Al Piantadosi (1882-1955)

Overview

According to the Internet source given below, Al Piantadosi was an American pianist, publisher and composer of popular music born in New York. A prolific songwriter of sentimental ballads starting in 1906 and continuing right into the 1930's. He collaborated with some of the best lyricists of his time amongst whom were including Alfred Bryan, Grant Clarke, and Edgar Leslie. As a pianist he covered resorts, night clubs and vaudeville as well as touring Europe and Australia. Some consider his most famous work to be the sentimental The Curse of An Aching Heart (1913). On the ragtime front, he is remembered for his Rusty-Can-O Rag (1910) and That Italian Rag (1910). He died in Encino, California.

Websites:
	Al Piantadosi	Biography by wikipedia.org.

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Rusty-Can-O-Rag Song
Music by: Al Piantadosi.
Words by: Thomas J. Gray

Publisher:	Leo Feist
Suppliers:
Printed: 1910.	Sheet Music 5 pages. Limited availability.

	Title	Instruments/Issue	Performers


MP3 File(s)
At the Yiddish Wedding Jubilee	Edison Blue Amberol: 2615	Maurice Burkhart
Baby Shoes	Edison Blue Amberol: 2957	Elizabeth Spencer
Chasin' the Blues	Edison Blue Amberol: 3949	A. Bernard
Come Back, I'm Pining For You	Edison Blue Amberol: 2040	Anna Chandler
Cow Bells	Edison Blue Amberol: 4665	Harry Raderman's Orchestra
Curse of an Aching Heart, The	Edison Blue Amberol: 2022	Will Oakland
Good Luck Mary	Edison Amberol: 314	Billy Murray
Honey Man	Edison Amberol: 892	Anna Chandler
How Could Washington Be a Married Man	Edison Blue Amberol: 3086	M. J. O'Connell
I Didn't Raise My Boy to Be a Soldier	Edison Blue Amberol: 2580	Helen Clark
I Didn't Raise My Boy to Be a Soldier	Indestructible Record: 1524	H. Burr
I'm a Yiddish Cowboy	Edison Gold Moulded Record: 9984	Edward Meeker
I'm Glad My Boy Grew Up to Be a Soldier	Edison Blue Amberol: 23379	Helen Clark
If You Had All the World and Its Gold	Edison Blue Amberol: 3334	Manuel Romain
Melinda's Wedding Day	Edison Blue Amberol: 1844	Arthur Collins Byron George Harlan
⇑Mississippi Days	Edison Blue Amberol: 3041	Arthur Collins Byron George Harlan
My Mariuccia Take a Steamboat, She's Gone Away	Edison Gold Moulded Record: 9430	Billy Murray
Playing Hookey	Indestructible Record: 886	Ada Jones
Someone	Edison Blue Amberol: 2572	Elizabeth Spencer Vernon Archibald
Someone Is Waiting For You	Edison Blue Amberol: 3437	Shannon Quartet
Summer Days	Edison Amberol: 778	Billy Murray
Summer Days	U.S. Everlasting Record: 389	George Wilton Ballard
Sweetheart's a Pretty Name When It Is Y-O-U	Edison Standard Record: 10279	Manuel Romain
That's How I Need You	U.S. Everlasting Record: 1599	Miss Burney
That's How I Need You	Edison Blue Amberol: 1589	H. Burr
Think It Over, Mary	Lakeside Indestructible Cylinder Record: 1253	Will Oakland
Way Down in Borneo-O-O-O	Edison Blue Amberol: 2973	Leonard T. Chick
Way Down in Cotton Town	Edison Amberol: 543	Billy Murray
What a Wonderful Mother You'd Be	Edison Blue Amberol: 2913	W.V. Brunt
What a Wonderful Mother You'd Be	Indestructible Record: 1530	H. Burr
When You Play in the Game of Love	Edison Blue Amberol: 2395	Manuel Romain
⇑Won't You Even Say, Hello	Indestructible Record: 1012	Byron George Harlan
Won't You Even Say, Hello	Edison Standard Record: 10118	Manuel Romain
Midi File(s)		Sequencer(s)
Good-Bye Mister Caruso (1909)	Midi	James Pitt-Payne
Honey Man (1911)	Midi	James Pitt-Payne
Rusty-Can-O-Rag (1910)	Midi	James Pitt-Payne
That Italian Rag (1910)	Midi	James Pitt-Payne
When Broadway Was a Pasture (1911)	Midi	James Pitt-Payne

CDs

	Performer	CD Title	Supplier


Jazz Music CDs:
Turk Murphy	Turk Murphy's Jazz Band Favorites	CD(s) & MP3 Album(s)
Thomas Waller	Fats Waller: 1936	CD(s) & MP3 Album(s)
Thomas Waller	Golden Greats
Thomas Waller	The Very Best of Fats Waller	CD(s) & MP3 Album(s)
Ragtime Music CDs:
Various Artists	Spaghetti Rag: Rag Music with Mandolins	CD(s) & MP3 Album(s)

	Title	Attribution	Instruments	Source	Remarks


All Aboard For Home Sweet Home (1918)	A. Piantadosi (music) J. Glogau (coauth.) Addison Burkhardt (words)	Piano, Voice	Indiana
At the Yiddish Wedding Jubilee (1914)	A. Piantadosi (music) J. Glogau (coauth.) Joseph McCarthy (words) Bush & Shapiro (perf.) S. Tucker (perf.)	Piano, Voice	Indiana Indiana
Baby Shoes (1916)	A. Piantadosi (music) Ed Rose (words) J. Goodwin (words)	Piano, Voice	Greer
Belgium Dry Your Tears (1918)	A. Piantadosi (music) A. Freed (words)	Piano, Voice	IMSLP Indiana	Pub.
Blessed Is He Who Is Loving and Blessed Is She Who Is Loved (1916)	A. Piantadosi (music) J. Goodwin (words)	Piano, Voice	IMSLP	Pub.
Cow Bells (1922)	A. Piantadosi (music) Lew Klein (words) Sidney D Mitchell (words)	Piano, Voice	IMSLP
Curse of an Aching Heart (1913), The	A. Piantadosi (music) Henry Fink (words) Emma Carus (perf.)	Piano, Voice	Kirk Indiana	Pub.
Cute and Cunning Wonderful Baby Doll (1913)	A. Piantadosi (music) J. Goodwin (words) Joseph McCarthy (words) Florence Tempest (perf.)	Piano, Voice	IMSLP	Pub.
Good-Bye Mister Caruso (1909)	A. Piantadosi (music) Billy Dunham (words)	Piano, Voice	IMSLP Indiana
He's the Cat's Meow (1921)	A. Piantadosi (music) Billy Abbott (coauth.) Ballard Macdonald (words)	Piano, Voice	Greer	Pub.
Honey Man (1911)	A. Piantadosi (music) J. McCarthy (words) Abbott & White (perf.) Rhoda Bernard (perf.)	Piano, Voice	IMSLP Indiana	Pub.
I Didn't Raise My Boy to Be a Soldier (1915)	A. Piantadosi (music) A. Bryan (words) Chief Tendehoa (perf.) Chief Tendehoa (perf.) McCormack & Irving (perf.) Ed Morton (perf.) American Comedy Four (perf.) Parillo & Frabito (perf.) Will J. Ward (perf.)	Piano, Voice	Greer Greer Kirk Indiana Indiana Indiana Indiana Indiana Indiana	Pub.
I'm Always Watching Clouds Roll By (1910)	A. Piantadosi (w&m)	Piano, Voice	IMSLP Indiana	Pub.
I've Only One Idea About the Girls and That's to Love 'em (1914)	A. Piantadosi (music) Earl Carroll (words) Joseph McCarthy (words) Wilbur Mack (perf.)	Piano, Voice	IMSLP	Pub.
If You Had All the World and Its Gold (1916)	A. Piantadosi (music) Bartley Costell (words) Harry Edelheit (words) Eva Tanguay (perf.)	Piano, Voice	IMSLP Indiana	Pub.
In All My Dreams, I Dream of You (1910)	A. Piantadosi (music) J. McCarthy (words)	Piano, Voice	IMSLP Indiana	Pub.
Just Like the Rose (1909)	A. Piantadosi (music) I. Berlin (words)	Piano, Voice	Indiana
Melinda's Wedding Day (1913)	A. Piantadosi (music) J. McCarthy (words) J. Goodwin (words) Archie Lloyd (perf.)	Piano, Voice	IMSLP	Pub.
Mississippi Days (1916)	A. Piantadosi (music) B. MacDonald (words)	Piano, Voice	Indiana	Pub.
My Mariuccia Take a Steamboat, She's Gone Away (1906)	A. Piantadosi (music) George Ronklyn (words) Henry Frey (perf.) Alex Carr (perf.) Madge P. Maitland (perf.)	Piano, Voice	IMSLP Indiana Indiana
On the Same Old Road (1916)	A. Piantadosi (music) Allan J Flynn (words) John H Flynn (words)	Piano, Voice	IMSLP
Peggy Malone (1916)	A. Piantadosi (music) J. Goodwin (words) Burrell Rhoades (perf.)	Piano, Voice	IMSLP	Pub.
Playing Hookey (1908)	A. Piantadosi (music) E. Leslie (words) Stuart Barnes (perf.)	Piano, Voice	Indiana
Rusty-Can-O-Rag (1910)	A. Piantadosi (music) Thomas J. Gray (words) Dan Maley (perf.)	Piano, Voice	Indiana	Pub.
Somehow I Can't Forget You (1911)	A. Piantadosi (music) J. McCarthy (words)	Piano, Voice	Kirk	Pub.
Someone (1909)	A. Piantadosi (music) S. Tucker (perf.)	Piano, Voice	Indiana
Someone Is Waiting For You (1917)	A. Piantadosi (w&m)	Piano, Voice	Kirk	Pub.
Summer Days (1911)	A. Piantadosi (music) J. McCarthy (words) Kathleen Kay (perf.) Kathleen Kay (perf.)	Piano, Voice	IMSLP Indiana	Pub.
Tennessee Tessie (1907)	A. Piantadosi (music) Joe Schwab (words) George Ronklyn (words) Mildred Le Grande (perf.)	Piano, Voice	Indiana	Pub.
That Dreamy Italian Waltz - Song (1910)	A. Piantadosi (music) J. McCarthy (words) Sam Dody (perf.)	Piano, Voice	Greer	Pub.
That Italian Rag (1910)	A. Piantadosi (music)	Piano	IMSLP	Pub.
That Italian Rag - Song (1910)	A. Piantadosi (music) E. Leslie (words) Tom M. Lyons (perf.)	Piano, Voice	Indiana	Pub.
That Italian Serenade (1911)	A. Piantadosi (music) J. Glogau (coauth.) J. McCarthy (words) Ethel Tucker (perf.)	Piano, Voice	Indiana	Pub.
That's How I Need You (1912)	A. Piantadosi (music) J. McCarthy (words) J. Goodwin (words) Emma Carus (perf.) Emma Carus (perf.)	Piano, Voice	Greer Kirk Indiana	Pub.
Then I'll Stop Loving You (1913)	A. Piantadosi (music) J. McCarthy (words) J. Goodwin (words) Emma Carus (perf.)	Piano, Voice	IMSLP Indiana	Pub.
Think It Over, Mary (1911)	A. Piantadosi (music) Thomas J. Gray (words) Frankie Seigel (perf.)	Piano, Voice	IMSLP	Pub.
Way Down in Borneo-O-O-O (1916)	A. Piantadosi (music) John H Flynn (words) Leonard T. Chick (perf.)	Piano, Voice	IMSLP	Pub.
What a Wonderful Mother You'd Be (1915)	A. Piantadosi (music) J. Goodwin (words)	Piano	Greer	Pub.
When You Play in the Game of Love (1913)	A. Piantadosi (music) J. Goodwin (words) Willie Weston (perf.)	Piano, Voice	IMSLP Indiana	Pub.
When You're in Love With Someone Who Is Not in Love With You (1915)	A. Piantadosi (music) G. Clarke (words) Dorothy Meuther (perf.)	Piano, Voice	IMSLP Indiana	Pub.
Why Do They Make Girls Like You? (1916)	A. Piantadosi (music) J. Goodwin (words) Elida Morris (perf.)	Piano, Voice	Indiana	Pub.
Wild Wild Women (1917), The	A. Piantadosi (music) A. Wilson (words) H. Lewis (perf.)	Piano, Voice	Kirk Indiana	Pub.
Woman Thou Gavest Me (1919), The	A. Piantadosi (w&m)	Piano, Voice	IMSLP Indiana	Pub.
Your Wife (1916)	A. Piantadosi (music) Andrew Donnelly (words) Addison Burkhardt (words)	Piano, Voice	Indiana	Pub.

Titles

This list is arranged by composer and contains 1 work performed by Al Piantadosi who is featured on sheet music covers. It does not claim to be complete and represents only the number of items located. Keys: (w&m)

	Title	Composer	Attribution	Remarks


	I Wonder if We'll Ever Meet Again (1925)	Al Piantadosi(w&m)	Tommy Lyman (co-author) Al Piantadosi (perf.)

Works

This list is arranged in chronological order and contains 93 works by Al Piantadosi (1882-1955). It does not claim to be complete and represents only the number of items located. Keys: ER

(w&m)

1906-1910

Title	Year	Attribution	Remarks


My Mariuccia Take a Steamboat, She's Gone Away	1906	George Ronklyn (words) Alex Carr (perf.) Henry Frey (perf.) Joseph Mack (perf.) Madge P. Maitland (perf.) Billy Murray (perf.)
Tennessee Tessie	1907	Joe Schwab (words) George Ronklyn (words) Mildred Le Grande (perf.)	Pub.
I'm a Yiddish Cowboy	1908	Halsey K. Mohr (co-author) Edgar Leslie (words) Edward Meeker (perf.)
Playing Hookey	1908	Edgar Leslie (words) Stuart Barnes (perf.) Ada Jones (perf.)
Rose of the Rancho	1908	Frances Starr (perf.)
Big Chief Dynamite	1909	Jeff T. Branen (words) Harry Koler (perf.)
Can't You See the Rainbow in the Sky	1909	Edgar Leslie (words)
Good Luck Mary	1909	Alfred Bryan (words) Edgar Leslie (words) Billy Murray (perf.)	Pub.
Good-Bye Mister Caruso	1909	Billy Dunham (words)	Pub.
I Didn't Mean to Make You Cry	1909	Halsey K Mohr (words)
Just Like the Rose	1909	Irving Berlin (words)
⇑ Someone	1909	Vernon Archibald (perf.) Elizabeth Spencer (perf.) Sophie Tucker (perf.)	Pub.
Sweetheart's a Pretty Name When It Is Y-O-U	1909	Edgar Leslie (words) Manuel Romain (perf.)
Way Down in Cotton Town	1909	Edgar Leslie (words) Billy Murray (perf.)
Won't You Even Say, Hello	1909	Edgar Leslie (words) Byron George Harlan (perf.) Manuel Romain (perf.)
Funny Moon	1910	Jos. McCarthy (words) Charles F. Orr:veveyz (perf.)
I'm Always Watching Clouds Roll By (w&m)	1910
I'm Awfully Glad I'm Irish	1910	Edgar Leslie (words) Blanche Mehaffey (perf.)	Pub.
In All My Dreams, I Dream of You	1910	Joe McCarthy (words)	Pub.
Rusty-Can-O-Rag	1910	Thomas J. Gray (words) Dan Maley (perf.) Ben Welch (perf.)	Pub.

1910-1912

Title	Year	Attribution	Remarks


Skiddy-Mer-Rink-A-Doo Means ''I Love You''	1910	Felix F. Feist (words) Richard Carle (perf.)
Take Me With You Cutey, and Forget to Bring Me Back	1910	Thomas J. Gray (words)
That Dreamy Italian Waltz	1910
That Dreamy Italian Waltz - Song	1910	Joe McCarthy (words) Claude & Marion Cleveland (perf.) Sam Dody (perf.)	Pub.
That Italian Rag	1910		Pub.
That Italian Rag - Song	1910	Edgar Leslie (words) Sam Dody (perf.) Tom M. Lyons (perf.)	Pub.
That Todelo Tune	1910	May Irwin (perf.)
Dreamy Italian Waltz	1911		Pub.
Dreamy Italian Waltz - Song	1911		Pub.
Give Me a Small-Town Sweetheart	1911	Joe McCarthy (words)	Pub.
Honey Man	1911	Joe McCarthy (words) Abbott & White (perf.) Rhoda Bernard (perf.) George F. Britt (perf.) Anna Chandler (perf.) Luba Meroff (perf.)	Pub.
⇑ I Just Met the Fellow Who Married the Girl That I Was Going to Get!	1911	Joe McCarthy (words)
Somehow I Can't Forget You	1911	Joe McCarthy (words)	Pub.
Summer Days	1911	Joe McCarthy (words) Belle Adair (perf.) George Wilton Ballard (perf.) Kathleen Kay (perf.) Montgomery & Moore (perf.) Billy Murray (perf.)	Pub.
That Italian Serenade	1911	Jack Glogau (co-author) Joe McCarthy (words) Ethel Tucker (perf.)	Pub.
That Long Lost Chord	1911	Joe McCarthy (words)
Think It Over, Mary	1911	Thomas J. Gray (words) Will Oakland (perf.) Frankie Seigel (perf.)	Pub.
When Broadway Was a Pasture	1911	Joe McCarthy (words) Valeska Suratt (perf.)	Pub.
That's How I Need You	1912	Joe McCarthy (words) Joe Goodwin (words) Miss Burney (perf.) Henry Burr (perf.) Emma Carus (perf.)	Pub.
Your Daddy Did the Same Thing Fifty Years Ago	1912	Joe McCarthy (words) Joe Goodwin (words) Jen Latona (perf.)	Pub.

1913-1916

Title	Year	Attribution	Remarks


Come Back, I'm Pining For You	1913	Anna Chandler (perf.)
Curse of an Aching Heart, The	1913	Henry Fink (words) Joe Burns (perf.) Emma Carus (perf.) Manne & Bell (perf.) Will Oakland (perf.)
Cute and Cunning Wonderful Baby Doll	1913	Joe Goodwin (words) Joseph McCarthy (words) Florence Tempest (perf.)	Pub.
I'd Still Believe in You	1913
It's the Wonderful Way He Loves	1913	Homer Wesley (words)
Melinda's Wedding Day	1913	Joe McCarthy (words) Joe Goodwin (words) Barnes & Robinson (perf.) Emma Carus (perf.) Arthur Collins (perf.) Byron George Harlan (perf.) Archie Lloyd (perf.)	Pub.
Then I'll Stop Loving You	1913	Joe McCarthy (words) Joe Goodwin (words) Emma Carus (perf.)	Pub.
When You Play in the Game of Love	1913	Joe Goodwin (words) Little Jerry (perf.) Manuel Romain (perf.) Willie Weston (perf.)	Pub.
Where Was Moses When the Light Went Out?	1913
You Look Just Like Your Mother, Mary	1913	Howard Wesley (words)
At the Yiddish Wedding Jubilee	1914	Jack Glogau (co-author) Joseph McCarthy (words) Maurice Burkhart (perf.) Bush & Shapiro (perf.) Sophie Tucker (perf.)	Pub.
⇑ I've Only One Idea About the Girls and That's to Love 'em	1914	Earl Carroll (words) Joseph McCarthy (words) Wilbur Mack (perf.) Helene Vincent (perf.)	Pub.
I Didn't Raise My Boy to Be a Soldier	1915	Alfred Bryan (words) Henry Burr (perf.) Helen Clark (perf.) American Comedy Four (perf.) McCormack & Irving (perf.) Ed Morton (perf.) Parillo & Frabito (perf.) Chief Tendehoa (perf.) Chee Toy (perf.) Will J. Ward (perf.)	Pub.
I'm Glad My Boy Grew Up to Be a Soldier	1915	Helen Clark (perf.)
My Own Venetian Rose (w&m)	1915	Jack Glogau (co-author) Joe McCarthy (co-author) Billy Beard (perf.)	Pub.
What a Wonderful Mother You'd Be	1915	Joe Goodwin (words) Walter Van Brunt (perf.) Henry Burr (perf.)
When You're in Love With Someone Who Is Not in Love With You	1915	Grant Clarke (words) Dorothy Meuther (perf.)	Pub.
Baby Shoes	1916	Ed Rose (words) Joe Goodwin (words) Elizabeth Spencer (perf.)	Pub.
Blessed Is He Who Is Loving and Blessed Is She Who Is Loved	1916	Joe Goodwin (words)	Pub.
For the Sake of a Rose	1916	Addison Burkhardt (words)	Pub.

1916-1919.

Title	Year	Attribution	Remarks


How Could Washington Be a Married Man	1916	Joe Goodwin (words) Ballard MacDonald (words) Evelyn Nesbit (perf.) M. J. O'Connell (perf.)
If You Had All the World and Its Gold	1916	Bartley Costell (words) Harry Edelheit (words) Perry Como (perf.) Manuel Romain (perf.) Eva Tanguay (perf.)
Mississippi Days	1916	Ballard MacDonald (words) Arthur Collins (perf.) Byron George Harlan (perf.)	Pub.
On the Same Old Road	1916	Allan J Flynn (words) John H Flynn (words)
Peggy Malone	1916	Joe Goodwin (words) Burrell Rhoades (perf.)	Pub.
Way Down in Borneo-O-O-O	1916	John H Flynn (words) Leonard T. Chick (perf.)	Pub.
Why Do They Make Girls Like You?	1916	Joe Goodwin (words) Elida Morris (perf.)	Pub.
Your Wife	1916	Andrew Donnelly (words) Addison Burkhardt (words)	Pub.
May Heaven Bless Your Wedding Day	1917	Bartley Costello (words)	Pub.
Someone Is Waiting For You (w&m)	1917	Shannon Quartet (perf.)	Pub.
When the Boys Come Home	1917	Grant Clarke (words)
⇑ Wild Wild Women, The	1917	Al Wilson (words) Henry Lewis (perf.)	Pub.
All Aboard For Home Sweet Home	1918	Jack Glogau (co-author) Addison Burkhardt (words)	Pub.
Belgium Dry Your Tears	1918	Arthur Freed (words)	Pub.
My Salvation Army Girl	1918	Jack Mason (words)
They Are the Stars in the Service Flag	1918	Jack Glogau (words) Jack Mason (words)
What an Army of Men We'd Have if They Ever Drafted the Girls (w&m)	1918	Jack Glogau (co-author)	Pub.
Woman Thou Gavest Me, The (w&m)	1919	Arr. by E Bial	Pub.
You Mean All That and More to Me (w&m)	1919	Gloria Joy (perf.)	Pub.
It's Easy For You to Remember But It's So Hard For Me to Forget	1919.

1920-?

Title	Year	Attribution	Remarks


Chasin' the Blues	1920	Al. Bernard (perf.)
I'm the Good Man That Was Hard to Find	1920	Bud Green (words)
He's the Cat's Meow	1921	Billy Abbott (co-author) Ballard Macdonald (words)
Cow Bells	1922	Lew Klein (words) Sidney D Mitchell (words) Harry Raderman's Orchestra (perf.)
I Wonder if We'll Ever Meet Again (w&m)	1925	Tommy Lyman (co-author) Al Piantadosi (perf.)	Pub.
Pal of My Cradle Days	1925	Marshall Montgomery (words) Correll & Gosden (perf.) Norinne Gibbons (perf.) Heller & Riley (perf.) Helen Moretti (perf.) Alice Morley (perf.) Joseph M. White (perf.)
Down by the Gas House	1926	Wm Tracey (words)
I've Lost All My Love For You	1926	Harry Akst (co-author) Sam M. Lewis (words) Joe Young (words)	Pub.
Tired Hands (w&m)	1926	Mildred Hunt (perf.)	Pub.
No Mother to Guide Her	1931	Bartley Costello (words)
Cradle Lullaby (w&m)	1932	Jack Glogau (co-author)
⇑ On the Shores of Sweet Romance (w&m)	1933	Arthur Tracy (co-author) Jack Glogau (co-author)
I'm Sending a Message to Mama	?	Joseph McCarthy (words)

Videos

	Title	Duration	Performer


	Your Daddy Did the Same Thing Fifty Years Ago	3:03	J. Latona