Sing Along Custom Instrumental
MP3 Songs and Music From The Titanic Era
First and Second Class Passenger
Songs
The musicians on board
Titanic had to memorize and play by heart a large body of
musical numbers listed
in the White Star Line Music Repertoire book.
This section of Melody
Lane is dedicated to their memory:
none of them survived
the sinking.
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Songe
D'Automne - Valse
Music by Archibald Joyce
Publication: Francis, Day, and Hunter
(1908)
Song #137 in the White Star Line Repertoire
Possibly the last song played on the Titanic
by the band,
and most probably "The Last Waltz"
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Dedicatory
Nearer
My God To Thee
Eyewitnesses claimed the musicians played
this hymn, but which
version was played is in question.
Which would Mr. Wallace Hartley, band
leader, have called for?
His family believed version two, and were
so convinced, they
had it engraved on his tombstone.
3 MP3 Files for 3 Different Versions
Eternal
Father, Strong To Save
"The Navy Hymn - For Those In Peril On
The Sea"
Sung at the afternoon worship service
on Titanic, April 14th, 1912
Lyrics: William Whiting, 1860
Music: “Melita,” John Bacchus Dykes, 1860
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Somewhere
A Voice Is Calling
Words by Eileen Newton. Music by Arthur
F. Tate.
Publication: New York: T.B. Harms &
Francis, Day & Hunter,
62-64 W. 45th St., (1911)
A brand new organ was lost when the Titanic
went down;
this song would have sounded wonderful
on it.
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Mon
Coeur S'Ouvre A Ta Voix
(My Heart At Thy Sweet Voice)
From The Opera Samson and Delilah
By Camille Saint-Saens (1877)
Song #27 in the White Star Repertoire
This haunting song of a tragic, doomed
love
somehow seems a fitting number for the
Titanic...
though I am sure they didn't think of
it as an omen at the time.
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In
The Shadows
Music by Herman Finck, Words by E. Ray
Goetz
Publication: Hawkes and Son (1911)
Aristocratic dance number with lyrics;
perfect for First Class Passengers
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The
Glow Worm
From "Lysistrata"
Music by Paul Lincke
Original Lyric by Lilla Cayley Robinson
(1907)
"Follow..." to Song #140 in the White
Star Line Music Book
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Asleep
In The Deep
Words by A.J. Lamb. Music by H.W. Petrie.
Publication:
New York: F.A. Mills, 721 Seventh Ave., 1897
One of those songs you know you've heard
before, but can't remember where;
it is a wonderfully dramatic solo for
the baritone voice. This song foreshadows
the great shipwrecks of the early 20th
century, including the Titanic
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White
Wings
Words and Music by Banks Winter (1912)
Lilting song of the sea, based on a popular
novel by the same name from the 1800's.
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The
Band Played Nearer My God To Thee
As
The Ship Went Down
Words by Mark Bram and Music by Harold
Jones
Publication: The Joe Morris Music Co.
New York, 1912
A haunting song written after the sinking
paying homage to the ship's heroes
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Other Operatic Fare That
The Musicians Would Have Played In First & Second Class
Number 59 in the WSL Repertoire:
Verdi's
Il Trovatore
Number 60 in the WSL Repertoire:
Selections from Verdi's Rigoletto
Number 63 in the WSL Repertoire:
Selections from Puccini's La
Boheme
Number 65 in the WSL Repertoire:
Selections from Gilbert and Sullivan's Operetta
The Pirates of Penzance
I
Am The Very Model Of A Modern Major General
Poor
Wandering One!
Number 71 in the WSL Repertoire:
Offenbach's
Les Contes
D'Hoffman
Number 84 in the WSL Repertoire:
Pizzicato from Leo Delibes' Sylvia
Third
Class Passenger Songs
Many third class passengers
brought their own instruments
and played the current
popular songs to pass the time away in steerage;
this page showcases these
types of songs.
Knock'd
'Em In The Old Kent Road
Words and Music by English Music Hall Performer
Albert Chevalier,
and his brother-in-law Charles Ingle (undated,
probably 1890's)
Great turn of the century British music
hall number, heard in several films,
including the Shirley Temple Arthur Treacher
1939 film The Little Princess
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My
Old Dutch
Words by Albert Chevalier & Music by
Charles Ingle (1892)
Sentimental and touching tribute to marital
longevity and fidelity
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in MP3 of Albert singing his song
The
Man That Broke The Bank At Monte Carlo
Words and Music by Fred Gilbert (1892)
English Music Hall performer Charles Coborn's
biggest hit song,
still remembered fondly to this day.
Melody Lane MP3 and Vintage Performance
in MP3 by Charles Coborn
Two
Lovely Black Eyes
Words and Music by Charles Coborn
Publication: London: Francis Bros. &
Day (1886)
A delightful and funny song about "discussing"
politics,
written and performed by the famous British
Music Hall star Charles Coborn.
This song was changed a bit musically
by Charles from an earlier tune
called My Nellie's Blue Eyes (1883), and
new lyrics written.
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in MP3 by Charles Coborn
I
Live In Trafalgar Square
Words and Music by C.S. Murphy
Publication: Francis, Day and Hunter,
Ltd. (1902)
Or otherwise titled: "How To Make The
Best Of Homelessness"
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I
Do Like To Be Beside The Seaside
Written and Composed by John H. Glover-Kind
Publication: B. Feldman and Co., London,
England (1907)
A perennial British favorite; lots of
fun to sing.
Made Famous by Mark Sheridan of Wibbely
Wobbely Walk Fame
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in MP3
I'm
Shy, Mary Ellen, I'm Shy
Written by Charles Ridgewell and George
Stevens
Publication: Francis, Day and Hunter,
Ltd., London, England (1910)
This is a very funny song about a proverbial
wimp...if you know a fellow
like this, you have my sympathies :)
Made Famous by Jack Pleasants
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in MP3
The
Boy In The Gallery
Words and Music by George Ware
Publication: Ascherberg, Hopwood, and
Crew Ltd., London (1885)
Popular English Music Hall number
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The
Man on the Flying Trapeze
Words by George Leybourne; Music by Alfred
Lee.
Publication: New York:
C.H. Ditson & Co., 711 Broadway, (1868)
A landmark song of the early English music
hall days
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Come
Josephine, In My Flying Machine
Words by Alfred Bryan; Music by Fred Fischer.
Publication: New York: Shapiro Music Publisher,
Cor. Broadway & Thirty Ninth
Street, (1910)
Popular again because the characters of
Rose and Jack
sang it in the James Cameron film
Titanic.
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in MP3
Silverheels
Intermezzo - Two Step (1905)
Music by Neil Moret
Poem by James O'Dea
Publication: Jerome H. Remick &
Co., Detroit - NY
At the turn of the 19th to 20th century,
a plethora
of Indian themes hit the sheet music industry.
I wasn't really sure
what the appeal was to them....until I
heard songs as cute as this one.
My two youngest children love to dance
to this song, so this is for them.
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I
Don't Want To Play In Your Yard
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Written by Philip Wingate and H.W. Petrie
(1894)
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in MP3
Are
We To Part Like This?
By Harry Casling and Charles Collins
Publication: B. Feldman & Co., Ltd.
(1912)
Great torch number from the English music
hall days
This song has the most bittersweet lyrics
I've ever read
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