The following checklist — which lists all verified
Murray records appearing on labels produced or marketed by the American
Record Company (Hawthorne, Sheble & Prescott) — is presented
as an aid to collectors attempting to complete their Murray collections,
and also in the hopes that collectors can fill in any missing numbers.
This list is in the public domain and may be freely reproduced and distributed
without permission for the benefit of the collecting community.
Much documentation has recently been located concerning
the highly convoluted history of the American Record Company, Hawthorne
& Sheble, and Hawthorne, Sheble & Prescott, and their links to
other companies. This will result in some significant changes to this
very preliminary checklist, with full details to appear in our upcoming
Murray discography, and in the new expanded edition of American
Records Labels & Companies coming later this year from Mainspring
Press.
We have full discographic data for most of the records listed
here, but we would appreciate an e-mail from
anyone who owns verifiable Murray items, on these or other labels, that
are not listed here. Please do not send data from hobbyist Murray websites,
which contain errors copied from unreliable secondary sources.
Our thanks to the many thoughtful contributors
to Mainspring Online Discography Project, who have already added so much
information to this checklist!
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Alexander
(Don't You Love Your Baby No More?)
(Sterling - Von Tilzer)
American Record Co. 27
Mills "Perfeg" Record 27
National 27
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Goodbye,
Little Girl, Goodbye
(Cobb - Edwards)
American Record Co. 45
Busy Bee 45
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Pal
of Mine
(Costello - Nathan)
American Record Co. 90
Busy Bee 90
Mills "Perfeg" 90
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The
Yankee Doodle Boy
(Cohan; "Little Johnny Jones")
American Record Co. 93
Busy Bee 93
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Just
My Style
(Smith - Hubbell)
American Record Co. 97
Busy Bee 97
Note: Some copies of ARC #97 are anecdotally reported as "You
Are Just My Style." Busy Bee and inspected copies of ARC #97
are labeled correctly.
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Paddy's
Day
(Mullen)
American Record Co. 99
Busy Bee 99
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In
the Wild and Wooly West
(Von Tilzer)
American Record Co. 120
Busy Bee 120
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I'll
Be There, Mary Dear
(Sterling - Von Tilzer)
American Record Co. 121
Mills "Perfeg" Record 121
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The
Blue and the Gray
(Dresser)
American Record Co. 122
Busy Bee 122
Mills "Perfeg" Record 122
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In
Dear Old Fairy Land
(Harris)
American Record Co. 128
Busy Bee 128
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Everybody
Works But Father
(Havez)
American Record Co. 137
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Can't
You See I'm Lonely?
( Armstrong)
Busy Bee 145
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The
Whole Damm Family
(Smith - Von Tilzer)
American Record Co. 146
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Hiram
Green, Goodbye
(Gillespie - Chapel; "Kafoozelum")
American Record Co. 147
Busy Bee 147 |
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Farewell,
Sweetheart May
(Harris)
American Record Co. 153
Busy Bee 153
Note: Reported
anecdotally on Mills "Perfeg" 153, but this has not been
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Just
a Little Rocking Chair and You
(Morse)
American Record Co. 158
Busy Bee 158
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Forty-Five
Minutes from Broadway
(Cohan; "Forty-Five Minutes from Broadway")
American Record Co. 170
Busy Bee 170
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Cheyenne
(Shy-Ann)
(Williams - Van Alstyne; "The Earl and the Girl")
American Record Co. 181
Busy Bee 181
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My
Lovin' Henry
(Friedlander - Sherman)
American Record Co. 182
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You're
a Grand Old Rag [Flag]
(Cohan; "George Washington, Jr.")
American Record Co. 191
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When
Mose with his Nose Leads the Band
(Morse)
American Record Co. 192
Busy Bee 192
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Goodbye,
Maggie Doyle
(Jerome - Schwartz)
American Record Co. 193
Busy Bee 193
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Rosebud
(Call and I'll Come to You)
(Cobb)
Busy Bee 216 |
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030981
(10¾") |
Coax
Me
(Von Tilzer)
American Record Co. 030981
Note: Copies auditioned to date are by Harry Tally, and are labeled
as such. An alternate version by Murray, mislabeled as Tally, has
been reported anecdotally but is awaiting verification.
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A
Sprig of Shillalah
(Helf)
American Record Co. 031062
Busy Bee 1062
Note: An American Odeon export pressing has been reported anecdotally
but is not confirmed. The record is not listed in the English 1906
Complete Catalogue.
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I've
Got a Little Money, and I've Saved It All for You
(Silver)
American Record Co. 031063
Peerless Record 031063
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Just
My Style
(Smith - Hubbell)
American Record Co. 031084
Busy Bee 1084
Peerless Record 031084
Note: An American Odeon export pressing has been reported anecdotally
but is not confirmed. The record is not listed in the English 1906
Complete Catalogue.
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Pal
of Mine
(Costello - Nathan)
American Record Co. 031085
Note: An American Odeon export pressing has been reported anecdotally
but is not confirmed. The record is not listed in the English 1906
Complete Catalogue.
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The
Yankee Doodle Boy
(Cohan; "Little Johnny Jones"
American Record Co. 031086
Note: An American Odeon export pressing has been reported anecdotally
but is not confirmed. The record is not listed in the English 1906
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Note: All of
the following have been confirmed in 10" format. There are
anecdotal reports that several of these titles also exist in alternate
10¾" versions — which occurred occasionally with
other artists' work during the transition to 10" pressings
— but these remain to be verified.
Use of the "0" prefix is not consistent from this point
forward, particularly on the latter issues.
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Billy
(Malone-Barron; "The Street Singer")
American Record Co. 031178
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Easy
Street
(Penn)
American Record Co. 031179
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031225
(10") |
(You're
the Flower of My Heart) Sweet Adeline
(Armstrong)
Male Quartette (anonymous; Murray audibly present)
American Record Co. 031225 |
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Forty-Five
Minutes from Broadway
(Cohan; "Forty-Five Minutes from Broadway")
American Record Co. 031252
Busy Bee 1252
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Just
a Little Rocking Chair and You
(Morse)
American Record Co. 031253
Busy Bee 1253
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Keep
a Little Cozy Corner in Your Heart for Me
(Morse)
American Record Co. 031275
Busy Bee 1275
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My
Irish Maid
(Hobart - Hoffmann; "The Rogers Brothers in Ireland")
American Record Co. 031276
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You're
My Heart's Desire, I Love You, Nellie Dean
(Armstrong)
Male Quartette (anonymous; Murray audibly present)
American Record Co. 031297
Busy Bee 1297
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Steamboat
Medley — Descriptive
Male Quartette (anonymous; Murray audibly present)
American Record Co. 031298
Busy Bee 1298
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Wait
Till the Sun Shines, Nellie
(Sterling - Von Tilzer)
Male Quartette (anonymous; Murray audibly present)
American Record Co. 031299
Busy Bee 1299
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Robinson
Crusoe's Isle
(Burt; "Molly Moonshine")
American Record Co. 031300
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Cheyenne
(Shy-Ann)
(Williams - Van Alstyne; "The Earl and the Girl")
American Record Co. 031317
Busy Bee 1317
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My
Lovin' Henry
(Friedlander - Sherman)
American Record Co. 031318
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The
Sleigh Ride Party — Descriptive
Male Quartette (anonymous; Murray audibly present)
American Record Co. 031324
Busy Bee 1324
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I
Want Somebody to Love
American Record Co. 031353
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Minstrel
Record "A"
Billy Murray, Byron G. Harlan, Arthur Collins, Steve
Porter (per aural identification)
• "I Kind of Like to Have You Fussin'
Around" — Murray
American Record Co. 031359
Busy Bee 1359
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Minstrel
Record "B"
Billy Murray, Byron G. Harlan, Arthur Collins, Steve
Porter (per aural identification)
• Yankee Doodle Negroes — Chorus
• Goodbye, Mr. Greenback — Collins &
chorus
American Record Co. 031360
Busy Bee 1360
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Minstrel
Record "C"
Billy Murray, Byron G. Harlan, Arthur Collins, Steve
Porter (per aural identification)
• Dixie Dear — Murray
American Record Co. 031361
Busy Bee 1361
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I
Wouldn't Leave My Little Wooden Hut for You
(Mellor - Collins)
American Record Co. 031387
Busy Bee 1387
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Rosebud
(Call and I'll Come to You)
(Cobb)
American Record Co. 031388
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031423
031424
031425
(10")
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Minstrel
Record "D"
Minstrel Record "E"
Minstrel Record "F"
Although pressings exist showing these numbers on an array of labels,
they are not American Record Company matrices. Details of these
anomalous issues will appear in our upcoming Murray discography.
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