Byron G. Harlan was an American singer from Kansas

Kansas

Kansas is a US state located in the Midwestern United States. It is named after the Kansas River which flows through it, which in turn was named after the Kansa Native American tribe, which inhabited the area. The tribe's name is often said to mean "people of the wind" or "people of the south...

, a comic

Comedian

A comedian or comic is a person who seeks to entertain an audience, primarily by making them laugh. This might be through jokes or amusing situations, or acting a fool, as in slapstick, or employing prop comedy...

 minstrel

Minstrel show

The minstrel show, or minstrelsy, was an American entertainment consisting of comic skits, variety acts, dancing, and music, performed by white people in blackface or, especially after the Civil War, black people in blackface....

 singer and ballad

Ballad

A ballad is a form of verse, often a narrative set to music. Ballads were particularly characteristic of British and Irish popular poetry and song from the later medieval period until the 19th century and used extensively across Europe and later the Americas, Australia and North Africa. Many...

eer who often recorded with Arthur Collins. The two together were often billed as "Collins & Harlan

Collins & Harlan

Collins & Harlan, the team of Arthur Collins and Byron G. Harlan formed a popular comic duet between 1903 and 1926. They sang ragtime standards as well as what were known as "Coon songs" - music sung by white performers in a black dialect. Their material also employed many other stereotypes of the...

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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)

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

1905

• "My Gal Sal"
• "A Picnic For Two"
• "With the Robins I'll Return"

-on Edison Records

1906

• "Wait 'Till the Sun Shines, Nellie
  Wait 'Till the Sun Shines, Nellie
  Wait 'Till the Sun Shines, Nellie is a popular song.-History:The music was written by Harry Von Tilzer, the lyrics by Andrew B. Sterling. The song was published in 1905. The song has been recorded many times and is now considered a pop standard...
  
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• "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

• "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

1921

• "Down Where I Belong" - Pathe 20660

With Arthur Collins

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"

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

• "The Old Grey Mare"

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 Frank C. Stanley

1902

• "All Aboard for Slumberville" - Edison Gold Moulded 8187

1904

• "Blue Bell" - Edison Gold Moulded 8655

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

1905

• "Beautiful Birds Sing On" - Edison Gold Moulded 9022

External links

• Byron Harlan cylinder recordings, from the Cylinder Preservation and Digitization Project
  Cylinder Preservation and Digitization Project
  The Cylinder Preservation and Digitization Project is a free digital collection maintained by the University of California, Santa Barbara Libraries with streaming and downloadable versions of over 10,000 phonograph cylinders manufactured between 1893 and the mid 1920s.- History :The project began...
  
   at the University of California, Santa Barbara
  University of California, Santa Barbara
  The University of California, Santa Barbara, commonly known as UCSB or UC Santa Barbara, is a public research university and one of the 10 general campuses of the University of California system. The main campus is located on a site in Goleta, California, from Santa Barbara and northwest of Los...
  
   Library.
• Discography of Byron G. Harlan on Victor Records
  Victor Talking Machine Company
  The Victor Talking Machine Company was an American corporation, the leading American producer of phonographs and phonograph records and one of the leading phonograph companies in the world at the time. It was headquartered in Camden, New Jersey....
  
  from the Encyclopedic Discography of Victor Recordings (EDVR)