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Popular Songs, 1918
After You've Gone (Turner Layton, music; Henry Creamer, lyrics)
At the Jazz Band Ball (Edwin Edwards, James La Rocca, Anthony Sbarbaro, Larry Shields)
Beautiful Ohio (Mary Earl (pseud. of Robert A. King), music; Ballard MacDonald, lyrics)
The Caissons Go Rolling Along (The U.S. Field Artillery March)
Dallas Blues (Hart A. Wand, Lloyd Garrett)
Source
Canadian instrumental groups made numerous recordings of popular dance music; Toronto Daily Star, February 13, 1919, p. 12
The Daughter of Rosie O'Grady (Walter Donaldson, music; Monty C. Brice, lyrics)
Dear Old Pal of Mine (Lieutenant Gitz Rice, music; Harold Robé, lyrics)
Down Texas Way (Godfrey, Mills and Scott)
Everything Is Peaches Down in Georgia (George W. Meyer, Milton Ager, music; Grant Clarke, lyrics)
Source
French advertisement for "Dear Old Pal of Mine", La Presse, May 31, 1919, p. 31
For Me and My Gal (from Here and There) (George W. Meyer)
A Good Man Is Hard to Find (Eddie Green)
Hello, Central, Give Me No Man's Land (Jean Schwartz, music; Sam M. Lewis, Joe Young, lyrics)
Hindustan (Harold Weeks, Oliver G. Wallace)
I'd Like to See the Kaiser with a Lily in His Hand (Henry Leslie, Howard Johnson, Billy Frisch)
Source
Advertisement for recordings by Henry Burr, and Lt. Gitz Rice's "Dear Old Pal of Mine," a few days before the end of the war; Toronto Daily Star, November 5, 1918, p. 17
If He Can Fight Like He Can Love, Good-Night Germany (George W. Meyer, music; Grant Clarke, Howard E. Rogers, lyrics)
I'm Always Chasing Rainbows (from Oh, Look!) (Harry Carroll, music; Joseph McCarthy, lyrics)
I'm Sorry I Made You Cry (N.J. Clesi)
Ja-Da (Bob Carleton)
Just a Baby's Prayer at Twilight (M.K. Jerome, music; Sam M. Lewis, Joe Young, lyrics)
Source
Heintzman advertisement for Victrolas and Victor records, Toronto Daily Star, May 2, 1918, page 6. Geoffrey O'Hara's humourous composition "K-K-K-Katy" was selling for 90 cents
K-K-K-Katy (Geoffrey O'Hara)
Mickey (silent film theme, from Mickey)
My Belgian Rose (George Benoit, Robert Levenson, Ted Garton)
My Mammy (Walter Donaldson, music; Sam M. Lewis, Joe Young, lyrics)
Source
Columbia advertisement for recordings by Canadian Henry Burr (Harry McClaskey), Toronto Daily Star, March 5, 1920
Oh, How I Hate to Get Up in the Morning (Irving Berlin)
Oh, How I Wish I Could Sleep Until My Daddy Comes Home (Pete Wendling, music; Sam M. Lewis, Joe Young, lyrics)
Oh! Oh! Oh! It's a Lovely War (Long and Scott)
Source
Nurses at No. 3 Casualty Clearing Station, July 1916
On the Road to Calais
On the Road to Home, Sweet Home (Van Alstyne)
Original Dixieland One-Step (Joe Jordan, James La Rocca, J. Russell Robinson)
Source
Advertisement for Eckstein's recording of Lt. Gitz Rice's "Burmah Moon"; Toronto Daily Star, Aug. 15, 1919, p. 4
Ostrich Walk (Edwin Edwards, James La Rocca, Anthony Sbarbaro, Larry Shields)
Oui, Oui, Marie (Fred Fisher, music; Alfred Bryan, Joe McCarthy, lyrics)
Over Yonder Where the Lilies Grow (Geoffrey O'Hara)
Peter Pan (Noel Coward)
Rock-a-bye Your Baby with a Dixie Melody (Jean Schwartz, music; Sam M. Lewis, Joe Young, lyrics)
Source
Advertisement for "Till We Meet Again," which was a top seller. Henry Burr and Albert Campbell, among others, recorded the song. Toronto Daily Star, August 8, 1919, p. 8
The Rose of No Man's Land
Smiles (from The Passing Show of 1918) (Lee M. Roberts, music; J. Will Callahan, lyrics)
Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child (trad. Spiritual; arr. Harry Burleigh)
Source
Pathé advertisement for vocal, dance and instrumental recordings, including Lt. Gitz Rice's KEEP YOUR HEAD DOWN, FRITZIE BOY, September 1918
That Tumble-Down Shack in Athlone (Alma Sanders and Monte Carlo, music; Richard W. Pascoe, lyrics)
They Were All Out of Step but Jim (Irving Berlin)
Tickle Toe (from Going Up) (Louis A. Hirsch, music; Otto Harbach, lyrics)
Tiger Rag (Original Dixieland Jazz Band)
Till We Meet Again (Richard Whiting, music; Raymond B. Egan, lyrics)
Source
Advertisement for Christmas recordings by Miro's Orchestra, La Presse, November 30, 1918, p. 26
Waters of Venice (Floating Down the Sleepy Lagoon) (Albert Von Tilzer, music; Neville Fleeson, lyrics)
We Don't Want the Bacon, What We Want Is a Piece of the Rhine (Howard Carr, Harry Russell, Jimmie Havens)
When You Come Back (George M. Cohan)
When You Look in the Heart of a Rose (Florence Methven, music; Marian Gillespie, lyrics)
