Alfred Solman
Alfred Solman (May 6, 1868 – November 15, 1937) was a prominent composer of popular songs in America in the first two decades of the twentieth century. |
Birth and Death Data: Born May 6, 1868, Died November 15, 1937
Date Range of DAHR Recordings: 1903 - 1931
Roles Represented in DAHR: composer, songwriter, arranger
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= 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 | Audio |
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Victor | B-294 | 10-in. | 8/27/1903 | Lenore, my own Lenore | Harry Macdonough | Male vocal solo, with piano | composer | |
Victor | A-294 | 7-in. | 8/27/1903 | Lenore, my own Lenore | Harry Macdonough | Male vocal solo, with piano | composer | |
Victor | B-1479 | 10-in. | 6/15/1904 | Lenore, my own Lenore | Harry Macdonough | Male vocal solo, with orchestra | composer | |
Victor | A-1479 | 7-in. | 6/15/1904 | Lenore, my own Lenore | Harry Macdonough | Male vocal solo, with orchestra | composer | |
Victor | B-2753 | 10-in. | 9/15/1905 | When the evening breeze is sighing 'Home sweet home' | Haydn Quartet | Male vocal quartet, with orchestra | composer | |
Victor | C-2776 | 12-in. | 9/29/1905 | When the bell in the lighthouse rings | Frank C. Stanley | Male vocal solo, with orchestra | composer | |
Victor | B-2776 | 10-in. | 9/29/1905 | When the bell in the lighthouse rings | Frank C. Stanley | Male vocal solo, with orchestra | composer | |
Victor | B-3107 | 10-in. | 2/13/1906 | We parted as the sun went down | Corinne Morgan ; Frank C. Stanley | Female-male vocal duet, with orchestra | composer | |
Victor | C-3390 | 12-in. | 5/16/1906 | The harbor of home sweet home | William F. Hooley | Male vocal solo, with orchestra | composer | |
Victor | B-3390 | 10-in. | 5/16/1906 | The harbor of home sweet home | William F. Hooley | Male vocal solo, with orchestra | composer | |
Victor | B-3428 | 10-in. | 6/1/1906 | Little girl you'll do | Albert Campbell | Male vocal solo, with orchestra | composer | |
Victor | B-3828 | 10-in. | 9/24/1906 | The linger-longer girl | Frank C. Stanley ; Elise Stevenson | Female-male vocal duet, with orchestra | composer | |
Victor | E-3908 | 8-in. | 10/17/1906 | The bird on Nellie's hat | Helen Trix | Female vocal solo, with orchestra | composer | |
Victor | B-3908 | 10-in. | 10/17/1906 | The bird on Nellie's hat | Helen Trix | Female vocal solo, with orchestra | composer | |
Victor | B-4528 | 10-in. | 5/23/1907 | You splash me and I'll splash you | Alice Lloyd | Female vocal solo, with orchestra | composer | |
Victor | B-4914 | 10-in. | 11/7/1907 | The flowers outside the café | Harry Macdonough ; Frank C. Stanley | Male vocal duet, with orchestra | composer | |
Victor | B-5086 | 10-in. | 2/18/1908 | The heart you lost in Maryland, you'll find in Tennessee | Haydn Quartet | Male vocal quartet, with orchestra | composer | |
Victor | B-6072 | 10-in. | 3/31/1908 | All she wants from the iceman is ice | Ada Jones | Female vocal solo, with orchestra | composer | |
Victor | B-6322 | 10-in. | 7/20/1908 | If I had a thousand lives | Herbert Waterous | Male vocal solo | composer | |
Victor | B-6870 | 10-in. | 3/10/1909 | When the autumn moon is creeping thro' the woodlands | Will Oakland | Male vocal solo, with orchestra | composer | |
Victor | B-7008 | 10-in. | 4/23/1909 | He falls for the ladies every time | Josie Sadler | Female vocal solo, with orchestra | composer | |
Victor | B-7010 | 10-in. | 4/23/1909 | One good turn deserves another | Josie Sadler | Female vocal solo, with orchestra | composer | |
Victor | B-7019 | 10-in. | 4/29/1909 | If I had a thousand lives to live | Edward Hamilton | Male vocal solo, with orchestra | composer | |
Victor | B-8124 | 10-in. | 7/20/1909 | I'll be home at harvest time | Metropolitan Trio | Mixed vocal trio, with orchestra | composer | |
Victor | B-8227 | 10-in. | 9/15/1909 | How d' ye do? | Elizabeth Wheeler ; William Wheeler | Female-male vocal duet, with orchestra | composer | |
Victor | B-11032 | 10-in. | 9/28/1911 | Mine | Edward Hamilton [i.e., Reinald Werrenrath] | Male vocal solo | composer | |
Victor | B-11033 | 10-in. | 9/28/1911 | With the last rose of summer I'll come back to you | Orpheus Quartet | Male vocal quartet | composer | |
Victor | B-11334 | 10-in. | 12/6/1911 | Mine | Henry Burr | Male vocal solo | composer | |
Victor | B-11351 | 10-in. | 12/11/1911 | With the last rose of summer, I'll come back | Peerless Quartet | Male vocal quartet, with orchestra | composer | |
Victor | B-11713 | 10-in. | 3/13/1912 | Mary was my mother's name | American Quartet | Male vocal quartet, with orchestra | composer | |
Victor | B-11756 | 10-in. | 3/21/1912 | By the old cathedral door | Peerless Quartet | Male vocal quartet, with orchestra | composer | |
Victor | B-12172 | 10-in. | 7/9/1912 | When the old folks were young folks | Haydn Quartet ; Harry Macdonough | Male vocal solo and male vocal quartet, with orchestra | composer | |
Victor | B-12881 | 10-in. | 2/6/1913 | Why did you make me care? | Henry Burr | Male vocal solo | composer | |
Victor | B-12997 | 10-in. | 3/14/1913 | Ship of my dreams | American Quartet | Male vocal quartet, with orchestra | composer | |
Victor | B-13330 | 10-in. | 5/20/1913 | Ship of my dreams | Haydn Quartet | Male vocal quartet, with orchestra | composer | |
Victor | B-14172 | 10-in. | 12/10/1913 | Would you take me back again? | Harry A. Ellis | Male vocal solo, with orchestra | composer | |
Victor | B-14173 | 10-in. | 12/10/1913 | If I could live to love you (Then I would love to live) | Harry A. Ellis | Male vocal solo, with orchestra | composer | |
Victor | B-14399 | 10-in. | 1/29/1914 | Would you take me back again | Henry Burr | Male vocal solo, with orchestra | composer | |
Victor | B-14748 | 10-in. | 4/22/1914 | In the valley of the moon | Henry Burr ; Helen Clark | Female-male vocal duet, with orchestra | arranger | |
Victor | B-15074 | 10-in. | 7/17/1914 | You may be the world to a world of friends, but you're more than the world to me | Billy Watkins | Male vocal solo, with orchestra | composer | |
Victor | B-15216 | 10-in. | 9/24/1914 | You're more than the world to me | George Wilton Ballard | Male vocal solo, with orchestra | composer | |
Victor | B-15507 | 10-in. | 12/16/1914 | When the bell in the lighthouse rings | Wilfred Glenn | Male vocal solo, with orchestra | composer | |
Victor | B-16317 | 10-in. | 8/4/1915 | My own home town in Ireland | George MacFarlane | Male vocal solo, with orchestra | composer | |
Victor | C-17295 | 12-in. | 3/10/1916 | When it's orange blossom time | Victor Military Band | Band | composer | |
Victor | B-17458 | 10-in. | 4/7/1916 | There's a Quaker down in Quaker town | Henry Burr ; Albert Campbell | Male vocal duet, with orchestra | composer | |
Victor | C-17709 | 12-in. | 5/19/1916 | Johnny get a girl | Victor Military Band | Band | composer | |
Victor | B-18535 | 10-in. | 10/9/1916 | My lonely Lola Lo | Sterling Trio | Male vocal trio, with orchestra | songwriter | |
Victor | B-18536 | 10-in. | 10/9/1916 | In the sweet long ago | Sterling Trio | Male vocal trio, with orchestra | composer | |
Victor | B-20463 | 10-in. | 7/31/1917 | Just a little cottage in the country calling come back home | Shannon Four | Male vocal quartet, with orchestra | composer | |
Victor | B-21252 | 10-in. | 12/13/1917 | Just a letter for a boy over there, from a gray-haired mother over here | Peerless Quartet | Male vocal quartet, with orchestra | songwriter | |
Victor | B-25396 | 10-in. | 7/13/1921 | The world can't go 'round without you | John Steel | Male vocal solo, with orchestra | songwriter | |
Victor | B-28123 | 10-in. | 6/14/1923 | Bells of the sea | Wilfred Glenn | Male vocal solo, with orchestra | composer | |
Victor | B-31786 | 10-in. | 1/28/1925 | A waltz in the moonlight | Charles Dornberger Orchestra | Jazz/dance band, with male vocal solo | composer | |
Victor | BVE-36382 | 10-in. | 10/4/1926 | Blame it on the waltz | Henry Burr ; Edwin J. McEnelly Orchestra | Jazz/dance band, with male vocal solo | composer | |
Victor | BVE-37064 | 10-in. | 12/2/1926 | Blame it on the waltz | Renée Chemet | Violin solo, with piano | composer | |
Victor | BVE-49988 | 10-in. | 2/23/1929 | That's what I call heaven | Gene Austin | Male vocal solo, with orchestra | songwriter | |
Victor | BVE-50931 | 10-in. | 3/12/1929 | That's what I call heaven | Leo Reisman Orchestra ; Ran Weeks | Jazz/dance band, with male vocal solo | songwriter | |
Victor | BRC-53003 | 10-in. | 3/31/1931 | Would you take me back again? | Johnny Marvin | Male vocal solo, with instrumental ensemble | composer | |
Victor | BVE-67470 | 10-in. | 2/25/1931 | Little sweetheart of the prairie | Johnny Marvin | Male vocal solo, with instrumental ensemble | songwriter | |
Victor | [Trial 1917-08-06-08] | Not documented | 8/6/1917 | Just a little cottage in the country calling come back home | Betty Gray | Female vocal solo, with piano | composer | |
Victor | [Trial 1926-05-25-01] | Not documented | 5/25/1926 | Bells of the sea | Jose Mossegeld Santiago | Male vocal solo | composer | |
Columbia | 3227 | 10-in. | ca. Jan.-Sept. 1905 | In sweet loveland | Frank C. Stanley | Male vocal solo, with orchestra | composer | |
Columbia | 3257 | 10-in. | ca. Jan.-Oct. 1905 | Little girl, you'll do | Frank C. Stanley | Male vocal solo, with orchestra | composer | |
Columbia | 3304 | 10-in. | approximately 1905 | When the evening breeze is sighing home sweet home | Frank C. Stanley | Male vocal solo, with orchestra | composer | |
Columbia | 3305 | 10-in. | approximately 1905 | When the bell in the light-house rings ding dong | Frank C. Stanley | Male vocal solo, with orchestra | composer | |
Columbia | 3397 | 10-in. | between January and May 1906 | We parted as the sun went down | Albert Campbell | Male vocal solo, with orchestra | composer | |
Columbia | 3539 | 10-in. | ca. 1906 | Milo | Bob Roberts | Male vocal solo, with orchestra | composer | |
Columbia | 3573 | 10-in. | between late 1906 and February 1907 | The linger longer girl | Frank C. Stanley ; Elise Stevenson | Female-male vocal duet, with orchestra | composer | |
Columbia | 3598 | 10-in. | ca. Jan.-Mar. 1907 | When the snow birds cross the valley | Frank C. Stanley | Male vocal solo, with orchestra | composer | |
Columbia | 3661 | 10-in. | ca. Jan.-June 1907 | With you in eternity | Henry Burr | Male vocal solo, with orchestra | composer | |
Columbia | 3675 | 10-in. | ca. Jan.-Aug. 1907 | You splash me and I'll splash you | Ada Jones | Female vocal solo, with orchestra | composer | |
Columbia | 3692 | 10-in. | ca. Jan.-Sept. 1907 | Southern girl | Columbia Quartette | Male vocal quartet, with orchestra | composer | |
Columbia | 3693 | 10-in. | between January and September 1907 | The hymns of the old church choir | Columbia Quartette | Male vocal quartet, with organ | composer | |
Columbia | 3728 | 10-in. | between January and November 1907 | The flowers outside the cafe | Henry Burr ; Frank C. Stanley | Male vocal duet, with orchestra | composer | |
Columbia | 3934 | 10-in. | ca. 1908 | One good turn deserves another | Josie Sadler | Female vocal solo, with orchestra | composer | |
Columbia | 4030 | 10-in. | ca. 1909 | I'll be home at harvest time | Metropolitan Trio | Mixed vocal trio, with orchestra | composer | |
Columbia | 4160 | 10-in. | ca. Jan.-Sept. 1909 | If I had a thousand lives to live | Harvey Hindermyer | Male vocal solo, with orchestra | composer | |
Columbia | 19633 | 10-in. | 11/1/1911 | Mine | Frank Coombs ; William H. Thompson | Male vocal duet, with orchestra | composer | |
Columbia | 38401 | 10-in. | 11/9/1912 | The hymns of the old church choir | Peerless Quartet | Male vocal quartet, with orchestra | composer | |
Columbia | 38722 | 10-in. | 3/22/1913 | Why did you make me care? | Manuel Romain | Male vocal solo, with orchestra | composer | |
Columbia | 39039 | 10-in. | 10/10/1913 | Love has done wonders for me | Manuel Romain | Male vocal solo, with orchestra | composer | |
Columbia | 39130 | 10-in. | 12/2/1913 | Would you take me back again? | Manuel Romain | Male vocal solo, with orchestra | composer | |
Columbia | 39469 | 10-in. | 6/29/1914 | You're more than the world to me | Manuel Romain | Male vocal solo, with orchestra | composer | |
Columbia | 45904 | 10-in. | 7/31/1915 | My own home town in Ireland | Will C. Robbins | Male vocal solo, with orchestra | composer | |
Columbia | 46726 | 10-in. | 4/19/1916 | There's a Quaker down in Quaker-Town | Peerless Quartet | Male vocal quartet, with orchestra | composer | |
Columbia | 47089 | 10-in. | 10/19/1916 | My lonely Lola Lo | Sterling Trio | Male vocal trio, with violin, flute, guitar, and orchestra | composer | |
Columbia | 47101 | 10-in. | 10/26/1916 | When the bell in the lighthouse rings ding, dong | Wilfred Glenn | Male vocal solo, with orchestra | composer | |
Columbia | 47215 | 10-in. | 12/9/1916 | In the sweet long ago | James F. Harrison ; James Reed | Male vocal duet, with orchestra | songwriter | |
Columbia | 80798 | 10-in. | 1/17/1923 | Just a bit of Irish lace | William A. Kennedy | Male vocal solo, with orchestra | composer | |
Columbia | 140158 | 10-in. | 11/29/1924 | A waltz in the moonlight | Romancers | Jazz/dance band | composer | |
Columbia | 30003 | 12-in. | 2/14/1906 | Dearie | Prince's Orchestra | Orchestra | composer | |
Columbia | 48601 | 12-in. | 2/14/1916 | When it's orange blossom time in Loveland | Prince's Band ; G. Hepburn Wilson | Band | composer | |
Columbia | 48960 | 12-in. | 10/21/1916 | My lonely Lola Lo | Prince's Band ; G. Hepburn Wilson | Band | songwriter | |
Columbia | W140651 | 10-in. | 6/5/1925 | You can't be a good little fellow (And still be a good little girl) | Lewis James | Male vocal solo, with orchestra | composer | |
Columbia | W140784 | 10-in. | 7/27/1925 | The world is such a lonesome place | Columbia Salon Orchestra | Jazz/dance band | composer | |
Columbia | 142670 | 10-in. | 9/21/1926 | Blame it on the waltz | WMCA Broadcasters | Jazz/dance band | composer | |
Columbia | W142754 | 10-in. | 10/8/1926 | Blame it on the waltz | The Cavaliers ; Charles Hart | Jazz/dance band, with male vocal solo | composer | |
Columbia | W151212 | 10-in. | 1/14/1931 | Little sweetheart of the prairie | The Cavaliers | Jazz/dance band, with male vocal solo | songwriter | |
Columbia | W365009 | 10-in. | 5/20/1931 | Little sweetheart of the prairie | Barney Burnett ; Bob Miller | Male vocal duet, with guitar and piano | songwriter | |
OKeh | 248 | 10-in. | ca. July 1918 | When the bell in the lighthouse | Frank Croxton | Male vocal solo, with orchestra | composer | |
OKeh | S-7783 | 10-in. | Feb. 1921 | When the bell in the lighthouse rings ding dong | Wilfred Glenn | Male vocal solo, with orchestra | composer | |
OKeh | 9128 | 10-in. | May 1925 | The world is such a lonesome place (Since I lost you) | Louis Forbstein ; Royal Syncopators | Jazz/dance band | composer | |
OKeh | S-71093 | 10-in. | Dec. 1922 | The hymns of the old church choir | Virginia Burt ; Shannon Four | Mixed vocal quintet, with orchestra | composer | |
OKeh | S-71659 | 10-in. | June 1923 | Just a bit of Irish lace | Gerald Griffin | Male vocal solo, with piano | composer | |
OKeh | S-73022 | 10-in. | 12/16/1924 | A waltz in the moonlight (And you) | Hotel Pennsylvania Orchestra ; Vincent Lopez | Jazz/dance band, with male vocal solo | composer | |
Brunswick | 5586-5587 | 10-in. | approximately May 1921 | World can't go 'round without you | Dorothy Jardon | Female vocal solo, with orchestra | songwriter | |
Brunswick | 10600-10601 | 10-in. | 5/9/1923 | Bells of the sea | John Barclay | Male vocal solo, with orchestra | composer | |
Brunswick | E29479 | 10-in. | Mar. 1929 | That’s what I call heaven | Saxie Dowell ; Hal Kemp Orchestra | Jazz/dance band, with male vocal solo; without vocal (take G) | songwriter | |
Brunswick | E35884 | 10-in. | 12/29/1930 | Little sweetheart of the prairie | Roy Smeck Vitaphone Trio | Instrumental trio, with male vocal duet | songwriter | |
Brunswick | E36067 | 10-in. | 2/12/1931 | Little sweetheart of the prairie | Connecticut Hill Billies ; Hank Keene | Instrumental quartet, with male vocal solo | songwriter | |
Brunswick | E36198 | 10-in. | 2/27/1931 | On the Ozark Mountain trail | Frankie Marvin | Male vocal solo, with 2 violins and guitar | songwriter | |
Brunswick | E3746-E3747 | 10-in. | 9/9/1926 | Blame it on the waltz | Miami Marimba Band | Marimba band, with male vocal trio | composer | |
Brunswick | E3860-E3861 | 10-in. | 9/28/1926 | Blame it on the waltz | Miami Marimba Band | Marimba band, with male vocal trio | composer | |
Brunswick | E19746-E19747 | 10-in. | 7/12/1926 | Because of you | Richard Bonelli | Male vocal solo, with 2 violins, bells, and organ | composer | |
Brunswick | E20016-E20017 | 10-in. | 9/2/1926 | Blame it on the waltz | Regent Club Orchestra | Jazz/dance band, with female-male vocal duet | composer | |
Brunswick | E20120-E20121 | 10-in. | 9/14/1926 | Blame it on the waltz | Regent Club Orchestra | Jazz/dance band, with female-male vocal duet | composer | |
Brunswick | E35893-E35894 | 10-in. | 1/6/1931 | Little sweetheart of the prairie | Castlewood Marimba Band | Jazz/dance band, with male vocal solo; without vocal (take G) | songwriter | |
Brunswick | 199W-201W | 10-in. | 1/12/1925 | A waltz in the moonlight (and you) | Castlewood Marimba Band | Marimba band | composer | |
Edison | 1150 | 10-in. | 7/24/1912 | In the valley where the bluebirds sing | Alfred Shaw | Male vocal solo and vocal ensemble, with orchestra | composer | |
Edison | 2256 | 10-in. | 4/29/1913 | Ship of my dreams | Randall Hargreaves | Male vocal solo and vocal ensemble, with orchestra | composer | |
Edison | 2579 | 10-in. | 11/21/1913 | When the song birds sing no more | Emory B. Randolph | Tenor vocal solo, with orchestra | composer | |
Edison | 2832 | 10-in. | Feb. 1914 | If I could live to love [you] | Vernon Archibald | Male vocal solo and vocal ensemble, with orchestra | composer | |
Edison | 4398 | 10-in. | 1/5/1916 | My own hometown in Ireland | John A. Finnegan | Male vocal solo and male vocal trio, with orchestra | composer | |
Edison | 4702 | 10-in. | 5/4/1916 | There's a Quaker down in Quaker town | Joseph A. Phillips | Male vocal solo, with orchestra | composer | |
Edison | 5208 | 10-in. | 12/12/1916 | In the sweet long ago | George Wilton Ballard | Male vocal solo and vocal ensemble, with orchestra | composer | |
Edison | 7018 | 10-in. | 11/12/1919 | When the bell in the lighthouse rings ding, dong | Weltzin B. Blix | Male vocal solo, with orchestra | composer | |
Edison | 8490 | 10-in. | 6/13/1922 | Bells of the sea | Ernest Hare | Male vocal solo, with orchestra | composer | |
Edison | 9937 | 10-in. | 1/9/1925 | A waltz in the moonlight and you | Helen Clark ; Charles Hart ; Nathan Glantz Orchestra | Jazz/dance band, with female-male vocal duet | composer | |
Edison | 10444 | 10-in. | 6/20/1925 | A waltz in the moonlight and you | Frederick Kinsley | Organ solo | composer | |
Edison | 10498 | 10-in. | 7/14/1925 | The ocean sings of you | Ernest Hare | Male vocal solo, with orchestra | composer | |
Edison | 10510 | 10-in. | 7/22/1925 | The world is such a lonesome place (Since I lost you) | Jack Stillman Orchestra | Jazz/dance band | composer | |
Edison | 11224 | 10-in. | 9/29/1926 | Blame it on the waltz | Charles Harrison | Male vocal solo, with orchestra | composer | |
Edison | 19025 | 10-in. | 2/4/1929 | That's what I call heaven | The Rollickers [Edison] | Male vocal quartet, with piano | songwriter | |
Edison | N-716 | 10-in. | 2/4/1929 | That's what I call heaven | The Rollickers [Edison] | Male vocal quartet, with piano | songwriter | |
Leeds & Catlin | [L & C cat 224-A] | 10-in. | between late 1908 and early 1909 | If I had a thousand lives to live | Frank C. Stanley | Male vocal solo | composer |
Citation
Discography of American Historical Recordings, s.v. "Solman, Alfred," accessed November 1, 2024, https://adpprod1.library.ucsb.edu/names/112174.
Solman, Alfred. (2024). In Discography of American Historical Recordings. Retrieved November 1, 2024, from https://adpprod1.library.ucsb.edu/names/112174.
"Solman, Alfred." Discography of American Historical Recordings. UC Santa Barbara Library, 2024. Web. 1 November 2024.
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LCNAR: Solman, Alfred, 1868-1937 - http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no2003058832
Wikidata: Alfred Solman - http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q16821272
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MusicBrainz: Alfred Solman - https://musicbrainz.org/artist/8f50649a-984f-4da3-9850-f1b7b37e3671
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