Chris Smith  (1879-1949)
Last updated: 18.12.23
According to the Internet source given below, Chris Smith was an Afro-American composer and songwriter of popular music born in Charleston, South Carolina. His first experience in show business was in a medicine show. He came to New York around the turn of the century with his childhood friend and lifelong vaudeville partner, Elmer Bowman. He and Bowman penned many songs including I've Got De Blues (1901), one of the earliest songs with blues in the title. Bowman and Smith's first big hit was "Good Morning Carrie (1901) co-written with Cecil Mack and sung on stage by Bert Williams
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Chris Smith  (1879-1949) has at least 3 item(s) at the Amazons which you can order on-line by clicking the item's order icon.
Coon's Day in May
Music by: Chris Smith.
Words by: Theo. Bowman
Publisher: F. A. Mills
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Printed: 1898. Sheet Music 5 pages.
I've Got De Blues
Music by: Chris Smith.
Co-Author: Elmer Bowman
Publisher: The Lyceum Publishing Co.
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Printed: 1901. Sheet Music 5 pages.
You're in the Right Church But the Wrong Pew
Music by: Chris Smith.
Words by: Cecil Mack
Publisher: McPherson & Smith
Suppliers: B0000D3DMZ: not available.
Printed: 1908. Sheet Music.
  Title (Release Year) Co-Author(s) Performers Issue
         
cylinder15.gif That Precious Little Thing Called Love (1912) C. Mack Arthur Collins
Byron George Harlan
U.S. Everlasting Record: 1501
cylinder15.gif You're in the Right Church But the Wrong Pew (1908) Ed Morton Indestructible Record: 854
cylinder15.gif If He Comes In, I'm Going Out (1911) Edward Meeker Edison Standard Record: 10488
cylinder15.gif Shame on You (1905) John Larkins William H. Tascott Edison Gold Moulded Record: 9033
cylinder15.gif Wooden Hut - Parody (1906) B. Williams Edison Gold Moulded Record: 13548
  Title Co-Author(s) Sequencer
       
audiomidi15.gif Barn-Yard Rag (1911), The James Pitt-Payne
audiomidi15.gif He's a Cousin of Mine (1906) S. Hein James Pitt-Payne
audiomidi15.gif My Little Loving Aero Man (1912) James Pitt-Payne
     Performer CD Title Supplier
       
Folk Music CDs:
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Jazz Music CDs:
cd15.gif Turk Murphy Turk Murphy's Jazz Band Favorites CD(s) & MP3 Album(s) flag15us.gif flag15uk.gif flag15de.gif flag15fr.gif flag15ca.gif flag15it.gif flag15es.gif
cd15.gif Pee Wee Russell The Land of Jazz flag15us.gif flag15uk.gif flag15de.gif flag15fr.gif flag15ca.gif flag15it.gif flag15es.gif
Ragtime Music CDs:
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cd15.gif The Skirtlifters A Ragtime Episode flag15us.gif flag15de.gif flag15fr.gif flag15es.gif
cd15.gif St. Louis Ragtimers The St. Louis Ragtimers: Volume 5 flag15us.gif flag15uk.gif flag15de.gif flag15fr.gif flag15ca.gif flag15it.gif flag15es.gif
cd15.gif Peter Muir Spontaneous Ragtime flag15us.gif flag15de.gif
     Title Attribution Instruments Source Remarks
           
pdf15.gif Ballin' the Jack (1914) C. Smith (music)
J.R. Europe (coauth.)
Piano Kirk wvicon.gif
pdf15.gif Ballin' the Jack - Song (1913) C. Smith (music)
J.R. Europe (coauth.)
Jim Burris (words)
May Orletta (perf.)
Piano, Voice IMSLP Pub.


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Barn-Yard Rag (1911), The C. Smith (music)
B. Johnson (words)
Sam Herman (perf.)
Dixie Emmette (perf.)
Piano, Voice

IMSLP
Indiana
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pdf15.gif Common Sense (1907) C. Smith (music)
John Larkins (coauth.)
Clarice Vance (perf.)
Piano, Voice Kirk wvicon.gif
pdf15.gif Dat's Music to Me (1907) C. Smith (music)
Billy Clark (perf.)
H.W. Armstrong (perf.)
Piano, Voice Indiana wvicon.gif
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Dinner Bells (1904) C. Smith (music)
Harry Leslie Brown (coauth.)
Piano, Voice Kirk
Indiana
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pdf15.gif Does You Love Me As Tou Used To, Miss Jane? (1904) C. Smith (music)
Avery and Hart (words)
Sherman Coates (perf.)
Piano, Voice IMSLP wvicon.gif




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 Down Among the Sugar-Cane (1908) C. Smith (music)
C. Mack (coauth.)
D. Avery (words)
Chas Hart (words)
May Kemp (perf.)
Clara Morton (perf.)
Piano, Voice



Indiana
Indiana
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pdf15.gif Honky Tonky Monkey Rag (1911) C. Smith (w&m)
Rae Samuels (perf.)
Piano, Voice Indiana wvicon.gif
pdf15.gif I Want a Little Lovin', Sometimes (1912) C. Smith (w&m)
M. Cahill (perf.)
Piano, Voice Indiana wvicon.gif
pdf15.gif I Want to Know Where Tosti Went (1920) C. Smith (w&m)
Bert Williams (perf.)
Piano, Voice Indiana wvicon.gif
pdf15.gif I'll Do As Much For You (1904) C. Smith (w&m)
Harry Leslie Brown (coauth.)
Edna Wallace Hopper (perf.)
Piano, Voice Indiana wvicon.gif
pdf15.gif If He Comes In, I'm Going Out (1910) C. Smith (music)
C. Mack (words)
Stella Mayhew (perf.)
Piano, Voice IMSLP Pub.
pdf15.gif If You Ain't Got It Go and Get It (1909) C. Smith (music) Piano IMSLP Pub.
pdf15.gif In the Shadows of the Silv'ry Moon (1906) C. Smith (w&m)
B. Johnson (coauth.)
Joe Kane (perf.)
Piano Indiana wvicon.gif
pdf15.gif  In Watermelon Time (1909) C. Smith (music)
James Burris (words)
Piano, Voice Kirk wvicon.gif
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Irish Were Egyptians Long Ago (1920), The C. Smith (music)
A. Bryan (words)
Piano, Voice IMSLP
Indiana
Pub.
pdf15.gif Jungle Jamboree Rag (1913) C. Smith (music) Piano IMSLP Pub.
pdf15.gif My Little Loving Aero Man (1912) C. Smith (music)
Chas. R. McCarron (words)
Ferd E. Mierisch (words)
Carrie Reynolds (perf.)
Piano, Voice Indiana Pub.
pdf15.gif My Sweet Savannah Lize (1903) C. Smith (music)
Walter Hilliard (words)
Jones & Sul**** (perf.)
Piano, Voice IMSLP wvicon.gif
pdf15.gif Piping Rock (1914) C. Smith (music) Piano, Voice Kirk wvicon.gif
pdf15.gif Please Don't Love Anybody Else But Me (1913) C. Smith (w&m)
Brierre & King (perf.)
Piano, Voice Univ. of Maine Pub.
pdf15.gif Right Church But the Wrong Pew (1908), The C. Smith (music)
C. Mack (words)
Samuel H. Dudley (perf.)
Piano, Voice IMSLP Pub.
pdf15.gif  Scaddle-De-Mooch - Song (1915) C. Smith (music)
N. Bayes (perf.)
Piano, Voice Indiana Pub.
pdf15.gif Shame on You (1914) C. Smith (music)
John Larkins (coauth.)
Lew Dockstader (perf.)
Piano Indiana Pub.
pdf15.gif That Precious Little Thing Called Love (1912) C. Smith (w&m)
C. Mack (coauth.)
Piano, Voice Indiana Pub.
pdf15.gif That Puzzlin' Rag (1912) C. Smith (music)
E. Bowman (coauth.)
Cecil Worsley (perf.)
Piano IMSLP Pub.
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When Mother Plays a Rag Upon the Sewing Machine (1912) C. Smith (music)
J. McCarthy (words)
J. Goodwin (words)
Piano, Voice IMSLP
Indiana
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This list is arranged in chronological order and contains 107 works by Chris Smith (1879-1949). It does not claim to be complete and represents only the number of items located. Keys: ER pdf15.gif (w&m)
Title Year Attribution Remarks
       
Coon's Day in May 1898 Theo. Bowman (words)  amazon15.gif wvicon.gif
Don't Believe All You Hear, Honey 1901 Press Eldridge (perf.)
Good Morning Carrie! 1901 Elmer Bowman (co-author)
Cecil Mack (words)
Williams & Walker (perf.)
words by as as R.C. McPherson;
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I've Got De Blues (w&m) 1901 Elmer Bowman (co-author)  amazon15.gif wvicon.gif
Humming Coon, The (w&m) 1902 Elmer Bowman (co-author)  Pub.
Since I Heard From Home 1902 Johnson & Dean (perf.)
While the Rain Am Falling 1902 Ethel Carter (perf.)
Your Face Looks Familiar to Me 1902 Elmer Bowman (co-author)
Ritter & Leavitt (perf.)
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Liza 1903 Mable Bennett (perf.)
Mister Moon (w&m) 1903 Elmer Bowman (co-author)
Smith & Bowman (perf.)
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My Sweet Savannah Lize 1903 Walter Hilliard (words)
Jones & Sul**** (perf.)
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Dinner Bells 1904 Harry Leslie Brown (co-author)  wvicon.gif
Does You Love Me As Tou Used To, Miss Jane? 1904 Avery and Hart (words)
Harry Brown (perf.)
Sherman Coates (perf.)
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I'll Do As Much For You (w&m) 1904 Harry Leslie Brown (co-author)
Edna Wallace Hopper (perf.)
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Shame on You 1904 John Larkins (co-author)
Lew Dockstader (perf.)
William H. Tascott (perf.)
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Why Hello Bill Who's Yo' Friend 1904 Harry Brown (perf.)
Medley From Shame on You 1905  Pub.
Nobody Has More Trouble Than Me 1905 May Irwin (perf.)
Sweetie Don't 1905 Elmer Bowman (words)  Pub.
Ta'int De Kind O' Grub I've Been Gettin' Down Home 1905 May Irwin (perf.)
Who's There Knocking at My Door 1905 Harry Brown (perf.)
All in Down and Out 1906 Elmer Bowman (words)
R.C. McPherson (words)
Johnson (words)
Clarice Vance (perf.)
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Good-Bye Ma Honey I'm Gone 1906 Murphy & Frances (perf.)
He's a Cousin of Mine 1906 Silvio Hein (co-author)
Cecil Mack (words)
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If I Ever Get Back to Cincinnati 1906 Samuel H. Dudley (perf.)
Title Year Attribution Remarks
       
In the Shadows of the Silv'ry Moon (w&m) 1906 Billy Johnson (co-author)
Joe Kane (perf.)
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There's a Time and Place For Everything 1906 Artie Hall (perf.)
Wooden Hut - Parody 1906 Billy Williams (perf.)  audioextmp315.gif
Business Is Business With Me 1907 Billy B. Johnson (words)  wvicon.gif
Common Sense 1907 John Larkins (co-author)
Clarice Vance (perf.)
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Dat's Music to Me 1907 Henry W. Armstrong (perf.)
Billy Clark (perf.)
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It's Hard to Love Somebody 1907 Aida Overton Walker (perf.)
Just an Old Friend of the Family 1907 Williams & Walker (perf.)
No, No, Positively No 1907 Nat M. Wills (perf.)
Baby Talk 1908 Schatz & Swanson (perf.)
Down Among the Sugar-Cane 1908 Cecil Mack (co-author)
Dan Avery (words)
Chas Hart (words)
May Kemp (perf.)
Clara Morton (perf.)
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Hot Corn 1908  wvicon.gif
Right Church But the Wrong Pew, The 1908 Cecil Mack (words)
Samuel H. Dudley (perf.)
 Pub.
You're in the Right Church But the Wrong Pew 1908 Cecil Mack (words)
Ed Morton (perf.)
Clarice Vance (perf.)
Bert A. Williams (perf.)
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Gee! But Aint America a Grand Old Place 1909 Paul Lincke (perf.)
If You Ain't Got It Go and Get It 1909  Pub.
In Watermelon Time 1909 James Burris (words)  wvicon.gif
Is Julia Home? 1909 Jack Driscoll (perf.)  wvicon.gif
Trans-Mag-Ni-Fi-Can-Bam-Dam-U-Ality 1909  Pub.
If He Comes In, I'm Going Out 1910 Cecil Mack (words)
Stella Mayhew (perf.)
Edward Meeker (perf.)
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Rubber-Necking Moon (w&m) 1910 Abbie Mitchell Cook (perf.)  wvicon.gif
She's a Patient of Mine 1910 Harry Van Fossen (perf.)
George Austin Moore (perf.)
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There's a Pickaninny Crying in the Moon 1910 Julius Steger (perf.)
Barn-Yard Rag, The 1911 Billy Johnson (words)
Sam Herman (perf.)
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Honky Tonky Monkey Rag (w&m) 1911 Rae Samuels (perf.)  wvicon.gif
Title Year Attribution Remarks
       
Monkey Rag 1911
Undertaker Man, The (w&m) 1911 Happy Benway (perf.)  wvicon.gif
After All That I've Been to You 1912 Jack Drislane (words)
Rudy Vallée (perf.)
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At the Levee on Revival Day 1912
Beans! Beans!! Beans!!! 1912 Elmer Bowman (words)
Charles Hart (perf.)
Gus Van (perf.)
 Pub.
He's Got My Goat 1912
Honey Rose 1912 Joe McCarthy (words)
Joe Goodwin (words)
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I Want a Little Lovin', Sometimes (w&m) 1912 Marie Cahill (perf.)  wvicon.gif
I'm Glad You're Goin' Good-Bye 1912
If We Were Alone 1912  wvicon.gif
Keep It Up - Song 1912
Love, Honor and Obey 1912 Joseph McCarthy (words)
Joe Goodwin (words)
 Pub.
My Little Loving Aero Man 1912 Chas. R. McCarron (words)
Ferd E. Mierisch (words)
Carrie Reynolds (perf.)
Blossom Seeley (perf.)
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Round My Heart 1912 Harry Collins (perf.)
That Precious Little Thing Called Love (w&m) 1912 Cecil Mack (co-author)
Arthur Collins (perf.)
Byron George Harlan (perf.)
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That Puzzlin' Rag 1912 Elmer Bowman (co-author)
William H. Tascott (perf.)
Cecil Worsley (perf.)
Arr. Eugene Platzmann
 Pub.
When Mother Plays a Rag Upon the Sewing Machine 1912 Joe McCarthy (words)
Joe Goodwin (words)
 Pub.
Ballin' the Jack - Song 1913 James Reese Europe (co-author)
Jim Burris (words)
Holton Herr (perf.)
Janet McIlwaine (perf.)
May Orletta (perf.)
 Pub.
Boom, Tum, Ta-Ra-Ra Zing Boom 1913 Eli Dawson (perf.)
Concert in the Sky, The 1913 Ferd E. Meirsch (words)
Chas R.M. Carron (words)
Peggy Lennie (perf.)
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Fifteen Cents 1913  Pub.
In a Year From Now 1913 Ferd. E. Mierisch (words)  Pub.
Jungle Jamboree Rag 1913  Pub.
Please Don't Love Anybody Else But Me (w&m) 1913 Brierre & King (perf.)  Pub.
When Everything Seems to Go Wrong 1913 Ferd E Mierisch (words)  Pub.
Title Year Attribution Remarks
       
Ballin' the Jack 1914 James Reese Europe (co-author)  wvicon.gif youtube15.jpg
Fifty - Fifty 1914 Jim Burris (words)
Lillian Lorraine (perf.)
Isabella Patricola (perf.)
 Pub.
He's My Cousin if She's Your Niece 1914 Clarice Vance (perf.)
I Have Shed My Last Tears For You 1914 Eugene Howard (perf.)
Willie Howard (perf.)
Piping Rock 1914  wvicon.gif
Forget Me 1915
Goofer Dust 1915
Keep It Up 1915
Scaddle-De-Mooch 1915  Pub.
Scaddle-De-Mooch - Song 1915 Nora Bayes (perf.)  Pub.
Down in Honky Tonk Town 1916 Charles McCarron (words)  wvicon.gif
It's a Pretty Thing 1916 Jim Burris (words)  Pub.
My Waikiki Ukulele Girl 1916 Cooper & Smith (perf.)
San Francisco Blues 1916  wvicon.gif
Shoot the Rabbit 1916 Jim Burris (words)
Shoot the Rabbit - Song 1916
Coolin' the Coffee Pot 1917
Farm Yard Blues, The 1917 Henry Troy (co-author)
Jazbo Johnson's Hokum Band 1917
Noon-Time in the Levee 1917
Sons of Uncle Sam Have Always Brought the Bacon Home, The 1917 Henry Troy (words)  Pub.
I Want to Know Where Tosti Went (w&m) 1920 Bert Williams (perf.)  wvicon.gif
Irish Were Egyptians Long Ago, The 1920 Alfred Bryan (words)  wvicon.gif
Fandango 1921  Pub.
You'll Never Need a Doctor No More 1921 Chris smith (words)
Bert A. Williams (perf.)
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Title Year Attribution Remarks
       
At the Honky-Tonk Steppers' Ball 1922 Jimmy Durante (co-author)  wvicon.gif
Missing Link, The 1922  wvicon.gif
After Tea 1925
Camel Walk, The 1925 brymn,1 (co-author)
Cecil Mack (words)
Bob Schafer (words)
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Cake Walkin' Babies From Home ? Henry Troy (words)
Clarence Williams (words)
Ellen, I Am Serenading You (w&m) ? Elmer Bowman (co-author)
You'll Long For Me ? Clarence Williams (words)
     Composer Title Performer
       
youtube15.jpg C. Smith Ballin' the Jack (0:00) Ragtime Dorian Henry
youtube15.jpg C. Smith The Concert in the Sky (0:00) Ragtime Dorian Henry
youtube15.jpg C. Smith Good Morning Carrie! (0:00) Ragtime Dorian Henry