Stephen Collins Foster (1826-1864)

Overview

According to The New Penguin Dictionary of Music, Stephen Foster was a prolific American composer mainly of songs to his own words. He was self-taught and died poor and an alcoholic.
Many of my early struggles with the piano started with Stephen Foster compositions such as Jeanie with the light brown hair and Beautiful Dreamer.

Websites:
	Stephen Collins Foster	An exhaustive biography by Kathryn Miller Haines.
	DAHR: Stephen Collins Foster	List of 546 historic recordings from 1894 to 1948.

Stephen Collins Foster (1826-1864) has at least 3 item(s) at the Amazons which you can order on-line by clicking the item's order icon.

Come Where My Love Lies Dreaming
Music by: Stephen Collins Foster.
Performed by: Christy Minstrels

Publisher:	F. Pitman Hart & Co.
Suppliers:
Printed: 1900.	Sheet Music.

Farewell My Lilly Dear A Plantation Melody
Music by: Stephen Collins Foster.
Performed by: Christy Minstrels

Publisher:	Firth, Pond & Co.
Suppliers:	B0016FWXOY: not available.
Printed: 1851.	Sheet Music.

My Old Kentucky Home, Good Night
Words and Music by: Stephen Collins Foster.
Performed by: Christy Minstrels

Publisher:	Wm. A. Pond & Co.
Suppliers:
Printed: 1853.	Sheet Music.

Cylinders

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


My Old Kentucky Home, Good Night (1896-1899)	Charles P. Lowe	Edison Record: 3014
My Old Kentucky Home, Good Night (1896-1897)	Charles P. Lowe	Columbia Phonograph Co.: 12006
My Old Kentucky Home, Good Night (1909)	Edison Concert Band	Edison Amberol: 87
My Old Kentucky Home, Good Night (1914)	Edison Concert Band	Edison Blue Amberol: 2239
Old Folks at Home (1915)	Christine Miller	Edison Blue Amberol: 2584
Nelly Was a Lady (1910)	Frank Coombs	Indestructible Record: 1373
Old Folks at Home (1908)	Florence Ethel Smith	U.S. Everlasting Record: 269
Come Where My Love Lies Dreaming (1919)	A. Case	Edison Royal Purple Amberol: 29022
My Old Kentucky Home, Good Night (1906)	George Alexander	Columbia Phonograph Co.: 32865
Old Folks at Home (1913)	Margaret Keyes	Edison Blue Amberol: 28143
Suwanee River (1903)(1903)	Samuel H. Dudley	Edison Gold Moulded Record: 8304

MIDIs

	Title	Co-Author(s)	Sequencer


Ah! May the Red Rose Live Alway (1850)		Unknown
Angelina Baker (1850)		Unknown
Annie My Own Love (1853)		American Dreams Stephen Foster
Away Down Souf (1848)		Werner Tomaschewski
Beautiful Dreamer (1864)		James Pitt-Payne
Better Times Are Coming (1862)		Werner Tomaschewski
Comrades, Fill No Glass For Me (1855)		Werner Tomaschewski
Cora Dean (1860)		Werner Tomaschewski
De Camptown Races (1850)		Unknown
Dolcy Jones (1849)		Werner Tomaschewski
Dolly Day (1850)		Werner Tomaschewski
Don't Bet Your Money on De Shanghai (1881)		Werner Tomaschewski
Down Among the Cane Breaks (1860)		Werner Tomaschewski
Farewell My Lilly Dear (1851)		Unknown
Gentle Annie (1856)		Benjamin R. Tubb
⇑Glendy Burk, The (1860)		Werner Tomaschewski
Hard Times Come Again No More (1954)		Werner Tomaschewski
I Still See Her in My Dreams (1857)		Werner Tomaschewski
I'll Be a Soldier (1861)		James Pitt-Payne
If You've Only Got a Moustache		Werner Tomaschewski
Jeanie With the Light Brown Hair (1854)		Werner Tomaschewski
Jenny June (1863)		Werner Tomachewski
Kissing in the Dark (1863)		Werner Tomaschewski
Lou'siana Belle (1947)		Werner Tomaschewski
Maggie by My Side (1852)		W. Tomaschewski
Massa's in De Cold Ground (1852)		Werner Tomaschewski
Melinda May (1850)		Werner Tomaschewski
My Brodder Gum (1849)		Werner Tomaschewski
My Old Kentucky Home, Good Night (1853)		Unknown
Nelly Bly (1850)		Benjamin R. Tubb
Nelly Was a Lady (1849)		Werner Tomaschewski
⇑Oh Boys Carry Me 'long (1851)		Werner Tomaschewski
Oh! Lemuel (1850)		Werner Tomaschewski
Oh! Susanna (1848)	S. Winner	Werner Tomaschewski
Old Black Joe (1860)		Werner Tomaschewski
Old Dog Tray (1853)		Benjamin R. Tubb
Old Folks at Home (1851)		Werner Tomaschewski
Old Uncle Ned (1902)		Werner Tomaschewski
Our Bright, Bright Summer Days Are Gone (1861)		Werner Tomaschewski
Ring, Ring De Banjo (1851)		Werner Tomaschewski
Sitting by My Own Cabin Door (1864)		Werner Tomaschewski
Soldier in De Colored Brigade (1863), A		Unknown
Summer Longings (1849)		Werner Tomaschewski
Way Down in C-A-I-Ro (1850)		Werner Tomaschewski
Way Down Upon the Swanee River (1935)		Unknown

MP3s

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


⇑Old Folks at Home (1899)	Roger Harding S. Porter	Columbia Phonograph Company: 13010
Come Where My Love Lies Dreaming (1908)	Knickerbocker Quartette	Edison's National Phonograph Company 9994
Plantation Songs (1928)	Paul Robeson	HMV C1588
Away Down Souf (1848)	Werner Tomaschewski	SMS 00189

Records

	Title (Release Year)	Composer	Performers	Issue


Come Where My Love Lies Dreaming (1908)	S. Foster	Louis Heine	Victor: B-6242
Come Where My Love Lies Dreaming (1916)	S. Foster	Oscar Seagle	Columbia: 48542
Come Where My Love Lies Dreaming (1915)	S. Foster	Knickerbocker Quartet	Edison: 3846
Come Where My Love Lies Dreaming (1916)	S. Foster	Thomas Chalmers	Edison: 4756
Come Where My Love Lies Dreaming (1918)	S. Foster	A. Case	Edison: 6258
De Camptown Races (1924)	S. Foster	W.W. Hall	Victor: B-29416
De Camptown Races (1916)	S. Foster	Harry C. Browne	Columbia: 46496
Gentle Annie (1919)	S. Foster	Merle Alcock	Victor: B-22696
Gentle Annie (1930)	S. Foster	A. P. Carter Maybelle Carter Sara Carter	Victor: BVE-59983
Gentle Annie (1910)	S. Foster	Carroll Clark	Columbia: 4443
Gentle Annie (1921)	S. Foster	Oscar Seagle	Columbia: 79771
Gentle Annie (1917)	S. Foster	Apollo Quartet of Boston	Edison: 5295
Hard Times Come Again No More (1905)	S. Foster	Haydn Quartet	Victor: B-2559
Hard Times Come Again No More (1910)	S. Foster	Frank Coombs	Columbia: 19155
Jeanie With the Light Brown Hair (1940)	S. Foster	Eddie Holly	Victor: BS-053271
Massa's in De Cold Ground (1912)	S. Foster	Marguerite Dunlap	Victor: B-12646
⇑Massa's in De Cold Ground (1908)	S. Foster	Haydn Quartet	Victor: B-6547
Massa's in De Cold Ground (1916)	S. Foster	Efrem Zimbalist	Victor: B-18933
Massa's in De Cold Ground (1910)	S. Foster	Carroll Clark	Columbia: 4446
Massa's in De Cold Ground (1917)	S. Foster	Lucy Gates	Columbia: 49276
Massa's in De Cold Ground (1918)	S. Foster	Oscar Seagle	Columbia: 49509
Massa's in De Cold Ground (1914)	S. Foster	Metropolitan Quartet	Edison: 3274
Massa's in De Cold Ground (1918)	S. Foster	Carolina Lazzari	Edison: 6369
My Old Kentucky Home, Good Night (1909)	S. Foster	Geraldine Farrar Harry MacDonough Reed Miller Reinald Werrenrath	Victor: B-8273
My Old Kentucky Home, Good Night (1903)	S. Foster	Haydn Quartet	Victor: [Pre- B-]1997
My Old Kentucky Home, Good Night (1903)	S. Foster	Arthur Pryor	Victor: B-371
My Old Kentucky Home, Good Night (1904)	S. Foster	Corinne Morgan	Victor: B-1314
My Old Kentucky Home, Good Night (1910)	S. Foster	Geraldine Farrar	Victor: C-8273
My Old Kentucky Home, Good Night (1913)	S. Foster	Alma Gluck	Victor: C-14258
My Old Kentucky Home, Good Night (1916)	S. Foster	Alma Gluck William F. Hooley Harry MacDonough Lambert Murphy Frederick J. Wheeler	Victor: C-17156
My Old Kentucky Home, Good Night (1906)	S. Foster	George Alexander	Columbia: 3354
My Old Kentucky Home, Good Night (1917)	S. Foster	Paulist Choristers of Chicago	Columbia: 77450
My Old Kentucky Home, Good Night (1918)	S. Foster	Lucy Gates	Columbia: 49341
⇑My Old Kentucky Home, Good Night (1927)	S. Foster	Vernon Archibald Frank Croxton Charles Harrison Redfern Hollinshaw	Columbia: W144607
My Old Kentucky Home, Good Night (1914)	S. Foster	Thomas Chalmers	Edison: 2951
My Old Kentucky Home, Good Night (1918)	S. Foster	Frieda Hempel	Edison: 5966
My Old Kentucky Home, Good Night (1929)	S. Foster	American Singers	Edison: 19257
Nelly Was a Lady (1917)	S. Foster	Alma Gluck William F. Hooley Harry MacDonough Lambert Murphy Reinald Werrenrath	Victor: B-20094
Oh Boys Carry Me 'long (1918)	S. Foster	Harry C. Browne	Columbia: 77946
Oh! Susanna (1924)	S. Foster	W.W. Hall	Victor: B-29417
Oh! Susanna (1916)	S. Foster	Harry C. Browne	Columbia: 46873
Oh! Susanna (1923)	S. Foster	Donald Alexander Chalmers George W. Reardon Horatio Rench John Young	Edison: 9205
Old Black Joe (1918)	S. Foster	Barbara Maurel	Columbia: 49496
Old Black Joe (1906)	S. Foster	Columbia Quartette	Columbia: 30038
Old Black Joe (1903)	S. Foster	Haydn Quartet	Victor: B-527
Old Black Joe (1904)	S. Foster	Bob Roberts	Victor: B-1544
Old Black Joe (1908)	S. Foster	Louise Homer	Victor: C-6037
Old Black Joe (1909)	S. Foster	Alfred Garfield King J. A. Myers Noah Walker Ryder John Wesley Work	Victor: C-8454
Old Black Joe (1913)	S. Foster	Clarence Whitehill	Victor: B-13496
Old Black Joe (1914)	S. Foster	Christine Miller	Victor: B-14839
⇑Old Black Joe (1915)	S. Foster	Alma Gluck Charles Harrison William F. Hooley Harry MacDonough Lambert Murphy Reinald Werrenrath Frederick J. Wheeler	Victor: C-16082
Old Black Joe (1916)	S. Foster	Columbia Stellar Quartette	Columbia: 46844
Old Black Joe (1917)	S. Foster	Paulist Choristers of Chicago	Columbia: 77449
Old Black Joe (1910)	S. Foster	Mrs. A. Stewart Holt	Columbia: 30402
Old Black Joe (1915)	S. Foster	Alice Nielsen	Columbia: 37184
Old Black Joe (1917)	S. Foster	Louis Graveure	Columbia: 49122
Old Black Joe (1916)	S. Foster	Criterion Quartet	Edison: 5028
Old Black Joe (1917)	S. Foster	Thomas Chalmers	Edison: 5594
Old Dog Tray (1915)	S. Foster	Walter Van Brunt as Walter Scanlan	Edison: 3579
Old Folks at Home (1918)	S. Foster	Clara Butt	Columbia: 76022
Old Folks at Home (1916)	S. Foster	A. Case	Edison: 4882
Old Folks at Home (1922)	S. Foster	Amelita Galli-Curci	Victor: B-26594
Old Folks at Home (1910)	S. Foster	Marguerite Dunlap	Victor: B-9146
Old Folks at Home (1905)	S. Foster	Louise Homer	Victor: B-2603
Old Folks at Home (1907)	S. Foster	Emma Calvé	Victor: C-4429
Old Folks at Home (1909)	S. Foster	Whitney Brothers Quartet	Victor: B-8062
Old Folks at Home (1913)	S. Foster	Nellie Melba	Victor: C-13904
⇑Old Folks at Home (1918)	S. Foster	Ernestine Schumann-Heink	Victor: C-22183
Old Folks at Home (1910)	S. Foster	Alice Nielsen	Columbia: 30580
Old Folks at Home (1918)	S. Foster	Oscar Seagle	Columbia: 49508
Old Folks at Home (1921)	S. Foster	Rosa Ponselle	Columbia: 49934
Old Folks at Home (1928)	S. Foster	Sophie Braslau	Columbia: W98581
Old Folks at Home (1903)	S. Foster	Florence Venning	Columbia: 25110
Old Folks at Home (1912)	S. Foster	Christine Miller	Edison: 1077
Old Folks at Home (1905)	S. Foster	Adelina Patti	Gramophone: 540f
Old Folks at Home (1905)	S. Foster	P. Dawson Nellie Melba Ernest Pike Gwladys Roberts	Gramophone: 7203b
Old Folks at Home (1902)	S. Foster	Albert Campbell George J. Gaskin S. Porter Harry Spencer L. Spencer	Columbia: 804
Old Uncle Ned (1921)	S. Foster	Oscar Seagle	Columbia: 79967
Old Uncle Ned (1916)	S. Foster	Graham Marr	Columbia: 48832
Suwanee River (Parody) (1902)	S. Foster	B. Shepard	Victor: [Pre- B-]900
Sweetly She Sleeps, My Alice Fair (1934)	S. Foster	John McCormack	Gramophone: 0EA411

Books

	Title	Author	Supplier


	Doo-Dah : Stephen Foster and the Rise of American Popular Culture	Ken Emerson
	Stephen Foster: American Troubador	John Howard
	Susanna, Jeanie, and The Old Folks at Home	William W. Austin

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The loss of this valuable resource is very sad and a mystery.

	Title	Attribution	Remarks


	Beautiful Dreamer	Stephen Collins Foster (words & music) Christy Minstrels (perf.)

	Title	Attribution	Instruments	Source	Remarks


Ah! May the Red Rose Live Alway (1850)	S. Foster (w&m)	Piano	Sheet Music Singer
Angelina Baker (1850)	S. Foster (music)	Piano	Sheet Music Singer	Pub.
Annie My Own Love (1853)	S. Foster (music) Charles P. Shiras (words)	Piano, Voice	Sheet Music Singer
Away Down Souf (1848)	S. Foster (w&m)	Piano, Voice	Sheet Music Singer
Beautiful Dreamer (1864)	S. Foster (w&m)	Piano, Voice	IMSLP Indiana Sheet Music Singer
Better Times Are Coming (1862)	S. Foster (w&m)	Piano, Voice	Sheet Music Singer
Camptown Races (De), Gwine to Run All Night (1850)	S. Foster (w&m)	Piano, Voice	IMSLP	Pub.
⇑Come Where My Love Lies Dreaming (1855)	S. Foster (w&m)	Piano, Voice	IMSLP Indiana
Comrades, Fill No Glass For Me (1855)	S. Foster (w&m)	Piano, Voice	Sheet Music Singer
Cora Dean (1860)	S. Foster (w&m)	Piano, Voice	Sheet Music Singer	Pub.
De Camptown Races (1850)	S. Foster (w&m)	Piano, Voice	Sheet Music Singer	Pub.
Dolcy Jones (1849)	S. Foster (w&m)	Piano, Voice	Sheet Music Singer	Pub.
Dolly Day (1850)	S. Foster (music) Christy Minstrels (perf.)	Piano	Sheet Music Singer	Pub.
Don't Bet Your Money on De Shanghai (1881)	S. Foster (w&m)	Piano, Voice	Sheet Music Singer	Pub.
Down Among the Cane Breaks (1860)	S. Foster (w&m)	Piano, Voice	Sheet Music Singer	Pub.
⇑Ellen Bayne (1854)	S. Foster (w&m) Edwin C. Christy (perf.) Edwin C. Christy (perf.)	Piano, Voice	IMSLP Indiana	Pub.
Eulalie (1851)	S. Foster (music) Henry Sylvester Cornwell (words)	Piano, Voice	IMSLP Indiana	Pub.
Farewell My Lilly Dear (1851)	S. Foster (w&m) Christy Minstrels (perf.) Christy Minstrels (perf.) Christy Minstrels (perf.)	Piano, Voice	IMSLP Indiana Sheet Music Singer	Pub.
Gentle Annie (1856)	S. Foster (w&m)	Piano	Greer IMSLP Sheet Music Singer	Pub.
Glendy Burk (1860), The	S. Foster (w&m)	Piano, Voice	IMSLP Sheet Music Singer	Pub.
Hard Times Come Again No More (1954)	S. Foster (w&m)	Piano, Voice	Sheet Music Singer	Pub.
I See Her Still in My Dreams (1857)	S. Foster (w&m)	Piano, Voice	Sheet Music Singer	Pub.
I Still See Her in My Dreams (1857)	S. Foster (w&m)	Piano, Voice	Indiana	Pub.
⇑I'll Be a Soldier (1861)	S. Foster (w&m)	Piano, Voice	Sheet Music Singer
If You've Only Got a Moustache	S. Foster (music) George Cooper (words)	Piano, Voice	Sheet Music Singer	Pub.
Jeanie With the Light Brown Hair (1854)	S. Foster (w&m)	Piano, Voice	IMSLP Sheet Music Singer	Pub.
Jenny June (1863)	S. Foster (music) George Cooper (words) Woods Minstrels (perf.)	Piano, Voice	Sheet Music Singer
Kissing in the Dark (1863)	S. Foster (music) George Cooper (words)	Piano, Voice	Sheet Music Singer	Pub.
Linger in Blissful Repose (1858)	S. Foster (w&m)	Piano, Voice	Greer IMSLP Indiana	Pub.
Lou'siana Belle (1847)	S. Foster (w&m) Joseph Murphy (perf.)	Piano, Voice	Sheet Music Singer	Pub.
Lula Is Gone (1858)	S. Foster (w&m)	Piano, Voice	Indiana	Pub.
⇑Maggie by My Side (1852)	S. Foster (w&m)	Piano, Voice	Indiana Sheet Music Singer	Pub.
Massa's in De Cold Ground (1852)	S. Foster (w&m) Christy Minstrels (perf.) Christy Minstrels (perf.)	Piano, Voice	IMSLP Indiana Sheet Music Singer	Pub.
Melinda May (1850)	S. Foster (w&m) New Orleans Serenaders (perf.)	Piano, Voice	Sheet Music Singer	Pub.
Molly Do You Love Me? (1850)	S. Foster (w&m)	Piano, Voice	Indiana	Pub.
My Brodder Gum (1849)	S. Foster (w&m)	Piano, Voice	IMSLP Sheet Music Singer	Pub.
My Old Kentucky Home, Good Night (1853)	S. Foster (w&m) Christy Minstrels (perf.) Christy Minstrels (perf.)	Piano, Voice	IMSLP Indiana Sheet Music Singer YorkSpace	Pub.
Nellie Bly (1850)	S. Foster (w&m)	Piano, Voice	IMSLP Indiana	Pub.
Nelly Bly (1850)	S. Foster (w&m)	Piano, Voice	Sheet Music Singer	Pub.
⇑Nelly Was a Lady (1849)	S. Foster (w&m)	Piano, Voice	Indiana Sheet Music Singer	Pub.
Oh Boys Carry Me 'long (1851)	S. Foster (w&m)	Piano, Voice	IMSLP Indiana Sheet Music Singer	Pub.
Oh! Lemuel (1850)	S. Foster (w&m) Christy Minstrels (perf.)	Piano, Voice	Sheet Music Singer	Pub.
Oh! Susanna (1848)	S. Foster (w&m) S. Winner (coauth.) Christy Minstrels (perf.) Christy Minstrels (perf.) Ethiopean Serenaders (perf.)	Piano	Greer IMSLP Sheet Music Singer
Old Black Joe (1860)	S. Foster (w&m)	Piano, Voice	IMSLP Indiana Sheet Music Singer
Old Dog Tray (1853)	S. Foster (w&m) Christy Minstrels (perf.) Christy Minstrels (perf.) Christy Minstrels (perf.)	Piano, Voice	IMSLP Indiana Sheet Music Singer	Pub.
Old Folks at Home (1851)	S. Foster (w&m) Christy Minstrels (perf.) Christina Nilsson (perf.) E. Christy (perf.) Christy Minstrels (perf.)	Piano, Voice	IMSLP Indiana Indiana Sheet Music Singer YorkSpace	Pub.
Old Uncle Ned (1848)	S. Foster (w&m)	Piano, Voice	Sheet Music Singer	Pub.
⇑Our Bright, Bright Summer Days Are Gone (1861)	S. Foster (w&m)	Piano, Voice	Sheet Music Singer	Pub.
Ring, Ring De Banjo (1851)	S. Foster (w&m)	Piano, Voice	IMSLP Sheet Music Singer
She Was All the World to Me (1864)	S. Foster (music) Dr. Duffy (words)	Piano, Voice	IMSLP
Sitting by My Own Cabin Door (1864)	S. Foster (w&m)	Piano, Voice	Sheet Music Singer	Pub.
Soldier in De Colored Brigade (1863), A	S. Foster (music) George Cooper (words)	Piano, Voice	Sheet Music Singer	Pub.
Song of All Songs (1888), The	S. Foster (w&m)	Piano, Voice	Indiana
Summer Longings (1849)	S. Foster (w&m)	Piano, Voice	Sheet Music Singer	Pub.
Under the Willow She's Sleeping (1863)	S. Foster (w&m)	Piano, Voice	Indiana	Pub.
⇑Way Down in C-A-I-Ro (1850)	S. Foster (w&m) James F. Taunt (perf.) James F. Taunt (perf.)	Piano, Voice	Indiana Sheet Music Singer	Pub.
Willie, We Have Missed You (1854)	S. Foster (w&m)	Piano, Voice	IMSLP Indiana	Pub.

Sheet Music

Recorder Sheet Music

Album of Well-Known Songs (American Folk) (D/A/T)

Score and Parts.
Arr./Editor: A. Charlton
Publisher: Jolly Robin (JR00016)

Jeanie with the Light Brown Hair (D/A/T/B)

Score.
Publisher: Loux Music Publishing Co. (RFS0010)

SMP

Works

This list is arranged in chronological order and contains 62 works by Stephen Collins Foster (1826-1864). It does not claim to be complete and represents only the number of items located. Keys:

(w&m)

1847-1850

Title	Year	Attribution	Remarks


Lou'siana Belle (w&m)	1847	Joseph Murphy (perf.)
Away Down Souf (w&m)	1848	Werner Tomaschewski (perf.)	Pub.
Oh! Susanna (w&m)	1848	Septimus Winner (co-author) Betty, Jean & Jim (perf.) Blaine & Cal Smith (perf.) Harry C. Browne (perf.) Donald Alexander Chalmers (perf.) Christy Minstrels (perf.) Johnny Fox (perf.) Wendell Woods Hall (perf.) George W. Reardon (perf.) Horatio Rench (perf.) Ethiopean Serenaders (perf.) Lois Wilson (perf.) John Young (perf.)
Old Uncle Ned (w&m)	1848	Graham Marr (perf.) Oscar Seagle (perf.)
Dolcy Jones (w&m)	1849
My Brodder Gum (w&m)	1849		Pub.
Nelly Was a Lady (w&m)	1849	Frank Coombs (perf.) Alma Gluck (perf.) William F. Hooley (perf.) Harry MacDonough (perf.) Lambert Murphy (perf.) Reinald Werrenrath (perf.)	Pub.
Summer Longings (w&m)	1849		Pub.
Ah! May the Red Rose Live Alway (w&m)	1850		Pub.
Angelina Baker	1850		Pub.
De Camptown Races (w&m)	1850	Harry C. Browne (perf.) Wendell Woods Hall (perf.)	Pub.
⇑ Dolly Day	1850	Christy Minstrels (perf.)
Melinda May (w&m)	1850	New Orleans Serenaders (perf.)	Pub.
Molly Do You Love Me? (w&m)	1850		Pub.
Nelly Bly (w&m)	1850		Pub.
Oh! Lemuel (w&m)	1850	Christy Minstrels (perf.)	Pub.

1850-1855

Title	Year	Attribution	Remarks


Way Down in C-A-I-Ro (w&m)	1850	James F. Taunt (perf.)
Eulalie	1851	Henry Sylvester Cornwell (words)	Pub.
Farewell My Lilly Dear (w&m)	1851	Christy Minstrels (perf.)	Pub.
Oh Boys Carry Me 'long (w&m)	1851	Harry C. Browne (perf.)	Pub.
Old Folks at Home (w&m)	1851	Sophie Braslau (perf.) Clara Butt (perf.) Emma Calvé (perf.) Albert Campbell (perf.) Anna Case (perf.) Christy Minstrels (perf.) Edwin Pearce Christy (perf.) Peter Dawson (perf.) Marguerite Dunlap (perf.) Amelita Galli-Curci (perf.) George J. Gaskin (perf.) Roger Harding (perf.) Louise Homer (perf.) Margaret Keyes (perf.) Nellie Melba (perf.) Christine Miller (perf.) Alice Nielsen (perf.) Christina Nilsson (perf.) Adelina Patti (perf.) Ernest Pike (perf.) Rosa Ponselle (perf.) Steve Porter (perf.) Gwladys Roberts (perf.) Ernestine Schumann-Heink (perf.) Oscar Seagle (perf.) Florence Ethel Smith (perf.) Harry Spencer (perf.) Len Spencer (perf.) Florence Venning (perf.) Whitney Brothers Quartet (perf.) Sold by Foster to Edwin Pearce Christy	Pub.
Ring, Ring De Banjo (w&m)	1851
Maggie by My Side (w&m)	1852		Pub.
Massa's in De Cold Ground (w&m)	1852	Christy Minstrels (perf.) Carroll Clark (perf.) Marguerite Dunlap (perf.) Lucy Gates (perf.) Haydn Quartet (perf.) Carolina Lazzari (perf.) Metropolitan Quartet (perf.) Oscar Seagle (perf.) Efrem Zimbalist (perf.)	Pub.
Annie My Own Love	1853	Charles P. Shiras (words)	Pub.
My Old Kentucky Home, Good Night (w&m)	1853	George Alexander (perf.) Vernon Archibald (perf.) Thomas Chalmers (perf.) Paulist Choristers of Chicago (perf.) Christy Minstrels (perf.) Frank Croxton (perf.) Edison Concert Band (perf.) Geraldine Farrar (perf.) Lucy Gates (perf.) Alma Gluck (perf.) Charles Harrison (perf.) Haydn Quartet (perf.) Frieda Hempel (perf.) Redfern Hollinshaw (perf.) William F. Hooley (perf.) Charles P. Lowe (perf.) Harry MacDonough (perf.) Reed Miller (perf.) Corinne Morgan (perf.) Lambert Murphy (perf.) Arthur Pryor (perf.) American Singers (perf.) Reinald Werrenrath (perf.) Frederick J. Wheeler (perf.)
Old Dog Tray (w&m)	1853	Walter Van Brunt as Walter Scanlan (perf.) Christy Minstrels (perf.)	Pub.
⇑ Ellen Bayne (w&m)	1854	Edwin C. Christy (perf.)	Pub.
Jeanie With the Light Brown Hair (w&m)	1854	Dale Evans (perf.) Milt Herth (perf.) Eddie Holly (perf.) John McCormack (perf.) Jack Spratt (perf.)	Pub.
Willie, We Have Missed You (w&m)	1854		Pub.
Come Where My Love Lies Dreaming (w&m)	1855	Anna Case (perf.) Thomas Chalmers (perf.) Christy Minstrels (perf.) Louis Heine (perf.) Knickerbocker Quartette (perf.) Oscar Seagle (perf.)
Comrades, Fill No Glass For Me (w&m)	1855

1856-1864

Title	Year	Attribution	Remarks


Gentle Annie (w&m)	1856	Merle Alcock (perf.) Apollo Quartet of Boston (perf.) A. P. Carter (perf.) Maybelle Carter (perf.) Sara Carter (perf.) Christy Minstrels (perf.) Carroll Clark (perf.) Oscar Seagle (perf.)
I See Her Still in My Dreams (w&m)	1857		Pub.
Linger in Blissful Repose (w&m)	1858		Pub.
Lula Is Gone (w&m)	1858		Pub.
Cora Dean (w&m)	1860		Pub.
Down Among the Cane Breaks (w&m)	1860		Pub.
Glendy Burk, The (w&m)	1860		Pub.
Old Black Joe (w&m)	1860	Clara Butt (perf.) Thomas Chalmers (perf.) Paulist Choristers of Chicago (perf.) Columbia Quartette (perf.) Columbia Stellar Quartette (perf.) Criterion Quartet (perf.) Alma Gluck (perf.) Louis Graveure (perf.) Charles Harrison (perf.) Haydn Quartet (perf.) Mrs. A. Stewart Holt (perf.) Louise Homer (perf.) William F. Hooley (perf.) Alfred Garfield King (perf.) Harry MacDonough (perf.) Barbara Maurel (perf.) Christine Miller (perf.) Lambert Murphy (perf.) J. A. Myers (perf.) Alice Nielsen (perf.) Bob Roberts (perf.) Noah Walker Ryder (perf.) Orrin Tucker (perf.) Reinald Werrenrath (perf.) Frederick J. Wheeler (perf.) Clarence Whitehill (perf.) John Wesley Work (perf.)
I'll Be a Soldier (w&m)	1861
Our Bright, Bright Summer Days Are Gone (w&m)	1861		Pub.
Better Times Are Coming (w&m)	1862
⇑ Jenny June	1863	George Cooper (words) Woods Minstrels (perf.)
Kissing in the Dark	1863	George Cooper (words)	Pub.
Soldier in De Colored Brigade, A	1863	George Cooper (words)	Pub.
Under the Willow She's Sleeping (w&m)	1863		Pub.
Beautiful Dreamer (w&m)	1864	Christy Minstrels (perf.) Stephen Sasloe (perf.) Jonathan Guyot Smith (perf.)

1864-?

Title	Year	Attribution	Remarks


If You've Only Got a Moustache	1864	George Cooper (words)
She Was All the World to Me	1864	Dr. Duffy (words)
Sitting by My Own Cabin Door (w&m)	1864
Don't Bet Your Money on De Shanghai (w&m)	1881
Song of All Songs, The (w&m)	1888
Suwanee River (Parody)	1903	Samuel H. Dudley (perf.) Burt Shepard (perf.)
Plantation Songs	1928	Paul Robeson (perf.)
Sweetly She Sleeps, My Alice Fair	1934	Charles G. Eastman (words) John McCormack (perf.)
Way Down Upon the Swanee River	1935	Stephen Foster (words) Samuel H. Dudley (perf.) Paul Robeson (perf.) S. H. Dudley parodises it.
For the Dear Old Flag I Die (w&m)	1939
Hard Times Come Again No More (w&m)	1954	Frank Coombs (perf.) Haydn Quartet (perf.)	Pub.
⇑ Open Thy Lattice, Love (w&m)	1957
Some Folks (w&m)	1957		Pub.
White House Chair, The (w&m)	?

Videos

	Composer	Title	Performer


S. Foster	Beautiful Dreamer (3:24)	Jonathan Guyot Smith & Stephen Sasloe
S. Foster	Jeanie with the light brown hair (3:01)	John McCormack
S. Foster	Way down upon the Swanee River (3:15)	Paul Robeson