THE NIGHT BEFORE CHRISTMAS - QRS 8901 playerpianogal 2019-12-12 | Based on the poem by Clement Moore, the lyrics were adapted by Johnny Marks. John David Marks (November 10, 1909 – September 3, 1985) was an American songwriter. He specialized in Christmas songs and wrote many holiday standards, including "Rudolph, the Red-Nosed Reindeer" (a hit for Gene Autry and others), "Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree" (a hit for Brenda Lee), "A Holly Jolly Christmas" (recorded by the Quinto Sisters and later by Burl Ives), "Silver and Gold" (for Burl Ives),"The Night Before Christmas Song", "I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day" (introduced by Bing Crosby), and "Run Rudolph Run" (recorded by Chuck Berry)
WHAT ARE WE DOIN IN LOVE - QRS- 10-752 playerpianogal 2024-08-22 | "What Are We Doin' in Love" is a song written by Randy Goodrum and recorded by American country music artist Dottie West. Although not credited on the single release, the song also features American country and pop recording artist Kenny Rogers. It was released in March 1981 as the second single from the album Wild West. The song was West and Rogers' third and final number one on the country charts.
ROSE OF WASHINGTON SQUARE - IMPERIAL - 91052 playerpianogal 2024-08-09 | Lyric by Ballard Macdonald. Music by James F. Hanley. 1920 Ballard MacDonald (October 15, 1882 – November 17, 1935) was an American lyricist, who was one of the writers of Tin Pan Alley.Born in Portland, Oregon, he was a charter member of the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP). James Frederick Hanley (February 17, 1892 – February 8, 1942) was an American songwriter and author.
HE GIVES ME LOVE - QRS 10-229 playerpianogal 2024-08-07 | Written by Ramón Arcusa, Manuel de la Calva, Michael Julien - 1968Played by Tic RamsiRamsi P. Tick, the owner of Q-R-S Music Rolls from 1966 until 1989.In addition to heading Q-R-S, he originated the Q-R-S Great Performers Series in Buffalo, NewYork. The series brought such performers as Vladimir Horowitz, Andres Segovia, Beverly Sills,Marilyn Horne, Andre Watts, Eugene Istomin, Isaac Stern, and Leonard Rose to the city. He wasalso the manager of the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra from 1956 to 1964.Tick had loved player pianos from his boyhood days in Buffalo, and he later bought one forhimself. He learned that the player rolls were made by a company in The Bronx. "I kept my eye onit," he said, and in 1966 he asked 50 Buffalonians to lend him $1,000 each for the $50,000 purchaseprice. Tick then moved Q-R-S to Buffalo. The nostalgia craze hit soon afterward, and player pianorolls were in demand. "I got solvent in a hurry," he recalled. In 1985 QRS began making playerpianos, but piano rolls remained the company's mainstay. In 1989, following financial problems atLake Erie Boat Cruise Corp., of which Tick was the principal shareholder, Tick sold Q-R-S toRichard A. Dolan, who still heads the firm at the time of this writing.Tick's first name at birth was "Ismar." He later began spelling it backwards and became "Ramsi."He was born in Buffalo, the son of Jacob and Kate (Person) Tick, both now deceased. (His fatherwas appointed Justice of the New York State Court of Appeals, a lifetime appointment.)Tick received an undergraduate degree from the University of Buffalo, and in 1949 he received alaw degree from there, though he never practiced law.Mr. Tick died on October 31, 1989 in Erie County Medical Center in upstate New York; he was 75.
CLOISTER BELLS - PLAYER PIANO ROLL - 537 playerpianogal 2024-08-03 | Connorized Music Co. Reverie - E. M MeadI COULD USE INFORMATION ON THIS SONG!!! It does state E.M. Mead on the roll, but I also found an E.M Read on another YouTube channel with a music box recording of this song. I did a LOT of research, but came up with nothing. Thank you to anyone having information!! :-)
SOUTHERN NIGHTS - QRS 100492 playerpianogal 2024-07-31 | Leland Stanford Roberts (1884–1949), commonly known as Lee S. Roberts, was an American composer and pianist.He is best known for his composition 'Smiles' with lyricist J. Will Callahan, written in 1917, but was a prolific composer across many genres of music.He was also the vice-president of the QRS Music Roll Company, and recorded hundreds of piano rolls under his name and also the pseudonym Stanford Robar. He was particularly active in recording salon and ballad style music.He lived in San Francisco.11/12/1917 Southern nights
OLD PAL - QRS 2999 playerpianogal 2024-07-29 | Written by Van Alstyne and KahnEgbert Anson Van Alstyne (March 4, 1878 – July 9, 1951) was an American songwriter and pianist. Van Alstyne was the composer of a number of popular and ragtime tunes of the early 20th centuryGustav Gerson Kahn (November 6, 1886 – October 8, 1941) was an American lyricist who contributed a number of songs to the Great American Songbook
SILVER THREADS AMONG THE GOLD - VOCALSTYLE 1201 playerpianogal 2024-07-21 | Words by Eben E. Rexford. Music by H.P. Danks.Hamilton S. Gordon 1241 Broadway New YorkCopyright 1901 by H.P. Danks
DREAMS OF THE EVERYDAY HOUSEWIFE playerpianogal 2024-07-15 | QRS - 10-243"Dreams of the Everyday Housewife" is a song written by Chris Gantry and recorded by American country music artist Glen Campbell. It was released in July 1968 as the first single from his album Wichita Lineman. The song peaked at number 3 on the Billboard Hot Country Singles chart. It also reached number 1 on the RPM Country Tracks chart in Canada.Chris Gantry (born December 29, 1942) is an American country musician and songwriter known for his involvement in the outlaw country genre. Gantry is known for writing songs such as "Dreams of the Everyday Housewife."
BRAND NEW KEY - QRS - 10-464 playerpianogal 2024-07-11 | Melanie Anne Safka Schekeryk (February 3, 1947 – January 23, 2024), professionally known as Melanie or Melanie Safka, was an American singer-songwriter.Melanie is widely known for the 1971–72 global hit "Brand New Key"; her 1970 version of the Rolling Stones' "Ruby Tuesday"; her composition "What Have They Done to My Song Ma"; and her 1970 international breakthrough hit "Lay Down (Candles in the Rain)", which was inspired by her experience of performing at the 1969 Woodstock music festival.[3][4]Early lifeMelanie was born and raised in the Astoria neighborhood of Queens, New York City. Her father, Frederick M. Safka (1924–2009), was of Ukrainian ancestry,[5] and her mother, jazz singer Pauline "Polly" Altomare (1926–2003), was of Italian heritage.[6][7] Melanie made her first public singing appearance at age four on the radio show Live Like A Millionaire, performing the song "Gimme a Little Kiss".[8] She moved with her family to Long Branch, New Jersey, and attended Long Branch High School. Disturbed that she was rejected by her schoolmates as a "beatnik", she ran away to California. After her return to New Jersey, she transferred to Red Bank High School in Red Bank, New Jersey. She graduated in 1966, although she was prevented from attending her graduation ceremony because of an overdue library book. She was inducted into the school's hall of fame in 2014.[9]CareerMelanie on the cover of Cash Box, July 11, 1970In the 1960s, Melanie started performing at The Inkwell, a coffee house in the West End section of Long Branch. After high school, her parents insisted that she attend college, so she studied acting at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in New York.[10] She began singing in the folk clubs of Greenwich Village, such as The Bitter End, and signed her first recording contract with Columbia Records.[11] Melanie released two singles on the label in the U.S. She subsequently signed with Buddah Records and found her first chart success in Europe in 1969 with "Bobo's Party", which reached No. 1 in France. Her popularity in Europe resulted in performances on European television programs such as Beat-Club in West Germany. Her debut album received positive reviews from Billboard, which described her voice as "wise beyond her years" and said her "non-conformist approach to the selections on this LP make her a new talent to be reckoned with".Later in 1969, Melanie had a hit in the Netherlands with "Beautiful People". She was one of only three solo female artists who performed at the Woodstock festival in 1969, and her first hit song, "Lay Down (Candles in the Rain)", was inspired by the Woodstock audience lighting candles during her set as well as being influenced by her following of Indian spiritual master Meher Baba.[16] The record became a hit in Europe, Australia, Canada, and the United States in 1970. The B-side of the single featured Melanie's spoken-word track, "Candles in the Rain". Her first top 10 hit in America was e powered by Mister Softee trucks. Not long after this performance, she played at the Strawberry Fields Festival held from August 7 to 9, 1970, at Mosport Park in Ontario. She also performed at the Isle of Wight Festival, held between August 26 and 30, 1970, at Afton Down. At the festival, she was introduced by Keith Moon and received four standing ovations. She appeared again at the Isle of Wight Festival in 2010. In June 1971, she was the artist who sang to herald in the summer solstice at Glastonbury Fayre (later the Glastonbury Festival) in England. She performed again at Glastonbury in 2011, the 40th anniversary of the original festival.Billboard advertisement, October 23, 1971Melanie left Buddah Records when they insisted that she produce albums on demand. In 1971, she formed her own label, Neighborhood Records, with Peter Schekeryk, who was also her producer and husband. She had her biggest American hit on the Neighborhood label, the novelty-sounding 1972 No. 1 hit "Brand New Key" (often referred to as "The Roller Skate Song"). "Brand New Key" sold over three million copies worldwide and was featured in the 1997 movie Boogie Nights.When first released, "Brand New Key" was banned by some radio stations because some inferred sexual innuendo in the lyrics. Melanie acknowledged the possibility of reading an unintended sexual innuendo in the song, stating: I wrote ['Brand New Key'] in about fifteen minutes one night. I thought it was cute; a kind of old thirties tune. I guess a key and a lock have always been Freudian symbols, and pretty obvious ones at that. There was no deep serious expression behind the song, but people read things into it. They made up incredible stories as to what the lyrics said and what the song meant. In some places, it was even banned from the radio ... My idea about songs is that once you write them, you have very little say in their life afterward ... People will take it any way they want to take it.
BADINAGE - 173 playerpianogal 2024-07-10 | Born in Dublin and raised in Stuttgart, Victor Herbert (1859-1924) was a highly successful composer of operettas in America between 1890 and the beginning of World War I. Though he composed in a great many other genres of music, he was best known for light stage works such as Babes in Toyland and Naughty Marietta. After the war, his European-influenced (and squarely 19th-century) works fell out of fashion, but the Tin Pan Alley composers who supplanted him still looked to him as a role model, especially for his work as a co-founder of ASCAP and crusader for composer’s legal and financial rights. This was written by Victor Herbert.
FEVER playerpianogal 2024-06-30 | QRS -9611 (This title is still available new from QRS.)"Fever" is a song written by Eddie Cooley and Otis Blackwell, who used the pseudonym "John Davenport". It was originally recorded by American R&B singer Little Willie John for his debut album, Fever (1956), and released as a single in April of the same year. The song topped the Billboard R&B Best Sellers in the US and peaked at number 24 on the Billboard pop chart. It was received positively by music critics and included on several lists of the best songs when it was released.
SUN BIRD - K. Mills playerpianogal 2024-06-29 | "Sun Bird" is an intermezzo composed by Kerry Mills in 1908. Thurland Chattaway wrote lyrics that appear in some later publications. The chorus is a love song from an Indian warrior to Sun Bird, an Indian maiden.Frederick Allen "Kerry" Mills(February 1, 1869 to December 5, 1948) Oh, pretty Sun Bird,— just whisper one word To guide me on my way day by day 'neath the prairie sky And when I'm dreaming— 'mid camp fires gleaming My love star shines for you, all for you, my sun Bird (repeat) Kerry Mills Frederick Allen Mills enjoyed a career with a true duality, and great success in both facets of his years as a composer (Kerry Mills) and a publisher (F.A. Mills). Somehow he managed to keep these facets separate as he did his identities, yet made it all work together. Not much has been written on Mills beyond his role in popularizing cakewalks and his three biggest hits.
PAUL REVERES RIDE - QRS - D-130 playerpianogal 2024-06-27 | QRS - D -130 STORY ROLLE.T. PAULL -COMPOSERPaull, E. T., 1858-1924 (Composer) Edward Taylor Paull (February 16, 1858 – November 25, 1924) was a minor American composer, arranger, and sheet music publisher.Personal lifeHe was born in Gerrardstown, in what is now West Virginia, and died in Brooklyn, NY.Musical careerHe had some success with a few titles which enabled him to set up his own self-publishing company. His music was intended for the piano sheet music trade.His first publication was for the Richmond Music Company in Richmond, VA where he was general manager. The first publication was The Chariot Race or Ben Hur March with a full-color cover. Paull's success with Ben Hur, prompted him to use it in his marketing as he moved into the music teaching market and the phonograph manufacturing business.He began publishing in 1894, specializing in marches. He is known for his 1905 march entitled, Paul Revere's Ride which was dedicated to the Daughters of the American Revolution.In order to sell music, the music was marketed with uniquely colorful front cover illustrations to catch the eye of buyers. He was the first music publisher to use five-color lithography for his sheet music. For this reason alone, music published by his firm has become highly collectible in the modern era and has latterly aroused interest in the composer.[4]To further boost sales, he marketed his music as "descriptives" and ascribed certain sections of the music to allude to certain depictions of events on the cover illustration. This type of publication alludes to its being comparable to program music whilst never achieving the requisite complexity. The marketing of the pieces as "descriptives" (often a latter enhanced recycling of earlier published material) enabled the same music to be sold a second time around to the wide market of beginner-level pianists who had been accustomed to fare of this kind since Pridham's "Battle March of Delhi" in the mid-19th century. On this musical level, his true contemporaries were the British writers Ezra Read and Theo Bonheur of the same period.
BEATLES HITS VOL. 3 playerpianogal 2024-06-20 | PLAYED BY DICK WATSON and BRIAN A. WILLIAMSXP - 287 - CHello, Goodbye - Paul McCartneyYellow Submarine - " Yellow Submarine " is a song by the English rock band the Beatles from their 1966 album Revolver. It was also issued on a double A-side single, paired with " Eleanor Rigby ". Written as a children's song primarily by Paul McCartney with contributions from John Lennon, it was drummer Ringo Starr 's vocal spot on the album.Honey Pie - "Honey Pie" is a song by the English rock band the Beatles, from their 1968 double album The Beatles (also known as the "White Album"). The song was written entirely by Paul McCartney and credited to the Lennon–McCartney partnership.
Little Green Apples - QRS - 209 playerpianogal 2024-06-06 | "Little Green Apples" is a song written by Bobby Russell that became a hit for three different artists, with their three separate releases, in 1968.Russell also penned “The Night the Lights Went Out in Georgia,” recorded by Vicki Lawrence in 1973 and by Reba McEntire in 1992, and contributed to various movie and television scores. He died in November 1992 after battling coronary artery disease.Robert L. "Bobby" Russell was an American singer and songwriter. Between 1966 and 1973, he had five singles on the Hot Country Songs charts, including the crossover pop hit "Saturday Morning Confusion". Russell was married to singer and actress Vicki Lawrence from 1972 to 1974. Born: April 19, 1940, Nashville, TNDied: November 19, 1992 (age 52 years), Nicholasville, KYSpouse: Vicki Lawrence (m. 1972–1974)
BEATLES MEMORIES - CEL - 150 playerpianogal 2024-05-31 | This is a John Lennon Memorial edition played by Marion McPartland.Margaret Marian McPartland OBE (née Turner; 20 March 1918 – 20 August 2013), was an English–American jazz pianist, composer, and writer. She was the host of Marian McPartland's Piano Jazz on National Public Radio from 1978 to 2011.After her marriage to trumpeter Jimmy McPartland in February 1945, she resided in the United States when not travelling throughout the world to perform. In 1969, she founded Halcyon Records, a recording company that issued albums for 10 years. In 2000, she was named a National Endowment for the Arts Jazz Master. In 2004, she was given a Grammy Award for lifetime achievement. In 2007, she was inducted into the National Radio Hall of Fame. Although known mostly for jazz, she composed other types of music as well, performing her own symphonic work A Portrait of Rachel Carson with the University of South Carolina Symphony Orchestra in 2007. In 2010, she was named a member of the Order of the British Empire.
IN THE EVENING BY THE MOONLIGHT - Supertone - 109 playerpianogal 2024-05-22 | This song was written by James A. Bland in 1879.James A. Bland was an entertainer and a prolific composer who wrote sentimental songs about the American South for use in minstrel shows. Bland was born in Flushing, New York on October 22, 1854 to educated, free parents. He briefly studied at Howard University in Washington, D.C., but inspired by the spirituals and folk songs he heard performed by ex-slaves working on the Howard campus, he soon abandoned academics in favor of a career in music. A self-taught banjo player, Bland initially sought work at clubs and hotels and then turned his attention to composition and minstrel entertainment.In the late 1870s, Bland began his professional career as a member of the first successful all-black minstrel company, the Georgia Minstrels. Following the style of traditional all-white minstrel companies, such as the Virginia Minstrels, Bland’s company blackened their faces, painted on red lips, and used stereotypical exaggerated movements and dances in their shows.Bland used the minstrel show as a platform for introducing his composed work. Inspired by the homesick sentiments expressed by his Howard classmate and future wife, Mamie Friend, he wrote a nostalgic ballad called “Carry Me Back to Old Virginny.” Published in 1878, it would become his best known song and marked his first major success as a composer. Almost thirty years after his death, Virginia adopted it as its official state song. (In 1997 Virginia retired the song and designated it “state song emeritus” due to controversy over its racial nature.) Bland wrote many other songs during his minstrel career, including “In the Morning in the Bright Light” (1879), “In the Evening by the Moonlight” (1879), “Oh! Dem Golden Slippers” (1879), “Hand Me Down My Walking Cane” (1880), and “De Golden Wedding” (1880).Under the new leadership of Jack Haverly, the Georgia Minstrels grew into an established company, renamed the Minstrel Carnival of Genuine Colored Minstrels. They toured the Pacific Coast, and eventually performed in England in 1881. When Haverly’s show returned to the United States late in 1881, Bland chose to remain in England and lived in London for twenty years. While overseas, he played at command performances for Queen Victoria and the Prince of Wales in addition to performing in Scotland and Germany.Bland returned to Washington, D.C. in 1901 but had no money and no friends. By the turn of the century, vaudeville had replaced minstrelsy as the leading genre in entertainment, and with the decline of the minstrel show, Bland lost his livelihood. He managed to find work at a law office and earned $250 for his last composition, a musical called The Sporting Girl. The exact number of songs Bland composed over his lifetime is unclear, with estimates falling anywhere between fifty-three and seven hundred different pieces of music.James A. Bland died alone in Philadelphia on May 5, 1911 from tuberculosis. His death received little attention, and he was buried in an unmarked grave. In 1939, the American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers (ASCAP) located his burial spot and erected a headstone there to commemorate his life.
THE ONE THAT YOU LOVE - QRS 10-726 playerpianogal 2024-05-20 | This was written by Graham Russell. The song reached No. 1 in the United States, topping the Billboard Hot 100 chart on 25 July 1981 and remaining there for one week; it is the duo's only No. 1 hit. The song's lead vocals are sung by Russell Hitchcock. Graham Russell provides backing vocals on this song. Graham Cyril Russell (born 11 June 1950) is a British musician, singer-songwriter, producer and guitarist of the soft rock duo Air Supply.In 1975, with Russell Hitchcock, he formed Air Supply in Australia. The duo have been singing and performing romantic songs and ballads, such as "Lost in Love", "All Out of Love", "Every Woman in the World", "The One That You Love", "Even the Nights Are Better", "Goodbye" and "Making Love Out of Nothing at All", for more than 45 years.
THE KINGS HORSES (And the Kings Men) playerpianogal 2024-05-17 | MELOTO ROLL - 31746AThe song The King's Horses was written by Noel Gay and Harry Graham and was first recorded and released by Jack Hylton and His Orchestra in 1930.Noel Gay (15 July 1898 – 4 March 1954)[1] was born Reginald Moxon Armitage. He also used the name Stanley Hill professionally.He was a successful British composer of popular music of the 1930s and 1940s whose output comprised 45 songs as well as the music for 28 films and 26 London shows. Sheridan Morley has commented that he was "the closest Britain ever came to a local Irving Berlin". He is best known for the musical, Me and My Girl. Jocelyn Henry Clive 'Harry' Graham (23 December 1874 – 30 October 1936) was an English writer. He was a successful journalist and later, after distinguished military service, a leading lyricist for operettas and musical comedies, but he is now best remembered as a writer of humorous verse in a style of grotesquerie and black humour.
BEATLES HITS - VOLUME 4 - QRS - XP-353-C playerpianogal 2024-05-15 | "The Fool on the Hill" is a song by the English rock band the Beatles from their 1967 EP and album Magical Mystery Tour. It was written and sung by Paul McCartney and credited to the Lennon–McCartney partnership. The lyrics describe the titular "fool", a solitary figure who is not understood by others, but is actually wise. McCartney said the idea for the song was inspired by the Dutch design collective the Fool, who derived their name from the tarot card of the same name, and possibly by Maharishi Mahesh Yogi. "Ticket to Ride" is a song by the English rock band the Beatles, written primarily by John Lennon and credited to Lennon–McCartney. Issued as a single in April 1965, it became the Beatles' seventh consecutive number 1 hit in the United Kingdom and their third consecutive number 1 hit (and eighth in total) in the United States, and similarly topped national charts in Canada, Australia and Ireland."All You Need Is Love" is a song by the English rock band the Beatles that was released as a non-album single in July 1967. It was written by John Lennon and credited to the Lennon–McCartney partnership. The song was Britain's contribution to Our World, the first live global television link, for which the band were filmed performing it at EMI Studios in London on 25 June. The programme was broadcast via satellite and seen by an audience of over 400 million in 25 countries. Lennon's lyrics were deliberately simplistic, to allow for the show's international audience, and captured the utopian ideals associated with the Summer of Love.
I JUST WANT TO BE YOUR EVERYTHING - QRS - 10-601 playerpianogal 2024-05-12 | The song I Just Want to Be Your Everything was written by Barry Gibb and was first released by Andy Gibb in 1977.
THE OTHER MANS GRASS IS ALWAYS GREENER - QRS-10-196 - PLAYER PIANO ROLL playerpianogal 2024-05-05 | "The Other Man's Grass Is Always Greener" is a song written by Tony Hatch and Jackie Trent which was a 1967-68 hit for Petula Clark. Anthony Peter Hatch OBE (born 30 June 1939) is an English composer for musical theatre and television. He is also a songwriter, pianist, arranger and producer. When Trent and Hatch married in August 1967, Hatch already had two daughters from his first marriage. The couple went on to have a son and daughter together. They separated in 1995 and divorced in 2002. Hatch married Maggie Clough in May 2005, living with her in Spain.Trent married Colin Gregory in November 2005. She died in the hospital on 21 March 2015, aged 74, in Menorca, Spain, after a long illness.NOTE!! IT HAS COME TO MY ATTENTION THAT I PLACED "RIANO"...INSTEAD OF PIANO UNDER THE TITLE! SORRY FOR THE ERROR. :-(
TWAS ONLY AN IRISHMANS DREAM - UNIVERSAL 303165 playerpianogal 2024-04-24 | This was written by Cormack. I did find a number of songs written by him, but nothing at all about his personal life or other songs he may have written. Rennie Cormack You can help me by adding dates of birth and death, nationality, biography links. J. Rennie Cormack (? - ?) J. Rennie Cormack You can help by adding dates of birth and death, nationality, biography links. J. Rennie Cormack (? - ?) J. Rennie Cormack. (fl. 1906-1922).nie Cormack. (fl. 1906-1922). He most definitely was Irish, but I do not have a biography. I found the recording below while surfing the Net. Here you can hear the singing and words as words were not put on the piano roll. library-archives.canada.ca/eng/collection/research-tools-guides/arts-culture/Pages/item.aspx?idNumber=1007631744
SAGAMORE MARCH - QRS 33385 playerpianogal 2024-04-15 | QRS - 33385Sagamore March was written by Edwin Franko Goldman.Edwin Franko Goldman (January 1, 1878 – February 21, 1956) was an American composer and conductor. One of the most significant American band composers of the early 20th century, Goldman composed over 150 works, but is best known for his marches. He founded the renowned Goldman Band of New York City and the American Bandmasters Association. Goldman's works are characterized by their pleasant and catchy tunes, as well as their fine trios and solos. He also encouraged audiences to whistle/hum along to his marches. He wrote singing and whistling into the score of "On the Mall" (which vies with "Chimes of Liberty" as his two most-enduring marches).
ALL MUDDLED UP - Player Piano Roll playerpianogal 2024-04-11 | COLUMBIA - 508 - By Percy WenrichPercy Wenrich (January 23, 1880 – March 17, 1952) was an American composer of ragtime and popular music. He is best known for writing the songs "Put on Your Old Grey Bonnet" and "When You Wore a Tulip and I Wore a Big Red Rose", along with the rag "The Smiler". For more than 15 years, Wenrich toured with his wife, vaudeville performer, Dolly Connolly; for whom he wrote several hit songs, including "Red Rose Rag", "Alamo Rag" and "Moonlight Bay".He was known throughout his lifetime as "The Joplin Kid".
DONT GIVE UP ON US - QRS 10-587 playerpianogal 2024-04-03 | QRS 10-587 "Don't Give Up on Us" is a hit song recorded by American-British singer David Soul, and written by Tony Macaulay. "Don't Give Up on Us".Tony Macaulay is an English author, composer for musical theatre, and songwriter. He has won the British Academy of Songwriters, Composers and Authors Award twice as 'Songwriter of the Year'. He is a nine time Ivor Novello Awards winning songwriter. Born: 1944 (age 79 years), Fulham, London, United Kingdom
SUGAR MOON - (Otto Higel Co. Canada) - 05014 playerpianogal 2024-03-27 | Otto Higel Co. - 05014Percy Wenrich (January 23, 1880 – March 17, 1952) was an American composer of ragtime and popular music. He is best known for writing the songs "Put on Your Old Grey Bonnet" and "When You Wore a Tulip and I Wore a Big Red Rose", along with the rag "The Smiler". For more than 15 years, Wenrich toured with his wife, vaudeville performer, Dolly Connolly; for whom he wrote several hit songs, including "Red Rose Rag", "Alamo Rag" and "Moonlight Bay". He was known throughout his lifetime as "The Joplin Kid". by P Wenrich · 1911 — Maybe You're Not the Only OneBarn Dance Wenrich, Percy and Henrich, "Happy Hours : Barn Dance" (1908)Sugar Moon - By Percy Wenrich and Stanley MurphyI was a bit confused by the song listings on the box and roll as it sounded like ONE song. If anyone out there has more information, please add it to the comments section. Thank you.
KISS YOU ALL OVER - QRS-10-634 playerpianogal 2024-03-26 | "Kiss You All Over" is a 1978 song performed by American group Exile, written by Mike Chapman and Nicky Chinn. It was included on the band's third album, Mixed Emotions (1978), and featured lead vocalist Jimmy Stokley and guitarist J.P. Pennington on vocals. On the American Top 40 broadcast of May 26, 1979, Casey Kasem reported that Chapman stated his source of inspiration for "Kiss You All Over" was "It's Ecstasy When You Lay Down Next to Me" by Barry White. The song was a number one single in the United States, but proved to be Exile's only big hit in the pop market (they would later have great success on the country music charts).
RAGGING THE CHOPSTICKS - QRS 843 playerpianogal 2024-03-24 | Archie Gottler (May 14, 1896 – June 24, 1959) was an American composer, screenwriter, actor, and film director. Gottler is known for being the director of Woman Haters (1934), the first of a series of 190 Three Stooges comedy short films for Columbia Pictures. I could not find information about Abe Frank.
JUST LIKE STARTING OVER - QRS 10-705 playerpianogal 2024-03-22 | "(Just Like) Starting Over" is a song written and performed by John Lennon from the 1980 album, Double Fantasy.
WHEN YOURE IN LOVE WITH A BEAUTIFUL WOMAN playerpianogal 2024-03-18 | QRS 10-663 - Played by Rudy MartinWritten by Even Stevens, who followed producer Ron Haffkine into the studio bathroom to pitch him the song, "When You're in Love with a Beautiful Woman" which first appeared on the band's 1978 album Pleasure and Pain. Riding the disco wave in 1979 it belatedly became an international hit, reaching number six on the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart in the USA and doing even better in the UK where it spent three weeks at number one in the UK Singles Chart in November 1979. The song was subsequently added to the band's 1979 album Sometimes You Win.
WHERE HAVE ALL THE FLOWERS GONE? playerpianogal 2024-03-10 | QRS - 10-307Peter Seeger (May 3, 1919 – January 27, 2014) was an American folk singer and social activist. A fixture on nationwide radio in the 1940s, Seeger also had a string of hit records during the early 1950s as a member of The Weavers, notably their recording of Lead Belly's "Goodnight, Irene," which topped the charts for 13 weeks in 1950. Members of the Weavers were blacklisted during the McCarthy Era. In the 1960s, Seeger re-emerged on the public scene as a prominent singer of protest music in support of international disarmament, civil rights, counterculture, workers' rights, and environmental causes.A prolific songwriter, his best-known songs include "Where Have All the Flowers Gone?" (with additional lyrics by Joe Hickerson), "If I Had a Hammer" and many more. IF ONLY...THE WORLD HAD LEARNED SOMETHING FROM THIS SONG!
DEAR OLD DADDY - LONG - LEGS - QRS - 875 playerpianogal 2024-03-10 | Words by Neville Fleeson and Music by Albert Von Tilzer - 1919Played by Max Kortlander and Zez Confrey
WHERE THE BAMBOO BABIES GROW - US 40905 playerpianogal 2024-03-04 | I do not have the box for this great old roll, but it was written in 1922. Wohlman, Sol (Illustrator) Brown, Lew (Lyricist) Donaldson, Walter, 1893-1947 (Composer)
BARREL HOUSE MAN BLUES playerpianogal 2024-02-26 | HOLLYWOOD VINTAGE SERIES - 3102Written by Cora Austin (Calhoun)Cora "Lovie" Austin (September 19, 1887 – July 8, 1972) was an American Chicago bandleader, session musician, composer, singer, and arranger during the 1920s classic blues era. She and Lil Hardin Armstrong are often ranked as two of the best female jazz blues piano players of the period. 1924Real name Cora CalhounBorn September 13, 1887Died July 8, 1972
Rudolph Valentino - Piano Roll playerpianogal 2024-02-23 | INTERNATIONAL WORD ROLL - 93447Rodolfo Pietro Filiberto Raffaello Guglielmi di Valentina d'Antonguella (May 6, 1895 – August 23, 1926), known professionally as Rudolph Valentino and nicknamed The Latin Lover, was an Italian actor based in the United States who starred in several well-known silent films including The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, The Sheik, Blood and Sand, The Eagle, and The Son of the Sheik.Valentino was a sex symbol of the 1920s, known in Hollywood as the "Latin Lover" (a title invented for him by Hollywood moguls), the "Great Lover", or simply Valentino. His early death at the age of 31 caused mass hysteria among his fans, further cementing his place in early cinematic history as a cultural film icon. Much more information can be found on him on the Internet....far too much to include here.
JUST THE TWO OF US - QRS - 10-718 playerpianogal 2024-02-07 | "Just the Two of Us" was written in 1980 by Bill Withers, Ralph MacDonald and William Salter. Originally an instrumental track written by MacDonald and Salter, MacDonald contacted Withers and he wrote the lyrics.
OH! GEE, OH! GOSH, OH! GOLLY IM IN LOVE playerpianogal 2024-01-15 | SUPERTONE - 5348Oh! Gee, Oh! Gosh, Oh! Golly I'm In LoveAuthors: Ernest Breuer, Olson, JohnsonErnest Breuer was an American songwriter. Born in Augsberg, Germany, 26 Dec.1886 — died: 1981.Came to U.S. as a youth. Founder member of ASCAP 1914.
THE ROTARY MARCH - PLAY-RITE 356-A playerpianogal 2024-01-08 | "The ROTARY MARCH was composed in 1916 by Joseph M. Hahn, a member of the Rotary Club of Chicago, and dedicated to the International Organization of Rotary Clubs, name changed in 1922 as ROTARY INTERNATIONAL."This march appears to be rather obscure, and I have been researching Hahn and just not finding any results. If anyone knows more about Hahn, please add it to the comments section. Thank you.
THE LOCO-MOTION - QRS 10-961 playerpianogal 2024-01-03 | "The Loco-Motion" (or "Locomotion") is a 1962 pop song written by American songwriters Gerry Goffin and Carole King. "The Loco-Motion" was originally written for R&B singer Dee Dee Sharp, but Sharp turned the song down.Gerald Goffin was an American lyricist. Born: February 11, 1939, Brooklyn, New York, NYDied: June 19, 2014, Los Angeles, CA Collaborating initially with his first wife, Carole King, he co-wrote many international pop hits of the early and mid-1960s, including the US No.1 hits "Will You Love Me Tomorrow", "Take Good Care of My Baby", "The Loco-Motion", and "Go Away Little Girl". King attended Queens College, where she met Gerry Goffin, who was to become her songwriting partner. When she was 17, they married in a Jewish ceremony on Long Island in August 1959 after King became pregnant with her first daughter, Louise.arole King Klein(born Carol Joan Klein; February 9, 1942) is an American singer-songwriter and musician who has been active since 1958. The most successful female songwriter of the latter half of the 20th century in the US, she wrote or co-wrote 118 pop hits on the Billboard Hot 100.She also wrote 61 hits that charted in the UK, making her the most successful female songwriter on the UK singles charts between 1962 and 2005.King's major success began in the 1960s when she and her first husband, Gerry Goffin, wrote more than two dozen chart hits, many of which have become standards, for numerous artists. She has continued writing for other artists since then. King's success as a performer in her own right did not come until the 1970s, when she sang her own songs, accompanying herself on the piano, in a series of albums and concerts. After experiencing commercial disappointment with her debut album Writer, King scored her breakthrough with the album Tapestry, which topped the U.S. album chart for 15 weeks in 1971 and remained on the charts for more than six years.King has made 25 solo albums, the most successful being Tapestry, which held the record for most weeks at No. 1 by a female artist for more than 20 years. Her record sales were estimated at more than 75 million copies worldwide.[8][9] She has won four Grammy Awards and was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame. She has been inducted twice into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, as a performer and songwriter.[10] She is the recipient of the 2013 Library of Congress Gershwin Prize for Popular Song, the first woman to be so honored. She is also a 2015 Kennedy Center Honoree. King is not presently married, although she has been married four times, to Goffin, Charles Larkey, Rick Evers and Rick Sorenson. Goffin was her college boyfriend, meeting at Queens College when she was just 16 (she had skipped a grade in school)."The Loco-Motion" (or "Locomotion") is a 1962 pop song written by American songwriters Gerry Goffin and Carole King. "The Loco-Motion" was originally written for R&B singer Dee Dee Sharp, but Sharp turned the song down.Gerald Goffin was an American lyricist. Born: February 11, 1939, Brooklyn, New York, NYDied: June 19, 2014, Los Angeles, CA Collaborating initially with his first wife, Carole King, he co-wrote many international pop hits of the early and mid-1960s, including the US No.1 hits "Will You Love Me Tomorrow", "Take Good Care of My Baby", "The Loco-Motion", and "Go Away Little Girl". King attended Queens College, where she met Gerry Goffin, who was to become her songwriting partner. When she was 17, they married in a Jewish ceremony on Long Island in August 1959 after King became pregnant with her first daughter, Louise.Carole King Klein(born Carol Joan Klein; February 9, 1942) is an American singer-songwriter and musician who has been active since 1958. The most successful female songwriter of the latter half of the 20th century in the US, she wrote or co-wrote 118 pop hits on the Billboard Hot 100.She also wrote 61 hits that charted in the UK, making her the most successful female songwriter on the UK singles charts between 1962 and 2005.King's major success began in the 1960s when she and her first husband, Gerry Goffin, wrote more than two dozen chart hits, many of which have become standards, for numerous artists. She has continued writing for other artists since then. King's success as a performer in her own right did not come until the 1970s, when she sang her own songs, accompanying herself on the piano, in a series of albums and concerts. After experiencing commercial disappointment with her debut album Writer, King scored her breakthrough with the album Tapestry, which topped the U.S. album chart for 15 weeks in 1971 and remained on the charts for more than six years.
DUSKY STEVEDORE playerpianogal 2023-12-30 | IDEAL - 02605Dusky Stevedore written by J. C. Johnson, Andy Razaf Written in 1928Jay Cee Johnson(September 14, 1896 – February 27, 1981), usually known as J. C. Johnson and in some sources, mistakenly, as James C. Johnson (not to be confused with his near-contemporary James P. Johnson), was an American pianist and songwriter, best known for his collaborations with Fats Waller and Bessie Smith. Andy Razaf (born Andriamanantena Paul Razafinkarefo; December 16, 1895 – February 3, 1973) was an American poet, composer, and lyricist of such well-known songs as "Ain't Misbehavin'" and "Honeysuckle Rose".
YELLOW JONQUILS - QRS - R3391 playerpianogal 2023-12-28 | Written by Paul F. Johanning ( I could not find his birth and death date.) Nor could I find the other pieces in his collection. )Paul F. Johanning, whose Flower Pieces forthe pianoforte have deservedly won a nationalpopularity, has just add-ed another of thesedainty compositions tohis collection, entitled"Forget-Me-Not." I t iswritten in Mr. Johan-ning's best style, and isa captivating compositioncharmingly scored. Itis published by the White-Smith Music Publish-ing Co., Boston, and is destined to have a largesale. Mr. Johanning, by the way, is well knownin the music trade, having been for many yearsconnected with the warerooms of Paul G. Mehlin& Sons, 27 Union Square, New York.I found a bit of information on the Music Trade ReviewIssue: 1905 Vol. 41 N. 22.It's just sad that so many times I cannot find a great deal of information on the composer. "Google" often is NOT much help at all.
JINGLE BELLS - US 40961 playerpianogal 2023-12-21 | "Jingle Bells" is one of the best-known and most commonly sung songs in the world. It was written in 1850 by James Lord Pierpont at Simpson Tavern in Medford, Massachusetts. It was published under the title "The One Horse Open Sleigh" in September 1857. It was played by many artists, but I do not know who arranged this version with the complete lyrics. It is U S Word Roll 40961.
CHRISTMAS ISLAND - PLAYER PIANO MUSIC playerpianogal 2023-12-18 | Christmas Island - QRS - 8328Written by Lyle MoraineCouncil Bluffs soldier Lyle Moraine used the chaplain's organ to write the song “Christmas Island” when on board a ship in the Pacific during World War II.Lyle Moraine(1914-1988)
WHAT KIND OF FOOL AM I playerpianogal 2023-12-15 | QRS - 9886What Kind of Fool Am I?" is a popular song written by Leslie Bricusse and Anthony Newley and published in 1962. It was introduced by Anthony Newley in the musical "Stop the World – I Want to Get Off". It comes at the end of Act Two to close the show. Bricusse and Newley received the 1961 Ivor Novello award for Best Song Musically and Lyrically. At the 1963 Grammy Awards, it won the award for Song of the Year and was the first by Britons to do so.
31st. STREET BLUES playerpianogal 2023-12-12 | Supertone Player Word Roll - 5423Composer: Harry GeiseMain talent: Al Bernard ; Frank Kamplain "Thirty First Street Blues" was written by Wendell Hall (1896-1969) and Harry ("Happy Harry") Geise and was first recorded in 1924 BornSeptember 7, 1896 · Chicago, Illinois, USADiedJune 22, 1953 · Los Angeles, California, USA (heart attack)Birth nameHarry Earl GeiseNickname
POLSKIE WESELE - QRS -WF - 9224 playerpianogal 2023-11-30 | Lucjan Rydel, also known as Lucjan Antoni Feliks Rydel (17 May 1870 in Kraków – 8 April 1918 in Bronowice Małe), was a Polish playwright and poet from the Young Poland movement. Rydel was the son of Lucjan Rydel, a surgeon, ophthalmologist, professor and Rector of Jagiellonian University in Kraków, and of Helena Kremer.In 1904, Rydel wrote a nativity play, Polish Bethlehem (Betlejem polskie), and staged its production in two suburbs of Kraków, Tonie and Bronowice, with local villagers as actors. It was an expression of his profound respect for rural Poland as well as the result of his flair for theatrical experimentation. Rydel left the third and the final act of his play open. In the course of history, new characters, including contemporary Polish politicians and celebrities, were added to it by various producers to make the play appeal to new audiences.Szopka (Christmas Crib)An open end play like Betlejem polskie is a tradition originating with Kraków's only Szopka (pronounced shopka, "The Nativity Scene", or "The Christmas Crib", commonly translated as "The Christmas Creche") to which new characters are added every year.Rydel became the director of the renowned Juliusz Słowacki Theatre in Kraków for one season, 1915-1916.His marriage to Jadwiga Mikołajczykówna, a peasant daughter from Bronowice, took place at the Rydlówka Manor, on Tetmajera Street. The event inspired Rydel's pen pal and friend Stanisław Wyspiański to write what became known as the defining Polish independence drama, Wesele ("The Wedding", or "The Wedding Reception").Rydel's historical place of residence, the Rydlówka Manor, houses a museum of the Young Poland period in the outskirts of Kraków
SCHNITZEL-BANK - QRS - WF6720 playerpianogal 2023-11-21 | QRS - WF6720 about 1901Schnitzelbank literally means "scrap bench" or "chip bench" (from Schnitzel "scraps / clips / cuttings (from carving)" or the colloquial verb schnitzeln "to make scraps" or "to carve" and Bank "bench"); like the Bank, it is feminine and takes the article "die". It is a woodworking tool used in Germany prior to the industrial revolution. It was in regular use in colonial New England, and in the Appalachian region until early in the 20th century; it is still in use by specialist artisans today. In American English, it is known as a shaving horse. It uses the mechanical advantage of a foot-operated lever to securely clamp the object to be carved. The shaving horse is used in combination with the drawknife or spokeshave to cut down green or seasoned wood, to accomplish jobs such as handling an ax; creating wooden rakes, hay forks, walking sticks, etc. The shaving horse was used by various trades, from farmer to basketmaker and wheelwright.A Schnitzelbank is also a short rhyming verse or song with humorous content, often but not always sung with instrumental accompaniment.Alphonse and Gaston is an American comic strip by Frederick Burr Opper, featuring a bumbling pair of Frenchmen with a penchant for politeness. It first appeared in William Randolph Hearst's newspaper, the New York Journal on September 22, 1901, with the title "Alphonse and Gaston. It did state on the roll....by Alphonse and Gaston.....1914, but I believe they are "make-believe" comic characters. LYRICS IN ENGLISH:Carving Bench1. Isn't that a carving bench?Yes, it is a carving benchOh you wonderful carving benchOh you wonderful carving bench 2. Isn't that short and long?Yes, it is short and longIsn't that back and forth?Yes, it is back and forthBack and forth, short and longOh you wonderful carving benchOh you wonderful carving bench 3. Isn't that criss and cross?Yes, it is criss and crossIsn't that a shooting gun?Yes, it is a shooting gunShooting gun, criss and crossBack and forth, short and longOh you wonderful carving benchOh you wonderful carving bench 4. …wagon wheel3. Isn't that criss and cross?Yes, it is criss and crossIsn't that a shooting gun?Yes, it is a shooting gunShooting gun, criss and crossBack and forth, short and longOh you wonderful carving benchOh you wonderful carving bench 4. …wagon wheel…bent and straight 5. …big glass…oxen bladder 6. …pile of dung…naughty boy 7. …stout woman…fat sow 8. …tall man…Christmas (fir) tree 9. …wedding ring….dangerous thing
A BACHELOR GAY - Player Piano Roll (with words) playerpianogal 2023-11-19 | TRIUMPH WORD ROLL - W 200"A Bachelor Gay" was composed by James W. Tate in 1916, and written by F. Clifford Harris and Valentine; the sheet music was published by Francis, Day & Hunter of London in 1917. Tate may have been a happy man but he was neither gay nor a bachelor. Twice married he died suddenly in 1922 aged only 46. The Valentine alluded to here was Archibald Thomas Pechey, a regular collaborator of Tate.The Maid of the Mountains, called in its original score a musical play, is an operetta or "Edwardian" musical comedy in three acts. The music was by Harold Fraser-Simson, with additional music by James W. Tate, lyrics by Harry Graham and additional lyrics by Frank Clifford Harris and Valentine, and the book was written by Frederick Lonsdale, best known for his later society comedies such as On Approval. After an initial try-out at the Prince's Theatre in Manchester on 23 December 1916, the show was rewritten and opened at Daly's Theatre in London on 10 February 1917.
This is a tiny video of a VERY small victrola made by Poynter Company, Cincinnati, Ohio. playerpianogal 2023-11-11 | I have all the records that go with this. I believe I ordered it in a Harriet Carter catalog or something similar back in the early 1980's. I had it in my Curio Cabinet for years, took it out to play it...and nothing. It takes a triple A battery, and I had taken the old out years ago. My hubby worked on this for a LONG time to get it to play again. I sure wish I could find another one, but I did see JUST one on a You Tube toy site. No.....if you expect a high quality recording, you are NOT going to hear it, but still the older toys were SO COOL!!HERE IS THE LINK WHERE I FOUND A WORKING ONE LIKE MINE!! AND THE PEOPLE ARE ABOUT MY AGE: youtube.com/watch?v=oWqewkX5MqU&t=29s
