Clarence Williams (1898-1965)

Overview

Clarence Williams was an American jazz an artist and entrepreneur. He was born near New Orleans, the son of Choctaw Indian having Creole heritage. His father was a bass player and hotel owner Clarence Williams started his musical education performing in the family hotel and singing in the streets leaving homer aged 12 to commence a long career in jazz of which he claimed to be the first user of the word in printed sheet music. He was variously a piano player, prolific composer, recording artist and producer, agent, cabaret manager, publisher and enormously influential in the jazz world of his day.
Together with Thomas Waller, Clarence Williams is credited with being the co-composer of Wildcat Blues (1923).

Websites:
	Clarence Williams (musician)	Biography by wikipedia.org.
	DAHR: Clarence Williams	List of 711 historic recordings from 1916 to 1954.

MIDIs

	Title	Co-Author(s)	Sequencer


Achin' Hearted Blues (1922)	S. Williams C. Johnson	Unknown
Decatur Street Blues (1922)	Tosh Hammed Mercedes Gilbert	Unknown
If You Don't Believe I Love You, Look What a Fool I've Been (1922)		Unknown
If You Don't, I Know Who Will (?)		James Pitt-Payne
Royal Garden Blues (1919)	S. Williams	James Pitt-Payne
Sugar Blues (1919)		James Pitt-Payne
What's the Matter Now? (1926)	S. Williams	James Pitt-Payne
Wild Flower Rag (1916)		Colin D. McDonald

Records

	Title (Release Year)	Composer	Performers	Issue


Achin' Hearted Blues (1922)	C. Williams	Leona Williams	Columbia: 80239
Baby, Won't You Please Come Home? (1923)	C. Williams	B. Smith	Columbia: 80952
Good Looking Papa Blues (1924)	C. Williams	C. Smith	Columbia: 81508
Good-Bye Blues (1923)	C. Williams	S. Martin	OKeh: S-71999
Gulf Coast Blues (1923)	C. Williams	B. Smith	Columbia: 80864
I'd Rather Be Blue Than Green (1924)	C. Williams	S. Martin	OKeh: S-72855
If You Don't Believe I Love You, Look What a Fool I've Been (1922)	C. Williams	Leona Williams	Columbia: 80557
Kansas City Man Blues (1923)	C. Williams	C. Smith	Columbia: 81222
Longing For Daddy Blues (1923)	C. Williams	S. Martin	OKeh: S-71980
More Than That (1937)	C. Williams	Eva Taylor	Victor: BS-06852
My Pillow and Me (1922)	C. Williams	Eva Taylor as Irene Gibbons	Columbia: 80723
Organ Grinder Blues (1928)	C. Williams	V. Spivey	OKeh: W401115
Outside of That (1923)	C. Williams	B. Smith	Columbia: 80996
Sugar Blues (1922)	C. Williams	Leona Williams	Columbia: 80517
Texas Moaner Blues (1924)	C. Williams	C. Smith	Columbia: 81932
Uncle Sam Blues (1923)	C. Williams	C. Smith	Columbia: 81253
⇑What Makes Me Love You So? (1929)	C. Williams	Eva Taylor	Victor: BVE-57782
You Don't Know My Mind (1924)	C. Williams	C. Smith	Columbia: 81509
You Don't Understand (1929)	C. Williams	Eva Taylor	Victor: BVE-57783
as Performer
Log Cabin Blues (1928)	T. Delaney	C. Williams	OKeh: W400621
Walk That Broad (1928)	T. Delaney	C. Williams	Columbia: W146826
I'm Gonna Hoodoo You (1925)	S. Martin	S. Martin C. Williams	OKeh: 73773
Your Going Ain't Giving Me the Blues (1925)	S. Martin	S. Martin C. Williams	OKeh: 73774
Santa Claus Blues (1925)	C.T. Straight	Eva Taylor C. Todd C. Williams	OKeh: 73721

Samples

	Title (Release Year)	Performers	Instruments


	Wild Flower Rag (1916)	Midi Ragtime Recorder Ens.	A/T/T/B/GB(B)

CDs

	Performer	CD Title	Supplier


Brass Music CDs:
Canadian Brass	Basin Street	CD(s) & MP3 Album(s)
Jazz Music CDs:
Bix Beiderbecke	Jazz Masters: From Original Recordings
Acker Bilk	The Very Best of Acker Bilk
Jack Teagarden	Jack Teagarden - Big T: A Hundred Years from Today
Jack Teagarden	Time for T: Classic Big Band Recordings from the Swing Era
Stumptown Jazz	On Track
Stumptown Jazz	Hot Time in the Old Town
Sidney Bechet	The Creole Prodigy
Sidney Bechet	Les Oignons
The Olympia Brass Band	Music of New Orleans
⇑Thomas Waller	Career Perspective 1922-1943	CD(s) & MP3 Album(s)
Thomas Waller	Centennial Collection	CD(s) & MP3 Album(s)
Thomas Waller	Fats Waller: 1922-26
Thomas Waller	Golden Greats
Thomas Waller	Part 2 I'm Gonna Sit Right Down: The Early Years
Thomas Waller	Low Down Papa	CD(s) & MP3 Album(s)
Thomas Waller	Sugar Blues	CD(s) & MP3 Album(s)
Peter Bocage	Peter Bocage with the Creole Serenaders	CD(s) & MP3 Album(s)
Chris Barber	Band Box, Vol. 1-2
Chris Barber	The Absolutely Essential 3CD Collection
Chris Barber	The Very Best of Chris Barber
⇑Monty Sunshine	Remembering Monty Sunshine	CD(s) & MP3 Album(s)
Boswell Sisters	Shout Sister Shout
Leona Williams	Leona Williams and Her Dixie Band
Ferdinand Morton	The Chronological Jelly Morton (1930-1939)	CD(s) & MP3 Album(s)
Ragtime Music CDs:
Clarence Williams	Clarence Williams 1934-1937	CD(s) & MP3 Album(s)
Clarence Williams	Whoop It Up! Volume 1: 1927-1929
Ted Lewis	Is Everybody Happy?: Ted Lewis and His Band
Ted Lewis	Jazzworthy 1929-33
Various Artists	Boogie Woogie Blues	CD(s) & MP3 Album(s)
Various Artists	Cotton Club: A Nostalgic Collection
Various Artists	The Hits of '22: Do It Again!
⇑Various Artists	New Orleans Jazz
Various Artists	The Obscure & Neglected Chicagoans
Various Artists	Player Piano Memories	CD(s) & MP3 Album(s)
Various Artists	The Riverside History of Classic Jazz
Various Artists	That Devilin' Tune	CD(s) & MP3 Album(s)
Various Artists	Whiplash	CD(s) & MP3 Album(s)
New Orleans Ragtime Orchestra	Creole Belles	CD(s) & MP3 Album(s)
New Orleans Ragtime Orchestra	New Orleans Ragtime Orchestra
Claude Bolling	Original Blues	CD(s) & MP3 Album(s)
Claude Bolling	Original Ragtime/Original Boogie Woogie/Original Piano Blues	CD(s) & MP3 Album(s)
James Price Johnson	Harlem Stride Piano
⇑James Price Johnson	Harlem Stride Piano 1921-1929
James Price Johnson	James P. Johnson 1921-44
James Price Johnson	James P. Johnson 1928-38
James Price Johnson	James P. Johnson 1938-42
James Price Johnson	Parlor Piano Solos from Rare Piano Rolls	CD(s) & MP3 Album(s)
James Price Johnson	Runnin' Wild (1921-1926)
James Price Johnson	Snowy Morning Blues	CD(s) & MP3 Album(s)
Paul Lingle	Live at the Jug Club
Trebor Jay Tichenor	Those Southern Blues
Trebor Jay Tichenor	Wild Flower Rag
Lightnin' Wells	Ragtime Millionaire
⇑Willie 'The Lion' Smith	Lion Roars: His Greatest 1934-44
Muggsy Spanier	The Great 16
Handy's Memphis Blues Band	W.C. Handy's Memphis Blues Band	CD(s) & MP3 Album(s)
Eubie Blake	Memories of You	CD(s) & MP3 Album(s)
Chrysanthemum Ragtime Band	Preserves
Wilbur C. Sweatman	Jazzin' Straight Thru' Paradise	CD(s) & MP3 Album(s)
White-Gresty Ragtimers	Mugsy Remembered
Sue Keller	I Got What It Takes	CD(s) & MP3 Album(s)
Sue Keller	Those Irresistible Blues	CD(s) & MP3 Album(s)
George Lewis	George Lewis' Ragtime Band of New Orleans: The Oxford Series Vol. 07
Butch Thompson	Butch Thompson's King Oliver Centennial Band
⇑Butch Thompson	Lincoln Avenue Blues
Johnny Maddox	Back Home in Tennessee	CD(s) & MP3 Album(s)
Johnny Maddox	Dixieland Blues	CD(s) & MP3 Album(s)
Bill Edwards	The Two Sides of Perfessor Bill

Item	Title	Available	€	£	$	Other



DBE642	Wild Flower Rag (1916) A/T/T/B/GB(B), approx. 3 mins	1-2 days

Library

	Title	Instruments	Remarks


	Wild Flower Rag (1916)	A/T/T/B/GB(B)

	Title	Attribution	Instruments	Source	Remarks


Achin' Hearted Blues (1922)	C. Williams (w&m) S. Williams (coauth.) C. Johnson (coauth.)	Piano, Voice	Sheet Music Singer
Beat It While Your Shoes Are Good (1905)	C. Williams (music) Will A. Mahoney (words)	Piano/Voice	IMSLP
Decatur Street Blues (1922)	C. Williams (music) Tosh Hammed (coauth.) Mercedes Gilbert (coauth.)	Piano, Voice	Sheet Music Singer
If You Don't Believe I Love You, Look What a Fool I've Been (1922)	C. Williams (w&m)	Piano, Voice	Sheet Music Singer
If You Don't, I Know Who Will (1923)	C. Williams (w&m) C. Smith (words) Tim Brymn (words) Worth & Willing (perf.)	Piano, Voice	Sheet Music Singer	Pub.
Royal Garden Blues (1919)	C. Williams (w&m) S. Williams (coauth.) Johnson & Deane (perf.)	Piano, Voice	Sheet Music Singer
Sugar Blues (1919)	C. Williams (music) Lucy Fletcher (words) Mal Hallet (perf.) Mal Hallet (perf.)	Piano, Voice	IMSLP Sheet Music Singer	Pub.
⇑What's the Matter Now? (1926)	C. Williams (w&m) S. Williams (coauth.)	Piano, Voice	Sheet Music Singer	Pub.
Wild Flower Rag (1916)	C. Williams (music)	Piano	IMSLP	Pub.
You're Some Pretty Doll (1917)	C. Williams (w&m)	Piano	IMSLP	Pub.

Works

This list is arranged in chronological order and contains 98 works by Clarence Williams (1898-1965). It does not claim to be complete and represents only the number of items located. Keys: ER

(w&m)

1905-1922

Title	Year	Attribution	Remarks


Beat It While Your Shoes Are Good	1905	Will A. Mahoney (words)
Brown Skin, Who You For	1915
I Can Beat You Doing What You're Doing Me	1915	Armand J. Piron (co-author)	Pub.
You Missed A Good Woman	1915
Barrel House Rag	1916	Fate Marable (co-author)	Pub.
If You Don't Want Me, Please Don't Dog Me 'round	1916		Pub.
That Ought to Do It	1916
Wild Flower Rag	1916	Midi Ragtime Recorder Ensemble (perf.)	Pub.
I Never Knew What the Blues Were	1917	Clarence Williams (perf.)	Pub.
Ugly Chile	1917	George Brunis (words)
You're Some Pretty Doll (w&m)	1917		Pub.
⇑ No More Cabarets in Town	1918	Sophie Tucker (perf.)
Baby, Won't You Please Come Home?	1919	Charles Warfield (words) Bessie Smith (perf.)
Dance They Called the Georgia Hunch	1919
Royal Garden Blues (w&m)	1919	Spencer Williams (co-author) Johnson & Deane (perf.)	Pub.
Sugar Blues	1919	Lucy Fletcher (words) Mal Hallet (perf.) Leona Williams (perf.)	Pub.
Don't Tell Your Monkey Man	1920
Roumania	1920	Spencer Williams (words) Dave Peyton (words)
Look What a Fool I've Been	1921
Achin' Hearted Blues (w&m)	1922	Spencer Williams (co-author) Clarence Johnson (co-author) Leona Williams (perf.)	Pub.

1922-1924

Title	Year	Attribution	Remarks


Decatur Street Blues (w&m)	1922	Tosh Hammed (co-author) Mercedes Gilbert (co-author)
Got to Cool My Doggies Now	1922
I Wish I Could Shimmy Like My Sister Kate	1922
If You Don't Believe I Love You, Look What a Fool I've Been (w&m)	1922	Leona Williams (perf.)	Pub.
My Pillow and Me	1922	Chris Smith (co-author) J. Tim Brymn (co-author) Eva Taylor as Irene Gibbons (perf.)
Tain't Nobody's Biz-Ness if I Do	1922	Porter Grainger (words) Graham Prince (words)
Good-Bye Blues	1923	Sara Martin (words) Sara Martin (perf.)
Gulf Coast Blues (w&m)	1923	Bessie Smith (perf.)
If You Don't, I Know Who Will	1923	Chris Smith (words) Tim Brymn (words) Worth & Willing (perf.)	Pub.
Jailhouse Blues	1923	Bessie Smith (co-author)
Kansas City Man Blues	1923	Clarence Johnson (words) Clara Smith (perf.)
⇑ Kiss Me Again	1923	Thomas Waller (co-author)
Longing For Daddy Blues	1923	Clarence Williams (co-author) Sara Martin (perf.)
Mixing the Blues	1923		Pub.
Outside of That (w&m)	1923	Jo Trent (words) Bessie Smith (perf.)
Uncle Sam Blues	1923	Sara Martin (co-author) Clara Smith (perf.)
West Indies Blues	1923	Spencer Williams (words) Edgar Dowell (words)	Pub.
Good Looking Papa Blues	1924	Clarence Williams (words) Clara Smith (perf.)
I'd Rather Be Blue Than Green	1924	Spencer Williams (co-author) Andy Razaf (co-author) Thomas Waller (co-author) Sara Martin (perf.)
Michigan Water Blues	1924

1924-1929

Title	Year	Attribution	Remarks


Omaha Blues	1924
Texas Moaner Blues	1924	Maggie Jones (words) Clara Smith (perf.)
You Don't Know My Mind	1924	Virginia Liston (words) Sam H. Gray (words) Clara Smith (perf.)
Darktown Capers	1925	Clarence Johnson (co-author)
Gravier Street Blues	1925		Pub.
My Own Blues	1925		Pub.
Papa, De-Da-Da	1925	Clarence Todd (words) Spencer Williams (words)
Charleston Hound	1926	Spencer Williams (co-author) "Fats" Waller1 (co-author) Eddie Rector (co-author)	Pub.
Midnight Stomp	1926	Thomas Waller (co-author)	Pub.
Nobody But My Baby Is Getting My Love	1926	Andy Razaf (co-author)
Old Folks Shuffle	1926	Thomas 'Fats' Waller (co-author)
⇑ What's the Matter Now?	1926	Spencer Williams (co-author)	Pub.
Cushion Foot Stomp	1927
Close Fit Blues	1928		Pub.
Let Me Forget	1928	James White (co-author) Ben Garrison (co-author)
Organ Grinder Blues	1928	Victoria Spivey (perf.)
I've Got What It Takes	1929	Hezekiah Jenkins (words)
What Makes Me Love You So?	1929	Fred Longshaw (words) Eva Taylor (perf.)
Wild Flower	1929
You Don't Understand	1929	Spencer Williams (words) James Price Johnson (words) Eva Taylor (perf.)

1930-?

Title	Year	Attribution	Remarks


Shout, Sister, Shout!	1930	Alex Hill (words) Tim Brymn (words) Boswell Sisters (perf.)
Harlem Rhythm Dance	1933	Andy Razaf (words)	Pub.
I Can't Dance, I Got Ants in My Pants	1934	Charlie Gaines (co-author) Larry Wagner (co-author)	Pub.
Let Every Day Be Mother's Day	1935	Taushe Hammed (words) Willie "The Lion" Smith (words)	Pub.
More Than That	1937	Ben Barnett (words) Eva Taylor (perf.)
Keystone Blues	1940		Pub.
Red Onion Blues	1940		Pub.
Mama's Got It	1942	A. J. Piron (co-author)
Bottomland [I'm Goin' Back to Bottomland]	?	Jo Trent (words)
Bozo	?
Candy Lips	?
⇑ Chizzlin' Sam	?
Church Street Sobbin' Blues	?
Dixieland Jazz	?
Harlem Joys	?	Walter Bishop (words) Willie "The Lion" Smith (words)
Have You Ever Felt That Way?	?
I'm Busy and You Can't Come In	?
I'm Getting My Bonus in Love	?	Porter Grainger (words)
I'm Goin' Back to Bottomland [Bottomland]	?	Jo Trent (words)
In Our Cottage of Love	?

Title	Year	Attribution	Remarks


Lazy Mama	?
Log Cabin Blues	?
Longshoreman's Blues	?
Mississippi Blues (Home Town Toddle)	?
Need a Little Sugar in My Bowl	?	W.A.D. Danny Small (words) Tim Brymn (words)
Pane in the Glass, A	?
Red River Blues	?
Shake It Down	?
Steamboat Days	?
Sweet Emmanlina	?
Take You Black Bottom Outside	?
⇑ Terrible Blues	?
That Streamline Gal of Mine	?	Cecil Scott (words) Willie "The Lion" Smith (words)
Walk That Broad	?
What Ya Want Me to Do?	?	Joe Oliver (words)
Whip Me With Plenty of Love	?	Louis Urquhart (words)
Whoop It Up	?
You've Got to Give Me Some	?

Videos

	Composer	Title	Performer


	C. Williams	Harlem Rhythm Dance (2:21)	Ragtime Dorian Henry
	C. Williams	Organ Grinder Blues (0:00)	Ragtime Dorian Henry