Sam M. Lewis (lyricist)

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Matrix No.
First Recording Date
Title
Primary Performer
Description
 
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
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
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
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
 
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-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-16073 6/4/1915 My little girl
Henry Burr ; Albert Campbell
Male vocal duet, with orchestra
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
 
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
B-16979 1/6/1916 My mother's rosary
Charles Harrison
Male vocal solo, with bells and orchestra
B-17241 3/1/1916 Roll your Yiddish eyes for me
Rhoda Bernard
Female vocal solo, with orchestra
 
B-17427 4/3/1916 Arrah go on, I'm gonna go back to Oregon
Peerless Quartet
Male vocal quartet, with orchestra
B-17474 4/10/1916 Where did Robinson Crusoe go with Friday on Saturday night?
American Quartet
Male vocal quartet, with orchestra
 
B-17765 6/2/1916 When the sun goes down in Romany
Sterling Trio
Male vocal trio, with orchestra
B-17814 6/7/1916 My mother's rosary
Avon Comedy Four
Male vocal quartet, with orchestra
C-17819 6/8/1916 When the sun goes down in Romany
Victor Band
Band
 
B-17930 6/26/1916 If I knock the 'L' out of Kelly
Marguerite Farrell
Female vocal solo, with chorus and orchestra
 
B-18186 8/7/1916 Come on and baby me
Marguerite Farrell
Female vocal solo, with orchestra
B-18318 8/31/1916 I'm gonna make hay while the sun shines in Virginia
Marion Harris
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-19884 5/22/1917 Meet me at the station
Collins and Harlan
Male vocal duet, with orchestra
 
B-19954 5/25/1917 Huckleberry Finn
Van and Schenck
Male vocal duet, with orchestra
 
B-20449 7/25/1917 I'm all bound 'round with the Mason-Dixon Line
Irving Kaufman
Male vocal solo, with orchestra
 
B-20630 8/15/1917 Meet me at the station, dear
Eddie Nelson
Male vocal solo, with orchestra
 
B-20666 9/14/1917 In San Domingo
Peerless Quartet
Male vocal quartet, with orchestra
 
B-21417 1/14/1918 Just a baby's prayer at twilight (For her daddy over there)
Charles Hart
Male vocal solo, with orchestra
 
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
 
B-21640 3/20/1918 I miss that Mississippi miss that misses me
Collins and Harlan
Male vocal duet, with orchestra
 
B-21925 5/17/1918 Hello Central, give me No Man's Land
Edna Brown [i.e., Elsie Baker]
Female vocal solo, with orchestra
 
B-22171 7/19/1918 I miss that Mississippi miss that misses me
Sterling Trio
Male vocal trio, with violin duet and orchestra
 
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
 
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
B-22407 11/6/1918 Rock-a-bye your baby with a Dixie melody
Vernon Dalhart
Male vocal solo, with violin and orchestra
B-22442 12/2/1918 The worst is yet to come
Billy Murray
Male vocal solo, with orchestra
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
B-22601 2/26/1919 Don't cry, Frenchy, don't cry
Charles Hart ; Elliott Shaw
Male vocal duet, with orchestra
B-22605 2/27/1919 How ya gonna keep 'em down on the farm?
Arthur Fields
Male vocal solo, with orchestra
B-22672 4/7/1919 When the bees make honey (down in sunny Alabam')
Irving Kaufman ; Jack Kaufman
Male vocal duet, with orchestra
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
B-22886 6/3/1919 Idle hours
Lillian Rosedale Goodman ; Vivian Holt
Female vocal duet, with orchestra
 
B-23046 7/3/1919 When the preacher makes you mine
Adele Rowland
Female vocal solo, with orchestra
B-23414 10/15/1919 Poor little Butterfly is a fly gal now
American Quartet
Male vocal quartet, with orchestra
 
B-23428 10/21/1919 Poor little Butterfly is a fly girl now
Billy Murray
Male vocal solo, with orchestra
 
B-23453 11/4/1919 Bless my Swanee River home
Peerless Quartet
Male vocal quartet, with orchestra
 
B-23503 11/28/1919 That's worth while waiting for
Peerless Quartet
Male vocal quartet, with orchestra
 
B-23540 12/19/1919 That's worth while waiting for
Billy Murray
Male vocal solo, with orchestra
B-23555 12/26/1919 You're a million miles from nowhere
Charles Harrison
Male vocal solo, with violin and orchestra
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
B-23978 4/30/1920 Some pretty day
Victor Roberts [i.e., Billy Jones] ; Elizabeth Spencer
Female-male vocal duet, with orchestra
 
B-24149 6/3/1920 Some pretty day
Harmonizers Quartet ; Victor Roberts [i.e., Billy Jones]
Male vocal quartet and soloist, with orchestra
 
B-24641 10/20/1920 Old pal, why don't you answer me?
Henry Burr
Male vocal solo, with violin, harp, and orchestra
BVE-24641 6/14/1926 Old pal, why don't you answer me?
Henry Burr
Male vocal solo, with orchestra
 
B-24657 10/22/1920 Singin' the blues (till my daddy comes home)
Aileen Stanley
Female vocal solo, with orchestra
 
B-24784 1/10/1921 My mammy
Peerless Quartet
Male vocal quartet, with banjo, violin, and orchestra
B-24991 3/11/1921 Hortense
Billy Murray
Male vocal solo, with orchestra
 
B-25325 5/31/1921 You made me forget how to cry
Henry Burr
Male vocal solo, with violin duet and orchestra
B-25370 6/27/1921 Who'll dry your tears when you cry?
William Robyn
Male vocal solo, with orchestra
B-25516 8/16/1921 I've got the joys
Aileen Stanley
Female vocal solo, with orchestra
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
 
B-25560 9/14/1921 You're just the type for a bungalow
Irving Kaufman
Male vocal solo, with orchestra
B-25903 12/16/1921 Granny (you're my mammy's mammy)
Yvette Rugel
Female vocal solo, with orchestra
B-26127 2/17/1922 Oh! You beautiful baby
Billy Murray ; Aileen Stanley
Female-male vocal duet, with orchestra
B-26520 6/8/1922 My cradle melody (just carries me back to old Virginia)
Peerless Quartet
Male vocal quartet, with orchestra
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
B-26565 6/21/1922 Away down South
Peerless Quartet
Male vocal quartet, with orchestra
B-26832 8/17/1922 While the years roll by
Elliott Shaw ; Betsy Lane Shepherd
Female-male vocal duet, with orchestra
 
B-26848 8/29/1922 No wonder I'm lonesome
Billy Murray ; Aileen Stanley
Female-male vocal duet, with orchestra
 
B-26873 9/11/1922 While the years roll by
Elsie Baker ; Elliott Shaw
Female-male vocal duet, with harp and orchestra
B-27262 12/27/1922 Come on home
Ross Gorman ; Isabelle Patricola ; The Virginians
Female vocal solo, with orchestra
B-27786 4/30/1923 Down among the sleepy hills of Ten-Ten-Tennessee
Billy Murray ; Ed Smalle
Male vocal duet, with orchestra
 
B-28968 11/19/1923 Lovey came back
Lou Holtz
Male vocal solo, with orchestra
B-29048 11/30/1923 If she was what she was, when she was sixteen
Henry Burr
Male vocal solo, with orchestra
 
B-29589 3/7/1924 Cover me up with the sunshine of Virginia
Brox Sisters
Female vocal trio, with piano
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
 
B-30667 8/22/1924 All alone with you in a little rendezvous
Billy Murray ; Aileen Stanley
Female-male vocal duet, with orchestra
 
B-30808 9/9/1924 Put away a little ray of golden sunshine for a rainy day
Aileen Stanley
Female vocal solo, with orchestra
 
BVE-33014 6/23/1925 It's just the feeling for home
Billy Murray ; Ed Smalle
Male vocal duet, with piano
 
BVE-33252 9/4/1925 Dinah
The Revelers
Male vocal quartet, with piano
 
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
 
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
 
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)
 
BVE-34725 3/15/1926 So does your old Mandarin
Don Bestor Orchestra
Jazz/dance band, with male vocal solo
 
BVE-35059 5/26/1926 Georgianna
Charles J. Correll ; Freeman F. Gosden
Male vocal duet, with piano
 
BVE-35249 3/29/1926 Georgianna
Paul Whiteman Orchestra
Jazz/dance band, with male vocal trio
 
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
 
BVE-36003 7/26/1926 I'm walking around in circles
Billy Murray
Male vocal solo, with violin and piano
 
BVE-36010 7/29/1926 I'm walking around in circles
Art Landry Orchestra
Jazz/dance band
 
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
 
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
 
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
 
BVE-37141 12/16/1926 I gotta get myself somebody to love
Four Aristocrats
Male vocal quartet, with instrumental quartet
 
BVE-37508 1/4/1927 High-high-high up in the hills (watching the clouds roll by)
Frank Crumit
Male vocal solo, with piano
 
BVE-37540 1/12/1927 High, high, high up in the hills (watching the clouds roll by)
Victor Orchestra
Orchestra, with male vocal solo
 
BVE-37556 1/20/1927 In a little Spanish town ('twas on a night like this)
The Revelers
Male vocal quartet, with piano
 
BVE-39183 9/15/1927 Theres a cradle in Carolina
Gene Austin
Male vocal solo, with instrumental ensemble
 
BVE-40092 11/25/1927 Everybody loves my girl
Parker Gibbs ; Ted Weems Orchestra
Jazz/dance band, with male vocal solo
 
BVE-40190 10/19/1927 The hours I spent with you
Melville Gideon
Male vocal solo, with instrumental ensemble
 
BVE-40539 11/3/1927 There's a cradle in Carolina
Nathaniel Shilkret ; Victor Orchestra
Orchestra, with male vocal duet
 
BVE-40549 11/7/1927 Beneath Venetian skies
Jacques Renard Cocoanut Grove Orchestra
Jazz/dance band, with male vocal solo
 
BVE-40575 11/15/1927 The hours I spent with you
Roger Wolfe Kahn Orchestra
Jazz/dance band, with male vocal solo
 
BVE-40694 11/4/1927 There's a cradle in Carolina
Waring's Penn State's Men
Male vocal chorus, with piano
 
BVE-41049 11/18/1927 Everybody loves my girl
Four Aristocrats
Male vocal quartet, with instrumental ensemble
 
BVE-41155 12/9/1927 Keep sweeping the cobwebs off the moon
Johnny Marvin
Male vocal solo, with instrumental ensemble
 
BVE-41407 12/13/1927 Keep sweeping the cobwebs off the moon
Pennsylvanians ; Fred Waring
Jazz/dance band, with male vocal solo
 
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
 
BVE-43131 3/8/1928 Laugh! Clown, laugh!
Pennsylvanians ; Fred Waring
Jazz/dance band, with male vocal solo
 
BVE-43306 3/1/1928 Laugh clown, laugh
Harry Richman
Male vocal solo, with orchestra
 
BVE-43389 3/22/1928 Just a little way from home
Nathaniel Shilkret ; Victor Orchestra
Orchestra, with male vocal solo
 
BVE-43391 3/22/1928 Happy-Go-Lucky Lane
Johnny Johnson ; Statler Pennsylvanians ; Bob Treaster
Jazz/dance band, with male vocal quartet and soloist
 
BVE-43522 3/30/1928 In my bouquet of memories
Gene Austin
Male vocal solo, with orchestra
 
BVE-43634 4/13/1928 Laugh, clown, laugh
Cooper Lawley
Male vocal solo, with orchestra
 
BVE-43659 4/21/1928 In my bouquet of memories
Paul Whiteman Orchestra
Jazz/dance band, with male vocal chorus
 
BVE-43677 4/27/1928 Happy-go-lucky Lane
Cooper Lawley ; Harold Yates
Male vocal duet, with orchestra
 
BAVE-44160 Summer, 1928 En un pueblito español
Agustín Magaldi
Male vocal solo, with guitars
 
BVE-45869 7/11/1928 Rié, payaso, rié
Juan Pulido
Male vocal solo, with orchestra
 
BVE-45872 7/12/1928 Just a night for meditation
Nathaniel Shilkret ; Victor Orchestra
Orchestra, with male vocal solo
 
BVE-45892 7/19/1928 King for a day
George Olsen and his Music
Jazz/dance band, with male vocal solo
 
BVE-46045 7/3/1928 Dinah
Peggy Hill
Female vocal solo, with instrumental ensemble
 
BVE-46461 9/20/1928 Just a night for meditation
Jesse Crawford
Pipe organ solo, with male vocal solo
 
BVE-46600 7/23/1928 King for a day
Fran Frey
Male vocal solo, with orchestra
 
BVE-46647 8/2/1928 Revenge
The Troubadours
Jazz/dance band, with male vocal solo
 
BVE-46649 8/2/1928 Revenge
Franklyn Baur
Male vocal solo, with orchestra
 
BVE-46694 8/14/1928 King for a day
Sam Coslow
Male vocal solo, with orchestra
 
BVE-47860 10/23/1928 Una noche de meditación
José Bohr
Male vocal solo, with violin, cornet, and piano
 
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
 
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
 
BVE-49253 12/12/1928 The sun is at my window
Johnny Marvin ; Ed Smalle
Male vocal duet, with instrumental ensemble
 
MVE-49362 12/17/1928 Looping the loop
Motion Picture Orchestra
Motion picture soundtrack : Orchestra, with male vocal solo
 
BVE-49632 1/10/1929 Poor Punchinello
Frederick Vettel
Male vocal solo, with orchestra
 
BVE-50505 2/20/1929 I used to love her in the moonlight
Pennsylvanians ; Fred Waring
Jazz/dance band, with male vocal solo
 
BVE-50947 3/18/1929 I kiss your hand, madame
Leo Reisman Orchestra ; Ran Weeks
Jazz/dance band, with male vocal solo
 
BVE-51106 3/30/1929 Mi amado
Lupe Vélez
Female vocal solo, with orchestra
 
BVE-51658 4/24/1929 I kiss your hand, madame
Jack Smith
Male vocal solo, with orchestra
 
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
 
BVE-55812 8/28/1929 Then you've never been blue
Jack Smith
Male vocal solo, with orchestra
 
BVE-56123 9/6/1929 Have a little faith in me
Smith Ballew Orchestra
Jazz/dance band, with male vocal solo
 
BVE-56731 9/30/1929 Have a little faith in me
Johnny Marvin
Male vocal solo, with orchestra
 
BVE-58525 1/27/1930 Cryin' for the Carolines
Johnny Marvin
Male vocal solo, with instrumental ensemble
 
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
 
BVE-62216 5/2/1930 Absence makes the heart grow fonder for somebody else
Gene Austin
Male vocal solo, with instrumental ensemble
 
[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
 
[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
 
[Trial 1918-08-02-01] 8/2/1918 Just a baby's prayer at twilight
Charles Higgins
Male vocal solo, with piano
 
[Trial 1918-08-02-03] 8/2/1918 I miss that Mississippi miss that misses me
Watson Sisters
Female vocal duet, with piano
 
[Trial 1928-02-13-01] 2/13/1928 Keep sweeping the cobwebs off the moon
Jack Major
Male vocal solo, with piano
 
[Trial 1926-10-28-01] 10/28/1926 Dinah
Kiwanis Quartet
Male vocal quartet, with piano
 
[Trial 1919-03-13-07] 3/13/1919 When you see some other sweety hangin' around
Adele Rowland
Female vocal solo, with piano
 
[Trial 1917-05-09-01] 5/9/1917 If I knock the 'L' out of Kelly
Cyril McCormack
Boy soprano vocal solo
 
BVE-Test-621 3/4/1929 The sun is at my window
Irving Karo
Male vocal solo
 
BVE-Test-695 1/27/1930 Cryin' for the Carolines
Elliot Jaffee
Male vocal solo, with piano and guitar