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Danny
Boy
This beloved Irish song is one of over 100 songs
composed to the same tune.
The author of the version we now recognize and
love, was an English lawyer,
Frederic Edward Weatherly (1848-1929), who was
also a songwriter and early radio entertainer.
In 1910 he wrote the words and music for an unsuccessful
song he called Danny Boy.
In 1912 his sister-in-law in America sent him a
tune called the Londonderry Air,
which he had never heard before. He immediately
noticed that the melody was perfectly
fitted to his Danny Boy lyrics, and published a
revised version of the song in 1913.
As far as is known, Weatherly never set foot in
Ireland.
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Grandfather's
Clock
Words and Music by Henry C. Work.
Publication: Boston: Oliver
Ditson & Co., 449 & 451 Washington Street, 1876.
Everyone's favorite Clock song
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Oh,
Dem Golden Slippers
Words and Music by James A. Bland
(Composer of Carry
Me Back To Old Virginny)
The sheet music says "Over 100,000 Copies Sold
Already".
Tastes in music sure have changed since 1879.
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Toot
Toot Tootsie
Words and Music by Gus Kahn, Ernie Erdman and Dan
Russo.
Publication: New York: Leo Feist,
Inc., 1922
Al Jolson, "The World's Greatest Entertainer" strikes
it big again
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The
Sheik Of Araby
Words by Harry B. Smith and Francis Wheeler. Music
by Ted Snyder.
Publication: New York: Waterson,
Berlin & Snyder Co., Music Publishers,
Strand Theatre Bldg., Broadway at 47th St., 1921
A jazzy treatment of one of the most popular songs
of the Roaring Twenties and Big Band Eras
Even the Beatles recorded a version of this one.
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Stumbling
Words & Music by Zez Confrey.
Publication: New York: Leo Feist,
Inc., 1922.
A cute little fox trot ditty with a ragtime flavor
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It's
All In The Game
Words by Carl Sigman, Music by General Charles G.
Dawes
Publication: Remick Music Corporation, 1912
This song was a hit for Tommy Edwards, Nat King
Cole, Frank Sinatra, The Four Tops
Cliff Richards, and Andy Williams.
It was ahead of its time with a jazzy, romantic
feeling that new audiences will continue to re-discover --
no wonder all these recording artists loved it.
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Good Man Is Hard To Find
Words and Music by Eddie Green
Publication by Pace & Handy, New York, 1918
Ragtime flavored tune with a rather timeless lament.
Featured in the Frank Sinatra film Meet Danny
Wilson
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I
Love You Truly
Words and Music by Carrie Jacobs-Bond.
Publication: Chicago: The Bond
Shop by Carrie Jacobs-Bond and Son,
746 So. Michigan Ave., 1906
This song has been sung at countless weddings since
it was first published
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Margie
Lyric by Benny Davis. Music by Con Conrad and J.
Russel Robinson.
Publication: New York:
Waterson, Berlin & Snyder Co., Music Publishers,
Strand Theatre Bldg., Broadway at 47th St., 1920
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