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Sidney Jones

James Sidney Jones (17 June 1861 – 29 January 1946), usually credited as Sidney Jones, was an English conductor and composer, who was most famous for composing the musical scores for a series of musical comedy hits in the late Victorian and Edwardian periods. Jones's most famous musical was The Geisha, but several of his pieces were among the most popular shows of the era, enjoying long runs, international tours and revivals.

In 1892, after nine years of conducting touring companies of British operettas for Alfred Cellier and George Edwardes, Edwardes engaged Jones to conduct several operettas and musical comedies in London. Jones had begun composing incidental music and supplemental songs for some of the shows he conducted and even wrote scores of his own in 1889 and 1892. In 1893, one of his songs, "Linger Longer, Loo", composed for the 1892 burlesque Don Juan at the Gaiety Theatre, became popular throughout the English-speaking world.

Jones's first hit show was A Gaiety Girl (1893), one of the first major successes of the Edwardian musical comedy genre. A series of Jones hits followed: An Artist's Model (1894), The Geisha (1896), A Greek Slave (1898) and San Toy (1899). After this, Jones had less frequent and intense successes, but his more popular shows included My Lady Molly (1902), See See (1906), King of Cadonia (1908), The Girl from Utah (1913) and The Happy Day (1916).

Birth and Death Data: Born January 1, 1861 (Islington), Died January 19, 1946 (Kew)

Date Range of DAHR Recordings: 1897 - 1929

Roles Represented in DAHR: composer

Notes: Name also appears as James Sidney Jones.

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Recordings (Results 76-80 of 80 records)

Company Matrix No. Size First Recording Date Title Primary Performer Description Role Audio
Gramophone 13379b 10-in. May 1909 The geisha Greek comic vocalist (unidentified; Gramophone Co.) Male vocal solo composer  
Gramophone 13548b 10-in. June 1909 Geisha : Air Stella Kokini Female vocal solo, with orchestra composer  
Gramophone 13549b 10-in. June 1909 Geisha Greek comic vocalist (unidentified; Gramophone Co.) Male vocal solo composer  
Gramophone 14387b 10-in. Feb. 1910 Gejska : Kuplety Marja Jarkowska Female vocal solo composer  
Gramophone 19011½u 10-in. 1/23/1915 Couplets de Lien-Chan Sánchez del Pino Male vocal solo, with chorus and orchestra composer  
(Results 76-80 of 80 records)

Citation

Discography of American Historical Recordings, s.v. "Jones, Sidney," accessed October 31, 2024, https://adpprod1.library.ucsb.edu/names/104048.

Jones, Sidney. (2024). In Discography of American Historical Recordings. Retrieved October 31, 2024, from https://adpprod1.library.ucsb.edu/names/104048.

"Jones, Sidney." Discography of American Historical Recordings. UC Santa Barbara Library, 2024. Web. 31 October 2024.

DAHR Persistent Identifier

URI: https://adpprod1.library.ucsb.edu/names/104048

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