Harry Austin Tierney (1890-1965)

Overview

According to the Internet source given below, Harry Austin Tierney was an American composer of popular music, much for the Broadway musical stage. He was born in Perth Amboy, New Jersey in a musical family. His mother was a pianist and who taught him, his father was a trumpeter in a symphony orchestra and one of his uncles taught him harmony and composition. Tierney later studied at the Virgil Conservatory of Music in New York City.
He toured the USA and other countries as a concert pianist in the period before the First world War travelling to London in 1915 where he worked for as a staff composer for a British publisher who published 3 of his songs (King of the Maniac Band, Pass Along and Just For Tonight). He returned to the USA in 1916 to write for Broadway musicals.
His shows included Follow Me (1917), Everything (1918), The Broadway Show (1918), Irene (1919 a top show with 620 performances his greatest hits being Alice Blue Gown and Castle of Dreams adapted from Fryderyk F. Chopin's Minute Waltz), Rio Rita (1927), Dixiana (1929) and Half Shot at Sunrise (1930). ). Of ragtime interest are his The Bumble Bee (1909), Uncle Tom's Cabin (1911) and Variety Rag (1912). His career then declined and he died in New York City in aged 75.

Harry Austin Tierney (1890-1965) has at least 21 item(s) at the Amazons which you can order on-line by clicking the item's order icon.

Buy a Red Cross Rosie Song
Music by: Harry Austin Tierney.
Words by: Alfred Bryan

Publisher:	Jerome H. Remick & Co.
Suppliers:
Printed: 1917.	Sheet Music 5 pages. Limited availability.

Century Grove Revue
Music by: Harry Austin Tierney.

Publisher:	Jerome H. Remick & Co.
Suppliers:
Printed: 1918.	Sheet Music. Limited availability.

Separate numbers. Bolsheviki glide. - Campanile.

Everything Is Hunky Dory Down in Honky Tonky Town Song
Music by: Harry Austin Tierney.
Words by: #CLmccarthyj#1

Publisher:	McCarthy & Fisher
Suppliers:
Printed: 1918.	Sheet Music 5 pages. Limited availability.

Fleur-De-Lis - Song Song
Music by: Harry Austin Tierney.
Words by: Stanley Murphy

Publisher:	Jerome H. Remick & Co.
Suppliers:	Also see:
⇑ Printed: 1918.	Sheet Music. Limited availability.

I'm Trying So Hard to Be Good For You Song
Music by: Harry Austin Tierney.
Words by: R. P. Weston

Publisher:	Francis, Day & Hunter
Suppliers:
Printed: 1914.	Sheet Music. Limited availability.

Staff and tonic sol

If a Baby Would Never Grow Older Song
Music by: Harry Austin Tierney.
Words by: Alfred Bryan

Publisher:	Jerome H. Remick & Co.
Suppliers:
Printed: 1916.	Sheet Music 5 pages. Limited availability.

Irene A musical comedy by James Montgomery
Music by: Harry Austin Tierney.
Words by: Joseph McCarthy

Publisher:	Leo Feist
Suppliers:
Printed: 1919.	Sheet Music. Limited availability.

Love Me in the Old-Fashioned Way Song
Music by: Harry Austin Tierney.
Words by: Worton David

Publisher:	Francis, Day & Hunter
Suppliers:
⇑ Printed: 1914.	Sheet Music. Limited availability.

Staff and tonic sol

M-I-S-S-I-S-S-I-P-P-I Song
Music by: Harry Austin Tierney.
Words by: Benny Ryan

Publisher:	Whaley - Royce & Co.
Suppliers:
Printed: 1916.	Sheet Music 3 pages. Limited availability.

My Baby's Arms Song
Music by: Harry Austin Tierney.
Words by: #CLmccarthyj#1

Publisher:	Leo Feist
Suppliers:
Printed: 1919.	Sheet Music. Limited availability.

My Beautiful Egypt Song
Music by: Harry Austin Tierney.
Words by: Alfred Bryan

Publisher:	Jerome H. Remick & Co.
Suppliers:
Printed: 1918.	Sheet Music 3 pages. Limited availability.

My Little Service Flag Has Seven Stars Song
Music by: Harry Austin Tierney.
Words by: Stanley Murphy

Publisher:	Jerome H. Remick & Co.
Suppliers:
⇑ Printed: 1918.	Sheet Music 3 pages. Limited availability.

Nothing's Good Enough For a Good Little Girl if She's Good Enough For You Song
Music by: Harry Austin Tierney.
Words by: Alfred Bryan

Publisher:	Jerome H. Remick & Co.
Suppliers:
Printed: 1917.	Sheet Music 5 pages. Limited availability.

Rio Rita Vocal Score
Music by: Harry Austin Tierney.

Publisher:	Leo Feist
Suppliers:
Printed: 1959.	Sheet Music. Limited availability.

Vocal Score

She's Dixie All the Time Song
Music by: Harry Austin Tierney.
Words by: Alfred Bryan

Publisher:	Jerome H. Remick & Co.
Suppliers:
Printed: 1916.	Sheet Music 3 pages. Limited availability.

So This Is Paris Song
Music by: Harry Austin Tierney.
Words by: Harold Atteridge

Publisher:	G. Schirmer
Suppliers:
⇑ Printed: 1916.	Sheet Music 6 pages. Limited availability.

Sometime Song
Music by: Harry Austin Tierney.
Words by: Wm Jerome

Publisher:	Whaley - Royce & Co.
Suppliers:
Printed: 1916.	Sheet Music 5 pages. Limited availability.

Sweet Petootie Song
Music by: Harry Austin Tierney.
Words by: Stanley Murphy

Publisher:	Jerome H. Remick & Co.
Suppliers:
Printed: 1917.	Sheet Music 3 pages. Limited availability.

Wee Bit of Lace, A Song
Music by: Harry Austin Tierney.
Words by: #CLcohangm#1

Publisher:	McCarthy & Fisher
Suppliers:
Printed: 1919.	Sheet Music 5 pages. Limited availability.

When I Dream of Annie Laurie Song
Music by: Harry Austin Tierney.
Words by: Coleman Goetz

Publisher:	Maurice Abrahams Music Co.
Suppliers:
⇑ Printed: 1915.	Sheet Music 5 pages. Limited availability.

When You Were a Baby and I Was the Kid Next Door Song
Music by: Harry Austin Tierney.
Words by: Edgar Leslie

Publisher:	Waterson, Berlin & Snyder Co.
Suppliers:
Printed: 1915.	Sheet Music 5 pages. Limited availability.

CDs

	Performer	CD Title	Supplier


Ragtime Music CDs:
Various Artists	Early Ragtime Piano: 1910-1930
Various Artists	Pianola Ragtime: Early Piano Jazz and Ragtime Played on Pianola Rolls: Vol. 2	CD(s) & MP3 Album(s)
Various Artists	Ragtime to Jazz: Vol. 1	CD(s) & MP3 Album(s)
Elite Syncopators	Ragtime Special
Jenks/Grinstead	Ragtime Bigtime
Paragon Ragtime Orchestra	On The Boardwalk	CD(s) & MP3 Album(s)
Evergreen Ragtime Trio	It's a Rouser
Muriel Pollock	Vol. 6 Keyboard Wizards of the Gershwin Era
Bill Edwards	Syncopated Safari

Item	Title	Available	€	£	$	Other



DBE509	Alice Blue Gown (1919) - Song T/T/T/B/B/GB(B)/V(OT), approx. 3 mins.	1-2 days
DBE510	The Bumble Bee (1909) - A Buzzing Rag A/T/T/B/GB(B), approx. 2½ mins	1-2 days
DBE511	Carnation March (1911) A(T)/T/T/B/GB(B), approx. 4 mins.	1-2 days
DBE512	Castle of Dreams (1919) - Song T/T/T+B/B/GB(B)+T/V(OT), approx. 2¼ mins.	1-2 days
DBE513	The Fanatic Rag (1911) T/T/T/T+B/B/GB(B), approx. 3 mins.	1-2 days
DBE514	In My Irish Aeroplane (1917) - Song A(T)/T/T/B/GB(B)/V(OT), approx. 3¼ mins.	1-2 days
DBE515	Uncle Tom's Cabin (1911) - Rag D/A+B/T/T/B/GB(B) approx. 3⅕ mins.	1-2 days
⇑DBE582	Variety Rag (1912) - Something Different D/A/T/T/B/GB(B), approx. 3¾ mins.	1-2 days

Library

	Title	Instruments	Remarks


	Alice Blue Gown (1919)	T/T/T/B/B/GB(B)
	Bumble Bee (1909), The	A/T/T/B/GB(B)
	Carnation March (1911)	A(T)/T/T/B/GB(B)
	Castle of Dreams (1919)	T/T/T+B/B/GB(B)+T/V(OT)
	Fanatic Rag (1911), The	T/T/T/T+B/B/GB(B)
	In My Irish Aeroplane (1917)	A(T)/T/T/B/GB(B)/V(OT)
	Uncle Tom's Cabin (1911)	D/A+B/T/T/B/GB(B)
	Variety Rag (1912)	D/A/T/T/B/GB(B)

Monologues

This list is arranged by title and contains 1 lyric written by Harry Austin Tierney. The lyrics/monologues and *.pdf files have been kindly compiled by monologues.co.uk/musichall

	Title	Attribution	Remarks


	Alice Blue Gown	Harry Austin Tierney (music) Joseph McCarthy (words) Edith Day (sung by)

PDFs

	Title	Instruments	Remarks


Alice Blue Gown	Piano, Voice	Harry Austin Tierney (Music) Joseph McCarthy (words)
If You Can't Get a Girl in the Summertime You'll Never Get a Girl at All	Piano, Voice	Harry Austin Tierney (Music) Bert Kalmar (words)
If You're in Love, You'll Waltz	Piano, Voice	Harry Austin Tierney (Music) Joseph McCarthy (words)
Irene	Piano, Voice	Harry Austin Tierney (Music) Joseph McCarthy (words)

Works

This list is arranged in chronological order and contains 138 works by Harry Austin Tierney (1890-1965). It does not claim to be complete and represents only the number of items located. Keys: ER

1909-1915

Title	Year	Attribution	Remarks


Bumble Bee, The	1909
Twilight Reminds Me of You	1910	Edgar T Farran (words)
Black Canary Rag	1911
Carnation March	1911
Checker Board Rag	1911
Crimson Rambler Rag	1911
Dingle Pop Hop	1911
Fanatic Rag, The	1911
Fleur De Lis Rag	1911
Innocent Rag	1911
Rubies and Pearls	1911
⇑ That Chicken Glide	1911	Richard Goodall (words)
That Epidemic Rag	1911
Uncle Tom's Cabin	1911
William's Wedding	1911
Variety Rag	1912
Cabaret Rag	1912c
1915 Rag	1913
Chicago Tickle	1913
Keep Smiling!	1913
Louisiana Rag	1913
Tierney Rag	1913
I'm Trying So Hard to Be Good For You	1914	R. P. Weston (words)
⇑ Love Me in the Old-Fashioned Way	1914	Worton David (words)
If You Can't Get a Girl in the Summertime You'll Never Get a Girl at All	1915	Bert Kalmar (words) Billy Beard (sung by) Cissy Ramsden (sung by) Lillian & Jack Waldron (sung by) Evans & Arkin (sung by)

1915-1917

Title	Year	Attribution	Remarks


Peace Walk, The	1915
When I Dream of Annie Laurie	1915	Coleman Goetz (words)
When You Were a Baby and I Was the Kid Next Door	1915	Edgar Leslie (words)
Don't Play With Fire	1916	Anna Held (sung by)
Follow Me	1916
How Would You Like to Bounce a Baby on Your Knee?	1916	Anna Held (sung by)
I Brought Red Roses in December to You	1916	Hattie Burks (sung by)
I Can Live Without Your Kisses But I Won't Be Happy Dear	1916
If a Baby Would Never Grow Older	1916	Alfred Bryan (words)
It's a Cute Little Way of My Own	1916	Robert B. Smith (words) Anna Held (sung by)
La Parisian Peacock Girl	1916
⇑ M-I-S-S-I-S-S-I-P-P-I	1916	Bert Hanlon (words) Benny Ryan (words) Frances White (sung by)
Oh I Want to Be Good But My Eyes Won't Let Me	1916	Anna Held (words) Alfred Bryan (words)
Oh! I Want to Be Good But My Eyes Won't Let Me	1916	Anna Held (words) Alfred Bryan (words) Anna Held (sung by)
She's Dixie All the Time	1916	Alfred Bryan (words)
So This Is Paris	1916	Harold Atteridge (words)
Sometime	1916	Wm. Jerome (words) Raymond Hitchcock (sung by)
Buy a Red Cross Rosie	1917	Alfred Bryan (words)
Chasing the Squirrel	1917
Cleopatra	1917	Alfred Bryan (words)
Eyes of Youth	1917	Marjorie Rambeau (sung by)
Fame	1917
For One Sweet Day	1917	Alfred Bryan (words)
⇑ Frivolous Moments	1917
Garden of Liberty	1917

1917-1918

Title	Year	Attribution	Remarks


Girls Are Getting Wiser Ev'ry Day	1917	Anna Held (sung by)
I Proved That I Knew Something When I Fell in Love With You	1917
I Want You to Want Me With You	1917	Alfred Bryan (words)
I'm Not So Different From the Girls of Long Ago	1917	Anna Held (sung by)
If You'll Be a Soldier I'll Be a Red Cross Nurse	1917
In My Irish Aeroplane	1917	Stanley Murphy (words)
It's the Little Things That Count Most Ev'ry Way	1917	Anna Held (sung by)
It's Time For Every Boy to Be a Soldier	1917	Alfred Bryan (words)
Keep on the Right Hand Side of Father	1917
Keep Your Eye on Little Mary Brown	1917
Mammy Jinny's Hall of Fame	1917	Stanley Murphy (words)
⇑ My Yokohama Girl	1917	Alfred Bryan (words)
Nothing's Good Enough For a Good Little Girl if She's Good Enough For You	1917	Alfred Bryan (words)
Palm Beach Dip, The	1917
Sweet Petootie	1917	Stanley Murphy (words)
Way Down There a Dixie Boy Is Missing	1917	Stanley Murphy (words) Belle Baker (sung by)
We Do the Best We Can	1917
What Would $50,000 Make You Do	1917
Arya (Eyes of the Night)	1918
Century Grove Revue	1918
Everything Is Hunky Dory Down in Honky Tonky Town	1918	J. McCarthy (words)
Fleur-De-Lis - Song	1918	Stanley Murphy (words)
I Found the End of the Rainbow	1918	John Mears (words) J. McCarthy (words)
⇑ Jerry Mon Cheri	1918	Stanley Murphy (words)
My Beautiful Egypt	1918	Alfred Bryan (words)

1918-1922

Title	Year	Attribution	Remarks


My Little Service Flag Has Seven Stars	1918	Stanley Murphy (words)
On Atlantic Beach	1918
Alice Blue Gown	1919	J. McCarthy (words) Edith Day (sung by)
Castle of Dreams	1919	J. McCarthy (words)
Charming	1919
Irene	1919	J. McCarthy (words)
Last Part of Ev'ry Party	1919
Last Part of Every Party, The	1919
My Baby's Arms	1919	J. McCarthy (words)
Paul Jones, The	1919
Talk of the Town	1919
⇑ They're So Hard to Keep When They're Beautiful	1919
To Be Worthy	1919
Wee Bit of Lace, A	1919	G.M. Cohan (words)
Worthy of You	1919
Hobbies	1920	J. McCarthy (words)
Skyrocket	1920	Edith Day (sung by)
We're Getting Away With It	1920	James Montgomery (sung by)
Why Don't You?	1920	J. McCarthy (words)
Saw Mill River Road	1921	J. McCarthy (words)
Bobbin' About	1922
First Step You Take	1922
Journey's End	1922	J. McCarthy (words)
⇑ Lady Luck	1922	J. McCarthy (words)
Let's Kiss and Make Up	1922	J. McCarthy (words)

1922-1926

Title	Year	Attribution	Remarks


Nearing the Day	1922
Settle Down and Travel	1922
Smile on Me	1922
Takes a Heap of Love	1922
Tie Up	1922
We're Nearing the Day	1922	Joseph McCarthy (words)
Along the Old Lake Trail	1923	J. McCarthy (words)
Fountain of Youth, The	1923	J. McCarthy (words)
If Your Heart's in the Game	1923	J. McCarthy (words)
Let's Do and Say We Didn't, Let's Don't and Say We Did	1923	E. Cantor (sung by)
Oh Take Those Lips Away	1923
⇑ Same Old Way, The	1923	J. McCarthy (words) Mary Eaton (sung by)
Someone Loves You After All	1923	J. McCarthy (words) Mary Eaton (sung by)
Take, Oh Take, Those Lips Away	1923	J. McCarthy (words) Brooke Johns (sung by)
When Your Heart's in the Game	1923	J. McCarthy (words)
Adoring You	1924	J. McCarthy (words)
All Pepped Up	1924	J. McCarthy (words)
Keep Your Eye on the Ball	1924	J. McCarthy (words)
Polly Put the Kettle On	1924	E. Cantor (sung by)
Why Don't You Say So?	1925	Mary Eaton (sung by) E. Cantor (sung by)
Following the Sun Around	1926	J. McCarthy (words)
I'm Out on the Loose To-Night	1926
If You're in Love, You'll Waltz	1926	J. McCarthy (words)
⇑ Kinkajou, The	1926	J. McCarthy (words)
Ranger's Song, The	1926	J. McCarthy (words)

1926-?

Title	Year	Attribution	Remarks


Rio Rita	1926	J. McCarthy (words)
We're All Pals Together	1926	J. McCarthy (words)
Are You There Sweetheart?	1927
Dream Sweetheart	1928	J. McCarthy (words)
Right Out of Heaven	1928
Sweetheart We Need Each Other	1929	J. McCarthy (words)
You're Always in My Arms	1929	J. McCarthy (words)
Dixiana	1930	Benny Davis (words) Bebe Daniels (sung by) Evertt Marshall (sung by)
My One Ambition Is You	1930	Anne Caldwell (words) Bebe Daniels (sung by) Everett Marshall (sung by)
You've Got Me Out on a Limb	1940	J. McCarthy (words)
Just For Tonight	?
⇑ King of the Maniac Band	?
Pass Along	?

Videos

	Title	Dur	Performer	Composer	Score/Song


Alice Blue Gown	1:43	Ragtime Dorian Henry	H.A. Tierney	Alice Blue Gown (1919)
Arya (Eyes of the Night)	2:23	Ragtime Dorian Henry	H.A. Tierney
Black Canary	3:00	Ragtime Dorian Henry	H.A. Tierney
The Bumble Bee	2:45	Ragtime Dorian Henry	H.A. Tierney	The Bumble Bee (1909)
Carnation March	2:34	Ragtime Dorian Henry	H.A. Tierney
Checker Board Rag	1:49	Ragtime Dorian Henry	H.A. Tierney
Crimson Rambler Rag	3:15	Ragtime Dorian Henry	H.A. Tierney
Dingle Pop Hop	2:36	Ragtime Dorian Henry	H.A. Tierney
Fanatic Rag	2:03	Ragtime Dorian Henry	H.A. Tierney	The Fanatic Rag (1911)
⇑Fleur De Lis Rag	3:21	Ragtime Dorian Henry	H.A. Tierney
Frivolous Moments	2:11	Ragtime Dorian Henry	H.A. Tierney
Irene	1:36	Ragtime Dorian Henry	H.A. Tierney
It's a Cute Little Way of My Own	1:49	Ragtime Dorian Henry	H.A. Tierney
Keep Smiling!	3:02	Ragtime Dorian Henry	H.A. Tierney
The Peace Walk	2:40	Ragtime Dorian Henry	H.A. Tierney
Rubies and Pearls	2:27	Ragtime Dorian Henry	H.A. Tierney
Tierney Rag	2:20	Ragtime Dorian Henry	H.A. Tierney
Uncle Tom's Cabin	2:59	Ragtime Dorian Henry	H.A. Tierney	Uncle Tom's Cabin (1911)
Variety Rag	3:20	Ragtime Dorian Henry	H.A. Tierney	Variety Rag (1912)
⇑William's Wedding	2:27	Ragtime Dorian Henry	H.A. Tierney