Theodore F. Morse (1873-1924)
Last updated: 19.11.18
According to the Internet source given below, Theodore F. Morse was an American composer, born in Washington, D.C., and writer of songs and scores for stage shows. He studied piano and violin privately and was educated at the Maryland Military Academy. He broke off his studies aged only 14 and absconded to New York to work in a music business. He sold his first song at 15 years old and had set up his own publishing enterprise by the time he was 24. Today his remembered best for his Blue Bell (1904), M-O-T-H-E-R (1915), Down In Jungle Town (1908) and Hail, Hail, The Gang's All Here (1917). His score for Hurray For Baffin Bay (1903) metaphormosed decades later into the blockbuster film, The Wizard of Oz. Of ragtime interest id his Another Rag (1911). He died in New York.
Theodore F. Morse (1873-1924) has at least 35 item(s) at the Amazons which you can order on-line by clicking the item's order icon.
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Absence Song Without Words. No. 2 By Theodore F. Morse.
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The Arrival of the Bride March By Theodore F. Morse.
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Artful Love Gavotte By Theodore F. Morse.
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At the Play Waltzes By Theodore F. Morse.
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The Boy Who Wears the Coat of Blue Song Music by Theodore F. Morse. Words by: Harry Marion.
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The Broadway Two Step March By Theodore F. Morse.
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The Brotherhood of Man Music by Theodore F. Morse. Words by: R. A. Browne.
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Circe Air De Ballet By Theodore F. Morse.
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 Coontown Capers A NegrosyncrasyBy Theodore F. Morse.
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Corncob Dance Characteristic By Theodore F. Morse.
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The Dainty Duchess Gavotte By Theodore F. Morse.
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Dance of the Moonbeams By Theodore F. Morse.
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Ennitra Mazourka Oriental By Theodore F. Morse.
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For You Alone Song Without Words. No. 3 By Theodore F. Morse.
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He's an Honor to the Flag He Fought to Save Music by Theodore F. Morse. Words by: Vincent P. Bryan.
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I Loves Yer - 'cause You'se My Pikaninnies Music by Theodore F. Morse. Words by: Raymond A. Browne.
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 I'd Love to Lead a Military BandMusic by Theodore F. Morse. Words by: Jack Mahoney.
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Isis Intermezzo By Theodore F. Morse.
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It Seems Like Yesterday Music by Theodore F. Morse. Words by: Raymond A. Browne.
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 A Little Boy in BlueMusic by Theodore F. Morse. Words by: R.A. Browne .
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Longing Romanza By Theodore F. Morse.
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Ma Vida Romance For Piano By Theodore F. Morse.
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 The Meeting of the Blue and GrayBy Theodore F. Morse.
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Merri Waltzes By Theodore F. Morse.
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Moonlight Kisses Gavotte By Theodore F. Morse.
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The Nobility Two-Step By Theodore F. Morse.
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Nobody Else But You Song Music by Theodore F. Morse. Words by: Harry S. Marion.
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People Who Live in Glass Houses Never Should Throw Any Stones Song Music by Theodore F. Morse. Words by: Carroll Fleming.
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Pepita Mexican Dance By Theodore F. Morse.
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 Perhaps You'll Regret SomedayMusic by Theodore F. Morse. Words by: Paul Dresser.
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The Scandal of the Rose Song And Dance Music by Theodore F. Morse. Words by: E. Remington.
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Since Reuben's Gone Away Song Music by Theodore F. Morse. Words by: Vincent P. Bryan.
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That's Always the Way With a Woman Music by Theodore F. Morse. Words by: Raymond A. Browne.
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That's When I Think of You Music by Theodore F. Morse. Words by: Raymond A. Browne.
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Venus Intermezzo By Theodore F. Morse.
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| Performer | CD Title | Supplier |
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Various Artists | Real Ragtime | CD(s) & MP3 Album(s)        |
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St. Louis Ragtimers | Full Steam Ahead and Loaded Up! | |
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Joan Reynolds | Deep Hollow | CD(s) & MP3 Album(s) |
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"Perfessor" Bill Edwards | Perfessor Bill Sings Volume 2 |
This list is arranged in chronological order and contains 261 works by Theodore F. Morse (1873-1924). It does not claim to be complete and represents only the number of items located. Key: Electronic Resource Items
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| Absence | 1895 |   |
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| The Arrival of the Bride March | 1895 | |
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| Artful Love Gavotte | 1895 | |
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| The Broadway | 1895 | |
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| The Meeting of the Blue and Gray | 1895 | |
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| At the Play | 1896 | |
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| Moonlight Kisses | 1896 | |
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| The New Bully | 1896 | |||
| The Nobility | 1896 | |
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| The Scandal of the Rose | 1896 | E. Remington | |
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| Circe | 1897 | |
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| Coontown Capers | 1897 | Paul Dresser | |
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| Ma Vida | 1897 | |
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| Corncob Dance | 1898 | |
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| The Dainty Duchess | 1898 | |
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| ⇑ Dance of the Moonbeams | 1898 | |
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| Longing | 1898 | |
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| Lucille, Ma Lady Love | 1898 | Bob Cole | |
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| Perhaps You'll Regret Someday | 1898 | Paul Dresser | |
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| Venus | 1898 | |
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| Ennitra | 1899 | |
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| For You Alone | 1899 | |
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| I Loves Yer - 'cause You'se My Pikaninnies | 1899 | Raymond A. Browne | |
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| It Seems Like Yesterday | 1899 | Raymond A. Browne | |
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| Merri | 1899 | |
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| Pepita | 1899 | |
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| That's Always the Way With a Woman | 1899 | Raymond A. Browne | |
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| That's When I Think of You | 1899 | Raymond A. Browne | |
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| With You Beside Me | 1899 | R.A. Browne | |
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| La Morsaria | 1900 | Words & Music by Morse | |
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| The Man Behind the Gun | 1900 | |
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| ⇑ Arizona Prospector | 1901 | Ellsworth C Snider | |
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| At the Bottom of the Hill | 1901 | R.A. Browne | |
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| The Boy Who Wears the Coat of Blue | 1901 | Harry Marion | |
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| The Brotherhood of Man | 1901 | R. A. Browne | |
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| Fight for the Girl You Love | 1901 | |||
| Fudgerology | 1901 | |||
| He's an Honor to the Flag He Fought to Save | 1901 | Vincent P. Bryan | |
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| Henrietta, Dainty Henrietta | 1901 | Vincent P. Bryan | |
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| Isis | 1901 | |
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| The Lizard and the Frog | 1901 | |
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| Nobody Else But You | 1901 | Harry S. Marion | |
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| Salambo | 1901 | |
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| Sweet Morning Glory | 1901 | R.A. Browne | ||
| Uly-Oo | 1901 | Vincent P. Bryan | |
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| When the Gold Was Turning Gray | 1901 | Harry S. Marion | |
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| When They Play "God Save the King" | 1901 | Vincent P. Bryan | |
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| ⇑ Wolf and the Lamb | 1901 | |||
| The Army of Peace | 1902 | Raymond A. Browne | |
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| Cheerful Chinaman | 1902 |
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| Happy Hooligan | 1902 | |
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| I've Got My Eyes on You-Oo-Oo | 1902 | F.W. Hager, J. Ringleben | |
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| In the Moonlight | 1902 | R.A. Browne | ||
| It's the Man in the Soldier Suit | 1902 | |||
| The Lady With the Angel Eyes | 1902 | Alfred James Dewey, Fred C Farrell | Famed in song and story "Dreamy Eyes" |
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| A Little Boy in Blue | 1902 | R.A. Browne | |
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| Since Reuben's Gone Away | 1902 | Vincent P. Bryan | |
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| Wait at the Gate For Me | 1902 | Ren Shields | |
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| Dear Old Girl | 1903 | Richard H. Buck | |
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| Down in the Meadow Where the Green Grass Grows | 1903 | Paul Barnes | |
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| Hurray For Baffin's Bay | 1903 | Vincent Bryan | |
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| In the Valley of Broken Hearts | 1903 | Fred C. Farrell | ||
| Jeweled Hand of Fate | 1903 | |||
| Keep a Little Cozy Corner in Your Heart For Me | 1903 | Jack Drislane | |
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| L-i-b-e-r-t-y | 1903 | |||
| ⇑ Mammy's Little Blue Grass Coon | 1903 | |||
| People Who Live in Glass Houses Never Should Throw Any Stones | 1903 | Carroll Fleming | |
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| Raving | 1903 | Vincent Bryan | |
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| Say You'll Be a Friend of Mine | 1903 | |||
| Twinkling Star | 1903 | |||
| Up in the Cocoanut Tree | 1903 | Edward Madden | |
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| When We Were Two Little Boys | 1903 | |||
| When We Were Two Little Boys - Song | 1903 | |||
| A Wise Old Owl | 1903 | Edward Madden | |
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| Blue Bell | 1904 | Edward Madden | |
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| Blue Bells Goodbye | 1904 | Edward Madden | ||
| Can't You See My Heart Beats All For You? | 1904 | Bert FitzGibbon | |
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| Come Down From the Big Fig Tree | 1904 | Edward Madden | |
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| Good Bye Sis | 1904 | Will D. Cobb | |
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| A Great Big Chickapoo Chief | 1904 | Edward Madden | |
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| I Never Thought I'd Miss You As I Do | 1904 | Richard Henry Buck | |
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| ⇑ I've Got a Feelin' For You | 1904 | Edward Madden | |
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| Juice of the Grape | 1904 | |||
| A Little Boy Called "Taps" | 1904 | Edward Madden | |
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| Make a Fuss Over Me | 1904 | Edward Madden | |
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| My Faithful Rose | 1904 | Richard Henry Buck | |
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| Nan! Nan! Nan! | 1904 | Edward Madden | |
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| Oysters and Clams | 1904 | Jack Drislane | |
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| Please Come and Play in My Yard | 1904 | Edward Madden | |
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| Quaint Old Bird | 1904 | |||
| She Was a Good Old Soul | 1904 | |||
| What the Brass Band Played | 1904 | Jack Drislane | |
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| Where Is Mauvorneen Tonight? | 1904 | |
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| Where the Southern Roses Grow | 1904 | Richard H. Buck | ||
| Daddy's Little Girl | 1905 | Edward Madden | ||
| Don't Be So Mean | 1905 | |||
| I'm Going to Meet Birdie To-Night | 1905 | Jack Drislane | |
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| ⇑ In Timbuctoo | 1905 | Edward Madden | |
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| Julia Dean | 1905 | |||
| Just a Little Rocking Chair and You | 1905 | Jack Drislane, Bert Fitzgibbon | |
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| The Leader of the German Band | 1905 | Edward Madden | |
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| Longing For You | 1905 | Jack Drislane | |
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| My Yankee-Irish Girl | 1905 | |||
| One Called Mother and the Other Home Sweet Home | 1905 | Wm Cahill | |
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| Paddle Your Own Canoe | 1905 | |||
| She Waits by the Deep Blue Sea | 1905 | Edward Madden | ||
| Starlight | 1905 | Edward Madden | |
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| Arrah Wanna | 1906 | |
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| Arrah Wanna - Song | 1906 | Jack Drislane | |
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| Crocodile Isle | 1906 | Jack Drislane | |
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| Don't You Think That You Could Care for Me? | 1906 | |||
| Girlie, I Love You | 1906 | |||
| The Good Old U.S.A. | 1906 | Jack Drislane | |
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| I'll Always Wear Your Image in My Heart | 1906 | |||
| I'll Fold Up My Tent and Steal Away | 1906 | Frank Riley | |
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| ⇑ It's All for You | 1906 | |||
| Juno | 1906 | |
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| Keep on the Sunny Side | 1906 | Jack Drislane | |
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| Maybe Sometime | 1906 | Jack Drislane | |
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| No One Knows How Much I Miss You | 1906 | |||
| Oh What a Night to Spoon | 1906 | |||
| Paradise | 1906 | |||
| What Would You Take for Me, Mamma? | 1906 | |||
| When Her Beauty Begins to Fade | 1906 | |||
| When Mose With His Nose Leads the Band | 1906 | Jack Dislane, Bert FitzGibbon | |
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| Yimmini Yee, I Yumped My Yob for You | 1906 | |||
| You Never Can Tell by the Label | 1906 | |||
| Bonnie Blue | 1907 | Jack Drislane | |
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| Cupid's Wedding Bells | 1907 | |
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| Dear Heart, Dream On | 1907 | |||
| Dream On, Dear Heart, Dream On | 1907 | Richard Henry Buck | |
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| ⇑ The Family Tree | 1907 | |
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| Good Bye Mamie | 1907 | |||
| I Want to Be a Merry Merry Widow | 1907 | Edward Madden | |
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| I'd Rather Be a Lobster Tha a Wise Guy | 1907 | |||
| I'm a Veteran of '63 | 1907 | |
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| In a Cosey Little Cottage by the Sea | 1907 | Edward Madden | |
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| In Monkey Land | 1907 | Jack Drislane | |
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| In the Moonlight With the Girl You Love | 1907 | |||
| Isle of Ding-a-ling | 1907 | |||
| It's Great to Be a Soldier Man | 1907 | Jack Drislane | |
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| Jappy Johnny | 1907 | |
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| Laura Lee | 1907 | |||
| Little Black Lamb | 1907 | Richard Henry Buck | |
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| Lovin' Time | 1907 | |
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| Make Believe | 1907 | |||
| Monkey Land | 1907 | Jack Drislane | |
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| ⇑ Moon-beams | 1907 | |||
| Nobody's Little Girl | 1907 | Jack Drislane | |
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| The Old Street Band | 1907 | Jack Drislane | |
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| Playing the Ponies | 1907 | Edward Madden | |
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| She's the Fairest Little Flower Dear Old Dixie Ever Grew | 1907 | Ashley S. Johnson | ||
| Since Arrah Wanna Married Barney Carney | 1907 | Jack Drislane | |
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| Take Me Where There's a Big Brass Band | 1907 | |||
| Two Blue Eyes | 1907 | Edward Madden | |
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| Two Little Baby Shoes | 1907 | Edward Madden | |
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| Washington Pie | 1907 | |
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| When Mandy Said Goodbye | 1907 | |||
| Wind Yourself Around Me Dearie | 1907 | |||
| Won't You Be My Honey? | 1907 | Jack Drislane | |
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| You Always Greet Me With the Same Old Smile | 1907 | Bartley Costello | |
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| Chicken Patty | 1908 | |
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| Consolation | 1908 | Edward Madden | ||
| Cy and Sue | 1908 | |||
| Down in Jungle Town | 1908 | Edward Madden | |
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| ⇑ Finnigan's Irish Band | 1908 | |||
| I've Taken Quite a Fancy to You | 1908 | Edward Madden | |
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| In the Golden Long Ago | 1908 | |||
| Just Give Me a Big Bass Drum | 1908 | |||
| The Land of the Heart's Desire | 1908 | Channing Pollock | ||
| Lanky Yankee Boys in Blue | 1908 | |||
| Minnie-Ha-Ha Donohue | 1908 | Jack Mahoney | |
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| Morse's New Barn Dance | 1908 | |
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| The Old Time Rag | 1908 | Edward Madden | |
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| Santiago Flynn | 1908 | Edward Madden | |
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| Smiling Star | 1908 | Jack Drislane | |
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| Somebody's Got My Goat | 1908 | |||
| Stupid Mister Cupid | 1908 | |||
| Sweetheart Town | 1908 | Jack Mahoney | |
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| When the Meadow Larks Are Calling, Annie Laurie | 1908 | Richard H. Buck | |
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| When the Sun Goes Down to Rest Behind the Hill | 1908 | |||
| ⇑ When You Wore a Pinafore | 1908 | Edward Madden | |
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| At MacGregor's Scotch High-ball | 1909 | |||
| Blue Feather | 1909 | |
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| Blue Feather - Song | 1909 | Jack Mahoney | |
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| Booby | 1909 | |||
| Good Night, Moonlight | 1909 | |||
| Good Old Dollar Bill | 1909 | |||
| He's a College Boy | 1909 | Jack Mahoney | |
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| I'm Always Thinking of You, | 1909 | |||
| Jemima | 1909 | |||
| Just a Little Feeling in Your Heart for Me | 1909 | |||
| Just a Little Ring From You | 1909 | Jack Mahoney | |
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| Love Me to the Music of a Ragtime Tune | 1909 | Jack Mahoney, Madge Maitland | |
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| Molly Lee | 1909 | Jack Mahoney | |
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| My World Is a Dream of You | 1909 | J.F. Mahoney | |
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| On a Monkey Honeymoon | 1909 | Jack Mahoney | |
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| ⇑ Toys for Sale | 1909 | |||
| Wise Old Indian | 1909 | Jack Mahoney | |
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| College Glide | 1910 | |
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| Does the Girl You Left Behind Ever Wish You Back Again? | 1910 | Robert F Roden | |
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| Down in Sunny Honeytown | 1910 | Jack Mahoney | |
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| Good Fellowship Begins at Home | 1910 | |||
| Good-Bye Betty Brown | 1910 | Jack Mahoney | |
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| Ireland and Liberty | 1910 | Allen Doone | |
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| Kitty Gray | 1910 | Andrew B. Sterling | |
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| Phoebe Jane | 1910 | Richard H. Buck | |
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| Red Clover | 1910 | |||
| That Good Old Irish Rag | 1910 | Jack Mahoney | |
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| To Arms, to Arms | 1910 | |||
| What Is a Night Without Dreams | 1910 | Jack Mahoney | |
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| When a College Boy Meets a College Girl | 1910 | |||
| Another Rag | 1911 | D. A Esrom | |
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| Baby Blue Eyes | 1911 | Jack Mahoney | |
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| By the Dear Old River Rhine | 1911 | Jack Mahoney | |
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| ⇑ Dixie Gray | 1911 | Jack Mohoney | |
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| Hannah Won't You Smile Awhile on Me | 1911 | |
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| I'd Love to Lead a Military Band | 1911 | Jack Mahoney | |
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| Letty Lane | 1911 | Jack Mahoney | |
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| Lizabeth Ann | 1911 | D. A. Esrom | |
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| Sweet Swanee Sue | 1911 | Jack Mahoney | |
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| That's Why the Violets Live | 1911 | |
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| The Washington Waddle | 1911 | Jack Mahoney | |
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| I Left My Heart in Dear Old Ireland | 1912 | |||
| Luella Lee | 1912 | D. A. Esrom | |
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| That Lovin' Rag Time Man | 1912 | D.A. Esrom | |
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| When Uncle Joe Plays a Rag on His Old Banjo | 1912 | D. A Esrom | |
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| When You're Lonesome Don't Forget My Number | 1912 | |||
| Whistling Jim - That's Him | 1912 | D. A. Esrom | |
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| Bobbin' Up and Down | 1913 | D. A Esrom | |
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| Down in Monkeyville | 1913 | G. Clarke , Edgar Leslie | |
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| ⇑ In the Land of Plankity Plank | 1913 | D. A. Esrom | |
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| Oh Isn't She Cute? | 1913 | |||
| Salvation Nell | 1913 | G. Clarke , Edgar Leslie | |
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| Texico | 1913 | |||
| Until You Said "Goodbye" | 1913 | D A Esrom | |
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| Way Back Home | 1913 | D. A. Esrom | |
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| When You Sang the Rosary to Me | 1913 | |
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| Who's Going to Love You When I'm Gone? | 1913 | D. A. Esrom | |
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| You're the Haven of My Heart | 1913 | Orr O'Connor | |
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| Doodle-Oodle Dee | 1914 | Arthur Fields | |
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| You Need a Rag | 1914 | |||
| Auntie Skinner's Chicken Dinner | 1915 | Arthur Fields, Earl Carroll | |
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| Dear Mother Mine | 1915 | |||
| M-O-T-H-E-R, a Word That Means the World to Me | 1915 | H.E. Johnson | |
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| Soldier Boy | 1915 | D. A. Esrom | |
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| You're Just Homesick That's All | 1915 | DA Esrom | |
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| ⇑ My Old Rose | 1916 | Leo Wood, George McFarlane | |
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| Hail! Hail! the Gang's All Here! | 1917 | A. Sullivan | D. A. Esrom | |
| Mammy Blossom's 'possum Party | 1917 | Arthur Fields | |
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| My Red Cross Girlie | 1917 | Harry Bewley | |
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| Sing Me Love's Lullaby | 1917 | Dorothy Terriss | |
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| Throw No Stones in the Well That Gives You Water | 1917 | Arthur Fields | |
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| We'll Knock the Heligo-Into Heligo Out of Heligoland! | 1917 | John O'Brien | |
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| You Don't Have to Be Irish to Be Welcome in an Irishman's Home | 1917 | |||
| Alice I'm in Wonderland | 1918 | Arthur Fields | |
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| When a Blue Service Star Turns to Gold | 1918 | Casper Nathan | |
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| Jazzola | 1919 | J.R. Robinson | Al. M. Kendall | |
| Don't Blame It All on Me | 1924 | |||
| There's One in a Million | ? | |||
| The Village Band | ? |
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Chicken Patty | 3:17 | T.F. Morse | Ragtime Dorian Henry |