Byron G. Harlan
Appearance
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Byron George Harlan (August 29, 1861 – September 11, 1936) was an American singer from Kansas, a comic minstrel singer and balladeer who often recorded with Arthur Collins. The two together were often billed as "Collins & Harlan".
Solo recordings
1899
- "Please, Mr. Conductor, Don't Put Me Off The Train" (remade 1903 on Edison Gold Moulded 7219) (w.m. J. Fred Helf)[1]
1901
1903
- "Please Mother, Buy Me A Baby" (w.m. Will D. Cobb & Gus Edwards)
- - on Victor & Edison
- "Always In The Way" (w.m. Charles K. Harris)
- - on Edison Records
- "The Vacant Chair" (w. Henry S. Washburne m. George Frederick Root)
- - on Edison
1904
- '"Sweetest Girl in Dixie"
- - on Leeds Talk-o-Phone
1905
- "My Gal Sal"
- "A Picnic For Two"
- "With the Robins I'll Return"
- -on Edison Records
- "Where Morning Glories Twine Around the Door" Oxford Disc Record #3282
1906
- "Wait 'Till the Sun Shines, Nellie"
- "Cheer Up Mary" - Edison Gold Moulded 9403
- "When The Sunset Turns The Ocean's Blue To Gold - Columbia & United Talking Machine A439
1907
- "And A Little Child Shall Lead Them" - Edison Gold Moulded 9472
- "I'm Tying The Leaves So They Won't Come Down" - Edison Gold Moulded 9606
1908
- "Are You Sincere?" - Edison Gold Moulded 9973
1912
- "The Ragtime Soldier Man" - Victor and Columbia Records
- "They Gotta Quit Kickin' My Dawg Aroun'" - Edison Standard Record 10559
1917
- "With His Hands In His Pockets (And His Pockets In His Pants)" - Edison Blue Amberol 3124
1919
- "Way Down East Where I Belong" - OKEH Record 1134-B
[2] 1921
- "Down Where I Belong" - Pathe 20660
With Arthur Collins
1902
- "They Were All Doing The Same" - Edison Gold Moulded 8255
1903 Meet Me Down At Luna Lena - Zon-O-Phone 194
1904
- "Under The Anheuser Bush - Columbia 32409
- "Down On The Brandywine" - Edison Gold Moulded 8712
1905
- "In My Merry Oldsmobile" - Columbia 85016 (6" length cylinder - most were 5" length)
- "Peter Piper" - 20th Century Talking Machine Record 85001
- "Negro Recollections" (with Vess L. Ossman on banjo) - Edison Gold Moulded 7665
1906
- "Afloat On A Five Dollar Note" - Edison Gold Moulded 9316
- "Traveling" - Edison Gold Moulded 9287
- "Camp Meeting Time" - Edison Gold Moulded 9415
- "Take A Car" - Victor 4372
1907
- "Come On And Kiss Yo' Baby" - Victor 16224-A
- "Bake Dat Chicken Pie" - Victor 17221-B
- "Arrah Wanna" - Edison Gold Moulded 9447
- "Ev'ry Little Bit Added To What You've Got Makes Just A Little Bit More" - Edison Gold Moulded 9611
1908
- "Cohan's Rag Babe - Columbia 33282
1909
- "Down At The Huskin' Bee"
- "Down Where the Big Bananas Grow" - Edison Amberol 308
- "Make A Noise Like A Hoop And Roll Away" - Edison Standard 10122
- "My Wife's Gone To The Country" - Columbia A724
1911
- "The Barn Dance"
- "Alexander's Ragtime Band"
1912
- "I'm Goin' Back to Dixie"
1914
- "The Aba Daba Honeymoon" - Edison Blue Amberol 2468
1915
- "Alabama Jubilee"
- "Kentucky Home"
1916
- "The Kid Is Clever"
1918
1919
- "On the Ozark Trail"
1922
- "Ham & Eggs"
with Aileen Stanley
1913
- "Tramp! Tramp! Tramp!" - Edison Amberol "Special H" and Edison Blue Amberol "Special H"
with Arthur Stanley
1909
- "Marching Through Georgia" - Victor 16416-A
with Frank C. Stanley
1902
- "All Aboard for Slumberville" - Edison Gold Moulded 8187
1904
- "Blue Bell" - Edison Gold Moulded 8655
1904
- "Dixie", or "I wish I was in Dixie" - Edison Gold Moulded 8784
1905
- "You're My Heart's Desire, I Love You, Nellie Dean" - Edison Gold Moulded 9013
with Joseph Belmont
1903
- "While the Birds are Singing to Me" - Edison Gold Moulded 9583
1904
- "Robin and the Wren" - Edison Gold Moulded 8662
1905
- "Beautiful Birds Sing On" - Edison Gold Moulded 9022
with Steve Porter
1913
- "Two Jolly Sailors" - Edison Blue Amberol 1759
References
- ^ "Please, Mr. Conductor / Byron G Harlan. Edison Gold Moulded Record: 7219 [1902?] | Cylinder Preservation and Digitization Project". Cylinders.library.ucsb.edu. 2005-11-16. Retrieved 2012-02-20.
- ^ Actual vinyl in my possession. J. R. Nebeker, Orem, Utah, USA; side B
External links
- Works by Byron G. Harlan at Project Gutenberg
- Works by or about Byron G. Harlan at the Internet Archive
- Byron Harlan cylinder recordings, from the Cylinder Audio Archive at the University of California, Santa Barbara Library.
- Discography of Byron G. Harlan on Victor Records from the Encyclopedic Discography of Victor Recordings (EDVR)