary | Charles Harrison |
Male vocal solo, with bells and orchestra |
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| B-17241 | 3/1/1916 | Roll your Yiddish eyes for me | Rhoda Bernard |
Female vocal solo, with orchestra |
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| B-17427 | 4/3/1916 | Arrah go on, I'm gonna go back to Oregon | Peerless Quartet |
Male vocal quartet, with orchestra |
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| B-17474 | 4/10/1916 | Where did Robinson Crusoe go with Friday on Saturday night? | American Quartet |
Male vocal quartet, with orchestra |
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| B-17765 | 6/2/1916 | When the sun goes down in Romany | Sterling Trio |
Male vocal trio, with orchestra |
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| B-17814 | 6/7/1916 | My mother's rosary | Avon Comedy Four |
Male vocal quartet, with orchestra |
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| C-17819 | 6/8/1916 | When the sun goes down in Romany | Victor Band |
Band |
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| B-17930 | 6/26/1916 | If I knock the 'L' out of Kelly | Marguerite Farrell |
Female vocal solo, with chorus and orchestra |
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| B-18186 | 8/7/1916 | Come on and baby me | Marguerite Farrell |
Female vocal solo, with orchestra |
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| B-18318 | 8/31/1916 | I'm gonna make hay while the sun shines in Virginia | Marion Harris |
Female vocal solo, with orchestra |
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| B-18554 | 10/17/1916 | Way down in Iowa, I'm going to hide away | Irving Kaufman |
Male vocal solo, with orchestra |
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| B-18892 | 12/29/1916 | Yaddie kaddie kiddie kaddie koo | Van and Schenck |
Male vocal duet, with orchestra |
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| B-19884 | 5/22/1917 | Meet me at the station | Collins and Harlan |
Male vocal duet, with orchestra |
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| B-19954 | 5/25/1917 | Huckleberry Finn | Van and Schenck |
Male vocal duet, with orchestra |
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| B-20449 | 7/25/1917 | I'm all bound 'round with the Mason-Dixon Line | Irving Kaufman |
Male vocal solo, with orchestra |
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| B-20630 | 8/15/1917 | Meet me at the station, dear | Eddie Nelson |
Male vocal solo, with orchestra |
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| B-20666 | 9/14/1917 | In San Domingo | Peerless Quartet |
Male vocal quartet, with orchestra |
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| B-21417 | 1/14/1918 | Just a baby's prayer at twilight (For her daddy over there) | Charles Hart |
Male vocal solo, with orchestra |
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| B-21439 | 2/1/1918 | Just a baby's prayer at twilight (for her daddy over there) | Henry Burr |
Male vocal solo, with celeste and orchestra |
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| B-21640 | 3/20/1918 | I miss that Mississippi miss that misses me | Collins and Harlan |
Male vocal duet, with orchestra |
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| B-21925 | 5/17/1918 | Hello Central, give me No Man's Land | Edna Brown [i.e., Elsie Baker] |
Female vocal solo, with orchestra |
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| B-22171 | 7/19/1918 | I miss that Mississippi miss that misses me | Sterling Trio |
Male vocal trio, with violin duet and orchestra |
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| B-22208 | 8/12/1918 | I always think I'm up in Heaven (when I'm down in Dixieland) | Marion Harris |
Female vocal solo, with orchestra |
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| B-22227 | 9/9/1918 | Oh! How I wish I could sleep until my daddy comes home | Henry Burr |
Male vocal solo, with oboe, cello, and orchestra |
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| B-22407 | 11/6/1918 | Rock-a-bye your baby with a Dixie melody | Vernon Dalhart |
Male vocal solo, with violin and orchestra |
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| B-22442 | 12/2/1918 | The worst is yet to come | Billy Murray |
Male vocal solo, with orchestra |
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| B-22562 | 1/27/1919 | My Barney lies over the ocean (just the way he lied to me) | Billy Murray |
Male vocal solo, with orchestra |
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| B-22601 | 2/26/1919 | Don't cry, Frenchy, don't cry | Charles Hart ; Elliott Shaw |
Male vocal duet, with orchestra |
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| B-22605 | 2/27/1919 | How ya gonna keep 'em down on the farm? | Arthur Fields |
Male vocal solo, with orchestra |
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| B-22672 | 4/7/1919 | When the bees make honey (down in sunny Alabam') | Irving Kaufman ; Jack Kaufman |
Male vocal duet, with orchestra |
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| B-22802 | 4/23/1919 | When you see another sweetie hanging around (that's the time you'll want to come back to me) | Adele Rowland |
Female vocal solo, with orchestra |
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| B-22886 | 6/3/1919 | Idle hours | Lillian Rosedale Goodman ; Vivian Holt |
Female vocal duet, with orchestra |
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| B-23046 | 7/3/1919 | When the preacher makes you mine | Adele Rowland |
Female vocal solo, with orchestra |
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| B-23414 | 10/15/1919 | Poor little Butterfly is a fly gal now | American Quartet |
Male vocal quartet, with orchestra |
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| B-23428 | 10/21/1919 | Poor little Butterfly is a fly girl now | Billy Murray |
Male vocal solo, with orchestra |
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| B-23453 | 11/4/1919 | Bless my Swanee River home | Peerless Quartet |
Male vocal quartet, with orchestra |
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| B-23503 | 11/28/1919 | That's worth while waiting for | Peerless Quartet |
Male vocal quartet, with orchestra |
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| B-23540 | 12/19/1919 | That's worth while waiting for | Billy Murray |
Male vocal solo, with orchestra |
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| B-23555 | 12/26/1919 | You're a million miles from nowhere | Charles Harrison |
Male vocal solo, with violin and orchestra |
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| B-23915 | 4/7/1920 | I'd love to fall asleep and wake up in my mammy's arms | Peerless Quartet |
Male vocal quartet, with orchestra |
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| B-23978 | 4/30/1920 | Some pretty day | Victor Roberts [i.e., Billy Jones] ; Elizabeth Spencer |
Female-male vocal duet, with orchestra |
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| B-24149 | 6/3/1920 | Some pretty day | Harmonizers Quartet ; Victor Roberts [i.e., Billy Jones] |
Male vocal quartet and soloist, with orchestra |
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| B-24641 | 10/20/1920 | Old pal, why don't you answer me? | Henry Burr |
Male vocal solo, with violin, harp, and orchestra |
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| BVE-24641 | 6/14/1926 | Old pal, why don't you answer me? | Henry Burr |
Male vocal solo, with orchestra |
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| B-24657 | 10/22/1920 | Singin' the blues (till my daddy comes home) | Aileen Stanley |
Female vocal solo, with orchestra |
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| B-24784 | 1/10/1921 | My mammy | Peerless Quartet |
Male vocal quartet, with banjo, violin, and orchestra |
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| B-24991 | 3/11/1921 | Hortense | Billy Murray |
Male vocal solo, with orchestra |
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| B-25325 | 5/31/1921 | You made me forget how to cry | Henry Burr |
Male vocal solo, with violin duet and orchestra |
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| B-25370 | 6/27/1921 | Who'll dry your tears when you cry? | William Robyn |
Male vocal solo, with orchestra |
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| B-25516 | 8/16/1921 | I've got the joys | Aileen Stanley |
Female vocal solo, with orchestra |
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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-25560 | 9/14/1921 | You're just the type for a bungalow | Irving Kaufman |
Male vocal solo, with orchestra |
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| B-25903 | 12/16/1921 | Granny (you're my mammy's mammy) | Yvette Rugel |
Female vocal solo, with orchestra |
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| B-26127 | 2/17/1922 | Oh! You beautiful baby | Billy Murray ; Aileen Stanley |
Female-male vocal duet, with orchestra |
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| 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-26565 | 6/21/1922 | Away down South | Peerless Quartet |
Male vocal quartet, with orchestra |
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| B-26832 | 8/17/1922 | While the years roll by | Elliott Shaw ; Betsy Lane Shepherd |
Female-male vocal duet, with 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-26873 | 9/11/1922 | While the years roll by | Elsie Baker ; Elliott Shaw |
Female-male vocal duet, with harp and orchestra |
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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-28968 | 11/19/1923 | Lovey came back | Lou Holtz |
Male vocal solo, with 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-30594 | 8/19/1924 | In a little rendezvous all alone with you | Billy Murray ; Aileen Stanley |
Female-male vocal duet, with violin and orchestra |
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| B-30667 | 8/22/1924 | All alone with you in a little rendezvous | Billy Murray ; Aileen Stanley |
Female-male vocal duet, with orchestra |
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| B-30808 | 9/9/1924 | Put away a little ray of golden sunshine for a rainy day | Aileen Stanley |
Female vocal solo, with orchestra |
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| BVE-33014 | 6/23/1925 | It's just the feeling for home | Billy Murray ; Ed Smalle |
Male vocal duet, with piano |
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| BVE-33252 | 9/4/1925 | Dinah | The Revelers |
Male vocal quartet, with piano |
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| BVE-33617 | 11/17/1925 | Five foot two, eyes of blue (has anybody seen my girl) | Art Landry Orchestra |
Jazz/dance band, with male vocal solo |
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| 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 |
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| BVE-34103 | 11/30/1925 | Five foot two, eyes of blue (has anybody seen my girl) | Gene Austin |
Male vocal solo, with ukulele and piano (takes 3-6); with orchestra (takes 1 and 2) |
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| BVE-34725 | 3/15/1926 | So does your old Mandarin | Don Bestor Orchestra |
Jazz/dance band, with male vocal solo |
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| BVE-35059 | 5/26/1926 | Georgianna | Charles J. Correll ; Freeman F. Gosden |
Male vocal duet, with piano |
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| BVE-35249 | 3/29/1926 | Georgianna | Paul Whiteman Orchestra |
Jazz/dance band, with male vocal trio |
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| BVE-35517 | 5/7/1926 | What good is 'good-morning'? (There's more good in 'good-night'!) | Irving Aaronson ; Commanders |
Jazz/dance band, with male vocal refrain |
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| BVE-36003 | 7/26/1926 | I'm walking around in circles | Billy Murray |
Male vocal solo, with violin and piano |
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| BVE-36010 | 7/29/1926 | I'm walking around in circles | Art Landry Orchestra |
Jazz/dance band |
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| BVE-36067 | 8/25/1926 | In a little Spanish town ('twas on a night like this) | Paul Whiteman Orchestra |
Jazz/dance band, with male vocal solo |
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| BVE-36088 | 9/1/1926 | I ain't got nobody and I don't want nobody but you | Aileen Stanley |
Female vocal solo, with violin, cello, and piano |
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| BVE-36587 | 11/12/1926 | Take in the sun, hang out the moon (rock me in a cradle of dreams) | Jan Garber Orchestra |
Jazz/dance band, with male vocal solo |
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| BVE-37141 | 12/16/1926 | I gotta get myself somebody to love | Four Aristocrats |
Male vocal quartet, with instrumental quartet |
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| 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-37540 | 1/12/1927 | High, high, high up in the hills (watching the clouds roll by) | Victor Orchestra |
Orchestra, with male vocal solo |
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| BVE-37556 | 1/20/1927 | In a little Spanish town ('twas on a night like this) | The Revelers |
Male vocal quartet, with piano |
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| BVE-39183 | 9/15/1927 | Theres a cradle in Carolina | Gene Austin |
Male vocal solo, with instrumental ensemble |
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| BVE-40092 | 11/25/1927 | Everybody loves my girl | Parker Gibbs ; Ted Weems Orchestra |
Jazz/dance band, with male vocal solo |
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| BVE-40190 | 10/19/1927 | The hours I spent with you | Melville Gideon |
Male vocal solo, with instrumental ensemble |
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| BVE-40539 | 11/3/1927 | There's a cradle in Carolina | Nathaniel Shilkret ; Victor Orchestra |
Orchestra, with male vocal duet |
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| BVE-40549 | 11/7/1927 | Beneath Venetian skies | Jacques Renard Cocoanut Grove Orchestra |
Jazz/dance band, with male vocal solo |
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| BVE-40575 | 11/15/1927 | The hours I spent with you | Roger Wolfe Kahn Orchestra |
Jazz/dance band, with male vocal solo |
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| BVE-40694 | 11/4/1927 | There's a cradle in Carolina | Waring's Penn State's Men |
Male vocal chorus, with piano |
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| BVE-41049 | 11/18/1927 | Everybody loves my girl | Four Aristocrats |
Male vocal quartet, with instrumental ensemble |
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| BVE-41155 | 12/9/1927 | Keep sweeping the cobwebs off the moon | Johnny Marvin |
Male vocal solo, with instrumental ensemble |
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| BVE-41407 | 12/13/1927 | Keep sweeping the cobwebs off the moon | Pennsylvanians ; Fred Waring |
Jazz/dance band, with male vocal solo |
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| BVE-41592 | 1/31/1928 | You gotta be good to me | B. F. Goodrich Silvertown Cord Orchestra ; Joseph M. Knecht |
Orchestra, with male vocal solo |
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| BVE-43131 | 3/8/1928 | Laugh! Clown, laugh! | Pennsylvanians ; Fred Waring |
Jazz/dance band, with male vocal solo |
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| BVE-43306 | 3/1/1928 | Laugh clown, laugh | Harry Richman |
Male vocal solo, with orchestra |
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| BVE-43389 | 3/22/1928 | Just a little way from home | Nathaniel Shilkret ; Victor Orchestra |
Orchestra, with male vocal solo |
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| BVE-43391 | 3/22/1928 | Happy-Go-Lucky Lane | Johnny Johnson ; Statler Pennsylvanians ; Bob Treaster |
Jazz/dance band, with male vocal quartet and soloist |
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| BVE-43522 | 3/30/1928 | In my bouquet of memories | Gene Austin |
Male vocal solo, with orchestra |
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| BVE-43634 | 4/13/1928 | Laugh, clown, laugh | Cooper Lawley |
Male vocal solo, with orchestra |
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| BVE-43659 | 4/21/1928 | In my bouquet of memories | Paul Whiteman Orchestra |
Jazz/dance band, with male vocal chorus |
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| BVE-43677 | 4/27/1928 | Happy-go-lucky Lane | Cooper Lawley ; Harold Yates |
Male vocal duet, with orchestra |
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| BAVE-44160 | Summer, 1928 | En un pueblito español | Agustín Magaldi |
Male vocal solo, with guitars |
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| BVE-45869 | 7/11/1928 | Rié, payaso, rié | Juan Pulido |
Male vocal solo, with orchestra |
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| BVE-45872 | 7/12/1928 | Just a night for meditation | Nathaniel Shilkret ; Victor Orchestra |
Orchestra, with male vocal solo |
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| BVE-45892 | 7/19/1928 | King for a day | George Olsen and his Music |
Jazz/dance band, with male vocal solo |
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| BVE-46045 | 7/3/1928 | Dinah | Peggy Hill |
Female vocal solo, with instrumental ensemble |
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| BVE-46461 | 9/20/1928 | Just a night for meditation | Jesse Crawford |
Pipe organ solo, with male vocal solo |
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| BVE-46600 | 7/23/1928 | King for a day | Fran Frey |
Male vocal solo, with orchestra |
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| BVE-46647 | 8/2/1928 | Revenge | The Troubadours |
Jazz/dance band, with male vocal solo |
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| BVE-46649 | 8/2/1928 | Revenge | Franklyn Baur |
Male vocal solo, with orchestra |
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| BVE-46694 | 8/14/1928 | King for a day | Sam Coslow |
Male vocal solo, with orchestra |
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| BVE-47860 | 10/23/1928 | Una noche de meditación | José Bohr |
Male vocal solo, with violin, cornet, and piano |
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| BVE-49046 | 1/7/1929 | Won't you tell me, hon (when we're gonna be one) | Pennsylvanians ; Fred Waring |
Jazz/dance band, with male vocal chorus |
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| BVE-49057 | 1/11/1929 | Won't you tell me, hon (when we're gonna be one) | Johnny Marvin ; Aileen Stanley |
Female-male vocal duet, with instrumental ensemble |
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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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| MVE-49362 | 12/17/1928 | Looping the loop | Motion Picture Orchestra |
Motion picture soundtrack : Orchestra, with male vocal solo |
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| BVE-49632 | 1/10/1929 | Poor Punchinello | Frederick Vettel |
Male vocal solo, with orchestra |
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| BVE-50505 | 2/20/1929 | I used to love her in the moonlight | Pennsylvanians ; Fred Waring |
Jazz/dance band, with male vocal solo |
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| BVE-50947 | 3/18/1929 | I kiss your hand, madame | Leo Reisman Orchestra ; Ran Weeks |
Jazz/dance band, with male vocal solo |
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| BVE-51106 | 3/30/1929 | Mi amado | Lupe Vélez |
Female vocal solo, with orchestra |
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| BVE-51658 | 4/24/1929 | I kiss your hand, madame | Jack Smith |
Male vocal solo, with orchestra |
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| BVE-55806 | 8/26/1929 | By the way (I'm still in love with you) | Henry Busse Orchestra ; Burt Lorin [i.e., Scrappy Lambert] |
Jazz/dance band, with male vocal solo |
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| BVE-55812 | 8/28/1929 | Then you've never been blue | Jack Smith |
Male vocal solo, with orchestra |
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| BVE-56123 | 9/6/1929 | Have a little faith in me | Smith Ballew Orchestra |
Jazz/dance band, with male vocal solo |
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| BVE-56731 | 9/30/1929 | Have a little faith in me | Johnny Marvin |
Male vocal solo, with orchestra |
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| BVE-58525 | 1/27/1930 | Cryin' for the Carolines | Johnny Marvin |
Male vocal solo, with instrumental ensemble |
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| BVE-62148 | 5/12/1930 | Absence makes the heart grow fonder for somebody else | Bernie Cummins ; New Yorker Hotel Orchestra ; Paul Small |
Jazz/dance band, with male vocal solo |
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| BVE-62216 | 5/2/1930 | Absence makes the heart grow fonder for somebody else | Gene Austin |
Male vocal solo, with instrumental ensemble |
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| [Trial 1920-02-03-01] | 2/3/1920 | You're a million miles from nowhere (when you're one little mile from home) | Elliott Shaw |
Male vocal solo, with orchestra |
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| [Trial 1917-07-16-01] | 7/16/1917 | I'm all bound 'round with the Mason Dixon Line | Eddie Nelson |
Male vocal solo, with piano |
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| [Trial 1918-08-02-01] | 8/2/1918 | Just a baby's prayer at twilight | Charles Higgins |
Male vocal solo, with piano |
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| [Trial 1918-08-02-03] | 8/2/1918 | I miss that Mississippi miss that misses me | Watson Sisters |
Female vocal duet, with piano |
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| [Trial 1928-02-13-01] | 2/13/1928 | Keep sweeping the cobwebs off the moon | Jack Major |
Male vocal solo, with piano |
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| [Trial 1926-10-28-01] | 10/28/1926 | Dinah | Kiwanis Quartet |
Male vocal quartet, with piano |
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| [Trial 1919-03-13-07] | 3/13/1919 | When you see some other sweety hangin' around | Adele Rowland |
Female vocal solo, with piano |
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| [Trial 1917-05-09-01] | 5/9/1917 | If I knock the 'L' out of Kelly | Cyril McCormack |
Boy soprano vocal solo |
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| BVE-Test-621 | 3/4/1929 | The sun is at my window | Irving Karo |
Male vocal solo |
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| BVE-Test-695 | 1/27/1930 | Cryin' for the Carolines | Elliot Jaffee |
Male vocal solo, with piano and guitar |
