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The 1900's --- Music hath charm to soothe the savage beast or Make it RAGTIME! (1 Viewer)

I'M AWFUL GLAD I MET YOU sung by Ada Jones and Billy Murray would be yet another hit in 1909 for the pair: . And that same year Van Brunt & Miss Florede would also make a hit of it.
 
Harold Jarvis would have a sentimental hit of BEAUTIFUL ISLE OF SOMEWHERE in 1909 and you may imagine it was forgotten and lost to the cobwebs of time: Fortunately, every now and again something happens and what was lost and forgotten is re discovered (an excerpt broadcast from Radio Heartland):
 
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The airplane or as it was once more properly called "aeroplane" was a new novelty. In 1909 the Haydn Quartet along with Harry Macdonough would record a popular hit song surround this marvelous new invention for VICTOR Records with the song titled UP, UP, UP IN MY AEROPLANE:
 
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Walter Van Brunt would make a recording hit of WHEN I DREAM IN THE GLOAMING OF YOU
George Madden would also record this song for ALBANY INDESTRUCTIBLE Cylinder Records the same year (1909):
 
Arthur Collins would have a racial hit with THAT's A PLENTY: This is being played on an Edison 1909 FIRESIDE Cylinder Phonograph.
 
DIXIE LAND, I LOVE YOU ---- would be another VICTOR Record selling hit for Billy Murray in 1909:
 
And so we kiss the 1900-1909 good-bye. We will see what 1910 will bring.
 
"LET ME CALL YOU SWEETHEART is a song published in 1910 and was a huge hit for the Peerless Quartet in 1911. The verse is rarely heard, but here it is along with the well known chorus sung by Arthur Clough:
I am dreaming Dear of you, day by day
Dreaming when the skies are blue, When they're gray
When the silv'ry moonlight gleams, Still I wander on in dreams
In a land of love, it seems, Just with you

Let me call you "Sweetheart," I'm in love with you
Let me hear you whisper that you love me too
Keep the love-light glowing in your eyes so true
Let me call you "Sweetheart," I'm in love with you

Longing for you all the while, more and more
Longing for the sunny smile, I adore
Birds are singing far and near, roses blooming everywhere
You alone my heart can cheer, you just you

Chorus

Let me call you "Sweetheart," I'm in love with you
Let me hear you whisper that you love me too
Keep the love-light glowing in your eyes so true
Let me call you "Sweetheart," I'm in love with you
 
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Louise Homer (an opera star) would have a great patriotic hit with her version of AMERICA the BEAUTIFUL in 1910 on VICTOR Records. She also recorded for COLUMBIA Records. Louise Homer as an American operatic dramatic contralto who had an active international career in concert halls and opera houses from 1895 until she retired in 1932. She began as a vaudeville entertainer in New England, but made her professional operatic debut in France in 1898. She then became a member of the Metropolitan Opera from 1900 to 1919 and resumed that again from 1927 to 1929:
 
BY THE LIGHT OF THE SILVERY MOON, sung by Billy Murray with the Haydn Quartet on a VICTOR Record was number 3 for the year 1910. And yes I love the verses. Yes, the chorus is great, but often the verse is omitted. I enjoy the little story and hearing it the way my grand and great grand parents heard the song in their day... The song was published in 1909 and first performed on stage by Lillian Lorraine in the Zigfield Follies of 1909


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PLAY THAT BARBERSHOP CORD, again with Billy Murray --- but this time with the American Quartet was another VICTOR Record hit.

And here is Judy Garland in the movie IN THE GOOD OLD SUMMERTIME singing the song:
 
DON'T GO DOWN IN THE MINE DAD was one of those tear jerkers that were so prevalent back in the day, and this one would be a hit for Stanley Kirkby
 
A Portuguese number became popular in 1910 --- Canção do Marinheiro which means "sea shanty". Here it is performed in 1910 by Eduardo das Neves
 
HAS ANYBODY HERE SEEN KELLY? is a 1908 British music hall song, originally titled KELLY FROM THE ISLE OF MAN about an Celtic woman looking for her boyfriend during a visit to London. It was this song that was adapted for American audiences in 1909 for the The Jolly Bachelors, a Broadway Musical. Nora Bayes stared in that Broadway Musical and would have a VICTOR Record hit in 1910 (on VICTOR's special ONE-SIDED purple label). KELLY was the most common surname on the Island of Man ---- and that's a comedic side of this story...


  1. Michael Kelly with his sweetheart came from County Cork
    And bent upon a holiday, they landed in New York
    They strolled around to see the sights alas, it’s sad to say
    Poor Kelly lost his little girl upon the Great White Way
    She walked uptown from Herald Square to forty-second street
    The traffic stopped as, she cried to the copper on the beat
Chorus
Has anybody here seen Kelly?
K. E. double L. Y.
Has anybody here seen Kelly?
Have you seen him passing by?
Sure his hair is red, his eyes are blue
And he’s Irish through and through
Has anybody here seen Kelly?
Kelly from the Emerald Isle


  1. Over on fifth Avenue, a band began to play
    Ten thousand men were marching for it was Saint Patrick’s Day
    The “Wearing of the Green” rang out upon the morning air
    ‘Twas Kelly’s favorite song, so Mary said, “I’ll find him there”
    She climbed upon the grandstand in hopes her Mike she’d see
    Five hundred Kelly’s left the ranks in answer to her plea
 
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CARRIE or also known as CARRIE MARRY HARRY, written in 1909 would be a big hit for Billy Murray on Victor Records. However it was true then as today, that not every hit becomes a forever song. Many fade as fashions and tastes change:
 
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