Shelton Brooks (1886-1975)

Overview

According to the Internet source given below, Shelton Brooks was an American composer of popular music. He was born in Canada, Amherstburg, Ontario but moved to Detroit, Michigan in 1901. In addition to being a composer, he was variously songwriter, singer, pianist, Vaudeville and musical performer. Later in the 1930s he had radio show on CBS. His best known successes include: All Night Long, At the Darktown Strutters' Ball, Every Day, Some of These Days, Somewhere in France, Swing That Thing, That Man of Mine, There'll Come A Time, and Walkin' The Dog.
Of ragtime interest is The Cosey Rag (1911) published by Will Rossiter, Chicago, Illinois, USA.

Websites:
	Shelton Brooks	Biography by wikipedia.org.

Shelton Brooks (1886-1975) has at least 34 item(s) at the Amazons which you can order on-line by clicking the item's order icon.

All Night Long Song
Words and Music by: Shelton Brooks.

Publisher:	Will Rossiter
Suppliers:
Printed: 1912.	Sheet Music 4 pages. Currently unavailable.

All That I Had Is Gone Song
Words and Music by: Shelton Brooks.
Co-Author: W. R. Williams

Publisher:	Will Rossiter
Suppliers:
Printed: 1914.	Sheet Music 3 pages. Currently unavailable.

At an Old-Time Ball Song
Words and Music by: Shelton Brooks.

Publisher:	Will Rossiter
Suppliers:
Printed: 1913.	Sheet Music 4 pages. Currently unavailable.

At the Cotton Pickers' Jubilee Song
Words and Music by: Shelton Brooks.

Publisher:	Jos. W. Stern & Co.
Suppliers:
⇑ Printed: 1918.	Sheet Music. Currently unavailable.

Cosey Rag, The Song
Words and Music by: Shelton Brooks.

Publisher:	Will Rossiter
Suppliers:
Printed: 1911.	Sheet Music 4 pages. Currently unavailable.

Darktown Strutters' Ball, The Song
Words and Music by: Shelton Brooks.

Publisher:	Will Rossiter
Suppliers:
Printed: 1917.	Sheet Music 3 pages. Limited Availability.

Darktown Strutters' Ball, The
Words and Music by: Shelton Brooks.

Publisher:	Will Rossiter
Suppliers:
Printed: 1917.	Sheet Music. Limited Availability.

Down on the Levee Song
Words and Music by: Shelton Brooks.

Publisher:	Will Rossiter
Suppliers:
⇑ Printed: 1914.	Sheet Music 3 pages. Currently unavailable.

Ev'ry Day Song
Music by: Shelton Brooks.
Words by: W. R. Williams

Publisher:	Will Rossiter
Suppliers:
Printed: 1918.	Sheet Music 3 pages. Currently unavailable.

Give Me One More Chance Song
Words and Music by: Shelton Brooks.

Publisher:	Will Rossiter
Suppliers:
Printed: 1914.	Sheet Music 4 pages. Currently unavailable.

Honey Gal Song
Words and Music by: Shelton Brooks.

Publisher:	Will Rossiter
Suppliers:
Printed: 1909.	Sheet Music 3 pages. Currently unavailable.

I Cert'ny Wish He Would Come Back Song
Words and Music by: Shelton Brooks.

Publisher:	Will Rossiter
Suppliers:
⇑ Printed: 1914.	Sheet Music 4 pages. Currently unavailable.

I Want to Do the Bear-Cat Dance Song
Words and Music by: Shelton Brooks.

Publisher:	Will Rossiter
Suppliers:
Printed: 1913.	Sheet Music 3 pages. Currently unavailable.

I Want to Shimmie Song
Words and Music by: Shelton Brooks.
Co-Author: G. Clarke

Publisher:	Leo Feist
Suppliers:
Printed: 1919.	Sheet Music 3 pages. Limited availability.

I Wonder Where My Easy Rider's Gone Song
Words and Music by: Shelton Brooks.

Publisher:	Will Rossiter
Suppliers:
Printed: 1913.	Sheet Music 5 pages. Currently unavailable.

If I Were a Bee and You Were a Red, Red Rose Song
Words and Music by: Shelton Brooks.

Publisher:	Maurice Abrahams Music Co.
Suppliers:	Also see:
⇑ Printed: 1915.	Sheet Music 5 pages. Currently unavailable.

Jean Song
Words and Music by: Shelton Brooks.

Publisher:	Waterson, Berlin & Snyder Co.
Suppliers:
Printed: 1919.	Sheet Music 5 pages. Currently unavailable.

Lonesome For You Song
Words and Music by: Shelton Brooks.

Publisher:	Will Rossiter
Suppliers:
Printed: 1914.	Sheet Music 3 pages. Currently unavailable.

Love-Sick Blues Song
Words and Music by: Shelton Brooks.

Publisher:	Jos. W. Stern & Co.
Suppliers:
Printed: 1918.	Sheet Music 3 pages. Currently unavailable.

Ruff Johnson's Harmony Band Song
Words and Music by: Shelton Brooks.

Publisher:	Maurice Abrahams Music Co.
Suppliers:	Also see:
⇑ Printed: 1914.	Sheet Music 5 pages. Currently unavailable.

Some of These Days Song
Words and Music by: Shelton Brooks.

Publisher:	Francis, Day & Hunter
Suppliers:
Printed: 1910.	Sheet Music. Currently unavailable.

With separate voice part.

Some of These Days Song
Words and Music by: Shelton Brooks.

Publisher:	Will Rossiter
Suppliers:
Printed: 1912.	Sheet Music 4 pages. Limited Availability.

Somewhere, Somewhere in France Song
Music by: Shelton Brooks.
Words by: Wm. Vaughan Dunham
Performed by: Renée Close

Publisher:	Will Rossiter
Suppliers:
Printed: 1917.	Sheet Music 2 pages. Currently unavailable.

Tell Me Why You Want to Go to Paree Song
Words and Music by: Shelton Brooks.

Publisher:	McCarthy & Fisher
Suppliers:
⇑ Printed: 1919.	Sheet Music 3 pages. Currently unavailable.

That Humming Tune Song
Words and Music by: Shelton Brooks.

Publisher:	Will Rossiter
Suppliers:
Printed: 1911.	Sheet Music 3 pages. Currently unavailable.

There'll Come a Time Song
Words and Music by: Shelton Brooks.

Publisher:	Will Rossiter
Suppliers:
Printed: 1911.	Sheet Music 5 pages. Currently unavailable.

Wake Me Up Cooin' the Blues Song
Words and Music by: Shelton Brooks.
Co-Author: J. Russel Robinson

Publisher:	Leo Feist
Suppliers:
Printed: 1919.	Sheet Music 3 pages. Limited availability.

Walkin' the Dog Song
Words and Music by: Shelton Brooks.

Publisher:	Will Rossiter
Suppliers:	Also see:
⇑ Printed: 1916.	Sheet Music 3 pages. Currently unavailable.

When You Hear That Dixie Jazzband Play Song
Words and Music by: Shelton Brooks.

Publisher:	Will Rossiter
Suppliers:
Printed: 1918.	Sheet Music. Currently unavailable.

Why Did You Make Me Love You Song
Words and Music by: Shelton Brooks.

Publisher:	Will Rossiter
Suppliers:
Printed: 1917.	Sheet Music 3 pages. Currently unavailable.

Yo' Got to Be Kind to Me Song
Words and Music by: Shelton Brooks.

Publisher:	Will Rossiter
Suppliers:
Printed: 1914.	Sheet Music 4 pages. Currently unavailable.

You Ain't Talking to Me Song
Music by: Shelton Brooks.
Words by: Mat. Marshall

Publisher:	Will Rossiter
Suppliers:	B0000CTPPD: not available.
⇑ Printed: 1909.	Sheet Music. Currently unavailable.

You Can't Mend a Broken Heart Song
Words and Music by: Shelton Brooks.

Publisher:	Will Rossiter
Suppliers:
Printed: 1915.	Sheet Music 3 pages. Currently unavailable.

You Go in Mister Friend of Mine, I'll Stay Out Here Song
Words and Music by: Shelton Brooks.

Publisher:	Will Rossiter
Suppliers:
Printed: 1910.	Sheet Music 3 pages. Currently unavailable.

Cylinders

	Title (Release Year)	Co-Author(s)	Performers	Issue


All Night Long (1913)	Anna Chandler	Edison Blue Amberol: 1739
The Darktown Strutters' Ball (1918)	Premier Quartet	Edison Blue Amberol: 3476
Some of These Days (1911)	S. Tucker	Edison Amberol: 691
Walkin' the Dog (1916)	National Promenade Band	Edison Blue Amberol: 2967
All Night Long (1913)	Elsie West Baker	Indestructible Record: 3295

MIDIs

	Title	Co-Author(s)	Sequencer


	All Night Long (1912)		Denese Coulbeck
	Darktown Strutters' Ball (1917), The		Unknown
	Down on the Levee (1914)		James Pitt-Payne
	Walkin' the Dog (1916)		Unknown

Records

	Title (Release Year)	Composer	Performers	Issue


	Some of These Days (1926)	S. Brooks	S. Tucker	Columbia: W142955

Samples

	Title (Release Year)	Performers	Instruments


	Darktown Strutters' Ball (1917), The	Midi Ragtime Recorder Ens.	T/T/B/B/GB(B)

CDs

	Performer	CD Title	Supplier


Jazz Music CDs:
Turk Murphy	Turk Murphy's Jazz Band Favorites	CD(s) & MP3 Album(s)
Various Performers	Super Jazz-Best of New Orleans	CD(s) & MP3 Album(s)
Thomas Waller	Fats Waller: 1939-40	CD(s) & MP3 Album(s)
Thomas Waller	Fats Waller: Portrait Vol.2
Thomas Waller	Handful of Fats	CD(s) & MP3 Album(s)
Thomas Waller	A Handful of Keys	CD(s) & MP3 Album(s)
Boswell Sisters	Shout Sister Shout
Boswell Sisters	That's How Rhythm Was Born
Ragtime Music CDs:
Ted Lewis	Is Everybody Happy?: Ted Lewis and His Band
Various Artists	Honky Tonk Piano
⇑Various Artists	Lost Sounds: Blacks and the Birth of the Recording Industry 1891-1922
Various Artists	Pioneer Recording Bands 1917-1920	CD(s) & MP3 Album(s)
Various Artists	Player Piano Memories	CD(s) & MP3 Album(s)
Various Artists	Please Don't Shoot the Piano Player (Nostalgic Player Piano Music)	CD(s) & MP3 Album(s)
Various Artists	Ragtime to Jazz: Vol. 1	CD(s) & MP3 Album(s)
Various Artists	Real Ragtime
Various Artists	Rhapsody in Blue
Various Artists	Spirit of Ragtime
Various Artists	Stomp and Swerve: American Music Gets Hot	CD(s) & MP3 Album(s)
Various Artists	That Devilin' Tune	CD(s) & MP3 Album(s)
Willie Knox	Ragtime Piano
⇑James Price Johnson	Father of the Stride Piano
James Price Johnson	James P. Johnson 1944-45	CD(s) & MP3 Album(s)
James Reese Europe	Featuring Noble Sissle
James Reese Europe	James Reese Europe's 369th US Infantry Hell FightersBand	CD(s) & MP3 Album(s)
James Reese Europe	Too Much Mustard	CD(s) & MP3 Album(s)
Paragon Ragtime Orchestra	Minding the Score: The Music of Harry L. Alford	CD(s) & MP3 Album(s)
Alan Martin	Everything is Ragtime Now
Hot String Band Music	Got My Dancin' Boots On
Chrysanthemum Ragtime Band	Preserves, Vol. 1
Richard Zimmerman	Ragtime Favorites - Richard Zimmerman
Wilbur C. Sweatman	Jazzin' Straight Thru' Paradise	CD(s) & MP3 Album(s)
⇑Brown Brothers	Those Moaning Saxophones
Mark Birnbaum	Hot Piano! Ragtime Blues Jazz Classical Mark Birnbaum
George Lewis	George Lewis' Ragtime Band of New Orleans: The Oxford Series Vol. 01
George Lewis	George Lewis' Ragtime Band of New Orleans: The Oxford Series Vol. 02
George Lewis	George Lewis' Ragtime Band of New Orleans: The Oxford Series Vol. 07
Heliotrope Ragtime Orchestra	It's a Bear
Budapest Ragtime Band	Grace and Beauty
Butch Thompson	The Butch Thompson Trio Plays Favorites
Joe ''Fingers'' Carr	Honky Tonk Hits of Joe "Fingers" Carr
Johnny Maddox	Red Hot Ragtime Volume 2	CD(s) & MP3 Album(s)
Bill Edwards	The Two Sides of Perfessor Bill

Item	Title	Available	€	£	$	Other



DBE915	The Darktown Strutters' Ball (1917) - Song T/T/B/B/GB(B), approx. 3½ mins.	1-2 days

Library

	Title	Instruments	Remarks


	Darktown Strutters' Ball (1917), The	T/T/B/B/GB(B)

	Title	Attribution	Instruments	Source	Remarks


All Night Long (1912)	S. Brooks (music) Grace Wilson (perf.)	Piano, Voice	Sheet Music Singer
Cosey Rag (1911), The	S. Brooks (music) Irene Howley (perf.)	Piano, Voice	Indiana	Pub.
Darktown Strutters' Ball (1917)	S. Brooks (music) Joan Davis (perf.)	Piano, Voice	Indiana	Pub.
Darktown Strutters' Ball (1917), The	S. Brooks (music) Lou Monte (perf.) Betty Grable (perf.) John Payne (perf.) June Haver (perf.)	Piano, Voice	Sheet Music Singer YorkSpace YorkSpace YorkSpace	Pub.
Down on the Levee (1914)	S. Brooks (music) Rae Samuels (perf.) Rae Samuels (perf.)	Piano	Indiana Sheet Music Singer	Pub.
I Cert'ny Wish He Would Come Back (1914)	S. Brooks (music) Elizabeth M. Murray (perf.)	Piano	YorkSpace	Pub.
I Want to Shimmie (1919)	S. Brooks (music) G. Clarke (coauth.) Bee Palmer (perf.)	Piano, Voice	Indiana
⇑Jean (1919)	S. Brooks (w&m)	Piano, Voice	Indiana
Walkin' the Dog (1916)	S. Brooks (music) Cross & Josephine (perf.)	Piano, Voice	Sheet Music Singer	Pub.

Works

This list is arranged in chronological order and contains 45 works by Shelton Brooks (1886-1975). It does not claim to be complete and represents only the number of items located. Keys: ER

(w&m)

1909-1914

Title	Year	Attribution	Remarks


Honey Gal	1909	Maude Lambert (perf.) Florence LaRue (perf.)
You Ain't Talking to Me	1909	Mat. Marshall (words) Clifford & Burke (perf.)	Pub.
Some of These Days	1910	Mae Curtis (perf.) Reine Davies (perf.) Suzanne Rocamora (perf.) Mary Small (perf.) Sophie Tucker (perf.)	Pub.
You Go in Mister Friend of Mine, I'll Stay Out Here	1910		Pub.
Cosey Rag, The	1911	Irene Howley (perf.)	Pub.
It's Awf'ly Hard to Say Good-Bye to Someone You Love	1911	Bill Conklin (perf.) Harry L Newman (perf.)
That Humming Tune	1911	Alexander & Scott (perf.)	Pub.
There'll Come a Time	1911		Pub.
All Night Long	1912	Elsie West Baker (perf.) Anna Chandler (perf.) Grace Wilson (perf.) Elsie Baker as Edna Brown	Pub.
At an Old-Time Ball (w&m)	1913	Billy Montgomery (perf.) Florence E. Moore (perf.)	Pub.
I Want to Do the Bear-Cat Dance	1913		Pub.
⇑ I Wonder Where My Easy Rider's Gone	1913	Sophie Tucker (perf.)	Pub.
All That I Had Is Gone (w&m)	1914	W. R. Williams (co-author) Elizabeth D'Orsay (perf.)	Pub.
Down on the Levee	1914	Rae Samuels (perf.)	Pub.
Give Me One More Chance	1914	Maude Lambert (perf.) Lee White (perf.)	Pub.
I Cert'ny Wish He Would Come Back	1914	Maude Lambert (perf.) Elizabeth M. Murray (perf.)	Pub.

1914-1919

Title	Year	Attribution	Remarks


Lonesome For You	1914	Maude Lambert (perf.)
Ruff Johnson's Harmony Band	1914	Neil McKinley (perf.)
Yo' Got to Be Kind to Me	1914		Pub.
If I Were a Bee and You Were a Red, Red Rose (w&m)	1915	Elizabeth Brice (perf.) Charles King (perf.)	Pub.
Since You Went Away	1915
You Can't Mend a Broken Heart	1915	Dolce Sisters (perf.)	Pub.
Walkin' the Dog	1916	Dena Caryll (perf.) Cross & Josephine (perf.) National Promenade Band (perf.) Jessie Stoner (perf.)	Pub.
Darktown Strutters' Ball, The	1917	Boswell Sisters (perf.) Dorothy Brenner (perf.) Mabel Burke (perf.) Joe Cook (perf.) Joan Davis (perf.) Midi Ragtime Recorder Ensemble (perf.) Betty Grable (perf.) June Haver (perf.) Lou Monte (perf.) John Payne (perf.) Premier Quartet (perf.) Sophie Tucker (perf.)	Pub.
Somewhere, Somewhere in France	1917	Wm. Vaughan Dunham (words) Renée Close (perf.)	Pub.
Why Did You Make Me Love You	1917		Pub.
At the Cotton Pickers' Jubilee	1918
⇑ Ev'ry Day	1918	W. R. Williams (words) Claudie Tracey (perf.) Sophie Tucker (perf.)	Pub.
Love-Sick Blues	1918		Pub.
When You Hear That Dixie Jazzband Play	1918		Pub.
I Want to Shimmie	1919	Grant Clarke (co-author) Bee Palmer (perf.)
Jean (w&m)	1919

1919-?

Title	Year	Attribution	Remarks


Tell Me Why You Want to Go to Paree	1919
Wake Me Up Cooin' the Blues (w&m)	1919	J. Russel Robinson (co-author)
Jazz Dance Repertoire, The	1920	Chris Smith (words)
Don't Leave Your Little Blackbird Blue	1930	Joe Jordan (co-author) Porter Grainger (co-author)
Rhythm Train	1937
After All These Years	?	Ethel Waters (perf.)
Dream in a Dream	?	Jo Trent (co-author)
Hole in the Wall	?
Jazzbo Jenkins	?
She Done Him Wrong	?	Mae West (perf.)
Swing That Thing	?
⇑ That Man of Mine	?	Ted Koehler (words)
This Is My Sunday Off	?