Billy Frisch (1882-1968)
Last updated: 13.09.24
All that can presently (June 2024) be gleaned about Billy Frisch from sheet music covers and by internet searching is that he has 14 works published between 1918 and 1931.Of ragtime interest is his Minnie, Shimme For Me (1918) published by Broadway Music Corp., New York, USA.
His portrait on the left is taken from I Want to Be in Dixie (1911) music by Ted Snyder, co-author Ted Snyder, and published by Waterson, Berlin & Snyder Co., New York, USA.
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| Title | Attribution | Instruments | Source | Remarks |
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Everybody's Buddy (1920) | B. Frisch (music) B. Grossman (words) |
Piano, Voice | Greer IMSLP Indiana |
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God Gives Us One Mother, That's All (1919) | B. Frisch (music) L. Brown (words) |
Piano, Voice | Indiana | |
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Minnie, Shimmie For Me (1918) | B. Frisch (music) Jimmy Lucas (words) |
Piano, Voice | IMSLP Indiana |
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Smile and the World Smiles With You (1919) | B. Frisch (music) Jimmie Lucas (words) |
Piano, Voice | IMSLP Indiana |
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I Want to Be in Dixie (1911) | I. Berlin (music) T. Snyder (coauth.) B. Frisch (perf.) |
Piano | Indiana | |
The peformer is featured on 1 sheet music/recording cover. It does not claim to be complete and represents only the number of items located. Keys: ER
| Title | Composer | Attribution | Remarks |
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I Want to Be in Dixie (1911) | Irving Berlin | Ted Snyder (co-author)
Billy Frisch (perf.) |
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This list is arranged in chronological order and contains 14 works by Billy Frisch (1882-1968).
It does not claim to be complete and represents only the number of items located. Keys:
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| Title | Year | Attribution | Remarks |
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| Minnie, Shimmie For Me | 1918 | Jimmy Lucas (words) |  |
| Bom-Bom-Bom-Bhe | 1919 | Bobby Jones (words) | |
| God Gives Us One Mother, That's All | 1919 | Lew Brown (words) | Pub. |
| I'm Going to Tarry Down in Tarry - Town | 1919 | Bernie Grossman (words) Bobby Jones (words) |
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| Smile and the World Smiles With You | 1919 | Jimmie Lucas (words) | Pub. |
| Told in the Hills | 1919 | Bernie Grossman (words) Ann Little (perf.) Marshall Montgomery (perf.) Robert Warwick (perf.) |
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| Why Do They Call 'em Wild Women? | 1919 | Bernie Grossman (words) Ben Russell (words) Billy Glason (perf.) |
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| Everybody's Buddy | 1920 | Bernie Grossman (words) | |
| All Aboard For the Rocking Chair Express | 1921 | Bernie Grossman (words) | |
| Ain't We Carryin' On (w&m) | 1926 | Roy Bergere (co-author) | |
| I'm Just a Wall Flower (w&m) | 1926 | Roy Bergere (co-author) Jack Pepper (co-author) Leota & Lola Lane (perf.) |
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| ⇑ In a Window, in a House, in Caroline (w&m) | 1930 | Otto Motzan (co-author) Charles Dameron (perf.) Will Osborne (perf.) Tom, Dick & Harry (perf.) Rudy Vallée (perf.) |
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| In Old New Hampshire Far Away (w&m) | 1930 | Otto Motzan (co-author) Glenn & Gene (perf.) |
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| Swinging Along the Blue Ridge Trail (w&m) | 1931 | Otto Motzan (co-author) | |