Nora Bayes  (1880-1928)
Last updated: 31.08.23
p_bayesn.jpgNora Bayes was a popular American entertainer born Leonora Goldberg to a Jewish family in Joliet, Illinois. 18-years old, she was performing professionally in vaudeville in Chicago. After touring from San Francisco, California to New York she became a star both on vaudeville and Broadway. She was an accomplished singer, comedian and actress. After her marriage to singer/songwriter Jack Norworth in 1908 they toured together and were credited for collaborating on a number of tunes, including their huge hit Shine On, Harvest Moon which the pair debuted in Florenz Ziegfeld's Follies of 1908. Later she recorded with the Victor Talking Machine Company and Columbia Records. She died in New York.


Nora Bayes  (1880-1928) has at least 2 item(s) at the Amazons which you can order on-line by clicking the item's order icon.
b01m3r67ot_m.jpgCome Along My Mandy
Words and Music by: Nora Bayes.
Co-Author: Jack Norworth
Performed by: Nora Bayes, Jack Norworth
Publisher: T.B. Harms & Co.
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Printed: 1907. Sheet Music 6 pages.
b0000csug4_m.jpgI'm Glad I'm a Boy and I'm Glad I'm a Girl
Words and Music by: Nora Bayes.
Co-Author: Jack Norworth
Publisher: Jerome H. Remick & Co.
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Printed: 1909. Sheet Music 5 pages.
  Title Instruments Performers
       
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audiodbemp315.gif Prohibition Blues (1919) T/T/B/B/GB(B) Midi Ragtime Recorder Ens.
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Item Title Available €     £     $     Other
             
DBE1300 The Nora Bayes Fox Trot (1917)
T/T/T+D/B+A/B/GB(B), approx. 3¾ mins. 		print-on-demand €12.00 £10.00 $15.50  
DBE1301 Prohibition Blues (1919) - Song
T/T/B/B/GB(B), approx. 2½ mins. 		print-on-demand €9.00 £7.50 $11.75  
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sm15.gif Prohibition Blues (1919) T/T/B/B/GB(B) dbe15.gifPub.
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url15.gif Shine on Harvest Moon Nora Bayes (music)
Jack Norworth (co-author)
Nora Bayes (perf.)
Jack Norworth (perf.) 		 
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pdf15.gif Mister Moon-Man Turn Off the Light (1910) N. Bayes (music)
J. Norworth (coauth.)		 Piano Kirk wvicon.gif
pdf15.gif Shine on Harvest Moon (1908) N. Bayes (music)
J. Norworth (words)		 Piano, Voice Kirk wvicon.gif
  As performer        
pdf15.gif Wasn't It Yesterday? (1917) I. Berlin (w&m)
N. Bayes (perf.)
Irving Fisher (perf.)		 Piano, Voice Indiana wvicon.gif

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pdf15.gif		 When You're Down in Louisville (1915) I. Berlin (w&m)
N. Bayes (perf.)
N. Bayes (perf.)		 Piano, Voice
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Indiana		 Pub.

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pdf15.gif		 Oh! You Beautiful Coon (1911) G.M. Cohan (w&m)
N. Bayes (perf.)
J. Norworth (perf.)
N. Bayes (perf.)
J. Norworth (perf.)		 Piano, Voice
IMSLP
Indiana		 wvicon.gif

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pdf15.gif		 Over There (1917) G.M. Cohan (w&m)
N. Bayes (perf.)
N. Bayes (perf.)
N. Bayes (perf.)
N. Bayes (perf.)		 Piano, Voice
Greer
Greer
IMSLP
Indiana		 wvicon.gif
pdf15.gif Kinky Kids' Parade (1925), The W. Donaldson (music)
G. Kahn (words)
N. Bayes (perf.)		 Piano, Voice IMSLP wvicon.gif
pdf15.gif Pull the Cork Out of Erin Let the River Shannon Flow (1917) F. Fisher (music)
Addison Burkhardt (words)
N. Bayes (perf.)		 Piano, Voice Indiana wvicon.gif
pdf15.gif When the Yanks Come Marching Home (1918) S. Furth (music)
W. Jerome (words)
N. Bayes (perf.)		 Piano, Voice Indiana wvicon.gif
pdf15.gif Freckles (1919) C. Hess (w&m)
H.E. Johnson (coauth.)
M. Ager (coauth.)
N. Bayes (perf.)		 Piano Indiana wvicon.gif
pdf15.gif Home Sickness Blues (1916) C. Hess (w&m)
N. Bayes (perf.)		 Piano, Voice IMSLP Pub.
pdf15.gif Scaddle-de-Mooch (1915) C. Mack (music)
C. Smith (coauth.)
N. Bayes (perf.)		 Piano IMSLP wvicon.gif
pdf15.gif When It's Apple Blossom Time in Normandie (1912) T. Mellor (music)
H. Gifford (coauth.)
H. Trevor (coauth.)
N. Bayes (perf.)
J. Norworth (perf.)		 Piano YorkSpace wvicon.gif
pdf15.gif Has Anybody Here Seen Kelly! (1909) C.W. Murphy (music)
W. Letters (words)
N. Bayes (perf.)		 Piano, Voice Kirk wvicon.gif
pdf15.gif Oh, Johnny! Oh, Johnny! Oh! (1917) A. Olman (music)
E. Rose (words)
N. Bayes (perf.)		 Piano, Voice Greer wvicon.gif
pdf15.gif Just the Two of Us (1919) S.B. Simons (w&m)
Irving Fisher (perf.)
N. Bayes (perf.)		 Piano, Voice Indiana Pub.
pdf15.gif Scaddle-De-Mooch - Song (1915) C. Smith (music)
N. Bayes (perf.)		 Piano, Voice Indiana wvicon.gif
pdf15.gif For Months and Months and Months (1909) J. Tabrar (w&m)
N. Bayes (perf.)
J. Norworth (perf.)		 Piano, Voice IMSLP wvicon.gif
pdf15.gif Broken Doll (1916), A J.W. Tate (music)
F Clifford Harris (words)
N. Bayes (perf.)		 Piano, Voice IMSLP Pub.
pdf15.gif Take Me Out to the Ball Game (1908) A. von Tilzer (music)
J. Norworth (words)
N. Bayes (perf.)		 Piano, Voice Greer wvicon.gif

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pdf15.gif		 You Will Have to Sing an Irish Song (1908) A. von Tilzer (music)
N. Bayes (perf.)
N. Bayes (perf.)		 Piano
IMSLP
Indiana		 Pub.
This list is arranged by composer and contains 51 works performed by Nora Bayes who is featured on sheet music covers. It does not claim to be complete and represents only the number of items located. Keys: (w&m) ER
     Title Composer Attribution Remarks
         
perf15.jpg Follow the Crowd on a Sunday (1904) Henry W. Armstrong James L. Morrison (words)
Nora Bayes (perf.) 		wvicon.gif
perf15.jpg Did You Mean It? (1927) Phil Baker(w&m) Sid Silverman (co-author)
Abe Lyman (co-author)
Nora Bayes (perf.)
Marion Harris (perf.)
Lee Morse (perf.)
Bee Palmer (perf.) 		wvicon.gif
perf15.jpg For Dixie and Uncle Sam (1916) Ernest Roland Ball J. Keirn Brennan (words)
George Wilton Ballard (perf.)
Nora Bayes (perf.) 		Pub.
perf15.jpg Come Along My Mandy (1907) Nora Bayes(w&m) Jack Norworth (co-author)
Nora Bayes (perf.)
Jack Norworth (perf.) 		wvicon.gif
perf15.jpg Shine on Harvest Moon (1908) Nora Bayes Jack Norworth (words)
Nora Bayes (perf.)
Boswell Sisters (perf.)
Ruth Etting (perf.)
Jack Norworth (perf.)
Ann Sheridan (perf.) 		wvicon.gif
perf15.jpg Sing Me a Come-All-Ye Like My Daddy Sang to Me (1908) Nora Bayes Nora Bayes (perf.)
perf15.jpg Falling Star (1909) Nora Bayes Jack Norworth (co-author)
Nora Bayes (words)
Jack Norworth (words)
Nora Bayes (perf.)
Jack Norworth (perf.) 		Pub.
perf15.jpg Pinkerton Detective Moon (1912) Nora Bayes(w&m) Jack Norworth (co-author)
Nora Bayes (perf.) 		Pub.
perf15.jpg All My Life (1918) Nora Bayes Irving Fisher (co-author)
Harry Akst (co-author)
Nora Bayes (perf.) 		Pub.
perf15.jpg Prohibition Blues (1919) Nora Bayes Ring Lardner (words)
Nora Bayes (perf.) 		Pub.
perf15.jpg  ⇑When You're Down in Louisville (1915) Irving Berlin(w&m) Belle Baker (perf.)
Nora Bayes (perf.) 		wvicon.gif
perf15.jpg Wasn't It Yesterday? (1917) Irving Berlin(w&m) Nora Bayes (perf.)
Irving Fisher (perf.) 		Pub.
perf15.jpg Who Do You Love? (1918) Gene Buck James F. Hanley (co-author)
Nora Bayes (perf.) 		Pub.
perf15.jpg Oh! You Beautiful Coon (1911) George. M. Cohan(w&m) Nora Bayes (perf.)
Jack Norworth (perf.) 		wvicon.gif
perf15.jpg Over There (1917) George. M. Cohan(w&m) Nora Bayes (perf.)
Billy Murray (perf.)
Indestructible Male Quartet (perf.)
Peerless Quartette (perf.) 		wvicon.gif
perf15.jpg Kinky Kids' Parade (1925), The Walter Donaldson Gus Kahn (words)
Nora Bayes (perf.)
Duncan Sisters (perf.)
Mr & Mrs. Jesse Crawford (perf.) 		wvicon.gif
perf15.jpg Pull the Cork Out of Erin Let the River Shannon Flow (1917) Fred Fisher Addison Burkhardt (words)
Nora Bayes (perf.)
Irving Kaufman (perf.) 		wvicon.gif
perf15.jpg When the Yanks Come Marching Home (1918) Seymour Furth William Jerome (words)
Nora Bayes (perf.)
William J. Riley (perf.) 		wvicon.gif
perf15.jpg We're Going to Celebrate the End of the War in Ragtime (1915) Coleman Goetz Nora Bayes (perf.)
perf15.jpg Old Maid Blues (1943) David W. Guion Web Maddox (words)
Nora Bayes (perf.) 		Pub.
perf15.jpg Home Sickness Blues (1916) Cliff Hess(w&m) Nora Bayes (perf.) Pub.
perf15.jpg  ⇑Regretful Blues (1918) Cliff Hess Grant Clarke (words)
Nora Bayes (perf.) 		wvicon.gif
perf15.jpg Freckles (1919) Cliff Hess(w&m) Howard E. Johnson (co-author)
Milton Ager (co-author)
Nora Bayes (perf.) 		wvicon.gif
perf15.jpg Taxation Blues (1919) Cliff Hess(w&m) Joe Rosey (co-author)
Jos. H. Santly (co-author)
Nora Bayes (perf.) 		Pub.
perf15.jpg Dat's Ma Honey Sho's Yo' Born (1912) Joe Jordan Nora Bayes (perf.)
Grace Wilson (perf.)
perf15.jpg M-A-Y-B-E (1919) Edgar Leslie Nora Bayes (perf.)
perf15.jpg Have You Ever Loved Any Other Girl? (1911) J.P. Long Bennett Scott (words)
Jack Norworth (words)
Louis F Werba (words)
Mark A Luescher (words)
Nora Bayes (perf.)
Alice Lloyd (perf.) 		wvicon.gif
perf15.jpg Scaddle-de-Mooch (1915) Cecil Mack Chris Smith (co-author)
Nora Bayes (perf.) 		Pub.
perf15.jpg When It's Apple Blossom Time in Normandie (1912) Tom Mellor Harry Gifford (co-author)
Huntley Trevor (co-author)
Nora Bayes (perf.)
Henry Burr (perf.)
Peggy Dougherty (perf.)
Daisy Leon (perf.)
Maybelle Morgan (perf.)
Jack Norworth (perf.)
Eva Shirley (perf.)
Elizabeth Spencer (perf.)
Belle Story (perf.)
Irene Williams (perf.) 		wvicon.gif
perf15.jpg Susie Ann (1915) Tom Mellor Harry Gifford (words)
Nora Bayes (perf.) 		Pub.
perf15.jpg Come Along My Mandy! (1938) Tom Mellor Alfred J. Lawrance (words)
Harry Gifford (words)
Jack Norworth (words)
Nora Bayes (perf.)
Ada Jones (perf.)
Billy Murray (perf.)
Jack Norworth (perf.)
perf15.jpg Meet Me in St Louis, Louis (1904) Kerry Mills Andrew B. Sterling (words)
Paul Barnes (perf.)
Nora Bayes (perf.)
The Brownings (perf.)
Anna Caldwell (perf.)
May Curtis (perf.)
Charles Foreman (perf.)
Judy Garland (perf.)
Lottie Gilson (perf.)
Lew Hawkins (perf.)
Vera King (perf.)
Ethel Levey (perf.)
Kitty Miley (perf.)
Billy Murray (perf.)
Many O (perf.)
Lizzie B. Raymond (perf.)
Will H. Sloan (perf.)
Nat Willis (perf.) 		wvicon.gif
perf15.jpg  ⇑Ten Little Bottles (1920) James V. Monaco Nora Bayes (perf.)
perf15.jpg Broadway Blues (1920), The Carey Morgan Arthur Swanstrom (words)
Nora Bayes (perf.)
Al. Bernard (perf.)
Ted Lewis (perf.)
Jack Norworth (perf.)
Henry Santrey (perf.) 		wvicon.gif
perf15.jpg Argentines, the Portuguese and the Greeks (1925), The Carey Morgan Arthur Swanstrom (words)
Nora Bayes (perf.)
Eddie Cantor (perf.)
Tom G Clare (perf.)
Duncan Sisters (perf.)
Edward Meeker (perf.) 		wvicon.gif
perf15.jpg Has Anybody Here Seen Kelly! (1909) C.W. Murphy Will Letters (words)
Nora Bayes (perf.)
Florrie Forde (perf.)
Billy Murray (perf.) 		Pub.
perf15.jpg Only Bit of Ireland in Old New York (1911), The C.W. Murphy Nora Bayes (perf.)
Jack Norworth (perf.)
perf15.jpg Oh, Johnny! Oh, Johnny! Oh! (1917) Abe Olman Ed. Rose (words)
Andrews Sisters (perf.)
Bonnie Baker (perf.)
Nora Bayes (perf.)
Henry Lewis (perf.)
Premier Quartet (perf.)
Dan W. Quinn (perf.)
Orrin Tucker (perf.)
George Watts (perf.) 		wvicon.gif
perf15.jpg Muddy Water (1926) Peter De Rose Harry Richman (co-author)
Jo' Trent (words)
Nora Bayes (perf.) 		wvicon.gif
perf15.jpg Fine Strawberries (1911) Herbert Rule James McGhee (words)
Nora Bayes (perf.)
Flora Cromer (perf.)
Jack Norworth (perf.) 		wvicon.gif
perf15.jpg When John McCormack Sings a Song (1915) Jean Schwartz William Jerome (words)
E Ray Goetz (words)
Nora Bayes (perf.) 		Pub.
perf15.jpg Just the Two of Us (1919) Seymour B. Simons(w&m) Nora Bayes (perf.)
Irving Fisher (perf.) 		Pub.
perf15.jpg Remember the Rose (1921) Seymour B. Simons Sidney D. Mitchell (words)
Nora Bayes (perf.)
Alan Edwards (perf.)
Lewis James (perf.)
Betsy Lane Shepherd (perf.) 		wvicon.gif
perf15.jpg  ⇑Scaddle-De-Mooch - Song (1915) Chris Smith Nora Bayes (perf.) wvicon.gif
perf15.jpg I'm Crazy 'bout Somebody (1912) Dave Stamper Nora Bayes (perf.)
perf15.jpg For Months and Months and Months (1909) Joseph Tabrar(w&m) Nora Bayes (perf.)
Jack Norworth (perf.)
Jack Smiles (perf.) 		wvicon.gif
perf15.jpg Broken Doll (1916), A James W. Tate F Clifford Harris (words)
Nora Bayes (perf.)
Clarice Mayne (perf.)
Jaudas' Society Orchestra (perf.)
Manuel Romain (perf.) 		Pub.
perf15.jpg Take Me Out to the Ball Game (1908) Albert von Tilzer Jack Norworth (words)
Nora Bayes (perf.)
Richard Burton (perf.)
Wheeler Earl (perf.)
Henry Fink (perf.)
Trixie Friganza (perf.)
Gene Kelly (perf.)
Ida Burt Laurence (perf.)
Baby Florence Mascotte (perf.)
Edward Meeker (perf.)
Reynolds & Tucker (perf.)
Frank Sinatra (perf.)
Marion Wilder (perf.)
Esther Williams (perf.)
Sam Williams (perf.) 		wvicon.gif
perf15.jpg You Will Have to Sing an Irish Song (1908) Albert von Tilzer Nora Bayes (perf.)
Ada Jones (perf.) 		Pub.
perf15.jpg Just Around the Corner (1925) Harry von Tilzer Dolph Singer (words)
Nora Bayes (perf.)
Ted Lewis (perf.) 		wvicon.gif
perf15.jpg There's a Rickety Rackety Shack (1927) Charles Tobias Roy Turk (co-author)
Nora Bayes (perf.)
Morton Downey (perf.) 		Pub.
This list is arranged in chronological order and contains 26 works by Nora Bayes (1880-1928). It does not claim to be complete and represents only the number of items located. Keys: ER pdf15.gif (w&m)
Title Year Attribution Remarks
       
Come Along My Mandy (w&m) 1907 Jack Norworth (co-author)
Nora Bayes (perf.)
Jack Norworth (perf.)
Original version by Mellor, Lawrence and Giffard.		  amazon15.gif wvicon.gif
Shine on Harvest Moon 1908 Jack Norworth (words)
Nora Bayes (perf.)
Boswell Sisters (perf.)
Ruth Etting (perf.)
Jack Norworth (perf.)
Ann Sheridan (perf.) 		 wvicon.gif
Sing Me a Come-All-Ye Like My Daddy Sang to Me 1908 Nora Bayes (perf.)
Blarney 1909 Jack Norworth (words)  Pub.
Falling Star 1909 Jack Norworth (co-author)
Nora Bayes (words)
Jack Norworth (words)
Nora Bayes (perf.)
Jack Norworth (perf.) 		 Pub.
I'm Glad I'm a Boy and I'm Glad I'm a Girl (w&m) 1909 Jack Norworth (co-author)  amazon15.gif Pub.
If It Were Not For Dear Old Father (w&m) 1909 Jack Norworth (co-author)  Pub.
Let's Get the Umpire's Goat (w&m) 1909 Jack Norworth (co-author)  Pub.
No More Staying Out Late 1909
Back to My Old Home Town 1910 Jack Norworth (co-author)  wvicon.gif
Mister Moon-Man Turn Off the Light 1910 Jack Norworth (co-author)  Pub.
⇑ Young America 1910
Ev'ry One in Favor Say Aye (w&m) 1911 Jack Norworth (co-author)  Pub.
Fairy Tales 1911
I Have Longed So Long 1911
Parlor Games 1911
Please Go Find My Billy Boy 1911
Turn Off Your Light, Mr. Moon Man (w&m) 1911 Jack Norworth (co-author)  Pub.
In My Birch Bark Canoe, With Emily Lou 1912
Pinkerton Detective Moon (w&m) 1912 Jack Norworth (co-author)
Nora Bayes (perf.) 		 Pub. audiomidi15.gif
She Believes I'm in Brooklyn To-Night 1912
Nora Bayes Fox Trot, The 1917 Donald Ganiard (co-author)  wvicon.gif
All My Life 1918 Irving Fisher (co-author)
Harry Akst (co-author)
Nora Bayes (perf.) 		 Pub.
⇑ Just Like a Gypsy 1919 Seymour Simons (words)  Pub.
Prohibition Blues 1919 Ring Lardner (words)
Nora Bayes (perf.) 		 Pub. youtube15.jpg
I'll Tell the World 1920
     Title Duration Performer
       
youtube15.jpg Prohibition Blues performed by Nora Bayes 3:10 Nora Bayes