Lou Klein
Birth and Death Data: Born 1888, Died September 7, 1945
Date Range of DAHR Recordings: 1913 - 1939
Roles Represented in DAHR: lyricist, songwriter, composer
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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-13717 | 10-in. | 9/3/1913 | On the Honeymoon Express | Collins and Harlan | Male vocal duet, with orchestra | lyricist | |
Victor | B-14185 | 10-in. | 12/11/1913 | The bells | Peerless Quartet | Male vocal quartet, with orchestra | lyricist | |
Victor | B-14314 | 10-in. | 1/14/1914 | If I had my way | Peerless Quartet | Male vocal quartet, with orchestra | lyricist | |
Victor | B-14521 | 10-in. | 2/27/1914 | If they'd only move Old Ireland over here | Ada Jones | Female vocal solo, with orchestra | lyricist | |
Victor | B-14654 | 10-in. | 4/1/1914 | My lovin' dancing man | Peerless Quartet | Male vocal quartet, with orchestra | lyricist | |
Victor | B-17014 | 10-in. | 1/17/1916 | It's a hundred-to-one you're in love | Dan W. Quinn | Male vocal solo, with orchestra | lyricist | |
Victor | B-17093 | 10-in. | 1/31/1916 | On the Hoko Moko isle | Collins and Harlan | Male vocal duet, with orchestra | lyricist | |
Victor | B-17708 | 10-in. | 5/18/1916 | There's someone more lonesome than you | James F. Harrison ; James Reed | Male vocal duet, with orchestra | lyricist | |
Victor | B-18130 | 10-in. | 7/18/1916 | When Uncle Sammy leads the band | Peerless Quartet | Male vocal quartet, with orchestra | lyricist | |
Victor | B-18986 | 10-in. | 1/15/1917 | Just the kind of a girl (You'd love to make your wife) | Billy Murray | Male vocal solo, with orchestra | lyricist | |
Victor | B-24944 | 10-in. | 2/16/1921 | Over the hill | Charles Hart | Male vocal solo, with violin and orchestra | lyricist | |
Victor | BVE-56759 | 10-in. | 10/8/1929 | Sergeant Flagg and Sergeant Quirt | The Happiness Boys | Male vocal duet, with instrumental ensemble | songwriter | |
Victor | LBRC-70138 | 10-in. (33-1/3 rpm) | 7/30/1931 | Join the Victor artists' party | Victor Arden ; Frank Crumit ; Phil Ohman ; The Revelers ; Nathaniel Shilkret ; Victor Symphony Orchestra | Demonstration record : Orchestra, vocalists, and speaker | songwriter | |
Victor | BVE-70567 | 10-in. | 2/5/1932 | Lonesome valley | Jim Baird ; Bob Mitchell | Male vocal solo, with organ | lyricist | |
Victor | BSHQ-72653 | 10-in. | 6/7/1932 | Chuck, chuck, chuckle along | Joe Haymes Orchestra | Jazz/dance band, with male vocal solo | songwriter | |
Victor | BS-73562 | 10-in. | 9/22/1932 | They're always together | Frank Crumit | Male vocal solo, with instrumental ensemble | songwriter | |
Victor | BS-73564 | 10-in. | 9/22/1932 | The veg'table blues or the strike of the vegetables | Frank Crumit | Male vocal solo, with instrumental ensemble | songwriter | |
Victor | BS-74779 | 10-in. | 1/9/1933 | By a little bayou | Dwight Butcher | Male vocal solo, with piano and guitar | lyricist | |
Victor | BS-74785 | 10-in. | 1/9/1933 | By a little bayou | Dwight Butcher | Male vocal solo, with guitar | lyricist | |
Victor | BS-74794 | 10-in. | 1/11/1933 | My fraternity pin | Fran Frey ; George Olsen and his Music | Jazz/dance band, with male vocal solo | songwriter | |
Victor | BS-74938 | 10-in. | 1/20/1933 | My fraternity pin | Tom Berwick Orchestra | Jazz/dance band, with male vocal solo | songwriter | |
Victor | BS-75504 | 10-in. | 3/13/1933 | What are we gonna use for money? (Where are we gonna get the dough?) | Bob Dixon | Male vocal solo and mixed vocal trio, with violin and piano | lyricist | |
Victor | BS-75505 | 10-in. | 3/13/1933 | What are we gonna use for money? (Where are we gonna get the dough?) | George Donaldson Trio | Mixed vocal trio and male vocal solo, with violin and piano | lyricist | |
Victor | BS-76299 | 10-in. | 6/28/1933 | A broken rosary | James Melton | Male vocal solo, with pipe organ | lyricist | |
Victor | BS-76858 | 10-in. | 8/4/1933 | What we need is more perambulators | Al and Pete | Male vocal duet, with piano | songwriter | |
Victor | BS-77335 | 10-in. | 12/13/1933 | Where's Elmer? | Wendell Hall Orchestra | Jazz/dance band, with male vocal solo | lyricist | |
Victor | BS-015538 | 10-in. | 10/22/1937 | The pop corn man | Benny Goodman Orchestra | Jazz/dance band, with female vocal solo | songwriter | |
Victor | BS-027212 | 10-in. | 9/23/1938 | Pop corn man | Elisse Cooper ; Eddie De Lange Orchestra | Jazz/dance band, with female vocal solo and male vocal ensemble | songwriter | |
Victor | BS-035754 | 10-in. | 4/17/1939 | If I had my way | Kate Smith | Female vocal solo, with orchestra | lyricist | |
Victor | BS-036807 | 10-in. | 4/25/1939 | If I had my way | Smoothies | Mixed vocal trio, with jazz/dance band | lyricist | |
Columbia | 39014 | 10-in. | 9/12/1913 | On the Honeymoon Express | Collins and Harlan | Male vocal duet, with orchestra | lyricist | |
Columbia | 39150 | 10-in. | 12/17/1913 | The bells | Peerless Quartet | Male vocal quartet, with orchestra | lyricist | |
Columbia | 46361 | 10-in. | 1/21/1916 | It's a hundred to one you're in love | M. J. O'Connell | Male vocal solo, with orchestra | lyricist | |
Columbia | 46410 | 10-in. | 2/15/1916 | On the Hoko Moko Isle | Collins and Harlan | Male vocal duet, with orchestra | lyricist | |
Columbia | 46728 | 10-in. | 1/21/1916 | There's someone more lonesome than you | Jeff O'Hara | Male vocal solo, with orchestra | lyricist | |
Columbia | 46826 | 10-in. | 6/13/1916 | There's some-one more lonesome than you | James F. Harrison ; James Reed | Male vocal duet, with orchestra | lyricist | |
Columbia | 46906 | 10-in. | 7/12/1916 | When Uncle Sammy leads the band | Billy Burton ; Herbert Stuart | Male vocal duet, with orchestra | lyricist | |
Columbia | 47079 | 10-in. | 10/18/1916 | Oh! Southern city (Send us some beautiful girls) | George O'Connor | Male vocal solo, with orchestra | lyricist | |
Columbia | 47213 | 10-in. | 12/8/1916 | Just the kind of a girl you'd love to make your wife | Arthur Fields | Male vocal solo, with orchestra | lyricist | |
Columbia | 78740 | 10-in. | 10/15/1919 | There's some-one more lonesome than you | Charles Harrison ; James Reed | Male vocal duet, with orchestra | lyricist | |
Columbia | 79652 | 10-in. | 1/21/1921 | Over the hill | Samuel Ash | Male vocal solo, with orchestra | lyricist | |
Columbia | 80347 | 10-in. | 5/12/1922 | Cow bells | Nora Bayes | Female vocal solo, with orchestra | lyricist | |
Columbia | 147084 | 10-in. | 9/28/1928 | Just because it's you | Arthur Ross and his Westerners ; Arthur Seelig | Jazz/dance band, with male vocal solo | lyricist | |
Columbia | 147134 | 10-in. | 10/23/1928 | Watching the trains come in | Mack Allen | Male vocal solo, with fiddle (violin) and guitar | lyricist | |
Columbia | [W]147415 | 10-in. | 12/11/1928 | She waits and waits | "Hobo" Jack Turner | Male vocal solo, with guitar | lyricist | |
Columbia | 147708 | 10-in. | 12/17/1928 | A gay caballero | Mack Allen | Male vocal solo, with instrumental ensemble | songwriter | |
Columbia | W147727 | 10-in. | 12/26/1928 | A gay caballero | The Happiness Boys | Male vocal duet, with instrumental quartet | songwriter | |
Columbia | W149153 | 10-in. | 10/17/1929 | Sergeant Flagg and Sergeant Quirt | Buddy Morgan and his Veterans | Male vocal duet, with jazz/dance band | lyricist | |
Columbia | W149190 | 10-in. | 10/28/1929 | Sergeant Flagg and Sergeant Quirt | Sam Lanin Orchestra | Jazz/dance band, with male vocal duet | lyricist | |
Columbia | [W]149426 | 10-in. | 11/14/1929 | The return of the gay caballero | Mack Allen | Male vocal solo, with fiddle (violin), banjo, and guitar | lyricist | |
Columbia | [W]149604 | 10-in. | 12/18/1929 | There'll be one more fool in paradise | Vernon Dalhart | Male vocal solo, with clarinet, banjo, and guitar | lyricist | |
Columbia | [W]150020 | 10-in. | 2/26/1930 | And the wise old owl said hoo | Vernon Dalhart | Male vocal solo, with instrumental ensemble | lyricist | |
Columbia | [W]150144 | 10-in. | 3/28/1930 | For the first time in twenty-four years | Mack Allen | Male vocal solo, with instrumental quartet | lyricist | |
Columbia | W150149 | 10-in. | 3/31/1930 | For the first time in twenty-four years | Al Craver | Male vocal solo, with fiddle (violin), banjo, and guitar | lyricist | |
Columbia | [W]150426 | 10-in. | 5/15/1930 | Song of the old ding dong | Adelyne Hood | Female vocal solo, with fiddle (violin), guitar, and talk | lyricist, composer | |
Columbia | W150471 | 10-in. | 4/16/1930 | Poker Alice | Bob Ferguson ; Charlotte Miller | Female-male vocal duet, with instrumental ensemble and talk | lyricist | |
OKeh | 175 | 10-in. | ca. June 1918 | The little good for nothing's good for something after all | Henry Burr ; Albert Campbell | Male vocal duet, with orchestra | lyricist | |
OKeh | S-7742 | 10-in. | Feb. 1921 | Over the hill | Billy Jones | Male vocal solo, with orchestra | lyricist | |
OKeh | S-70796 | 10-in. | Aug. 1922 | Cow bells | Billy Jones | Male vocal solo, with orchestra | lyricist | |
OKeh | W403093 | 10-in. | 10/23/1929 | Sergeant Flagg and Sergeant Quirt | Arthur Fields ; Fred Hall | Male vocal duet, with orchestra | lyricist | |
OKeh | W403094 | 10-in. | 10/23/1929 | Sergeant Flagg and Sergeant Quirt (I'll tell the cock-eye world) | Arthur Fields ; Fred Hall ; Sugar Babies | Jazz/dance band, with male vocal duet | lyricist | |
Brunswick | [Br cat 5245-a] | 10-in. | approximately July 1918 | The little good for nothing's good for something after all | Henry Burr ; Albert Campbell | Male vocal duet, with orchestra | lyricist | |
Brunswick | E28432 | 10-in. | 9/28/1928 | Just because it’s you | Eddy Thomas | Male vocal solo, with orchestra | lyricist | |
Brunswick | E31461 | 10-in. | Nov. 1929 | Sergeant Flagg and Sergeant Quirt | Billy Murray ; Walter Scanlan | Male vocal duet | lyricist | |
Brunswick | XE31656 | 12-in. | Dec. 1929 | Brunswick brevities program U, pt. 3 | Billy Murray ; Walter Scanlan | Radio transcription disc : Male vocal duet | lyricist | |
Brunswick | E31443-E31444 | 10-in. | Nov. 1929 | If I had my way | Meyer Davis Hotel Astor Orchestra | Jazz/dance band, with male vocal solo; without vocal (take G) | songwriter | |
Brunswick | LAE375 | 10-in. | 12/12/1928 | If I had my way | Charles C. Locke | Male vocal solo, with violin, guitar, and piano | lyricist | |
Edison | 2803 | 10-in. | Feb. 1914 | The bells | Peerless Quartet | Male vocal quartet, with orchestra | lyricist | |
Edison | 4528 | 10-in. | 2/25/1916 | On the Hoko Moko Isle | Collins and Harlan | Male vocal duet, with orchestra | lyricist | |
Edison | 6149 | 10-in. | Mar. 1918 | The little good for nothing's good for something after all | Harmony Four | Male vocal quartet, with orchestra | lyricist | |
Edison | 7771 | 10-in. | 2/1/1921 | Over the hill | Elizabeth Spencer | Female vocal solo and vocal ensemble, with orchestra | lyricist | |
Edison | 18997 | 10-in. | 1/9/1929 | What good is a sandwich if it hasn't any bread? | Will Donaldson ; J. Donald Parker ; Variety Players | Male vocal duet, with jazz/dance band | composer | |
Edison | N-688 | 10-in. | 1/9/1929 | What good is a sandwich if it hasn't any bread? | Will Donaldson ; J. Donald Parker ; Variety Players | Male vocal duet, with jazz/dance band | composer | |
Edison | N-698 | 10-in. | 1/14/1929 | Where did you get that name? | 7 Blue Babies ; Jack Dalton | Male vocal solo, with jazz/dance band | songwriter | |
Edison | N-1127 | 10-in. | 9/12/1929 | Sergeant Flagg and Sergeant Quirt (I'll tell the cock-eyed world) | Billy Murray ; Walter Scanlan | Male vocal duet, with orchestra | lyricist |
Citation
Discography of American Historical Recordings, s.v. "Klein, Lou," accessed November 21, 2024, https://adpprod1.library.ucsb.edu/names/114030.
Klein, Lou. (2024). In Discography of American Historical Recordings. Retrieved November 21, 2024, from https://adpprod1.library.ucsb.edu/names/114030.
"Klein, Lou." Discography of American Historical Recordings. UC Santa Barbara Library, 2024. Web. 21 November 2024.
DAHR Persistent Identifier
External Sources
IMDb: Lou Klein
Linked Open Data Sources
LCNAR: Klein, Lou, 1888-1945 - http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no2008045268
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