Raymon Moore (-1916)

Overview

All that can presently (August 2024) be gleaned about Raymon Moore [real name real name John A. Wallace] from sheet music covers and by Internet searching is that he was an American composer, songwriter and tenor who has been featured on 14 works published between 1891 and 1901.
He is said to have been friends with John Philip Sousa as well as composing some 200 songs under Moore and other pen names.
His portrait on the left is taken from He Brought Home Another (1896) music by Paul Dresser, words by Raymon Moore and published by Howley, Haviland & Dresser, New York, USA.
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Websites:
	DAHR: Raymon Moore	List of 13 historic recordings from 1894 to 1929.

	Title (Release Year)	Composer	Performers	Issue


	Historic Records
	Sweet Maggie May (1903)	R. Moore	William H. Thompson	Victor: [Pre- B-]2096

	Title	Attribution	Instruments	Source	Remarks


Dear Louise (1894)	R. Moore (w&m)	Piano, Voice	Indiana
Sweet Marie (1893)	R. Moore (music) Cy Warman (words)	Piano, Voice	Indiana
When She's Just About to Fall (1894)	R. Moore (music) Cy Warman (words)	Piano, Voice	Indiana
As performer
He Brought Home Another (1896)	P. Dresser (music) R. Moore (words) R. Moore (perf.)	Piano, Voice	Indiana
I Wonder Where She Is To-Night? (1899)	P. Dresser (music) George B Alexander (words) R. Moore (perf.)	Piano, Voice	Indiana	Pub.

Titles

The peformer is featured on 18 sheet music/recording covers. It does not claim to be complete and represents only the number of items located. Keys: (w&m) ER

	Title	Composer	Attribution	Remarks


That Dear Old Song (1897)	M. F. Carey(w&m)	Raymon Moore (perf.)
Just Have the Band Play Home Sweet Home (1901)	Costen(w&m)	Andrew B. Sterling (co-author) Raymon Moore (perf.)
Dear Old Tennessee (1899)	Dox Cruger	C. Randolph (words) Raymon Moore (perf.)
He Brought Home Another (1896)	Paul Dresser	Raymon Moore (words) Raymon Moore (perf.)
I Wonder Where She Is To-Night? (1899)	Paul Dresser	George B Alexander (words) Raymon Moore (perf.)
Break the News to Mother (1897)	Charles K. Harris(w&m)	Raymon Moore (perf.)
Will I Find My Mamma There? (1898)	Charles K. Harris(w&m)	Raymon Moore (perf.)
One Night in June (1899)	Charles K. Harris(w&m)	Raymon Moore (perf.)
Nodding Off to Sleep (1893)	Joseph Hart	Raymon Moore (perf.)
Fare Thee Well Molly Darling (1902)	Kerry Mills	Will D. Cobb (words) Raymon Moore (perf.)
⇑I'll Not Belive Thee False (1891)	Monroe H. Rosenfeld	Robert J. Donnolly (words) Raymon Moore (perf.)
Katie and Tom (1892)	Henry J. Sayers	Raymon Moore (perf.)
When You Were Sweet Sixteen (1898)	James Thornton(w&m)	Raymon Moore (perf.)
True Love the Whole Year Round (1894)	Charles B. Ward	Harry Emmet (words) Raymon Moore (perf.)
True Love (1895)	Charles B. Ward(w&m)	Raymon Moore (perf.)

Works

This list is arranged in chronological order and contains 16 works by Raymon Moore (-1916). It does not claim to be complete and represents only the number of items located. Keys:

(w&m)

Title	Year	Attribution	Remarks


You and I	1891
Sweet Marie	1893	Cy Warman (words) Irene Dunne (perf.) William Powell (perf.)
Dear Louise (w&m)	1894
Eileen Aroon	1894	Gerald Griffin (words)
Just About to Fall	1894	Cy Warman (words) Raymon Moore (perf.)	Pub.
Love That I Lost When a Boy, The (w&m)	1894
Remember Me (w&m)	1894		Pub.
Rose Song (w&m)	1894		Pub.
When She's Just About to Fall	1894	Cy Warman (words) Raymon Moore (perf.)	Pub.
Across the Brooklyn Bridge (w&m)	1895		Pub.
Just in the Same Old Way	1895	Earle Remington (words) Raymon Moore (perf.)
⇑ When the Bloom Is on the Clover	1895		Pub.
Bound With a Golden Chain	1900	Andrew B. Sterling (words)
Violet (w&m)	1900		Pub.
Sweet Maggie May	1903	Raymon Moore (words) William H. Thompson (perf.)
Bonnie Jean	1905