Phil Baker 
Last updated: 30.06.24
p_bakerphil.jpgAll that can presently (November 2023) be gleaned about Phil Baker from sheet music covers and by Internet searching is that he was presumably an American composer/performer/piano accordian player who has been featured on 10 works published between 1839 and 1943.
He has published 9 works between 1922 and 1937.
His portrait on the left is taken from Sunshine and Rain (1922) published by Jerome H. Remick & Co., New York & Detroit, USA. Here he is described as "A bad boy from a good familly".
Surfers are welcome to contribute any further information about this composer.
Websites:
url15.gif Phil Baker (comedian) Biography by wikipedia.org.  
url15.gif  DAHR: Phil Baker List of 82 historic recordings from 1918 to 1944.
  Title (Release Year) Composer Performers Issue
         
  Historic Records      
record15.gif Look at Those Eyes (1925) P. Baker L. Katzman
Harry Reser
Austin Wylie		 Brunswick: 444W-448W;
     Title Attribution Instruments Source Remarks
           
pdf15.gif Did You Mean It? (1927) P. Baker (w&m)
Sid Silverman (coauth.)
A. Lyman (coauth.)
Three Brox Sisters (perf.)		 Piano, Voice Univ. of Maine wvicon.gif
pdf15.gif Look at Those Eyes (1925) P. Baker (w&m)
Sid Silvers (coauth.)		 Piano, Voice YorkSpace wvicon.gif
pdf15.gif Love and Kisses (1927) P. Baker (w&m)
Sid Silvers (coauth.)		 Piano, Voice Univ. of Maine wvicon.gif
pdf15.gif Pretty Little Baby (1925) P. Baker (music)
B. Bernie (coauth.)
Sid Silvers (words)		 Piano, Voice Univ. of Maine wvicon.gif
pdf15.gif Sunshine and Rain (1922) P. Baker (w&m)
B. Davis (coauth.)
P. Baker (perf.)		 Piano, Voice YorkSpace Pub.
The peformer is featured on 12 sheet music/recording covers. It does not claim to be complete and represents only the number of items located. Keys: (w&m)
     Title Composer Attribution Remarks
         
perf15.jpg It All Depends on You (1926) Buddy Gard DeSylva(w&m) Lew Brown (co-author)
Ray Henderson (co-author)
Phil Baker (perf.)
perf15.jpg Last Rose of Summer (1935), The Friedrich von Flotow Thomas Moore (words)
Phil Baker (perf.)
perf15.jpg I Was Doing All Right (1938) George Gershwin Ira Gershwin (words)
Kenny Baker (perf.)
Phil Baker (perf.)
Ritz Bros (perf.)
Helen Jepson (perf.)
Andrea Leeds (perf.)
Ella Logan (perf.)
Adolphe Menjou (perf.)
Zorina (perf.)
perf15.jpg Love Walked In (1938) George Gershwin Ira Gershwin (words)
Kenny Baker (perf.)
Phil Baker (perf.)
Ritz Bros (perf.)
Helen Jepson (perf.)
Andrea Leeds (perf.)
Ella Logan (perf.)
Adolphe Menjou (perf.)
Zorina (perf.)
perf15.jpg It All Depends on You (1926) Ray Henderson B.G. DeSylva (co-author)
Lew Brown (co-author)
Phil Baker (perf.)
perf15.jpg Rocked in the Cradle of the Deep (1839) Joseph Philip Knight Emma Hart Willard (words)
Phil Baker (perf.)
perf15.jpg Tales of Hoffmann - Barcarolle (1908) Jacques Offenbach M. Louise Baum (words)
Phil Baker (perf.)
perf15.jpg Don't Let This Waltz Mean Good-Bye (1934) Albert von Tilzer Jack Meskill (words)
Gus Arnheim (perf.)
Gene Austin (perf.)
Phil Baker (perf.)
Downey Sisters (perf.)
Ruth Etting (perf.)
June Knight (perf.)
Edmund Lowe (perf.)
Miller & Harling Walker (perf.)
Victor Moore (perf.)
Wini Shaw (perf.)
Gloria Stuart (perf.)
Ethel Waters (perf.)
Alice White (perf.)
perf15.jpg I Found a Million Dollar Baby (1931) Harry Warren Billy Rose (words)
Mort Dixon (words)
Phil Baker (perf.)
Fanny Brice (perf.)
Ted Healy (perf.)
perf15.jpg Sing a Little Jingle (1931) Harry Warren Mort Dixon (words)
Phil Baker (perf.)
Fanny Brice (perf.)
Ted Healy (perf.)
perf15.jpg  ⇑No Love, No Nothin' (1943) Harry Warren(w&m) Leo Robin (co-author)
Phil Baker (perf.)
James Ellison (perf.)
Alice Faye (perf.)
Benny Goodman (perf.)
Charlotte Greenwood (perf.)
Edward Everett Horton (perf.)
EdwardEverett Horton (perf.)
Tony De Marco (perf.)
Carmen Miranda (perf.)
Eugene Pallette (perf.)
Sheila Ryan (perf.)
Dave Willock (perf.)
perf15.jpg Journey to a Star (1943), A Harry Warren Leo Robin (words)
Phil Baker (perf.)
James Ellison (perf.)
Alice Faye (perf.)
Benny Goodman (perf.)
Charlotte Greenwood (perf.)
EdwardEverett Horton (perf.)
Tony De Marco (perf.)
Carmen Miranda (perf.)
Eugene Pallette (perf.)
Sheila Ryan (perf.)
Dave Willock (perf.)
This list is arranged in chronological order and contains 9 works by Phil Baker. It does not claim to be complete and represents only the number of items located. Keys: pdf15.gif (w&m)
Title Year Attribution Remarks
       
Sunshine and Rain (w&m) 1922 Benny Davis (co-author)
Phil Baker (perf.) 		 wvicon.gif
Look at Those Eyes (w&m) 1925 Sid Silvers (co-author)
Louis Katzman (perf.)
Harry Reser (perf.)
Austin Wylie (perf.) 		 Pub.  record15.gif
Pretty Little Baby 1925 Ben Bernie (co-author)
Sid Silvers (words) 		 wvicon.gif
Did You Mean It? (w&m) 1927 Sid Silverman (co-author)
Abe Lyman (co-author)
Nora Bayes (perf.)
Marion Harris (perf.)
Doree Leslie (perf.)
Lee Morse (perf.)
Bee Palmer (perf.)
Three Brox Sisters (perf.) 		 wvicon.gif
Love and Kisses (w&m) 1927 Sid Silvers (co-author)  wvicon.gif
O-K-M-N-X We're Twenty Million Strong he Brotherhood Of 1928 J. Russel Robinson (co-author)
Billy De Beck (words)
Sid Silvers (words) 		 Pub.
Rainy Day Pal (w&m) 1928 Sid Silvers (co-author)  Pub.
Strange Interlude 1932 Ben Bernie (words)
Walter Hirsch (words)
Ben Bernie (perf.) 		 wvicon.gif
My Heaven on Earth 1937 Samuel Pokrass (co-author)
Tobias (words)