Will E. Skidmore
Last updated: 18.12.23
All that can presently (November 2015) be gleaned about by internet searching is that Will E. Skidmore is the one-off composer of Craps (1910) published by Cosmopolitan Music, Little Rock, Arkansas, USA.
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| Title | Attribution | Instruments | Source | Remarks |
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It Takes a Long Tall Brown-Skin Gal to Make a Preacher Lay His Bible Down (1917) | W.E. Skidmore (music) Marshall Walker (words) |
Piano, Voice | Kirk |  |
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It's Nobody's Business But My Own (1919) | W.E. Skidmore (music) Marshall Walker (coauth.) |
Piano, Voice | Kirk | |
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Pray For the Lights to Go Out (1916) | W.E. Skidmore (music) Renton Tunnah (words) Dot Barnett (perf.) |
Piano, Voice | IMSLP | Pub. |
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Somebody's Done Me Wrong (1918) | W.E. Skidmore (music) Billy Beard (perf.) |
Piano | IMSLP | Pub. |
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When My Great-Grand-Daddy and My Great-Grand-Mammy/ Used to Cuddle and Coo in a Cocoanut Tree (1917) | W.E. Skidmore (music) Marshall Walker (words) |
Piano, Voice | Kirk | Pub. |
This list is arranged in chronological order and contains 21 works by Will E. Skidmore.
It does not claim to be complete and represents only the number of items located. Keys:
(w&m)
(w&m)
| Title | Year | Attribution | Remarks |
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| I'm Goin' to Ease Back | 1903 | |
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| Craps | 1910 |  |
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| Bug House Rag | 1916 | ||
| Pray For the Lights to Go Out | 1916 | Renton Tunnah (words) Dot Barnett (perf.) |
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| I Never Asked to Come to This World | 1917 | ||
| I'm Old Enough For a Little Lovin' | 1917 | Marshall Walker (words) Isabella Patricola (perf.) |
Pub. |
| It Takes a Long Tall Brown-Skin Gal to Make a Preacher Lay His Bible Down | 1917 | Marshall Walker (words) Rae Samuels (perf.) |
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| Them Doggon'd Triflin' Blues | 1917 | Ruby Darby (perf.) | |
| When My Great-Grand-Daddy and My Great-Grand-Mammy/ Used to Cuddle and Coo in a Cocoanut Tree | 1917 | Marshall Walker (words) | Pub. |
| I'm a Trying to Teach My Sweet Papa Right From Wrong (w&m) | 1918 | Marshall Walker (co-author) Sophie Tucker (perf.) |
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| It's a Mean Old Dog That Won't Scratch His Mama's Fleas | 1918 | ||
| ⇑ Message in the Bottle From the Sea, The | 1918 | Clyde Hooper (words) | Pub. |
| Somebody's Done Me Wrong | 1918 | Billy Beard (perf.) | Pub. |
| Wait Until Your Papa Comes Home | 1918 | Spencer Williams (words) | Pub. |
| When I Gets Out in No-Man's Land | 1918 | Marshall Walker (words) | Pub. |
| I'm Gonna Jazz My Way Right Straight Through Paradise | 1919 | Marshall Walker (words) | |
| It's Nobody's Business But My Own | 1919 | Marshall Walker (co-author) Lee Edmonds (perf.) |
Pub. |
| Never Let No One Man Worry Your Mind (w&m) | 1919 | Marion Harris (perf.) | |
| You Can't Get Lovin' Where There Ain't Any Love | 1919 | Jack Baxley (words) Marion Harris (perf.) |
Pub. |
| Every Once in a While | 1920 | Marshall Walker (words) Marion Harris (perf.) |
Pub. |
| Save a Little Dram For Me | 1920 |