Gus Edwards (composer)

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Matrix No.
First Recording Date
Title
Primary Performer
Description
 
[Pre-matrix A-]222 9/25/1900 I can't tell why I love you, but I do
Albert Campbell
Male vocal solo
 
[Pre-matrix A-]496 11/9/1900 I can't tell why I love you, but I do
Herbert L. Clarke
Cornet solo, with piano
 
[Pre-matrix A-]533 11/21/1900 I can't tell why I love you, but I do
Harry Macdonough
Male vocal solo
 
[Pre-matrix B-]533 1902-1903 I can't tell why I love you, but I do
Harry Macdonough
Male vocal solo
 
[Pre-matrix A-]648 2/2/1901 My charcoal charmer
Arthur Collins
Male vocal solo
 
[Pre-matrix B-]648 2/2/1901 My charcoal charmer
Arthur Collins
Male vocal solo
 
[Pre-matrix A-]679 2/16/1901 All for a man whose god was gold
Joseph Natus
Male vocal solo, with piano
 
[Pre-matrix B-]679 4/29/1903 All for a man whose god was gold
Joseph Natus
Male vocal solo, with piano
 
[Pre-matrix A-]681 2/16/1901 Where the Mississippi flows
Joseph Natus
Male vocal solo, with piano
 
[Pre-matrix B-]681 2/16/1901 Where the Mississippi flows
Joseph Natus
Male vocal solo, with piano
 
[Pre-matrix A-]727 4/2/1901 I can't tell why I love you, but I do
Arthur Pryor ; Sousa's Band
Trombone solo, with band
 
[Pre-matrix B-]727 1/6/1902 I can't tell why I love you, but I do
Arthur Pryor ; Sousa's Band
Trombone solo, with band
 
[Pre-matrix A-]790 5/13/1901 I couldn't stand to see my baby lose
Silas Leachman
Male vocal solo
 
[Pre-matrix B-]790 5/13/1901 I couldn't stand to see my baby lose
Silas Leachman
Male vocal solo
 
[Pre-matrix A-]828 5/21/1901 Mamie
J. W. Myers
Male vocal solo, with piano
 
[Pre-matrix A-]1093 11/13/1901 My charcoal charmer
Haydn Quartet
Male vocal quartet
 
[Pre-matrix B-]1093 11/13/1901 My charcoal charmer
Haydn Quartet
Male vocal quartet
 
[Pre-matrix A-]1097 11/20/1901 I'll be with you when the roses bloom again
Harry Macdonough
Male vocal solo
 
[Pre-matrix B-]1097 11/20/1901 I'll be with you when the roses bloom again
Harry Macdonough
Male vocal solo
[Pre-matrix B-]1108 11/27/1901 My lonesome little Louisiana lady
Joseph Natus
Male vocal solo, with piano
 
[Pre-matrix A-]1108 11/27/1901 My lonesome little Louisiana lady
Joseph Natus
Male vocal solo, with piano
 
[Pre-matrix A-]1116 11/27/1901 I'll be with you when the roses bloom again
Joseph Natus
Male vocal solo, with piano
 
[Pre-matrix B-]1116 11/27/1901 I'll be with you when the roses bloom again
Joseph Natus
Male vocal solo, with piano
 
[Pre-matrix A-]1134 12/7/1902 Casey's wedding night
Silas Leachman
Male vocal solo
 
[Pre-matrix B-]1134 12/7/1901 Casey's wedding night
Silas Leachman
Male vocal solo
 
[Pre-matrix A-]1136 12/10/1901 Way down yonder in the cornfield
J. W. Myers
Male vocal solo, with piano
[Pre-matrix B-]1136 12/10/1901 Way down yonder in the cornfield
J. W. Myers
Male vocal solo, with piano
 
[Pre-matrix C-]1136 7/8/1902 Way down yonder in the cornfield
J. W. Myers
Male vocal solo, with piano
 
[Pre-matrix B-]1307 3/8/1902 Sally's Sunday hat
Harry Macdonough
Male vocal solo
 
[Pre-matrix A-]1307 3/8/1902 Sally's Sunday hat
Harry Macdonough
Male vocal solo
 
[Pre-matrix B-]1322 3/13/1902 I never troubles trouble till trouble troubles me
Dan W. Quinn
Male vocal solo
 
[Pre-matrix A-]1322 3/13/1902 I never troubles trouble 'till trouble troubles me
Dan W. Quinn
Male vocal solo
[Pre-matrix B-]1456 7/1/1902 I'm the man that makes the money in the mint
Silas Leachman
Male vocal solo, with piano
[Pre-matrix A-]1456 7/1/1902 I'm the man that makes the money in the mint
Silas Leachman
Male vocal solo, with piano
 
[Pre-matrix B-]1470 7/11/1902 If Aladdin would lend me his lamp
Dan W. Quinn
Male vocal solo
 
[Pre-matrix C-]1470 7/11/1902 If Aladdin would lend me his lamp
Dan W. Quinn
Male vocal solo
 
[Pre-matrix A-]1470 7/11/1902 If Aladdin would lend me his lamp
Dan W. Quinn
Male vocal solo
 
[Pre-matrix B-]1658 10/2/1902 Could you be true to eyes of blue?
Harry Macdonough
Male vocal solo
 
[Pre-matrix A-]1658 10/2/1902 Could you be true to eyes of blue?
Harry Macdonough
Male vocal solo
 
[Pre-matrix A-]1719 10/31/1902 I never trouble trouble till trouble troubles me
Collins and Harlan
Male vocal duet
 
[Pre-matrix B-]1719 10/31/1902 I never trouble trouble till trouble troubles me
Collins and Harlan
Male vocal duet
 
[Pre-matrix B-]1721 10/31/1902 Oh such a business!
Collins and Harlan
Male vocal duet
[Pre-matrix A-]1721 10/31/1902 Oh such a business!
Collins and Harlan
Male vocal duet
 
[Pre-matrix A-]1951 2/9/1903 Way down yonder in the cornfield
Haydn Quartet
Male vocal quartet
 
[Pre-matrix B-]1951 2/9/1903 Way down yonder in the cornfield
Haydn Quartet
Male vocal quartet
 
[Pre-matrix B-]2089 3/16/1903 The songbird of Melody Lane
W. H. Thompson
Male vocal solo
 
[Pre-matrix A-]2089 3/16/1903 The songbird of Melody Lane
W. H. Thompson
Male vocal solo
 
[Pre-matrix B-]2126 3/30/1903 Mamie
S. H. Dudley
Male vocal solo
 
[Pre-matrix B-]2155 4/3/1903 Please Mamma buy me a baby
Byron G. Harlan
Male vocal solo
 
[Pre-matrix B-]3074 2/2/1901 My charcoal charmer
Arthur Collins
Male vocal solo
[Pre-matrix B-]3110 2/16/1901 All for a man whose god was gold
Joseph Natus
Male vocal solo, with piano
 
[Pre-matrix B-]3112 2/16/1901 Where the Mississippi flows
Joseph Natus
Male vocal solo, with piano
[Pre-matrix B-]3346 5/13/1901 I couldn't stand to see my baby lose
Silas Leachman
Male vocal solo
[Pre-matrix B-]3390 5/21/1901 Mamie
J. W. Myers
Male vocal solo, with piano
[Pre-matrix B-]3416 5/31/1901 I can't tell why I love you, but I do
Arthur Pryor
Trombone solo, with piano
[Pre-matrix B-]3551 9/10/1901 I can't tell why I love you, but I do
Harry Macdonough
Male vocal solo
 
A-176 6/30/1903 Please, Mama, buy me a baby
James Doyle
Male vocal solo
 
B-176 6/30/1903 Please, Mama, buy me a baby
James Doyle
Male vocal solo
 
C-200 [Old series] 2/9/1903 or 5/26/1903 The songbird of Melody Lane
Harry Macdonough
Male vocal solo
 
B-286 8/25/1903 Please, Mama, buy me a baby
Byron G. Harlan
Male vocal solo, with piano
 
A-291 8/27/1903 I can't tell why I love you, but I do
Harry Macdonough
Male vocal solo, with piano
 
B-291 8/27/1903 I can't tell why I love you, but I do
Harry Macdonough
Male vocal solo, with piano
 
B-419 9/16/1903 I'll be with you when the roses bloom again
Harry Macdonough
Male vocal solo, with piano
 
A-419 1/27/1904 I'll be with you when the roses bloom again
Harry Macdonough
Male vocal solo, with piano
 
A-555 10/14/1903 I love only one girl in this wide, wide world
Harry Macdonough
Male vocal solo, with piano
 
B-555 10/14/1903 I love only one girl in this wide, wide world
Harry Macdonough
Male vocal solo, with piano
 
B-637 11/6/1903 Could you be true to eyes of blue?
Harry Macdonough
Male vocal solo, with piano
 
A-638 11/6/1903 When the roses bloom again
Harry Macdonough
Male vocal solo, with piano
 
B-638 11/6/1903 I'll be with you when the roses bloom again
Harry Macdonough
Male vocal solo, with piano
 
A-751 11/30/1903 The songbird of Melody Lane
W. H. Thompson
Male vocal solo
 
B-751 11/30/1903 The songbird of Melody Lane
W. H. Thompson
Male vocal solo
 
A-950 1/19/1904 All for a man whose god was gold
Joseph Natus
Male vocal solo, with piano
 
A-1058 3/1/1904 In Zanzibar
Harry Macdonough
Male vocal solo, with orchestra
 
B-1058 3/1/1904 In Zanzibar
Harry Macdonough
Male vocal solo, with orchestra
 
B-1485 6/16/1904 Goodbye little girl, goodbye
Mina Hickman
Female vocal solo, with orchestra
B-2111 1/5/1905 Mum's the word
Dan W. Quinn
Male vocal solo, with orchestra
 
B-2121 1/9/1905 Good bye, little girl, good bye
Old Homestead Double Quartet
Male vocal quartet or octet
B-2137 1/12/1905 I can't tell why I love you, but I do
Harry Macdonough
Male vocal solo, with orchestra
 
B-2171 1/20/1905 He's me pal
Arthur Collins
Male vocal solo, with orchestra
 
B-2351 2/28/1905 Tammany
Frank Kernell [i.e., Samuel H. Dudley]
Male vocal solo
B-2466 4/12/1905 Tammany two-step
Victor Dance Orchestra
Orchestra
 
C-2466 4/19/1905 Tammany two-step
Victor Dance Orchestra
Orchestra
B-2514 5/3/1905 Pals
Ada Jones ; Len Spencer
Female-male vocal duet, with orchestra
E-2514 12/6/1906 Pals
Ada Jones ; Len Spencer
Female-male vocal duet, with orchestra
 
B-2516 5/3/1905 He's me pal
Ada Jones
Female vocal solo, with orchestra
 
B-2540 5/9/1905 Tammany
Collins and Harlan
Male vocal duet, with orchestra
C-2557 5/17/1905 Tammany
Arthur Pryor's Orchestra
Orchestra, with trombone solo
B-2557 5/17/1905 Tammany
Arthur Pryor's Orchestra
Orchestra, with trombone solo
B-2706 8/8/1905 In my merry Oldsmobile
Billy Murray
Male vocal solo, with orchestra
 
B-2711 8/9/1905 In my merry Oldsmobile
Arthur Pryor's Band
Band
 
B-2712 8/9/1905 Dear old South
Arthur Pryor's Band
Band
 
B-2805 10/13/1905 He's me pal
Arthur Pryor's Band
Band
 
A-2805 10/13/1905 He's me pal
Arthur Pryor's Band
Band
 
A-2819 10/18/1905 Tammany
Arthur Pryor's Band
Band
 
B-2915 11/29/1905 If a girl like you loved a boy like me
Harry Macdonough
Male vocal solo, with orchestra
B-3133 2/21/1906 Once upon a time
Byron G. Harlan
Male vocal solo, with orchestra
B-3183 3/16/1906 Pocahontas
Edward M. Favor
Male vocal solo, with orchestra
B-3470 6/14/1906 Come take a skate with me
Collins and Harlan
Male vocal duet, with orchestra
B-3789 9/12/1906 I'll do anything in the world for you
Harry Macdonough
Male vocal solo, with orchestra
 
B-3850 10/4/1906 You can't give your heart to somebody else, and still hold hands with me
Ada Jones ; Billy Murray
Female-male vocal duet, with orchestra
E-3850 10/4/1906 You can't give your heart to somebody else, and still hold hands with me
Ada Jones ; Billy Murray
Female-male vocal duet, with orchestra
 
B-3917 10/23/1906 Mr. Monkey
Billy Murray
Male vocal solo, with orchestra
B-4092 12/10/1906 The game of peek-a-boo
Ada Jones ; Billy Murray
Female-male vocal duet, with orchestra
B-4094 12/10/1906 Don't you think it's time to marry?
Ada Jones ; Billy Murray
Female-male vocal duet, with orchestra
 
E-4094 12/10/1906 Don't you think it's time to marry?
Ada Jones ; Billy Murray
Female-male vocal duet, with orchestra
 
B-4264 2/26/1907 That welcome on the mat ain't meant for me
Collins and Harlan
Male vocal duet, with orchestra
 
B-4270 2/26/1907 School days
Byron G. Harlan
Male vocal solo, with orchestra
B-5092 2/21/1908 The peach that tastes the sweetest hangs highest on the tree
Ed Morton
Male vocal solo, with orchestra
 
E-5092 2/21/1908 The peach that tastes the sweetest hangs highest on the tree
Ed Morton
Male vocal solo, with orchestra
 
B-6230 5/26/1908 Goodbye, little girl, goodbye
Peerless Quartet
Male vocal quartet, unaccompanied
 
B-6253 6/8/1908 Everybody loves me but the one I love
Byron G. Harlan
Male vocal solo, with orchestra
 
B-6344 8/12/1908 Sunbonnet Sue
Harry Macdonough
Male vocal solo, with orchestra
 
B-6345 8/12/1908 Sunbonnet Sue
Haydn Quartet
Male vocal quartet and male vocal solo, with orchestra
B-6999 4/23/1909 My cousin Caruso
Ed Morton
Male vocal solo, with orchestra
 
B-7059 5/10/1909 School mates
Haydn Quartet
Male vocal quartet, with orchestra
 
B-7073 5/13/1909 My cousin Caruso
Billy Murray
Male vocal solo, with orchestra
B-8020 6/4/1909 Come take a swim in my ocean
Haydn Quartet ; Billy Murray
Male vocal solo and male vocal quartet, with orchestra
B-8021 6/4/1909 Up in my aeroplane
Haydn Quartet
Male vocal quartet, with orchestra
B-8093 7/6/1909 Please don't tell my wife
Ed Morton
Male vocal solo, with orchestra
 
B-8501 12/22/1909 By the light of the silv'ry moon
Haydn Quartet ; Billy Murray
Male vocal solo and male vocal quartet, with orchestra
B-9409 9/6/1910 Lucy-Anna-Lou
Collins and Harlan
Male vocal duet, with orchestra
 
B-10149 4/5/1911 My Yiddisha colleen
Walter Van Brunt
Male vocal solo, with orchestra
 
B-10156 4/6/1911 Two dirty little hands
Lilian Homesley
Female vocal solo, with orchestra
 
B-10846 7/31/1911 Jimmy Valentine
Peerless Quartet
Male vocal quartet, with orchestra
B-11855 4/11/1912 Since my Margaret become a suffragette
Maurice Burkhart
Male vocal solo, with orchestra
B-12180 7/11/1912 On a beautiful night with a beautiful girl
Heidelberg Quintette
Male vocal quintet, unaccompanied
 
B-12303 8/8/1912 The merry-go-round
Felix Arndt
Piano solo
 
C-12860 1/30/1913 New Orleans Minstrels, no. 27
Victor Minstrel Company
Minstrels, with orchestra
B-13077 4/3/1913 I'll get you
Helen Clark ; Walter Van Brunt
Female-male vocal duet, with orchestra
C-16218 7/21/1915 Songs of the past, no. 6
Victor Mixed Chorus
Vocal chorus and soloists, with orchestra
B-18133 7/19/1916 I lost my heart in Honolulu
Charles Harrison ; Herbert Stuart
Male vocal duet, with violin, cello, and orchestra
 
B-18165 7/31/1916 On a summer night
Avon Comedy Four
Male vocal quartet, with orchestra
B-18896 1/2/1917 I never wanted anything so good so bad
Marie Cahill
Female vocal solo, with piano
 
B-19628 4/25/1917 For you a rose
Edna Brown [i.e., Elsie Baker]
Female vocal solo, with orchestra
 
C-20159 6/25/1917 For you a rose
Joseph C. Smith's Orchestra
Jazz/dance band
 
B-20336 7/13/1917 Laddie boy
Nora Bayes
Female vocal solo, with orchestra
B-21435 1/30/1918 That grand old gentleman (Uncle Sam)
Percy Hemus
Male vocal solo, with orchestra
 
B-21699 5/2/1918 For you a rose
Emilio de Gogorza
Baritone vocal solo, with violin, bells, and orchestra
 
B-25593 10/10/1921 I want you morning, noon and night
Charles Harrison
Male vocal solo, with oboe, bassoon, trombone, and orchestra
B-26335 5/2/1922 Love sends a little gift of roses
Hackel-Bergè Orchestra
Jazz/dance band
B-27062 11/2/1922 When eyes met eyes, when lips met lips (when two hearts beat as one)
Lambert Murphy
Male vocal solo, with orchestra
 
B-30054 5/7/1924 Old familiar faces
Shannon Quartet
Male vocal quartet, with orchestra
BVE-38264 5/16/1927 In my merry Oldsmobile
Jean Goldkette Orchestra
Jazz/dance band
 
BVE-38268 5/23/1927 In my merry Oldsmobile
Jean Goldkette Orchestra
Jazz/dance band, with male vocal chorus
 
BVE-38494 4/27/1927 I'll be with you when the roses bloom again
Vernon Dalhart
Male vocal solo, with violin and guitar
 
CVE-49096 1/28/1929 Minstrel show of 1929
Victor Minstrels
Minstrels, with orchestra
 
BVE-49215 11/30/1928 Jimmy Valentine
Nathaniel Shilkret ; Victor Orchestra
Orchestra, with male vocal solo and chorus
 
BVE-51975 5/6/1929 Your mother and mine
Pennsylvanians ; Fred Waring
Jazz/dance band, with male vocal solo
 
BVE-51976 5/6/1929 Orange blossom time
Pennsylvanians ; Fred Waring
Jazz/dance band, with male vocal solo
 
BVE-51995 5/13/1929 Nobody but you
Don Howard ; Nathaniel Shilkret ; Victor Orchestra
Orchestra, with male vocal solo
 
BVE-53429 5/22/1929 Your mother and mine
Johnny Marvin
Male vocal solo, with orchestra
 
BVE-53441 5/27/1929 Your mother and mine
Frank Munn ; Nathaniel Shilkret ; Victor Orchestra
Orchestra, with male vocal solo
 
BVE-53917 7/12/1929 Orange blossom time
Johnny Marvin ; Andy Sannella
Male vocal solo, with saxophone solo and orchestra
 
BVE-53961 7/29/1929 I've waited a lifetime for you
Arden-Ohman Orchestra
Jazz/dance band, with male vocal solo
 
BVE-56624 11/29/1929 I want my black baby back
Carolina Twins
Male vocal duet with guitars and harmonica (self-accompaniment)
 
[Trial 1916-10-02-01] 10/2/1916 The sweetest melody of all
Stewart Jackson
Male vocal solo, with piano