Harry DeCosta (1885-1964)
Last updated: 18.11.18
According to the Internet source given below, Composer, songwriter (Hold That Tiger"), author and pianist who accompanied Jones & Hare, and a writer of special material for vaudeville. He was a pianist for music publishers and a radio script writer and composer. Joining ASCAP in 1925, his other popular-song compositions include "Little Gray Mother", "Ragamuffin Romeo", "That Soothing Serenade", "Slappin' the Bass", "Mary Dear", "Love Me a Little Little", "My Mammy Knows", and "Love Made a Gypsy Out of Me".
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Are You Half the Man Your Mother Thought You'd Be? By Harry DeCosta, Co-Author: Leo Wood.
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 I'm Saving Up the Means to Get to New OrleansMusic by Harry DeCosta. Words by: Howard Johnson.
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 Love Made a Gypsy Out of MeBy Harry DeCosta.
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This list is arranged in chronological order and contains 23 works by Harry DeCosta (1885-1964). It does not claim to be complete and represents only the number of items located. Key: Electronic Resource Items
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| The Bunny Hug Rag | 1912 |  |
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| In Alabama, Dear, With You | 1915 | Ellen Orr | |
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| The Little Grey Mother | 1915 | Bernard Grossman | |
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| Are You Half the Man Your Mother Thought You'd Be? | 1916 | Leo Wood |  |
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| The Eyes of Heaven | 1916 | William A. Wilander | |
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| I'm Saving Up the Means to Get to New Orleans | 1916 | Howard Johnson | |
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| At the Coffee Cooler's Tea | 1918 | Alex Sullivan | |
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| An Old Grand Army Man | 1918 | Words & Music by DeCosta | |
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| That Soothing Serenade | 1918 | Words & Music by DeCosta | |
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| We Want Our Daddy Dear, Back Home | 1918 | James M. Reilly | |
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| When the Good Lord Makes a Record of a Hero's Deed He Draws No Color Line | 1918 | |||
| I'll Be Back Home in Indiana | 1919 | Frank Chodrow | |
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| I've Got the Shimmee Blues | 1919 | Words & Music by DeCosta | |
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| My Mammy Knows | 1921 | |
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| Mary Dear | 1922 | M.K. Jerome | |
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| ⇑ The Dumber They Come the Better I Like 'em | 1924 | |||
| Oh Boy! How It Was Raining | 1926 | Abner Silver | |
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| Vulgar Boatman | 1926 | Sidney Claire, James V Monaco | |
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| The Prune Song | 1928 | Frank Crumit | |
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| Dancing Animal Crackers | 1929 | Herbert Steiner | |
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| Love Made a Gypsy Out of Me | 1929 | |
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| Slappin' the Bass | 1930 | |||
| Love Me a Little Little | ? |
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The Bunny Hug Rag | 2:52 | H. DeCosta | Ragtime Dorian Henry |