J. Fred Helf (1870?-1915?)

Overview

J. Fred Helf was an American composer, songwriter and publisher of popular music. His best known piece was probably If Money Talks, It Ain't On Speaking Terms With Me ( 1902). His Every Race Has a Flag but the Coon (1900), interesting for its social comment, Texas Tommy's Dance (1911) and The Fatal Rose of Red (1900) also enjoyed limited popularity. Whilst scarcely ragtime, his A Bit O'Blarney - An Irish Intermezzo (1904) is also interesting.
After several years of success, his publishing business went bankrupt through a dispute with songwriter Ballard Macdonald over Play That Barbershop Chord (1910) which he worked on together with Lewis F. Muir and William Tracey.

Websites:
	J. Fred Helf	Brief biography by Wikipedia.

J. Fred Helf (1870?-1915?) has at least 1 item(s) at the Amazons which you can order on-line by clicking the item's order icon.

Contentment Song
Music by: J. Fred Helf.
Words by: Leonard G. Vance

Publisher:	Leo Feist
Suppliers:
Printed: 1907.	Sheet Music. Limited availability.

	Title	Instruments/Issue	Performers


MP3 File(s)
Afloat on a Five Dollar Note	Edison Gold Moulded Record: 9316	Arthur Collins Byron George Harlan
Ain't You Coming Back to Old New Hampshire, Molly?	Columbia Record: 33048	Columbia Quartette
Alone at Last	Edison Blue Amberol: 2823	W.V. Brunt
Arrah, Come in Out of the Rain	Edison Standard Record: 10247	Ada Jones
Betsy Ross	Edison Amberol: 405	Frederic H. Potter
Captain Baby Bunting	Edison Gold Moulded Record: 9508	Byron George Harlan
Colleen Bawn	Edison Gold Moulded Record: 9269	Byron George Harlan F.C. Stanley
Daddy's Little Tom Boy Girl	Edison Record: 9852	S. Tobin
Fables	Edison Blue Amberol: 1632	Bob Roberts
Fatal Rose of Red, The	Edison Gold Moulded Record: 7601	Joseph Natus
Fatal Rose of Red, The	Columbia Record: 5851	John W. Myers
Father Is a Judge	Indestructible Record: 970	F. Duprez
Father Is a Judge	Edison Standard Record: 10043	Edward Meeker
Go Easy Mabel	Edison Standard Record: 10173	Edward Meeker
Hands Up	Edison Amberol: 806	Ada Jones Billy Murray
⇑Here's to Our Absent Brothers	Edison Gold Moulded Record: 9296	Byron George Harlan
How'd You Like to Be the Iceman?	Edison Record: 6107	Edward M. Favor
I Am Longing For the Old Days, Marguerite	Edison Amberol: 394	Manuel Romain
I Couldn't Spell That Word Because I Love You	Edison Record: 7391	Byron George Harlan
I Don't Want the Morning to Come	Edison Standard Record: 10028	F. Rose
I Lost My Heart When I Saw Your Eyes	Edison Record: 9954	Manuel Romain
I Never Cared For Anyone the Way I Care For You	Edison Standard Record: 10064	Byron George Harlan
I Think I See My Brother Coming Now	Edison Gold Moulded Record: 9978	Arthur Collins
I'd Rather Say Hello Than Goodbye	Edison Standard Record: 10336	Manuel Romain
I'll Be Waiting in the Gloaming, Sweet Genevieve	Columbia Phonograph Co.: 32806	Albert Campbell
I'll Be Waiting in the Gloaming, Sweet Genevieve	Edison Gold Moulded Record: 9108	Byron George Harlan
I'll Be Your Rain-Beau	Columbia Phonograph Co.: 31761	Lucille Jocelyn
I'll Be Your Rain-Beau	Columbia Phonograph Co.: 31874	Dan W. Quinn
I'm Tying the Leaves So They Won't Come Down	Edison Gold Moulded Record: 9606	Byron George Harlan
If I Had My Choice	Indestructible Record: 1215	Henry Burr
If I Must Say Farewell, Kate, Let Me Kiss Your Lips Good-Bye	Edison Blue Amberol: Special C	Manuel Romain
⇑If You've Won the Only One in the World You Want to Win	Edison Amberol: 98	Manuel Romain
Is There Any Room in Heaven For a Little Girl Like Me?	Edison Gold Moulded Record: 9342	Harry Anthony
It's Only Me in My Nightie	Indestructible Record: 853	Dorothy Kingsley
Just a Little Word Called Welcome	Edison Standard Record: 10199	Byron George Harlan
Let Me Crown You Queen of May With Orange Blossoms	Edison's National Phonograph Company: 9925	Manuel Romain
Let Me Crown You Queen of May With Orange Blossoms	Edison Gold Moulded Record: 9925	Manuel Romain
Make a Noise Like a Hoop, and Roll Away	Edison Standard Record: 10122	Arthur Collins Byron George Harlan
Mamma's Boy	Edison Gold Moulded Record: 8914	Byron George Harlan
Meet Me Sweet Kathleen in Honeysuckle Time	Edison Gold Moulded Record: 9664	Manuel Romain
Mister Dinkelspiel	Indestructible Record: 877	Bob Roberts
Morning After the Night Before, The	Edison Amberol: 488	Billy Murray
My Love Is Greater Than the World	Edison Amberol: 409	William H. Thompson
Neath the Old Acorn Tree, Sweet Estelle	Edison Gold Moulded Record: 9542	Harry Anthony
New Tipperary March, The	Edison Standard Record: 10525	J.J. Kimmel
Pennyland	Indestructible Record: 1250	Byron George Harlan
Pennyland	Edison Standard Record: 10238	Manuel Romain
⇑Please, Mr. Conductor, Don't Put Me Off the Train	Edison's National Phonograph Company: 7219	Byron George Harlan
Please, Mr. Conductor, Don't Put Me Off the Train	Edison Gold Moulded Record: 7219	Byron George Harlan
Set 'Em Up in the Other Alley	Edison Standard Record: 10194	Arthur Collins Byron George Harlan
Tipperary	Edison's National Phonograph Company: 9824	S. Tobin
When You Know You're Not Forgotten by the Girl You Can't Forget	Edison's National Phonograph Company: 9544	F.C. Stanley
Midi File(s)		Sequencer(s)
Make a Noise Like a Hoop, and Roll Away (1908)	Midi	James Pitt-Payne
Teddy Da Roose (1910)	Midi	James Pitt-Payne

Monologues

	Title	Attribution	Remarks


	Up the Rickety Stairs	J. Fred Helf (words & music) J. Latona (perf.)

	Title	Attribution	Instruments	Source	Remarks


Ain't You Coming Back to Old New Hampshire, Molly?	J.F. Helf (music) Robert F. Roden (words)	Piano, Voice	Kirk
Ain't You Coming Back to Old New Hampshire, Molly?	J.F. Helf (music) Robert F. Roden (words)	Piano, Voice	Greer	Pub.
Bit O' Blarney (1904), A	J.F. Helf (music)	Piano	IMSLP
Every Race Has a Flag But the Coon (1900)	J.F. Helf (words & music) W.A. Heelan (coauth.) Lottie Gilson (perf.) Marie Dressler (perf.) Clarice Vance (perf.) Many Others (perf.)	Piano, Voice	IMSLP
Farewell Mavourneen	J.F. Helf (music) E. Gardenier (words)	Piano, Voice	Kirk	Pub.
Here's to Our Absent Brothers (1905)	J.F. Helf (words & music)	Piano, Voice	IMSLP	Pub.
I'd Rather Say Hello Than Goodbye	J.F. Helf (music) A. Bryan (words) Ila Grannon (perf.)	Piano, Voice	Greer	Pub.
I'll Be Waiting in the Gloaming, Sweet Genevieve	J.F. Helf (words & music) Manuel Romain (perf.)	Piano, Voice	Greer	Pub.
I'm Tying the Leaves So They Won't Come Down (1907)	J.F. Helf (music) E. S. S. Huntington (words) Dave Carter (perf.)	Piano, Voice	IMSLP	Pub.
If Money Talks, It Ain't on Speaking Terms With Me (1902)	J.F. Helf (words & music) William H. Tascott (perf.)	Piano, Voice	IMSLP	Pub.
Kiltie's March, The	J.F. Helf (music)	Piano	YorkSpace	Pub.
Make a Noise Like a Hoop, and Roll Away	J.F. Helf (music) R. Shields (words)	Piano, Voice	Kirk	Pub.
⇑Make a Noise Like a Hoop, and Roll Away	J.F. Helf (music) R. Shields (words)	Piano, Voice	Greer	Pub.
Neath the Old Acorn Tree, Sweet Estelle	J.F. Helf (music) C. Marion Denison (words) Sam Hyams (perf.)	Piano, Voice	Greer	Pub.
No One Can Take Your Place	J.F. Helf (music) E. Gardenier (words)	Piano, Voice	Kirk	Pub.
Somebody That I Know and You Know Too	J.F. Helf (music) E. Gardenier (words)	Piano, Voice	Greer	Pub.
Somebody's Always Willin' to Do Somethin' For Somebody (1907)	J.F. Helf (music) E. Gardenier (words)	Piano, Voice	IMSLP
When a Boy From Old New Hampshire Loves a Girl From Tennessee (1910)	J.F. Helf (music) William Cahalin (words) Robert F. Roden (words) Harry A. Ellis (perf.)	Piano, Voice	IMSLP	Pub.
When It's Moonlight Mary Darling 'neath the Old Grape Arbor Shade	J.F. Helf (music) Bertley Costello (words) J. Aldrich Libbey (perf.)	Piano, Voice	Greer	Pub.
When the Bloom Is on the Cotton Dixie Lee	J.F. Helf (music) C.M Dennison (words)	Piano, Voice	Greer	Pub.
When the Maid You've Made Your Sweetheart (1913)	J.F. Helf (music) Arthur J. Lamb (words)	Piano, Voice	IMSLP
When the Whip-Poor-Will Sings Marguerite	J.F. Helf (music) C. M. Denison (words)	Piano, Voice	Kirk	Pub.
When the Whip-Poor-Will Sings Marguerite	J.F. Helf (music) C. M. Denison (words)	Piano, Voice	Greer	Pub.
When You Know You're Not Forgotten by the Girl You Can't Forget	J.F. Helf (music) E. Gardenier (words)	Piano, Voice	Greer	Pub.
Won't You Come Over to Philly Willie?	J.F. Helf (music) E. Gardenier (words)	Piano, Voice	Greer	Pub.

Works

This list is arranged in chronological order and contains 112 works by J. Fred Helf (1870?-1915?). It does not claim to be complete and represents only the number of items located. Keys: ER

(w&m)

1896-1904

Title	Year	Attribution	Remarks


I Couldn't Spell That Word Because I Love You	1896	Byron George Harlan (perf.)
How'd You Like to Be the Iceman? (w&m)	1898	Moran (co-author) Edward M. Favor (perf.) P. Eldridge (perf.)
Please, Mr. Conductor, Don't Put Me Off the Train (w&m)	1898	E.P. Moran (co-author) Byron George Harlan (perf.)
Tillie Tootie the Coney Island Beauty	1898	Arthur J. Lamb (words)
Two Sweethearts of Mine, The	1898	E.P. Moran (words)
I Ain't Got No Happy Home to Leave (w&m)	1899
Only a Hard Boiled Egg From Home (w&m)	1899		Pub.
Picture No Artist Can Paint, A (w&m)	1899
Every Race Has a Flag But the Coon (w&m)	1900	Will. A. Heelan (co-author) Lottie Gilson (perf.) Marie Dressler (perf.) Clarice Vance (perf.) Many Others (perf.)
Fatal Rose of Red, The	1900	Ed Gardenier (words) John W. Myers (perf.) Joseph Natus (perf.)
In the House of Too Much Trouble (w&m)	1900	Will A. Heelan (co-author)	Pub.
⇑ Set 'Em Up in the Other Alley	1900	Ren. Shields (words) Andrew B. Sterling (words) Arthur Collins (perf.) Byron George Harlan (perf.)
Tobie I Kind O' Likes You (w&m)	1900	Will A. Heelan (co-author)	Pub.
Ha-Le Ha-Lo	1901
When the Irish Are on Parade	1901
I'll Be Your Rain-Beau	1902	Ed. Gardenier (words) Dan W. Quinn (perf.) Lucille Jocelyn (perf.) Emma Carus (perf.) Minnie Emmett (perf.)
If Money Talks, It Ain't on Speaking Terms With Me (w&m)	1902	William H. Tascott (perf.)	Pub.
My Mother Was a Northern Girl (w&m)	1902		Pub.
Please Leave the Gate Ajar	1902	Rob't F. Roden (words)	Pub.
Ev'ry Man Is a Volunteer	1903	Will A Heelan (words)	Pub.
Now I Lay Me Down to Sleep (w&m)	1903		Pub.
Since Sally Left Our Alley	1903	Will A. Heelan (co-author)	Pub.
Under the Mistletoe Bough	1903	William A Heelan (words) Aimée Angeles (perf.) Harry Bulger (perf.)
⇑ Battle of the Daisies & the Ferns, The (w&m)	1904	Heelan (co-author)	Pub.
Bit O' Blarney, A	1904		Pub.

1904-1907

Title	Year	Attribution	Remarks


Bit O' Blarney, A - Song	1904	Will A Heelan (words) Madge Fox (perf.) Maud Amber (perf.)
No One Can Take Your Place	1904	Ed Gardenier (words)
Sprig O'Shillalah, A	1904		Pub.
Stingy	1904	Ed. Gardenier (words)	Pub.
When the Coons Have a Dreamland of Their Own	1904		Pub.
Everybody Works But Father (w&m)	1905		Pub.
Here's to Our Absent Brothers (w&m)	1905	Byron George Harlan (perf.)	Pub.
I'll Be Waiting in the Gloaming, Sweet Genevieve (w&m)	1905	Byron George Harlan (perf.) Albert Campbell (perf.) Wilbur Held (perf.) Mitchell &. Marron (perf.) Manuel Romain (perf.)	Pub.
Mamma's Boy	1905	Harry Sinclair (words) Byron George Harlan (perf.) Mamie Harnish (perf.) Louis Powers (perf.)	Pub.
Someone Thinks of Someone	1905	E. Gardenier (words)	Pub.
Waltz Must Change to a March Marie, The	1905	Arthur J. Lamb (words)	Pub.
⇑ Afloat on a Five Dollar Note	1906	Arthur J. Lamb (words) Arthur Collins (perf.) Byron George Harlan (perf.)	Pub.
Ain't You Coming Back to Old New Hampshire, Molly?	1906	Robert F. Roden (words) Columbia Quartette (perf.) Sadie Helf (perf.) J. Aldrich Libbey (perf.)	Pub.
Bee That Gets the Honey Doesn't Hang Around the Hive, The	1906	Ed Rose (words)	Pub.
Captain Baby Bunting	1906	Will D Cobb (words) Ed Gardenier (words) Byron George Harlan (perf.)	Pub.
Colleen Bawn (w&m)	1906	Ed Madden (words) Byron George Harlan (perf.) F.C. Stanley (perf.)	Pub.
Is There Any Room in Heaven For a Little Girl Like Me?	1906	Harry Anthony (perf.)
Lavengro	1906
Meet Me Sweet Kathleen in Honeysuckle Time	1906	Robert F. Roden (words) Manuel Romain (perf.) Hamilton Hill (perf.)	Pub.
They Handed Me a Lemon	1906	Elsa Ryan (perf.)
We Never Seemed So Far Apart Before	1906	Ed Gardenier (words) Bert Swor (perf.)	Pub.
When the Whip-Poor-Will Sings Marguerite	1906	C. M. Denison (words) Willard Dyer (perf.) Edward A. Warden (perf.) P.D. Landes (perf.) J. Aldrich Libbey (perf.)	Pub.
When You Know You're Not Forgotten by the Girl You Can't Forget	1906	Ed. Gardenier (words) F.C. Stanley (perf.)	Pub.
⇑ Auf Wiedersehn Fräulein	1907
Contentment	1907	Leonard G. Vance (words)

1907-1908

Title	Year	Attribution	Remarks


Farewell Mavourneen	1907	Ed Gardenier (words)
Gesundheit	1907
I'm Tying the Leaves So They Won't Come Down	1907	E. S. S. Huntington (words) Byron George Harlan (perf.) Dave Carter (perf.)	Pub.
Neath the Old Acorn Tree, Sweet Estelle	1907	C. Marion Denison (words) Harry Anthony (perf.) Trixie Friganza (perf.) Sam Hyams (perf.) E. Kenney Brown (perf.)	Pub.
Somebody's Always Willin' to Do Somethin' For Somebody	1907	E. Gardenier (words)
When It's Moonlight Mary Darling 'neath the Old Grape Arbor Shade	1907	Bertley Costello (words) J. Aldrich Libbey (perf.)	Pub.
When Summer Tells Autumn Good-Bye	1907	Arthur J Lamb (words)	Pub.
When the Bluebirds Nest Again Sweet Nellie Gray	1907	Bartley Costello (words) Roger &. Deely (perf.)	Pub.
When the Sheep Are in the Fold, Jennie Dear	1907	C. Marion Denison (words)	Pub.
When the Springtime Brings the Roses, Jessie Dear	1907	Robert F Roden (words) Charles O. Nast (perf.)	Pub.
Won't You Come Over to Philly Willie?	1907	E. Gardenier (words)	Pub.
⇑ Booker T's Are on Parade To-Day, The	1908	Ed. Moran (words)	Pub.
Daddy's Little Tom Boy Girl	1908	Robert F Roden (words) S. Tobin (perf.)	Pub.
Go Easy Mabel	1908	Will D. Cobb (words) Ren Shields (words) Eddie Moran (words) Lew Dockstader (perf.) Edward Meeker (perf.)	Pub.
I Don't Want the Morning to Come	1908	Arthur J. Lamb (words) F. Rose (perf.)	Pub.
I Lost My Heart When I Saw Your Eyes	1908	Arthur J. Lamb (words) Manuel Romain (perf.)	Pub.
I Think I See My Brother Coming Now	1908	Eddie Moran (words) Arthur Collins (perf.)
It's Only Me in My Nightie	1908	Arthur J. Lamb (words) Dorothy Kingsley (perf.)	Pub.
Kiltie's March, The	1908		Pub.
Let Me Crown You Queen of May With Orange Blossoms	1908	Bartley Costello (words) Manuel Romain (perf.)	Pub.
Make a Noise Like a Hoop, and Roll Away	1908	Ren Shields (words) Lew Dockstader (perf.) Emma Carus (perf.) Arthur Collins (perf.) Byron George Harlan (perf.)	Pub.
Mister Dinkelspiel	1908	Eddie Moran (words) Bob Roberts (perf.)
Needles and Pins	1908	Ed Moran (words) Trixie Friganza (perf.)	Pub.
⇑ Somebody That I Know and You Know Too	1908	Ed Gardenier (words)	Pub.
Tipperary	1908	Leo J Curley (words) James M Fulton (words) S. Tobin (perf.)

1908-1911

Title	Year	Attribution	Remarks


When Darling Bess First Whispered Yes	1908	Robert F Roden (words)
When We Listened to the Chiming of the Old Church Bell	1908	Robert F Roden (words)	Pub.
Whoop! Whoop!! Whoop!!! Make a Noise Like a Hoop and Roll Away	1908	Ren Shields (words)
Arrah, Come in Out of the Rain	1909	Andrew B. Sterling (words) Ada Jones (perf.)
Father Is a Judge	1909	Frederick W Hager (words) F. Duprez (perf.) Edward Meeker (perf.)
I Never Cared For Anyone the Way I Care For You	1909	Byron George Harlan (perf.)
If I Had My Choice	1909	Henry Burr (perf.)
If You've Won the Only One in the World You Want to Win	1909	Ed Gardenier (words) Manuel Romain (perf.)	Pub.
Just a Little Word Called Welcome	1909	C. M. Denison (words) Byron George Harlan (perf.)
Wedding Bells	1909	Robert F Roden (words)	Pub.
When the Bloom Is on the Cotton Dixie Lee	1909	C.M Dennison (words)	Pub.
⇑ When the Evening Bells Are Chiming Songs of Auld Lang Syne	1909	Robert F Roden (words)	Pub.
Betsy Ross	1910	Bartley Costello (words) Frederic H. Potter (perf.)
I Am Longing For the Old Days, Marguerite	1910	Manuel Romain (perf.)
I'd Rather Say Hello Than Goodbye	1910	Alfred Bryan (words) Manuel Romain (perf.) Ila Grannon (perf.) Mabel Webb (perf.)	Pub.
If I Must Say Farewell, Kate, Let Me Kiss Your Lips Good-Bye	1910	Manuel Romain (perf.)
Morning After the Night Before, The	1910	Eddie Moran (words) Billy Murray (perf.)
My Love Is Greater Than the World	1910	Arthur J. Lamb (words) William H. Thompson (perf.)	Pub.
Pennyland	1910	Bartley Costello (words) Manuel Romain (perf.) Byron George Harlan (perf.)
Teddy Da Roose	1910	E. Moran (words)	Pub.
When a Boy From Old New Hampshire Loves a Girl From Tennessee	1910	William Cahalin (words) Robert F. Roden (words) Harry A. Ellis (perf.)	Pub.
Hands Up	1911	Arthur J. Lamb (words) Ada Jones (perf.) Billy Murray (perf.)	Pub.
Lord! Have Mercy on a Married Man	1911	Edgar Leslie (words) Lew Dockstader (perf.)	Pub.
⇑ New Tipperary March, The	1911	John J. Kimmel (perf.)
Up the Rickety Stairs	1911	Arthur J Lamb (words) Lew Dockstader (words) J. Latona (perf.) Florrie Forde (perf.)	Pub.

1912-na

Title	Year	Attribution	Remarks


Lincoln's College Flag	1912
Wee Little Drop O' the Cruiskeen Lawn, A	1912
You're Just As Sweet at Sixty As You Were at Sweet Sixteen	1912	Will A. Heelan (words)
Fables	1913	Jeff T Branen (words) Bob Roberts (perf.)
On a Barnyard Honeymoon	1913	Wm Tracey (words)
When an Old School Boy Meets an Old School Girl	1913	Arthur J. Lamb (words)	Pub.
When God Gave Me You	1913	Edgar Leslie (words)	Pub.
When the Maid You've Made Your Sweetheart	1913	Arthur J. Lamb (words)	Pub.
In the Valley of the Shannon	1914	Bartley Costello (words)	Pub.
Pick Up the Pieces and Bring Them Home	1914	Arthur J Lamb (words)	Pub.
Alone at Last	1915	W.V. Brunt (perf.)
⇑ Wanted! a Harp Like the Angels Play	na	EBE Bessey (words)	Pub.

Videos

	Title	Duration	Performer


	I'll Be Your Rain-Beau (1902)	2:10	Minnie Emmett