Early American Popular Music - Recorded 

Dominic Vautier 4-11


 

 

Here is my list of the successful big early recorded music.

 

TITLE YEAR ARTIST LABEL

Absence Makes the Heart Grow Fonder

1901

Macdonough

Vic 907

After the Ball

1893

Gaskin

NJ

Alexander’s Ragtime Band

1911

Collins

Vic 16908

Alexander’s Ragtime Band

1911

Murray

Ed Am 692

All Alone

1911

Murray

Vic 5846

And the Green Grass Grew All Around

1913

American Quarte

Vic 17265

Any Place the Old Flag Flies

1912

Murray

Vic 17031

Any Rags?

1903

Collins

Vic 2519

Bagdad

1913

Murray

Vic 17220

Be My Little Baby Bumble Bee

1912

Murray

Vic 17152

Because

1900

Haydn Quartet

GP 105

Because You’re You

1907

Macdonough & Stevenson

Vic 5020

Bedelia

1904

Haydn Quartet

Vic 2559

Bill Bailey, Won’t You Please Come Home

1902

Collins

Cl 872

Blue Bell

1904

Haydn Quartet

Vic 2750

Break the News to Mother

1898

Gaskin

Cl 4156

By the Beautiful Sea

1914

Jones & Watkins

Cl 1563

By the Beautiful Sea

1914

Murray

Vic 17560

By the Light of the Silv’ry Moon

1910

Haydn Quartet

Vici 6460

Call Me Up Some Rainy Afternoon

1910

Jones & the American Quartet

Vic 16508

Casey Jones

1910

American Quartet

Vic 16483

Cheyenne Shy Ann

1906

Murray

Vic4719

Chinatown, My Chinatown

1915

Murray

Vic 17684

Come Down, Ma Ev’ning Star

1903

Burr

Cl 1405

Come, Josephine, in My Flying Machine

1911

Jones & American Quartet

Vic 16844

Cuddle Up a Little Closer, Lovey Mine

1908

Murray & Jones 

Vic 5532

Deane

1905

Haydn Quartet & Morgan

yb 4396

Do You Take This Woman for Your Lawful Wife?

1914

American Quartet

Vic 17554

Down by the Old Mill Stream

1911

Macdonough

Vic 17000

Down on Poverty Row

1893

Gaskin

Ber 161

Drill, Ye Terriers, Drill

1891

Gaskin

NA

Every Little Movement

1910

Macdonough & Lucy Marsh

Vic 5784

Everybody Rag with Me

1915

American Quartet

Vici 7769

Everybody Two-Step

1912

Murray

Vic 17171

Fatal Wedding

1893

Gaskin

NJ

Foolish Questions

1909

Murray

VicI 6354

Gaby Glide

1912

Murray

Vic 17077

Good-Bye, Eliza Jane

1903

Collins

Ed 8515

Grizzly Bear

1911

American Quartet

Vic 16681

Harrigan

1907

Murray

Vic 5197

He’d Have to Get Under, Get Out and Get Under, to Fix Up His Automobile

1914

Murray

Vic 174Y1

He’s a Devil in His Own Home Town

1914

Murray

Vic 17576

Hello, Ma Baby

1899

Collins

Ed 5470

Hiawatha

1903

 

Ed 8425

Honey Boy

1907

Murray

Vic 5207

Honeymoon Bells

1915

AmerIcan Quartet

Vic 17853

How’d You Like to Spoon with Me!

1906

Haydn Quartet & Morgan

Vic 4532

I Didn’t Raise My Boy to Be a Soldier

1915

Peerless Quartet

Cl 1697

I Guess I’ll Have to Telegraph My Baby

1899

Collins

Ed 5471

I Just Can’t Make My Eyes Behave

1907

Jones

Cl 3599

I Wonder Who’s Kissing Her Now

1909

Burr

Cl 707

I’d Leave My Happy Home for You

1899

Collins

D 7278

I’m Afraid to Come Home in the Dark

1908

Murray

Vic 5355

I’m Crying Just for You

1914

Murray

Vic 17562

I’ve Got Rings on My Fingers

1909

Jones

Cl 741

I’ve Got Rings on My Fingers

1910

Murray

Vic 16510

In My Merry Oldsmobile

1905

Murray

Vic 4467

In the Good Old Summer Time

1903

Haydn Quartet

Vic 1793

In the Shade of the Old Apple Tree

1905

Burr

Ed 8958

In the Sweet Bye and Bye

1903

Macdonough & John Bieling

Vic 1855

In the Valley of Yesterday

1910

Macdonough

Vic 16535

It’s a Long, Long Way to Tipperary

1914

American Quartet

Vic 17369

Just for To-Night

1914

Murray

Vic 17622

Kiss Me, Honey, Do

1899

Collins

Ed 5462

Last Night Was the End of the World

1913

Burr

Vic 17339

Let Me Call You Sweetheart

1911

Peerless Quartet

Cli 057

Little Ford Rambled Right Along

1915

Murray

Vic 17755

Love Me and the World Is Mine

1906

Burr

Cl 3499

MaligerLily

1900

Collins

Ber01291

Mandy Lee

1900

Collins

Ed 7404

Mansion of Aching Hearts

1902

Macdonough

Vic 1415

Meet Me Tonight in Dreamland

1910

Burr

Cl 905

Moonlight Bay

1912

American Quartet

Vic 17034

My Bird of Paradise

1915

Peerless Quartet

Vic 17770

My Dear

1908

Vic 5293

1907

My Old New Hampshire Home

1898

Gaskin

Cl 4182

My Wild Irish Rose

1899

Gaskin

Cl 4188

O Promise Me (Wedding Song)

1893

Gaskin

NJ

Oh You Beautiful Doll

1911

American Quartet

Vic 16979

On the 5:15

1915

American Quartet

Vic 17704

On the Banks of the Wabash

1897

Gaskin

CI 4130

On the Banks of the Wabash

1913

Murray

Vic 17397

On the Beaches in the Park

1896

Gaskin

Cl 4053

On the Mississippi

1913

Murray

Vic 17237

Parisienne

1913

Murray

Vic 17237

Piano Man

1911

Murray

Ed Am 673

Preacher and the Bear

1905

Collins

Ed 9000

Put On Your Old Gray Bonnet

1909

Haydn Quartet

Vic 16377

Ragging the Baby to Sleep

1912

Jolson

Vic 17081

Ragtime Violin

1912

Murray

Vic 17025

Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm

1914

Murray

Vic 17534

Row! Row! Row!

1913

Jones

Vic 17205

She May Have Seen Better Days

1896

Gaskin

CI 2024

She Was Bred in Old Kentucky

1898

Gaskin

Cl 4166

Shine On, Harvest Moon

1909

Macdonough

Vic 16259

Shine On, Harvest Moon

1909

Murray & Jones

Ed 10134

Silver Bell

1911

Murray & Jones

Ed 57—

Slide, Kelly, Slide

1892

Gaskin

North Am

Snooky Ookums

1913

Murray

Vic 17313

Snow Deer

1912

Murray& Jones

Ed 2021

Some Little Bug Is Going to Find You Someday

1915

Murray

Vic 1782—

Some of These Days

1911

Murray

Vic 16834

Song That Stole My Heart Away

1914

Burr

Cl 1512

Spaniard That Blighted My Life

1913

Jolson

Vic 17318

Sunbonnet Sue

1908

Haydn Quartet

Vic 5568

Sunshine of Paradise Alley

1896

Gaskin

Cl

Sweet Adeline

1904

Haydn Quartet

Vic 2934

Sweet Adeline

1904

Peerless Qrtet

Cl 32584

Sweet Marie

1894

Gaskin

NJ

Sweet Rosie O’Grady

1897

Gaskin

Ed 1551

Take Me Out to the Ball Game

1908

Haydn Quartet & Murray

Vic 5570

Tale of the Bumble Bee

1901

Macdonough

Vic908

Tell Me, Pretty Maiden

1901

Macdonough

Ed 7758

That Haunting Melody

1912

Jolson

Vic 17037

That Old Girl of Mine

1913

Murray

Vic 17264

The 20th Century Rag

1914

Murray

Vic 17605

They Didn’t Believe Me

1915

Macdonough & Green

Vic 35491

This Is the Life

1914

Murray

Vic 17584

To the End of the World with You

1909

Burr

Vic 16292

Toyland

1904

Haydn Quartet

Vic 2721

Under the Bamboo Tree

1902

Collins

Ed 8215

Waiting for the Robert E. Lee

1912

Murray

Vlc 17141

We Were Sweethearts, Nell and I

1894

Gaskin

 

Wedding Glide

1912

Murray

Vic 17170

Wedding Song (0 Promise Me)

1893

Gaskin

NJ

When Cloe Sings a Song

1900

Gaskin

Cl 4248

When I Lost You

1913

Burr

Vic 17275

When I Was Twenty-One and You Were Sweet Sixteen

1912

Murray

Vic 17057

When You Were Sweet Sixteen

1900

Gaskin

CI 4281

When You Wore a Tulip and I Wore a Big Red Rose

1914  

Murray

Vic 111652

When You’re All Dressed Up and No Place to Go

1914

Murray

Vic 1727

Where the River Shannon Flows

1910

Macdonough

Vic 16440

Yama Yama Man

1909

Jones & the Vic Light Opera Co.

Vic 16326

You Made Me Love You, I Didn’t Want to Do It

1913

Jolson

Cl 1374

 

Here are some other links in this article:

  Origins of Early Popular Music

     Minstrelsy
     Broadway
     Vaudeville
     Other sources

  People Growth - the First Baby Boom and it's effect

  How Dancing Helped Music

  Women and Early Music

  Some Early Songwriters

  Some Songs

  The Influence of the Piano

  Recorded Music

  Sheet Music

  Chronicles 1892-1900

  Chronicles 1901-1915

  Million Sellers