Chris Smith

Chris Smith

Christopher M. Smith (October 12, 1879 – October 4, 1949) was an American composer and popular vaudeville performer.

Birth and Death Data: Born October 12, 1879 (Charleston), Died October 4, 1949 (New York City)

Date Range of DAHR Recordings: 1901 - 1949

Roles Represented in DAHR: composer, songwriter, lyricist

= Recordings are available for online listening.
= Recordings were issued from this master. No recordings issued from other masters.

Recordings

Company	Matrix No.	Size	First Recording Date	Title	Primary Performer	Description	Role
Victor	[Pre-matrix B-]920	10-in.	10/30/1902	Good morning, Carrie	Dan W. Quinn	Male vocal solo	composer
Victor	[Pre-matrix A-]920	7-in.	7/18/1901	Good morning, Carrie	Dan W. Quinn	Male vocal solo	composer
Victor	[Pre-matrix B-]952	10-in.	10/30/1901	Good morning, Carrie	Harry Macdonough	Male vocal solo	composer
Victor	[Pre-matrix A-]952	7-in.	9/10/1901	Good morning, Carrie	Harry Macdonough	Male vocal solo	composer
Victor	[Pre-matrix B-]997	10-in.	10/11/1901	Good morning, Carrie	Williams and Walker	Male vocal duet, with piano	composer
Victor	[Pre-matrix A-]997	7-in.	10/11/1901	Good morning, Carrie	Williams and Walker	Male vocal duet, with piano	composer
Victor	[Pre-matrix B-]1121	10-in.	12/3/1901	Good morning Carrie	Silas Leachman	Male vocal solo	composer
Victor	[Pre-matrix A-]1121	7-in.	12/3/1901	Good morning, Carrie	Silas Leachman	Male vocal solo	composer
Victor	[Pre-matrix B-]3522	10-in.	7/18/1901	Good morning Carrie	Dan W. Quinn	Male vocal solo	composer
Victor	[Pre-matrix B-]3556	10-in.	9/10/1901	Good morning, Carrie	Harry Macdonough	Male vocal solo	composer
Victor	A-639	7-in.	11/6/1903	Good morning, Carrie	Harry Macdonough	Male vocal solo, with piano	composer
Victor	A-894	7-in.	1/11/1904	'Tain't no disgrace to run, when you're skeered	Bob Roberts	Male vocal solo, with piano	composer
Victor	B-894	10-in.	1/11/1904	'Tain't no disgrace to run, when you're skeered	Bob Roberts	Male vocal solo, with piano	composer
Victor	B-1118	10-in.	3/16/1904	T'ain't no disgrace to run, when you're skeered	Bob Roberts	Male vocal solo, with orchestra	composer
Victor	A-1118	7-in.	3/16/1904	T'ain't no disgrace to run, when you're skeered	Bob Roberts	Male vocal solo, with orchestra	composer
Victor	B-1919	10-in.	11/10/1904	Shame on you	Billy Murray ; Len Spencer	Male vocal duet, with orchestra	composer
Victor	B-1960	10-in.	11/22/1904	Does you love me as you used to Miss Jane?	Collins and Harlan	Male vocal duet, with orchestra	composer
Victor	B-2116	10-in.	1/6/1905	Dat ain't nothin' but talk	Bob Roberts	Male vocal solo, with orchestra	composer
Victor	B-2437	10-in.	4/4/1905	The Mormon coon	Bob Roberts	Male vocal solo, with orchestra	composer
Victor	B-2504	10-in.	4/29/1905	Who's there?	Bob Roberts	Male vocal solo, with orchestra	composer
Victor	B-2523	10-in.	5/4/1905	Dinner bells	Haydn Quartet ; Billy Murray	Male vocal solo and male vocal quartet, with orchestra	composer
Victor	B-2683	10-in.	6/27/1905	Mr. Moon, kindly come out and shine	Billy Murray	Male vocal solo, with orchestra	composer
Victor	B-2761	10-in.	9/19/1905	Bye-bye, ma Eva	Collins and Harlan	Male vocal duet, with orchestra	composer
Victor	B-4019	10-in.	11/9/1906	He's a cousin of mine	Clarice Vance	Female vocal solo, with orchestra	composer
Victor	B-4035	10-in.	11/13/1906	Down and out	Clarice Vance	Female vocal solo, with orchestra	composer
Victor	E-4173	8-in.	1/15/1907	All in, down and out	Arthur Collins	Male vocal solo	composer
Victor	B-4173	10-in.	1/15/1907	All in, down and out	Arthur Collins	Male vocal solo	composer
Victor	B-4335	10-in.	3/26/1907	Yo' eyes are open but you're sound asleep	Clarice Vance	Female vocal solo, with orchestra	composer
Victor	B-4710	10-in.	7/25/1907	Just a friend of the family	Ed Morton	Male vocal solo, with orchestra	composer
Victor	B-4769	10-in.	8/7/1907	That's where friendship ends	Clarice Vance	Female vocal solo, with orchestra	composer
Victor	E-4988	8-in.	12/31/1907	He's a cousin of mine	Billy Murray	Male vocal solo, with orchestra	composer
Victor	B-5090	10-in.	2/21/1908	That's where friendship ends	Ed Morton	Male vocal solo, with orchestra	composer
Victor	B-6263	10-in.	6/11/1908	The right church but the wrong pew	Ed Morton	Male vocal solo, with orchestra	composer
Victor	B-6672	10-in.	12/16/1908	Down among the sugar cane	Collins and Harlan	Male vocal duet, with orchestra	composer
Victor	B-8092	10-in.	7/6/1909	Abraham Lincoln Jones	Ed Morton	Male vocal solo, with orchestra	composer
Victor	B-8321	10-in.	10/26/1909	Dinah, dear	Collins and Harlan	Male vocal duet, with orchestra	composer
Victor	B-9322	10-in.	7/25/1910	If he comes in, I'm going out	Ed Morton	Male vocal solo, with orchestra	composer
Victor	B-9656	10-in.	11/16/1910	Slip on your gingham gown	Collins and Harlan	Male vocal duet, with orchestra	composer
Victor	B-11594	10-in.	2/14/1912	The last shot got him	Ed Morton	Male vocal solo, with orchestra	lyricist, composer
Victor	B-11650	10-in.	3/1/1912	I want a little lovin' sometimes	American Quartet ; Elsie Baker	Female vocal solo and male vocal quartet, with orchestra	lyricist, composer
Victor	B-11692	10-in.	3/11/1912	I want a little lovin' sometimes	Edna Brown	Female vocal solo, with orchestra	composer, lyricist
Victor	B-11751	10-in.	3/21/1912	Beans! Beans!! Beans!!!	Ed Morton	Male vocal solo, with orchestra	composer
Victor	B-11873	10-in.	4/15/1912	That precious little thing called love	Collins and Harlan	Male vocal duet, with orchestra	composer
Victor	B-11874	10-in.	4/15/1912	That sneaky snakey rag	Collins and Harlan	Male vocal duet, with orchestra	composer
Victor	B-12567	10-in.	11/5/1912	At the levee on revival day	Collins and Harlan	Male vocal duet, with orchestra	composer
Victor	B-13159	10-in.	4/18/1913	Please don't love anybody else but me	Edna Brown ; James F. Harrison	Female-male vocal duet, with orchestra	lyricist, composer
Victor	B-13251	10-in.	5/8/1913	Melinda's wedding day	Victor Military Band	Band	composer
Victor	B-13258	10-in.	5/9/1913	Please don't love anybody else but me	Helen Clark ; Walter Van Brunt	Female-male vocal duet, with orchestra	lyricist, composer
Victor	B-13371	10-in.	5/29/1913	Boom, tum, ta-ra-zing boom!	American Quartet	Male vocal quintet, with orchestra	composer
Victor	B-13399	10-in.	6/6/1913	When I want a little loving	Henry Burr ; Albert Campbell	Male vocal duet, with orchestra	composer
Victor	B-14098	10-in.	11/19/1913	All the little lovin' that I had for you is gone, gone, gone	Collins and Harlan	Male vocal duet, with orchestra	composer
Victor	B-14504	10-in.	2/21/1914	'Tain't no disgrace to run when you're skeered	George O'Connor	Male vocal solo	composer
Victor	C-15221	12-in.	9/25/1914	Ballin' the jack	Victor Military Band	Band	composer
Victor	B-17201	10-in.	2/24/1916	He's my cousin if she's your niece	Marie Cahill	Female vocal solo, with orchestra	composer
Victor	C-17433	12-in.	4/4/1916	Down where the Swanee River flows	Victor Military Band	Band	composer
Victor	B-17492	10-in.	4/13/1916	Honky tonky one-step	Victor Military Band	Band	composer
Victor	B-18059	10-in.	7/5/1916	If you don't want me, send me to my ma	Morton Harvey	Male vocal solo, with orchestra	composer
Victor	B-18605	10-in.	10/12/1916	My Waikiki ukulele girl	Irving Kaufman	Male vocal solo, with orchestra	composer
Victor	B-25777	10-in.	11/22/1921	I've got my habits on	Isabelle Patricola	Female vocal solo, with orchestra	lyricist
Victor	B-28300	10-in.	7/19/1923	Struttin' blues	Rosa Henderson	Female vocal solo, with jazz/dance band	lyricist
Victor	B-30076	10-in.	5/14/1924	I'm haunted by that Swanee River song	Pennsylvanians ; Fred Waring	Jazz/dance band	composer
Victor	BVE-33614	10-in.	11/14/1925	The camel walk	Art Landry Orchestra	Jazz/dance band	composer
Victor	BVE-38632	10-in.	6/6/1927	Long gone	E. J. Derry ; Travis B. Hale	Male vocal duet, with banjo and mandolin (self-accompaniment)	composer
Victor	BVE-39667	10-in.	7/18/1927	Toot, toot, Dixie	Taskiana Four	Male vocal quartet, unaccompanied	lyricist, composer
Victor	BS-77172	10-in.	12/4/1933	All in, down and out	Harry Wall	Male vocal solo, with piano	composer
Victor	BS-041363	10-in.	9/28/1939	Ballin' the jack	Jelly Roll Morton ; New Orleans Jazzmen	Jazz/dance band, with male vocal solo	composer
Victor	BS-056493	10-in.	10/15/1940	The Irish were Egyptians long ago	Harry's Tavern Band ; Billy Murray	Male vocal solo, with instrumental ensemble	composer
Victor	D9VB-0912	10-in.	2/22/1949	Ballin' the jack	Three Suns	Instrumental quartet	composer
Columbia	314	10-in.	ca. 1901	Good morning, Carrie	Artists vary	Male vocal solo, with piano	composer
Columbia	314	7-in.	ca. 1901	Good morning, Carrie	Artists vary	Male vocal solo, with piano	composer
Columbia	360	10-in.	ca. 1901-Sept. 1902	Good morning, Carrie	Harry Macdonough	Male vocal solo, with piano	composer
Columbia	360	7-in.	ca. 1901-Sept. 1902	Good morning, Carrie	Harry Macdonough	Male vocal solo, with piano	composer
Columbia	362	7-in.	ca. 1901-Sept. 1902	Good morning, Carrie	Columbia Band	Band	composer
Columbia	362	10-in.	ca. 1901	Good morning, Carrie	Columbia Band	Band	composer
Columbia	381	10-in.	ca. 1901-Sept. 1902	Good morning, Carrie	Artists vary	Male vocal solo, with piano	composer
Columbia	381	7-in.	ca. 1901	Good morning, Carrie	Artists vary	Male vocal solo, with piano	composer
Columbia	1719	10-in.	approximately 1903	'Tain't no disgrace to run when you're skeered	Bob Roberts	Male vocal solo, with orchestra	composer
Columbia	3185	10-in.	between January and June 1905	Shame on you!	Bob Roberts	Male vocal solo, with orchestra	songwriter
Columbia	3199	10-in.	ca. Jan.-June 1905	The Mormon coon	Bob Roberts	Male vocal solo, with orchestra	composer
Columbia	3254	10-in.	ca. Jan.-Oct. 1905	Dat ain't nothin' but talk	Bob Roberts	Male vocal solo, with orchestra	songwriter
Columbia	3536	10-in.	ca. Oct. 1906	He's a cousin of mine	Bert Williams	Male vocal solo, with orchestra	composer
Columbia	3966	10-in.	ca. 1908	The right church, but the wrong pew	Collins and Harlan	Male vocal duet, with orchestra	composer
Columbia	4156	10-in.	ca. Jan.-Sept. 1909	Abraham Lincoln Jones	Arthur Collins	Male vocal solo, with orchestra	composer
Columbia	4289	10-in.	ca. 1909-Feb. 1910	Come after breakfast (Bring 'long your lunch and leave 'fore supper time)	Arthur Collins	Male vocal solo, with orchestra	songwriter
Columbia	4470	10-in.	ca. Jan.-July 1910	If he comes in, I'm goin' out	Arthur Collins	Male vocal solo, with orchestra	composer
Columbia	19780	10-in.	3/4/1912	I want a little lovin' sometimes	Dolly Connolly	Female vocal solo, with orchestra	composer, lyricist
Columbia	19792	10-in.	3/7/1912	That precious little thing called love	Collins and Harlan	Male vocal duet, with orchestra	songwriter
Columbia	19793	10-in.	3/7/1912	The last shot got him	Arthur Collins	Male vocal solo, with orchestra	songwriter
Columbia	38436	10-in.	11/22/1912	At the levee on revival day	Collins and Harlan	Male vocal duet, with orchestra	composer
Columbia	45885	10-in.	7/26/1915	Scaddle de mooch	George O'Connor	Male vocal solo, with orchestra	songwriter
Columbia	46441	10-in.	2/23/1916	Never let the same bee sting you twice	Anna Chandler	Female vocal solo, with orchestra	songwriter
Columbia	77771	10-in.	4/16/1918	Beans, beans, beans	Gus Van	Male vocal solo, with orchestra	composer
Columbia	79395	10-in.	8/31/1920	Long gone	Marion Harris	Female vocal solo, with orchestra	lyricist
Columbia	79402	10-in.	9/7/1920	I want to know where Tosti went (when he said goodbye)	Bert Williams	Male vocal solo, with orchestra	lyricist, composer
Columbia	79516	10-in.	11/12/1920	You'll never need a doctor no more	Bert Williams	Male vocal solo, with orchestra	lyricist, composer
Columbia	79566	10-in.	12/10/1920	My last dollar	Bert Williams	Male vocal solo, with orchestra	composer
Columbia	79826	10-in.	5/6/1921	If you don't want me send me to my ma	Mary Stafford	Female vocal solo ("blues singer"), with jazz/dance band	songwriter
Columbia	79934	10-in.	7/12/1921	'Tain't no disgrace to run when you're skeered	Bert Williams	Male vocal solo, with orchestra	composer
Columbia	80156	10-in.	1/23/1922	Cruel daddy blues	Leona Williams	Female vocal solo, with jazz/dance band	lyricist
Columbia	80240	10-in.	3/13/1922	Struttin' blues	Leona Williams	Female vocal solo, with jazz/dance band	lyricist
Columbia	80723	10-in.	12/5/1922	My pillow and me	Irene Gibbons	Female vocal solo, with jazz/dance band	songwriter
Columbia	81092	10-in.	6/21/1923	If you don't I know who will	Fletcher Henderson ; Bessie Smith	Female vocal solo ("blues singer"), with piano	songwriter
Columbia	81345	10-in.	11/9/1923	I ain't skeered of work	Gulf Coast Minstrels	Male vocal quartet, with male vocal solo	composer
Columbia	30039	12-in.	9/26/1906	All in, out and down	Bert Williams	Male vocal solo, with orchestra	composer
Columbia	30197	12-in.	12/15/1908	Down among the sugar cane	Collins and Harlan	Male vocal duet, with orchestra	composer
Columbia	30303	12-in.	10/13/1909	Virginia (Opening chorus)	Arthur Collins ; Rambler Minstrel Company	Minstrels, with male vocal solo, male vocal quartet, and orchestra	composer
Columbia	36993	12-in.	6/11/1914	Jungle jambouree	Albert Jockers ; Monroe Jockers	Violin and piano duet	composer
Columbia	37014	12-in.	7/31/1914	Ballin' the jack	Prince's Band	Band	composer
Columbia	W140585	10-in.	5/5/1925	Cake walking babies	Fletcher Henderson’s Hot Six ; Bessie Smith	Female vocal solo ("blues singer"), with jazz/dance ensemble	songwriter
Columbia	140962	10-in.	9/18/1925	The camel walk	University Six	Jazz/dance band	composer
Columbia	W141069	10-in.	10/1/1925	The camel walk	Warner's Seven Aces	Jazz/dance band	composer
Columbia	W141124	10-in.	10/8/1925	The camel walk	Ted Lewis and his Band	Jazz/dance band	composer
Columbia	W141903	10-in.	4/2/1926	Hit me but don't quit me	Bessie Brown ; George W. Williams	Female-male vocal duet ("blues singers"), with piano	lyricist, composer
Columbia	W144549	10-in.	8/19/1927	Shootin' the pistol	Clarence Williams	Male vocal solo, with piano	lyricist
Columbia	W146972	10-in.	9/10/1928	Toot toot Dixie bound	The Mobile Four	Male vocal quartet, unaccompanied	songwriter
Columbia	W151754	10-in.	8/26/1931	They put the last clean shirt on Bill today	Clarence Augustus Williams	Male vocal solo, with piano	songwriter
OKeh	S-7620	10-in.	Oct. 1920	I want to know where Tosti went (When he said good-bye)	Ernest Hare	Male vocal solo, with orchestra	composer, lyricist
OKeh	S-7878	10-in.	Apr. 1921	Murder in the first degree	Shelton Brooks ; Rega Orchestra	Male vocal solo, with jazz/dance band	songwriter
OKeh	S-7964	10-in.	June 1921	It takes a good man to do that	Rega Orchestra ; Aileen Stanley	Female vocal solo, with jazz/dance band	songwriter
OKeh	8757	10-in.	Oct. 1924	The last shot got him	Chenoweth's Cornfield Symphony Orchestra	Instrumental ensemble	composer
OKeh	9356	10-in.	Sept. 1925	The camel walk	Jack Gardner Orchestra	Jazz/dance band	composer
OKeh	S-70075	10-in.	Aug. 1921	Daddy, your mama is lonesome for you	Mamie Smith and her Jazz Band	Female vocal solo, with jazz/dance band	lyricist
OKeh	S-70204	10-in.	Oct. 1921	The missing link	Tampa Blue Jazz Band	Jazz/dance band	composer
OKeh	S-70246	10-in.	Oct. 1921	Let's agree to disagree	Jazz Hounds ; Mamie Smith	Female vocal solo, with jazz/dance band	songwriter
OKeh	S-70487	10-in.	2/18/1922	Madagascar	Rega Dance Orchestra	Jazz/dance band	composer
OKeh	S-71261	10-in.	February 1923	My pillow and me	Eva Taylor ; Clarence Williams	Female vocal solo, with piano	songwriter
OKeh	S-71469	10-in.	April 1923	My pillow and me	Handy's Orchestra	Jazz/dance band	composer
OKeh	S-71721	10-in.	August 1923	Darktown reveille	Handy's Orchestra	Jazz/dance band	composer
OKeh	S-71804	10-in.	September 1923	If you don't, I know who will	Clarence Williams’ Blue Five ; Eva Taylor	Female vocal solo, with jazz/dance band	songwriter
OKeh	S-72958	10-in.	11/6/1924	Of all the wrongs you done to me	Clarence Williams’ Blue Five ; Eva Taylor	Jazz/dance quintet, with female vocal solo	songwriter
OKeh	S-73083	10-in.	1/8/1925	Cake walking babies from home	Clarence Williams’ Blue Five ; Eva Taylor	Jazz/dance quintet, with female vocal solo	songwriter
OKeh	S-73452	10-in.	6/21/1925	Cold storage papa (Mama's a little too warm for you)	Butterbeans & Susie ; Clarence Williams	Female-male vocal duet, with piano	songwriter
OKeh	73524	10-in.	July 1925	Far as I'm concerned	Eva Taylor	Female vocal solo, with banjo and piano	lyricist
OKeh	W80651	10-in.	3/19/1927	No, no, positively no!	Al Bernard	Male vocal solo, with piano	songwriter
Brunswick	10856-10858	10-in.	6/18/1923	My pillow and me	Lizzie Miles ; Spencer Williams	Female vocal solo, with piano	songwriter
Brunswick	15282-15284	10-in.	3/26/1925	Murder in the first degree	Hamtree Harrington	Male vocal solo, with piano	composer, lyricist
Brunswick	15288-15291	10-in.	3/26/1925	You’re talking to the wrong man now	Hamtree Harrington	Male vocal solo, with piano	lyricist
Brunswick	E27656	10-in.	6/6/1928	Long gone	Richard Brooks ; Rueben Puckett	Male vocal duet, with violin and guitar	lyricist
Brunswick	E35399	10-in.	Nov. 1930	No, no, positively no	Al Bernard and Carson Robison	Male vocal solo, with piano	songwriter
Brunswick	E1681-E1683	10-in.	11/11/1925	Camel walk	Hottentots	Jazz/dance ensemble	composer
Brunswick	E2716-E2718	10-in.	3/31/1926	Fulton Street blues	Rosa Henderson	Female vocal solo, with instrumental quartet	songwriter
Brunswick	E3051-E3053	10-in.	5/14/1926	Chicago policeman blues	Rosa Henderson	Female vocal solo, with instrumental trio	lyricist, composer
Brunswick	E22065-E22067	10-in.	3/22/1927	No, no, positively no	Al Bernard	Male vocal solo, with piano	songwriter
Brunswick	C1237-C1238	10-in.	10/7/1927	Come on and stomp stomp stomp	Black Bottom Stompers ; Johnny Dodds	Jazz/dance band	songwriter
Brunswick	783W-785W	10-in.	5/8/1925	Fly 'round, young ladies, fly 'round (Fly roun' young ladies)	Hamtree Harrington	Male vocal solo, with ukulele	songwriter
Brunswick	1368W-1369W	10-in.	9/18/1925	The camel walk	Hottentots	Jazz/dance band	composer
Edison	2135	10-in.	2/11/1913	You're just too sweet to live	Collins and Harlan	Male vocal duet, with orchestra	composer
Edison	2160	10-in.	3/1/1913	Dinah dear	Collins and Harlan	Male vocal duet, with orchestra	composer
Edison	8303	10-in.	11/25/1921	I've got my habits on	Al Bernard ; Vernon Dalhart	Male vocal duet, with orchestra	lyricist
Edison	8509	10-in.	6/27/1922	At the Honky Tonk Steppers Ball	Al Bernard	Male vocal solo, with orchestra	songwriter
Edison	9167	10-in.	9/20/1923	Darktown reveille	Jazz-O-Harmonists	Jazz/dance band	composer
Edison	10642	10-in.	10/19/1925	The camel walk	Bud Lincoln Orchestra	Jazz/dance band	composer
Edison	19255	10-in.	6/14/1929	Ballin' the jack	Campus Cut-Ups	Jazz/dance band, with male vocal solo	composer
Edison	N-960	10-in.	6/14/1929	Ballin' the jack	Campus Cut-Ups	Jazz/dance band, with male vocal solo	composer

Citation

Discography of American Historical Recordings, s.v. "Smith, Chris," accessed November 22, 2024, https://adpprod1.library.ucsb.edu/names/108902.

Smith, Chris. (2024). In Discography of American Historical Recordings. Retrieved November 22, 2024, from https://adpprod1.library.ucsb.edu/names/108902.

"Smith, Chris." Discography of American Historical Recordings. UC Santa Barbara Library, 2024. Web. 22 November 2024.