Harry Williams
Harry Hiram Williams (August 23, 1879 – May 15, 1922) was an American composer, lyricist, and publisher of popular music from 1903 until his death in 1922. One of his early hits, written in 1905 with Egbert Van Alstyne, is "In the Shade of the Old Apple Tree". He also produced story ideas and directed silent movies with Mack Sennett for Keystone Studios, according to Sennett's biography The King of Comedy. Williams joined The Lambs Club in 1908. |
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Recordings (Results 51-75 of 185 records)
Company | Matrix No. | Size | First Recording Date | Title | Primary Performer | Description | Role | Audio |
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Victor | B-6359 | 10-in. | 8/25/1908 | My rosy rambler | Billy Murray | Male vocal solo, with orchestra | lyricist | |
Victor | B-6546 | 10-in. | 10/15/1908 | There never was a girl like you | John H. Bieling ; Harry Macdonough | Male vocal duet, with orchestra | lyricist | |
Victor | B-6571 | 10-in. | 10/29/1908 | Alabam' | Collins and Harlan | Male vocal duet, with orchestra | lyricist | |
Victor | B-6581 | 10-in. | 11/6/1908 | I want someone to call me Dearie | Frank C. Stanley ; Elise Stevenson | Female-male vocal duet, with orchestra | lyricist | |
Victor | B-6596 | 10-in. | 11/12/1908 | I used to be afraid to go home in the dark | Billy Murray | Male vocal solo, with orchestra | lyricist | |
Victor | B-6758 | 10-in. | 1/29/1909 | It looks like a big night to-night | Clarice Vance | Female vocal solo, with orchestra | lyricist | |
Victor | B-6836 | 10-in. | 2/25/1909 | Golden arrow | American Quartet | Male vocal quartet, with orchestra | lyricist | |
Victor | B-7011 | 10-in. | 4/26/1909 | Liza | Peerless Quartet | Male vocal quartet, unaccompanied | lyricist | |
Victor | B-8175 | 10-in. | 8/25/1909 | I want someone to play with | Byron G. Harlan | Male vocal solo, with orchestra | lyricist | |
Victor | C-8230 | 12-in. | 9/16/1909 | Gems from The broken idol | Victor Light Opera Company | Vocal chorus and soloists, with orchestra | lyricist | |
Victor | B-8409 | 10-in. | 11/30/1909 | What makes the world go round? | Ada Jones ; Billy Murray | Female-male vocal duet, with orchestra | lyricist | |
Victor | B-8655 | 10-in. | 2/24/1910 | What's the matter with Father? | Billy Murray | Male vocal solo, with orchestra | lyricist | |
Victor | B-8770 | 10-in. | 3/30/1910 | Zoo Lou | Collins and Harlan | Male vocal duet, with orchestra | lyricist | |
Victor | C-9846 | 12-in. | 1/24/1911 | Moriah | Montgomery and Stone | Comic dialogue and male vocal duet, with orchestra | lyricist | |
Victor | B-10209 | 10-in. | 4/18/1911 | Go back | Gene Greene | Male vocal solo, with orchestra | lyricist | |
Victor | B-10258 | 10-in. | 5/3/1911 | I'm just pining for you | Walter Van Brunt | Male vocal solo, with orchestra | lyricist | |
Victor | B-10942 | 10-in. | 9/8/1911 | Who are you with to-night? | Billy Murray | Male vocal solo, with orchestra | lyricist | |
Victor | B-11106 | 10-in. | 10/16/1911 | Oh, that Navajo rag | American Quartet ; Billy Murray | Male vocal solo and male vocal quartet, with orchestra | lyricist | |
Victor | B-11595 | 10-in. | 2/15/1912 | When I was twenty-one and you were sweet sixteen | American Quartet ; Harry Macdonough | Male vocal quartet and male vocal soloist, with orchestra | lyricist | |
Victor | B-11901 | 10-in. | 4/22/1912 | That slippery slide trombone | American Quartet | Male vocal quartet, with orchestra | lyricist | |
Victor | B-12754 | 10-in. | 12/31/1912 | There's no place like home (When there's no place else to go) | Billy Murray | Male vocal solo, with orchestra | lyricist | |
Victor | B-13504 | 10-in. | 7/1/1913 | You're the same old girl | Haydn Quartet | Male vocal quartet, with orchestra | lyricist | |
Victor | B-13698 | 10-in. | 8/13/1913 | The Kellys are at it again | Ed Morton | Male vocal solo, with orchestra | songwriter | |
Victor | B-13839 | 10-in. | 9/22/1913 | That ragtime suffragette | Nat M. Wills | Male vocal solo, with orchestra | lyricist | |
Victor | B-14184 | 10-in. | 12/11/1913 | Don't blame it all on Broadway | Peerless Quartet | Male vocal quartet, with orchestra | lyricist |
Citation
Discography of American Historical Recordings, s.v. "Williams, Harry," accessed September 4, 2024, https://adpprod1.library.ucsb.edu/names/107789.
Williams, Harry. (2024). In Discography of American Historical Recordings. Retrieved September 4, 2024, from https://adpprod1.library.ucsb.edu/names/107789.
"Williams, Harry." Discography of American Historical Recordings. UC Santa Barbara Library, 2024. Web. 4 September 2024.
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LCNAR: Williams, Harry, 1879-1922 - http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n98009450
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