Arthur Collins

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birth_name = Arthur Francis Collins
birth_date = February 7, 1864
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death_date = August 31, 1933
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Arthur Francis Collins (February 7, 1864-August 3, 1933) was an American singer who recorded a significant amount of early records. With tenor singer Byron G. Harlan, Collins recorded the first song to refer to "jazz" - "That Funny Jas Band from Dixieland," copyrighted on November 8, 1916, recorded on January 12, 1917, and issued on Victor 18235. [ [http://www.gracyk.com/jasband.shtml Tim Gracyk's Phonographs, Singers, and Old Records -- Jass in 1916-1917 and Tin Pan Alley ] at www.gracyk.com]

Discography

1890s

1899
*"I'd Leave My Happy Home For You"
*"All Coons Look Alike To Me"
*"I Guess I'll Have To Telegraph My Baby"
*"Kiss Me, Honey Do"
*"Mandy Lee"
*"Hello! Ma Baby"

1900s

1900
*"My Sunflower Sue" with The Metropolitan Orchestra
*"You're Talking Rag Time"

1901
*"Every Darky Had A Raglan On"
*"Ain't Dat a Shame"
*"I Dreams About You"

1902
*"All Coons Look Alike To Me" (w.m. Vess L. Ossman)
*"Any Old Place I Can Hang My Hat Is Home Sweet Home To Me"
*"Bill Bailey Won't You Please Come Home"
*"Drill Ye Tarriers, Drill"
*"Helen Gonne"
*"Just Kiss Yourself Goodbye"

1903
*"Any Rags?" (w.m. Thomas S. Allen) - on Edison Records
*"Good-bye, Eliza Jane" (w. Andrew B. Sterling m. Harry Von Tilzer) - on Edison Records
*"I'm A Jonah Man" (w.m. Alex Rogers) - on Edison & Victor
*"I Wonder Why Bill Bailey Don't Come Home" (w.m. Frank Fogerty, Matt C. Woodward & William Jerome) - on Victor Records & Edison Records

1904
*"The Preacher And The Bear"

1905
*"Johnny Morgan"
*"Rufus Rastus Johnson Brown"
*"My Irish Molly O"
*"Nobody"
*"What You Going To Do When The Rent Come's 'Round"

1906
*"Abraham Washington Jefferson Lee"
*"Bill Simmons"
*"Jessamine"
*"Pretty Desdamone"
*"Won't You Fondle Me"
*"When A Poor Relation Comes To Town"

1907
*"Bake Dat Chicken Pie" (w.m Byron G. Harlan)
*"Whats The Use Of Knocking When A Man Is Down"
*"Dixie Dan"
*"Scissors to Grind"
*"Rag Babe"

1908
*"The Meanest Man in Town"
*"I Think I See My Brother Coming Home"
*"Rag Babe"

1909
*"Abraham Lincoln Jone's Or The Christening"
*"A Possum Supper At The Darktown Church"
*"Down At The Hiskin'Bee" (w.m. Byron G. Harlan)
*"Everybody's Picken' On Me"
*"Strawberries"
*"That's A Plenty"

1910s

1910
*"Casey Jones" (w.m Byron G. Harlan)
*"Contribution Box"
*"Temptation Rag"

1911
*"Play That Barbershop Chord"
*"Chicken Reel"
*"Railroad Rag"
*"Steamboat Bill"
*'The Barn Dance" (w.m Byron G. Harlan)

1912
*"I'm Goin' Back to Dixie" (w.m Byron G. Harlan)
*"In Ragtime Land"
*"Rum Tum Tiddle"
*"Somebody Else Is Getting It"

1913
*"Row! Row! Row!"
*"Minstrel"

1914
*"Ragtime Dreams" (w.m Byron G. Harlan)
*" [http://www.firstworldwar.com/audio/abadabahoneymoon.htm Aba Daba Honeymoon] " (co-written with Walter Donovon)
**Used in the film King of Jazz

1915
*"Auntie Skinner's Chicken Dinner" (w.m. Byron G. Harlan
*"Cotton Blossom Time" (w.m. Byron G. Harlan)
*"Kentucky Home" (w.m. Byron G. Harlan)

1916
*"The Kid Is Clever" (w.m. Byron G. Harlan)
*"Pretty Baby" (w.m Byron G. Harlan)
*"Emancipation Handicap" (w.m Byron G. Harlan)
*"Honest Injun" (w.m Byron G. Harlan)
*"Two Key Rag" (w.m Byron G. Harlan)
*"If You've Got a Little Bit"
*"That Funny Jas from Dixieland" (w.m Byron G. Harlan)
*"In Huneysuckle Time" (w.m Byron G. Harlan] )
*"On the Hoko Moko Isle" (w.m Byron G. Harlan)
*"My Lovin' Lou" (w.m Byron G. Harlan)
*"All Aboard for Chinatown" (w.m Byron G. Harlan)
*"Johnny Get A Girl" (w.m Byron G. Harlan)
*"When I'm a Sargent Man" (w.m Byron G. Harlan)
*"At the Old Planation Ball" (w.m Byron G. Harlan)
*"I'm Savin' Up the Means to Get to New Orleans" (w.m Byron G. Harlan)

1917
*"Oh Lady" (w.m Byron G. Harlan)
*"Buzzin' the Bee" (w.m Byron G. Harlan)
*"Everybody's Jazzin' It (w.m Byron G. Harlan)
*"Night Time in Little Italy" (w.m Byron G. Harlan)
*"They're Wearing 'em Higher in Hawaii" (w.m Byron G. Harlan)
*"Come Along to Caroline" (w.m Byron G. Harlan)
*"The Ghost of Saxophone" (w.m Byron G. Harlan)
*"Lily of the Valley" (w.m Byron G. Harlan)
*"Three Pickaninnies" (w.m Byron G. Harlan)
*"Mammy Blossom's possum Party (w.m Byron G. Harlan] )

1918
*"The Old Grey Mare" (w.m Byron G. Harlan)
*"Everybody's Crazy 'bout the Doggone Blues" (w.m Byron G. Harlan)
*"If You Saw All That I Saw in Arkansas" (w.m Byron G. Harlan)
*"Darktown Strutters' Ball" (w.m Byron G. Harlan)
*"Sweet n' Pretty" (w.m Byron G. Harlan)
*"I've Got Em'" (w.m Byron G. Harlan)
*"When Tony Goes Over The Top"
*"Down in the Jungle Land" (w.m Byron G. Harlan)
*"Everything is Hunky Dory" (w.m Byron G. Harlan)

1919
*"On the Ozark Trail" (w.m Byron G. Harlan)
*"Climbing Up the Golden Stairs"
*"Sipping Cider Through a Straw" (w.m Byron G. Harlan)
*"Every Day's A Holiday in Dixie" (w.m Byron G. Harlan)
* "Suicide Blues"

1920s

1920
*"The Argentines, the Portuguese and the Greeks"

1922
*"Ham & Eggs" (w.m. Byron G. Harlan)
*"I Want a Jazzy Kiss" (w.m Byron G. Harlan)

Resources

* [http://cylinders.library.ucsb.edu/search.php?query=arthur+collins&queryType=%40attr+1%3D1 Arthur Collins cylinder recordings] , from the Cylinder Preservation and Digitization Project at the University of California, Santa Barbara Library.
* [http://wfmu.org/Playlists/TE/collinsE6630TAEAPRT21.jpghttp://wfmu.org/Playlists/TE/collinsE6630TAEAPRT21.jpg]

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