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Aba Daba Honeymoon
Type: World War I
Year Composed: 1914
Performer: Arthur Collins and Byron G. Harlan
Composer(s):

 
Ain't We Got Fun
Type: 1920s
Year Composed:
Performer: Benson Orchestra
Composer(s):

 
Ain't We Got Fun
Type: 1920s
Year Composed:
Performer: Van and Schenk
Composer(s):

 
Ain't We Got Fun
Type: 1920s
Year Composed: 1921
Performer: Billy Jones
Composer(s): Gus Kahn and Raymond B. Egan
Richard Whiting

 
Alcoholic Blues
Type: Blues
Year Composed:
Performer: All Star Trio
Composer(s): Albert Von Tilzer
Walter Donaldson

 
Alexander's Ragtime Band
Type: Tin Pan Alley
Year Composed: 1911
Performer: Billy Murray
Composer(s): Irving Berlin

 
All Of No Man's Land Is Ours
Type: World War I
Year Composed:
Performer: Jim Europe's 369th Infantry Hell Fighters Band
Composer(s): Noble Sissle
James Reese Europe and Eubie Blake

 
America (My Country Tis of Thee)
Type: Patriotic
Year Composed: 1893
Performer: Diamond Four
Composer(s): Samuel Francis Smith
Henry Carey

 
America (My Country Tis of Thee)
Type: Patriotic
Year Composed:
Performer: George Gaskin
Composer(s): Samuel Francis Smith
Henry Carey

 
America the Beautiful
Type: Patriotic
Year Composed: 1893
Performer: Navy Band
Composer(s): Katherine Lee Bates
Parke Hewins

 
Anchor's Away
Type: Patriotic
Year Composed: 1906
Performer: Navy Band
Composer(s): Charles Zimmermann

 
April Showers
Type: 1920s
Year Composed:
Performer: Al Jolson
Composer(s):

 
April Showers
Type: 1920s
Year Composed: 1921
Performer: Happiness Boys
Composer(s): Louis Silvers
B.G. DeSylva

 
Are We Downhearted?
Type: World War I
Year Composed: 1914
Performer: Arthur Boyton
Composer(s):

 
At a Georgia Camp Meeting
Type: Sacred
Year Composed:
Performer:
Composer(s): Kerry Mills

 
Au Revoir But Not Goodbye
Type: World War I
Year Composed: 1918
Performer: Peerless Quartet
Composer(s):

 
Bachelor Gay
Type: World War I
Year Composed: 1917
Performer: Peter Dawson
Composer(s):

 
Baltimore Buzz
Type: Jazz
Year Composed:
Performer: Eubie Blake
Composer(s): Noble Sissle
Eubie Blake

 
Band of Gideon
Type: Negro Spirituals
Year Composed:
Performer: Fisk Jubilee Quartet
Composer(s):

 
Bandana Days/I'm Just Wild About Harry
Type: Jazz
Year Composed: 1921
Performer: Eubie Blake
Composer(s): Noble Sissle
Eubie Blake

 
Battle Hymn of the Republic
Type: Civil War
Year Composed:
Performer: Richard Warrenrath
Composer(s):

 
Battle Hymn of the Republic
Type: Civil War
Year Composed: 1862
Performer: Thomas Chalmers
Composer(s): Julia Ward Howe

 
Battle That Wasn't
Type: World War I
Year Composed: 1914
Performer: Jolly Jesters
Composer(s):

 
Belgium Put the Kibosh on the Kaiser
Type: World War I
Year Composed: 1915
Performer: Mark Sheridan
Composer(s):

 
Beulah Land
Type: Minstrel
Year Composed:
Performer: Harry Macdonough
Composer(s):

 
Bicycle Built for Two
Type: Tin Pan Alley
Year Composed: 1892
Performer: Canada Remembers Chorus sample
Composer(s): Henry Dacre

 
Bill Bailey, Won't You Please Come Home?
Type: Tin Pan Alley
Year Composed: 1902
Performer: Kid Ory's Creole Orchestra
Composer(s): Hughie Cannon

 
Blue and the Grey
Type: Civil War
Year Composed:
Performer: Harry Macdonough
Composer(s):

 
Boys in Khaki, Boys in Blue
Type: World War I
Year Composed: 1914
Performer: F. Wheeler
Composer(s):

 
Boys of the Old Brigade
Type: Civil War
Year Composed:
Performer: Chatauqua Preachers' Quartet
Composer(s):

 
Break the News to Mother
Type: World War I
Year Composed:
Performer: Henry Burr
Composer(s):

 
Broadway Hit Medley
Type: Tin Pan Alley
Year Composed:
Performer: Jim Europe's 369th Infantry Hell Fighters Band
Composer(s):

 
By the Light of the Silvery Moon
Type: Tin Pan Alley
Year Composed: 1919
Performer: Billy Murray
Composer(s): Edward Madden
Gus Edwards

 
By the Sea
Type: Tin Pan Alley
Year Composed: 1914
Performer:
Composer(s): Harry Alteridge
Harry Carroll

 
Caissons Go Rolling Along
Type: Patriotic
Year Composed: 1921
Performer: U.S. Army Ceremonial Band
Composer(s): Edmund Gruber

 
Cake Walk in Coontown
Type: Minstrel
Year Composed:
Performer: Harry Macdonough
Composer(s):

 
Carolina in the Morning
Type: 1920s
Year Composed: 1922
Performer: Paul Whiteman
Composer(s): Gus Kahn
Walter Donaldson

 
Carry Me Back to Old Virginia
Type: Minstrel
Year Composed: 1868
Performer: Henry Burr
Composer(s): James Bland

 
Carry Me Back to Old Virginny
Type: Minstrel
Year Composed: 1868
Performer: Harry Macdonough
Composer(s): James Bland

 
Carry Me Back to Old Virginny
Type: Minstrel
Year Composed: 1868
Performer: Henry Burr
Composer(s): James Bland

 
Casey Jones
Type: Tin Pan Alley
Year Composed: 1909
Performer: Irving Kaufman
Composer(s): T. Lawrence Seibert
Eddie Newton

 
Casey Jones
Type: Tin Pan Alley
Year Composed:
Performer: Billy Murray
Composer(s):

 
Castle House Rag
Type: Jazz
Year Composed:
Performer: Europe's Society Orchestra
Composer(s): James Reese Europe

 
Castle Walk
Type: Jazz
Year Composed:
Performer: Europe's Society Orchestra
Composer(s): James Reese Europe
Ford Dabney

 
Colonel Bogey March
Type: World War I
Year Composed:
Performer: Henri Miro
Composer(s): Kenneth Alford

 
Columbia, The Gem of the Ocean
Type: Patriot
Year Composed:
Performer: Florence Hayward
Composer(s): David T. Shaw

 
Come Josephine in My Flying Machine
Type: Tin Pan Alley
Year Composed: 1910
Performer: Blanche Ring
Composer(s): Fred Fisher
Alfred Bryan

 
Come Josephine in My Flying Machine
Type: Tin Pan Alley
Year Composed: 1910
Performer: Ada Jones and Billy Murray
Composer(s): Fred Fisher
Alfred Bryan

 
Conscientious Objector
Type: World War I
Year Composed: 1915
Performer: Alfred Lester
Composer(s):

 
Crazy Blues
Type: Blues
Year Composed:
Performer: Mamie Smith
Composer(s):

 
Crazy Blues
Type: Blues
Year Composed:
Performer: Mamie Smith
Composer(s): Perry Bradford

 
Daddy, You've Been Like a Mother to Me
Type: 1920s
Year Composed:
Performer: Henry Burr
Composer(s):

 
Darktown Strutter's Ball
Type: Jazz
Year Composed:
Performer: Jim Europe's 369th Infantry Hell Fighters Band
Composer(s): Shelton Brooks

 
Deep River
Type: Negro Spiritual
Year Composed:
Performer: Harry Macdonough
Composer(s):

 
Deep River
Type: Negro Spiritual
Year Composed:
Performer: Kathleen Howard
Composer(s):

 
Dixie Jass Band One Step
Type: Jazz
Year Composed:
Performer: Original Dixieland Jass Band
Composer(s): J. Russell Robinson
Nick LaRocca and Joe Jordan

 
Dixie Land
Type: Civil War
Year Composed:
Performer: Peerless Quartet
Composer(s):

 
Do Something
Type: World War I
Year Composed:
Performer: Arthur Fields
Composer(s):

 
Doctor Shelly
Type: World War I
Year Composed: 1915
Performer: Harry Champion
Composer(s):

 
Don't Bite the Hand That's Feeding You
Type: World War I
Year Composed: 1915
Performer: Billy Murray
Composer(s):

 
Don't Bite the Hand That's Feeding You
Type: World War I
Year Composed: 1916
Performer: Walter van Brunt
Composer(s):

 
Don't Take My Darling Boy Away
Type: World War I
Year Composed: 1917
Performer: J. Philips and Helen Clark
Composer(s):

 
Doughboy Jack and Doughnut Jill
Type: World War I
Year Composed:
Performer: Geoffrey O'Hara
Composer(s):

 
Down by the Old Mill Stream
Type: Tin Pan Alley
Year Composed: 1910
Performer:
Composer(s): Tell Taylor

 
Down Home Rag
Type: Jazz
Year Composed:
Performer: Europe's Society Orchestra
Composer(s): Wilbur Sweatman

 
Down in the U-17
Type: World War I
Year Composed: 1916
Performer: Billy Murray
Composer(s):

 
Down Where the Swanee River Flows
Type: Civil War
Year Composed:
Performer: Hayden Quartet
Composer(s):

 
Farmyard on the Brain
Type: World War I
Year Composed: 1917
Performer: Ernie Mayne
Composer(s):

 
For Your Country and My Country
Type: World War I
Year Composed:
Performer: Peerless Quartet
Composer(s):

 
Frankie and Johnny
Type: 1920s
Year Composed:
Performer:
Composer(s):

 
From the North, South, East, and West
Type: World War I
Year Composed:
Performer: Harry Lauder
Composer(s):

 
Good Bye-ee
Type: World War I
Year Composed: 1918
Performer: Courtland and Jeffries
Composer(s):

 
Good Morning, Mr. Zip-Zip-Zip!
Type: World War I
Year Composed: 1918
Performer: Arthur Fields
Composer(s):

 
Goodbye Broadway, Hello France
Type: World War I
Year Composed: 1919
Performer: American Quartet
Composer(s):

 
Goodbye Broadway, Hello France
Type: World War I
Year Composed:
Performer: American Quintet
Composer(s):

 
Goodbye Dolly Gray
Type: Civil War
Year Composed:
Performer: Hugh Donovan
Composer(s):

 
Grand Peace Record
Type: World War I
Year Composed: 1918
Performer: Military Band
Composer(s):

 
Grandfather's Clock
Type: Gilded Age
Year Composed: 1876
Performer:
Composer(s): Henry Clay Work

 
Hail Columbia
Type: Patriotic
Year Composed:
Performer:
Composer(s): Francis Scott Key

 
Hail to the Chief
Type: Patriotic
Year Composed: 1815
Performer: U.S. Air Force Concert Band
Composer(s): James Sanderson

 
Happy Tho' Married
Type: 1920s
Year Composed:
Performer: Herbert Berliner
Composer(s):

 
Harrigan
Type: Tin Pan Alley
Year Composed: 1907
Performer:
Composer(s): George M. Cohan

 
Have You Heard of My Boy Jack?
Type: World War I
Year Composed: 1917
Performer: Louise Kirkby-Lunn
Composer(s):

 
He was Nailed to the Cross for Me
Type: Sacred
Year Composed:
Performer: Ernest V. Stoneman
Composer(s):

 
Hello Central! Give Me No Man's Land
Type: World War I
Year Composed: 1918
Performer: Henry Burr
Composer(s):

 
Hello Central, Get Me No Man's Land
Type: World War I
Year Composed:
Performer: Al Jolson
Composer(s):

 
Hello, Ma Baby
Type: Tin Pan Alley
Year Composed:
Performer: Len Spencer
Composer(s): Joseph Edgar Howard
Ida Emerson

 
Here We Are, Here We Are Again!
Type: World War I
Year Composed: 1915
Performer: F. Wheeler
Composer(s):

 
Hesitating Blues
Type: Jazz
Year Composed:
Performer: Jim Europe's 369th Infantry Hell Fighters Band
Composer(s): W.C. Handy

 
Hoch, Hoch Der Kaiser
Type: World War I
Year Composed: 1914
Performer: Whit Cunliffe
Composer(s):

 
Home, Sweet Home
Type: Sentimental
Year Composed: 1823
Performer: Harry Macdonough
Composer(s): John Howard Payne

 
Homes They Left Behind
Type: World War I
Year Composed: 1914
Performer: Maggie Teyte
Composer(s):

 
Hot Time in the Old Town Tonight
Type: Tin Pan Alley
Year Composed: 1896
Performer: Dan W. Quinn
Composer(s): Theodore A. Metz
Joe Hayden

 
How Ya Gonna Keep 'Em Down on the Farm
Type: World War I
Year Composed: 1918
Performer: Harry Fay
Composer(s): Walter Donaldson

 
How Ya Gonna Keep 'Em Down On The Farm?
Type: World War I
Year Composed:
Performer: Jim Europe's 369th Infantry Hell Fighters Band
Composer(s):

 
Hungarian Rag
Type: Jazz
Year Composed:
Performer: Eubie Blake
Composer(s): Julius Lenzberg

 
Hunting the Hun
Type: World War I
Year Composed: 1918
Performer: Arthur Fields
Composer(s):

 
I Didn't Raise My Boy to be a Soldier
Type: World War I
Year Composed: 1915
Performer: Morton Harvey
Composer(s): Alfred Bryan
Al Piantadosi

 
I Didn't Raise My Boy to be a Soldier
Type: World War I
Year Composed:
Performer: Morton Harvey
Composer(s):

 
I Don't Know Where I'm Going, But…
Type: World War I
Year Composed: 1917
Performer: Peerless Quartet
Composer(s):

 
I Don't Want to Get Well
Type: World War I
Year Composed: 1918
Performer: Van & Schenck
Composer(s):

 
I May Be Gone for a Long Time
Type: World War I
Year Composed:
Performer: Shannon Four
Composer(s):

 
I Want a Girl Just Like the Girl
Type: Tin Pan Alley
Year Composed: 1911
Performer: Ella Retford
Composer(s): Will Dillon
Harry Von Tilzer

 
I'd Feel at Home If They Let…
Type: World War I
Year Composed: 1917
Performer: Billy Murray
Composer(s):

 
If You Were the Olnly Girl in the World
Type: World War I
Year Composed: 1916
Performer: Violet Lorraine and George Robey
Composer(s):

 
I'm Forever Blowing Bubbles
Type: 1920s
Year Composed: 1919
Performer: Helen Clark and George Wilton
Composer(s): Jaan Kendis
John William Kellette

 
In My Merry Oldsmobile
Type: Tin Pan Alley
Year Composed: 1905
Performer:
Composer(s): Vincent Bryan
Gus Edwards

 
In the Good Old Summertime
Type: Tin Pan Alley
Year Composed: 1902
Performer: Harry Macdonough
Composer(s): Ren Shields
George Evans

 
In the Good Old Summertime
Type: Tin Pan Alley
Year Composed: 1902
Performer: Robert Price
Composer(s):

 
In the Shade of the Old Apple Tree
Type: Tin Pan Alley
Year Composed: 1905
Performer: Harry Macdonough
Composer(s): Harry Williams
Egbert Van Alstyne

 
In the Shade of the Old Apple Tree
Type: Tin Pan Alley
Year Composed: 1902
Performer: Henry Burr
Composer(s): Harry Williams
Egbert Van Alstyne

 
It's a Long Way to Berlin
Type: World War I
Year Composed: 1917
Performer: Maurice Burkhart
Composer(s): Jack Judge
Harry Williams

 
It's A Long Way to Berlin But We'll Get There
Type: World War I
Year Composed:
Performer: Arthur Fields
Composer(s):

 
It's a Long Way to Tipperary
Type: World War I
Year Composed: 1912
Performer: Stanley Kirkby
Composer(s): Jack Judge
Harry Williams

 
It's a Long Way to Tipperary
Type: World War I
Year Composed: 1912
Performer: Albert Farrington
Composer(s): Jack Judge
Harry Williams

 
It's a Long Way to Tipperary
Type: World War I
Year Composed: 1912
Performer: Billy Murray
Composer(s):

 
It's a Long Way to Tipperary
Type: World War I
Year Composed: 1912
Performer: John McCormack
Composer(s): Jack Judge
Harry Williams

 
It's Right Here for You
Type: Blues
Year Composed:
Performer: Mamie Smith
Composer(s): Marion Dickerson
Alexander Belledna

 
I've a Bit of a "Blighty One"
Type: World War I
Year Composed: 1917
Performer: Vesta Tilley
Composer(s):

 
Jazz Baby
Type: Jazz
Year Composed:
Performer: Jim Europe's 369th Infantry Hell Fighters Band
Composer(s): Noble Sissle
James Reese Europe and Eubie Blake

 
Jazz Baby
Type: 1920s
Year Composed: 1919
Performer:
Composer(s): Blanche Merrill
M.K. Jerome

 
Jazzing Around
Type: Jazz
Year Composed:
Performer: Eubie Blake
Composer(s): Earl Fuller

 
Jim Crow Reel
Type: Minstrel
Year Composed:
Performer: Adelard St. Louis
Composer(s):

 
Joan of Arc
Type: World War I
Year Composed:
Performer: Henry Burr
Composer(s):

 
Just a Baby's Prayer at Twilight
Type: World War I
Year Composed: 1918
Performer: Henry Burr
Composer(s):

 
Just Because She Made Dem Goo-goo Eyes
Type: Tin Pan Alley
Year Composed:
Performer: John Dobbs
Composer(s):

 
Just Before the Battle, Mother
Type: Civil War
Year Composed:
Performer: Harry Macdonough
Composer(s):

 
Just Before the Battle, Mother
Type: Civil War
Year Composed:
Performer: John Young
Composer(s):

 
Keep the Home Fires Burning
Type: World War I
Year Composed: 1914
Performer: Columbia Stellar Quartet
Composer(s): Ivor Novello
Lena Ford

 
Keep the Home Fires Burning
Type: World War I
Year Composed:
Performer: John McCormack
Composer(s): Ivor Novello
Lena Ford

 
Keep the Trench Fires Going
Type: World War I
Year Composed: 1918
Performer: Henry Burr
Composer(s):

 
King Porter: A Stomp
Type: Blues
Year Composed:
Performer: Jelly Roll Morton
Composer(s): Jelly Roll Morton

 
K-K-K-Katy
Type: World War I
Year Composed: 1918
Performer: Billy Murray
Composer(s): Geoffrey O'Hara

 
Laddie in Khaki
Type: World War I
Year Composed: 1915
Performer: Robert Carr
Composer(s):

 
Land of Hope and Glory
Type: Sacred
Year Composed: 1912
Performer: Clara Butt
Composer(s):

 
Lanky Yankee Boys in Blue
Type: Patriotic
Year Composed: 1908
Performer: Billy Murray
Composer(s):

 
Let's All Be Americans Now
Type: World War I
Year Composed:
Performer: American Quartet
Composer(s):

 
L-I-B-E-R-T-Y
Type: World War I
Year Composed:
Performer: Henry Burr
Composer(s):

 
L-I-B-E-R-T-Y
Type: World War I
Year Composed:
Performer: Henry Burr
Composer(s):

 
Liberty Bell
Type: World War I
Year Composed:
Performer: Peerless Quartet
Composer(s):

 
Liberty Loan March
Type: World War I
Year Composed:
Performer: Sousa's Band
Composer(s):

 
Little Bit of Carpenter
Type: World War I
Year Composed: 1915
Performer: Harry Champion
Composer(s):

 
Livery Stable Blues
Type: Jazz
Year Composed:
Performer: Original Dixieland Jas Band
Composer(s): Ray Lopez
Yellow Nunez

 
Lloyd George's Beer
Type: World War I
Year Composed: 1917
Performer: Ernie Mayne
Composer(s):

 
Ma Rag Time Baby
Type: Ragtime
Year Composed:
Performer: Peerless Quartet
Composer(s):

 
Makin' Whoopee
Type: 1920s
Year Composed:
Performer: Louisiana Collegians
Composer(s):

 
Marching Back to Blighty
Type: World War I
Year Composed: 1916
Performer: Harry Cove
Composer(s):

 
Marching Through Georgia
Type: Civil War
Year Composed: 1865
Performer: Harlan and Stanley
Composer(s): Henry Clay Work

 
Marine Hymn
Type: Patriotic
Year Composed: 1919
Performer: U.S. Marine Band
Composer(s): Jacques Offenbach
L.Z. Phillips

 
Maryland, My Maryland
Type: Civil War
Year Composed:
Performer: Herbert Stuart
Composer(s):

 
Massa's in the Cold, Cold Ground
Type: Minstrel
Year Composed:
Performer: Harry Macdonough
Composer(s):

 
Medley: Irish Jigs
Type: Irish
Year Composed:
Performer: Raoul Gagnier
Composer(s):

 
Medley: Irish Songs, 1
Type: Irish
Year Composed:
Performer: Palace Quartet
Composer(s):

 
Medley: Irish Songs, 2
Type: Irish
Year Composed:
Performer: Palace Quartet
Composer(s):

 
Medley: Plantation Songs
Type: Minstrel
Year Composed:
Performer: Harry Macdonough
Composer(s):

 
Meet Me in St. Louis, Louis
Type: Tin Pan Alley
Year Composed: 1904
Performer: Robert Price
Composer(s): Andrew Sterling
Kerry Mills

 
Memphis Blues
Type: Jazz
Year Composed:
Performer: Jim Europe's 369th Infantry Hell Fighters Band
Composer(s): W.C. Handy Handy

 
Moonlight Bay
Type: Tin Pan Alley
Year Composed: 1912
Performer: Premier Quartet
Composer(s): Edward Madden
Percy Weinrich

 
Muscle Shoals Blues
Type: Blues
Year Composed:
Performer: Fats Waller
Composer(s): George W. Thomas

 
My Choc'late Soldier Sammy Boy
Type: World War I
Year Composed:
Performer: Jim Europe's 369th Infantry Hell Fighters Band
Composer(s): Egbert Van Alstyne

 
My Mammy
Type: 1920s
Year Composed: 1921
Performer: Al Jolson
Composer(s): Sam Lewis and Joe Young
Walter Donaldson

 
My Mammy
Type: 1920s
Year Composed: 1921
Performer: Diamond Trio
Composer(s):

 
My Maryland March
Type: Civil War
Year Composed:
Performer:
Composer(s):

 
My Meatless Day
Type: World War I
Year Composed: 1917
Performer: Ernie Mayne
Composer(s):

 
My Old Iron Cross
Type: World War I
Year Composed: 1915
Performer: Harry Champion
Composer(s):

 
My Old Kentucky Home
Type: Minstrel
Year Composed:
Performer: Harry Macdonough
Composer(s):

 
My Old Kentucky Home
Type: Minstrel
Year Composed:
Performer: Edward M. Favor
Composer(s): Stephen Foster

 
My Sweetheart is Somewhere in France
Type: World War I
Year Composed: 1917
Performer: Elizabeth Spencer
Composer(s): Mary Earl

 
My Wild Irish Rose
Type: Tin Pan Alley
Year Composed:
Performer: Columbia Stellar Quartet
Composer(s): Chauncey Olcott

 
My Wild Irish Rose
Type: Tin Pan Alley
Year Composed:
Performer: Harry Macdonough
Composer(s): Chauncey Olcott

 
Nearer My God to Thee
Type: Sacred
Year Composed:
Performer: Harry Macdonough
Composer(s):

 
Never Mind the Food Controller
Type: World War I
Year Composed: 1917
Performer: Florrie Forde
Composer(s):

 
Now You've Got the Khaki On
Type: World War I
Year Composed: 1916
Performer: Marie Lloyd
Composer(s):

 
O Susanna
Type: Minstrel
Year Composed: 1862
Performer: Henry Burr
Composer(s): Stephen Foster

 
Oh Dem Golden Slippers
Type: Tin Pan Alley
Year Composed:
Performer: Harry C. Brown
Composer(s):

 
Oh! How I Hate to Get Up in the Morning
Type: World War I
Year Composed:
Performer: Arthur Fields
Composer(s):

 
Oh! How I Hate to Get Up in the Morning
Type: World War I
Year Composed: 1918
Performer: Arthur Fields
Composer(s): Irving Berlin

 
Oh! How I Hate to Get Up in the Morning
Type: World War I
Year Composed: 1917
Performer: Eddie Cantor
Composer(s): Irving Berlin

 
Oh! It's a Lovely War
Type: World War I
Year Composed: 1918
Performer: Courtland and Jeffries
Composer(s):

 
Oh! Johnny, Oh Johnny, Oh!
Type: World War I
Year Composed: 1917
Performer: Billy Murray
Composer(s): Ed Rose
A. Olman

 
Oh, You Beautiful Doll
Type: Tin Pan Alley
Year Composed: 1911
Performer: Billy Murray
Composer(s): Seymour Brown
Nat D. Ayer

 
Old Black Joe
Type: Minstrel
Year Composed:
Performer: Harry Macdonough
Composer(s):

 
Old Black Joe
Type: Minstrel
Year Composed:
Performer: Henry Burr
Composer(s):

 
Old Contemptibles
Type: World War I
Year Composed: 1915
Performer: Robert Carr
Composer(s):

 
Old Folks at Home
Type: Minstrel
Year Composed: 1851
Performer: Henry Burr
Composer(s): Stephen Foster

 
Old Folks at Home
Type: Minstrel
Year Composed: 1851
Performer: Florence Easton
Composer(s): Stephen Foster

 
Old Hundred
Type: Sacred
Year Composed:
Performer: Henry Burr
Composer(s):

 
Old Oaken Bucket
Type: Tin Pan Alley
Year Composed:
Performer: Henry Burr
Composer(s):

 
On Patrol In No Man's Land
Type: World War I
Year Composed:
Performer: Jim Europe's 369th Infantry Hell Fighters Band
Composer(s): Noble Sissle
James Reese Europe and Eubie Blake

 
On the Banks of the Wabash
Type: Tin Pan Alley
Year Composed:
Performer: Henry Burr
Composer(s):

 
Onward Christian Soldiers
Type: Sacred
Year Composed: 1865
Performer: Harry Macdonough
Composer(s): Sabine Baring-Gould
Arthur Sullivan

 
Our Whistling Tommies
Type: World War I
Year Composed: 1915
Performer: Royal Court Orchestra
Composer(s):

 
Over There
Type: World War I
Year Composed: 1917
Performer: Billy Murray
Composer(s): George M. Cohan

 
Over There
Type: World War I
Year Composed: 1917
Performer: Enrico Caruso
Composer(s): George M. Cohan

 
Over There
Type: World War I
Year Composed: 1917
Performer: Nora Bayes
Composer(s): George M. Cohan

 
Over There
Type: World War I
Year Composed:
Performer: Henry Burr
Composer(s): George M. Cohan

 
Pack Up Your Troubles
Type: World War I
Year Composed: 1915
Performer: Columbia Stellar Quartet
Composer(s): George Asaf
Felix Powell

 
Pack Up Your Troubles
Type: World War I
Year Composed: 1915
Performer: Murray Johnson
Composer(s): George Asaf
Felix Powell

 
Pack Up Your Troubles
Type: World War I
Year Composed: 1915
Performer: Reinald Werrenrath
Composer(s): George Asaf
Felix Powell

 
Parodies of the Camp
Type: World War I
Year Composed:
Performer: Geoffrey O'Hara
Composer(s):

 
Plantation Echoes
Type: Jazz
Year Composed:
Performer: Jim Europe's 369th Infantry Hell Fighters Band
Composer(s):

 
Potsdam
Type: World War I
Year Composed: 1914
Performer: Penrose and Whitlock
Composer(s):

 
Pretty Baby
Type: Tin Pan Alley
Year Composed:
Performer: Harry Macdonough
Composer(s):

 
Pretty Baby
Type: Tin Pan Alley
Year Composed:
Performer: Henry Burr
Composer(s):

 
Pretty Baby
Type: Tin Pan Alley
Year Composed:
Performer: Orpheus Quartet
Composer(s):

 
Rock of Ages
Type: Sacred
Year Composed:
Performer: Harry Macdonough
Composer(s):

 
Rock of Ages
Type: Sacred
Year Composed:
Performer: Henry Burr
Composer(s):

 
Rock of Ages
Type: Sacred
Year Composed:
Performer: Robert Price
Composer(s):

 
Rockabye Your Baby with a Dixie Melody
Type: 1920s
Year Composed: 1918
Performer: Al Jolson
Composer(s): Sam M. Lewis
Joe Young and Jean Schwartz

 
Rose of No Man's Land
Type: World War I
Year Composed: 1916
Performer: William Thomas
Composer(s):

 
Rose of No Man's Land
Type: World War I
Year Composed: 1918
Performer: Henry Burr
Composer(s):

 
Rose of Picardy
Type: World War I
Year Composed: 1918
Performer: John McCormack
Composer(s):

 
Roses of Picardy
Type: World War I
Year Composed: 1917
Performer: Ernest Pike
Composer(s):

 
School Days
Type: Tin Pan Alley
Year Composed: 1907
Performer: Byron Harlan
Composer(s): Will D. Cobb
Gus Edwards

 
Second Hand Rose
Type: 1920s
Year Composed: 1921
Performer: Fannie Brice
Composer(s): James F. Hanley
Grant Clarke

 
Send Me Away With a Smile
Type: World War I
Year Composed: 1917
Performer: John McCormack
Composer(s):

 
Sergeant Solomon Isaacstein
Type: World War I
Year Composed: 1916
Performer: Gus Harris
Composer(s):

 
Shine on Harvest Moon
Type: Tin Pan Alley
Year Composed: 1908
Performer: Piano Roll
Composer(s): Jack Norworth
Nora Bayes-Norworth

 
Sidewalks of New York
Type: Tin Pan Alley
Year Composed: 1894
Performer: Harry Macdonough
Composer(s): James W. Blake
Charles E. Lawlor

 
Sidney's in Civvies Again
Type: World War I
Year Composed: 1919
Performer: Vesta Tilley
Composer(s):

 
Singing in the Rain
Type: 1920s
Year Composed:
Performer: Gus Arnheim
Composer(s):

 
Sister Susie's Sewing Shirts
Type: World War I
Year Composed: 1914
Performer: Jack Charman
Composer(s):

 
Sleep Noble Hearts
Type: Civil War Reunion
Year Composed: 1913
Performer: Lyric Quartette
Composer(s):

 
Smiles
Type: Tin Pan Alley
Year Composed:
Performer: Robert Price
Composer(s): J. Will Callahan
L.S. Roberts

 
Smiles
Type: Tin Pan Alley
Year Composed:
Performer: Henry Burr
Composer(s): J. Will Callahan
L.S. Roberts

 
Smiles
Type: Tin Pan Alley
Year Composed:
Performer: Fred Van Eps
Composer(s): J. Will Callahan
L.S. Roberts

 
Smoke Clouds
Type: World War I
Year Composed: 1917
Performer: Herbert Payne
Composer(s):

 
Snyder, does Your Mother Know You're Out?
Type: Tin Pan Alley
Year Composed:
Performer: George P. Watson
Composer(s):

 
So Long Mother
Type: World War I
Year Composed:
Performer: Columbia Quartet
Composer(s):

 
Some of These Days
Type: Tin Pan Alley
Year Composed:
Performer: Sophie Tucker
Composer(s): Shelton Brooks

 
Somewhere in France is a Lily
Type: World War I
Year Composed: 1917
Performer: Henry Burr
Composer(s):

 
Somewhere in France, Dear Mother
Type: World War I
Year Composed: 1915
Performer: Stanley Krikby
Composer(s):

 
Sons of Liberty
Type: World War I
Year Composed:
Performer: Henry Burr
Composer(s):

 
St. Louis Blues
Type: Jazz
Year Composed: 1914
Performer: Original Dixieland Jass Band
Composer(s): W.C. Handy

 
St. Louis Blues
Type: Jazz
Year Composed:
Performer: Jim Europe's 369th Infantry Hell Fighters Band
Composer(s): W.C. Handy

 
Stars and Stripes Forever
Type: Patriotic
Year Composed:
Performer: Sodero's Band
Composer(s): John Philip Sousa

 
Stars and Stripes Forever
Type: Patriotic
Year Composed:
Performer: Sousa's Band
Composer(s): John Philip Sousa

 
Stars and Stripes Forever
Type: Patriotic
Year Composed:
Performer: Vess Ossman
Composer(s): John Philip Sousa

 
Star-Spangled Banner
Type: Patriotic
Year Composed: 1814
Performer: Thomas Chalmers
Composer(s): Francis Scott Key

 
Star-Spangled Banner
Type: Patriotic
Year Composed: 1814
Performer: Anna Case
Composer(s): Francis Scott Key

 
Star-Spangled Banner
Type: Patriotic
Year Composed: 1814
Performer: Diamond Four
Composer(s): Francis Scott Key

 
Star-Spangled Banner
Type: Patriotic
Year Composed: 1814
Performer: Hayden Quartet
Composer(s): Francis Scott Key

 
Star-Spangled Banner
Type: Patriotic
Year Composed: 1814
Performer: Sousa's Band
Composer(s): Francis Scott Key

 
Stoney Broke in No Man's Land
Type: World War I
Year Composed: 1921
Performer: Frank Miller
Composer(s):

 
Submarine Attack, Somewhere at Sea
Type: World War I
Year Composed:
Performer: Henry Burr
Composer(s):

 
Sugar
Type: World War I
Year Composed: 1917
Performer: Ernie Mayne
Composer(s):

 
Summertime on Bredon
Type: World War I
Year Composed: 1916
Performer: Gervase Elwes
Composer(s):

 
Swanee
Type: Tin Pan Alley
Year Composed:
Performer: Fred Van Eps
Composer(s): Irving Caesar
George Gershwin

 
Sweetheart of Sigma Chi
Type: Tin Pan Alley
Year Composed: 1912
Performer:
Composer(s): Frank Dudliegh Vernor
Byron Douglas Stokes

 
Swing Low, Sweet Chariot
Type: Negro Spirituals
Year Composed:
Performer: Southern Four
Composer(s):

 
Take Me Back to Dear Old Blighty
Type: World War I
Year Composed: 1917
Performer: Florrie Forde
Composer(s):

 
Take Me Out to the Ball Game
Type: Tin Pan Alley
Year Composed: 1908
Performer: Edward Meeker
Composer(s): Harry Von Tilzer
Jack Norworth

 
Tanks that Broke the Ranks
Type: World War I
Year Composed: 1916
Performer: Fanning and Fortune
Composer(s):

 
That Thing Called Love
Type: Blues
Year Composed:
Performer: Mamie Smith
Composer(s): Perry Bradford

 
That's an Irish Lullabye
Type: Tin Pan Alley
Year Composed: 1913
Performer: George MacFarlane
Composer(s):

 
There's a Long, Long Trail A-Winding
Type: World War I
Year Composed: 1917
Performer: John McCormack
Composer(s):

 
There's a Service Flag Flying at Our House
Type: World War I
Year Composed:
Performer: Henry Burr
Composer(s):

 
There's a Vacant Chair at Home
Type: World War I
Year Composed:
Performer: Joseph Phillips
Composer(s):

 
There's a Vacant Chair in Every House Tonight
Type: World War I
Year Composed:
Performer: Shannon Four
Composer(s):

 
They All Look Alike in Khaki
Type: World War I
Year Composed: 1918
Performer: Ella Retford
Composer(s):

 
Three Cheers for Little Belgium
Type: World War I
Year Composed: 1914
Performer: Violet Lorraine
Composer(s):

 
Tiger Rag Blues
Type: Jazz
Year Composed:
Performer: Original Dixieland Jass Band
Composer(s): Nick LaRocca

 
Till the Boys Come Home
Type: World War I
Year Composed: 1915
Performer: Stanley Kirkby
Composer(s):

 
Till We Meet Again
Type: World War I
Year Composed: 1918
Performer: Vernon Dalhart and Gladys Price
Composer(s): Raymond B. Egan
Richard Whiting

 
Till We Meet Again
Type: World War I
Year Composed:
Performer: Henry Burr
Composer(s): Raymond B. Egan
Richard Whiting

 
Too Much Mustard
Type: Jazz
Year Composed:
Performer: Europe's Society Orchestra
Composer(s): Cecil Macklin

 
Too-a-Loo-Ra-Loo-Ral
Type: Tin Pan Alley
Year Composed: 1913
Performer: George MacFarlane
Composer(s): J.R. Shannon

 
Toot, Toot, Tootsie
Type: 1920s
Year Composed: 1922
Performer: Al Jolson
Composer(s): Gus Kahn
Ernie Erdman and Dan Russo

 
Torpedo and the Whale
Type: World War I
Year Composed:
Performer: Columbia Stellar Quartet
Composer(s):

 
Tow, the Row, Row
Type: World War I
Year Composed: 1914
Performer: Whit Cunliffe
Composer(s):

 
Tramp, Tramp, Tramp
Type: Civil War
Year Composed:
Performer: S.H. Dudley
Composer(s): George F. Root

 
Tramp, Tramp, Tramp
Type: Civil War
Year Composed:
Performer: John Young
Composer(s):

 
Turkey in the Straw
Type: Minstrel
Year Composed:
Performer: Willie Eckstein
Composer(s):

 
U.S. Field Artillery March
Type: World War I
Year Composed:
Performer: Sousa's Band
Composer(s):

 
Under the Bamboo Tree
Type: Tin Pan Alley
Year Composed:
Performer: Harry Macdonough
Composer(s): Bob Cole

 
Under the Bamboo Tree
Type: Tin Pan Alley
Year Composed: 1902
Performer: Marie Cahill
Composer(s): Bob Cole

 
United Forces March
Type: World War I
Year Composed: 1914
Performer: Metropolitan Military Band
Composer(s):

 
Vacant Chair
Type: Civil War
Year Composed: 1861
Performer: Harry Macdonough
Composer(s): George Root
H.S. Washburn

 
Vacant Chair
Type: Civil War
Year Composed:
Performer: Hayden Quartet
Composer(s):

 
Vamp
Type: Tin Pan Alley
Year Composed:
Performer: Fred Van Eps
Composer(s):

 
Wabash Blues
Type: 1920s
Year Composed:
Performer: Isham Jones
Composer(s):

 
Wait Till the Cows Come Home
Type: Tin Pan Alley
Year Composed:
Performer: Harry Macdonough
Composer(s):

 
Wait Till the Cows Come Home
Type: Tin Pan Alley
Year Composed:
Performer: Henry Burr
Composer(s):

 
Waitin' for the Robert E. Lee
Type: Tin Pan Alley
Year Composed: 1912
Performer: Heidelberg Quintet
Composer(s): Lewis F. Muir
L. Wolfe Gilbert

 
Waiting for the Robert E. Lee
Type: Tin Pan Alley
Year Composed:
Performer: Billy Murray
Composer(s):

 
War Songs
Type: Civil War
Year Composed:
Performer: Victor Male Chorus
Composer(s):

 
War Songs March
Type: Civil War
Year Composed:
Performer:
Composer(s):

 
We All Went Marching Home
Type: World War I
Year Composed: 1915
Performer: Black Diamonds Band
Composer(s):

 
We Didn't Want to Fight
Type: World War I
Year Composed: 1914
Performer: Stanley Kirkby
Composer(s):

 
We Don't Want the Bacon
Type: World War I
Year Composed: 1918
Performer: Peerless Quartet
Composer(s):

 
We Stopped Them at the Marne
Type: World War I
Year Composed:
Performer: Henry Burr
Composer(s):

 
We'll Do Our Share
Type: World War I
Year Composed: 1918
Performer: Peerless Quartet
Composer(s):

 
We'll Never Let the Old Flag Fall
Type: World War I
Year Composed:
Performer: Frederick Wheeler
Composer(s):

 
What a Friend We Have in Jesus
Type: Sacred
Year Composed: 1868
Performer: Henry Burr
Composer(s): Joseph Medlicott Scriven
Charles Crozat Converse

 
What Are You Going to Do to Help the Boys
Type: World War I
Year Composed:
Performer: Charles Hart
Composer(s):

 
What Are You Going to Do to Help the Boys
Type: World War I
Year Composed:
Performer: Henry Burr
Composer(s):

 
What Did You Do in the War, Daddy?
Type: World War I
Year Composed: 1919
Performer: Tom Clare
Composer(s):

 
When I Get Back to the U.S.A.
Type: World War I
Year Composed: 1917
Performer: Billy Murray
Composer(s):

 
When I Send You a Picture of Berlin
Type: World War I
Year Composed: 1918
Performer: Arthur Fields
Composer(s):

 
When Johnny Comes Marching Home
Type: Civil War
Year Composed:
Performer: John Terrill
Composer(s):

 
When Johnny Comes Marching Home
Type: Civil War
Year Composed:
Performer: John Terrill
Composer(s): Patrick Sarsfield Gilmore

 
When Johnny Comes Marching Home
Type: Civil War
Year Composed:
Performer: Farrar and Columbia Quartet
Composer(s):

 
When the Lusitania Went Down
Type: World War I
Year Composed:
Performer: Herbert Stuart
Composer(s):

 
When Tommy Comes Marching Home
Type: World War I
Year Composed: 1914
Performer: Harry Marlow
Composer(s):

 
When Uncle Sammy Leads the Band
Type: World War I
Year Composed:
Performer: Peerless Quartet
Composer(s):

 
When We Are Married
Type: Tin Pan Alley
Year Composed:
Performer: Harry Macdonough
Composer(s):

 
When We've Wound Up the Watch
Type: World War I
Year Composed: 1915
Performer: Lorraine and Thorne
Composer(s):

 
When You Were Sweet Sixteen
Type: Tin Pan Alley
Year Composed: 1898
Performer: Harry Macdonough
Composer(s): James Thornton

 
When You're a Long Way from Home
Type: World War I
Year Composed: 1916
Performer: Kirby & Cove
Composer(s):

 
Where Do We Go From Here?
Type: World War I
Year Composed: 1917
Performer: Arthur Fields
Composer(s):

 
Where Do We Go From Here?
Type: World War I
Year Composed:
Performer: American Quartet
Composer(s):

 
While They Were Dancing Around
Type: World War I
Year Composed: 1914
Performer: Peerless Quartet
Composer(s):

 
While They Were Dancing Around
Type: World War I
Year Composed: 1914
Performer: Henry Burr
Composer(s):

 
Who Bashed Bill Kaiser?
Type: World War I
Year Composed: 1916
Performer: Tom Clare
Composer(s):

 
Who Threw the Overalls in Mrs. Murphy's Chowder
Type: Tin Pan Alley
Year Composed:
Performer: Edward M. Favor
Composer(s):

 
Would You Rather Be a Colonel
Type: World War I
Year Composed: 1918
Performer: Arthur Fields
Composer(s):

 
Yankee Doodle
Type: French & Indian War
Year Composed:
Performer: George Gaskin
Composer(s):

 
Yankee Doodle
Type: French & Indian War
Year Composed:
Performer: Thomas Clark
Composer(s):

 
Yankee Doodle
Type: French & Indian War
Year Composed:
Performer: Vess Ossman
Composer(s):

 
Yankee Doodle Boy
Type: Tin Pan Alley
Year Composed: 1904
Performer: Billy Murray
Composer(s):

 
Yankee Doodle Boy
Type: Tin Pan Alley
Year Composed: 1904
Performer: F.E. Lewis
Composer(s): George M. Cohan

 
Yanks Are At It Again
Type: World War I
Year Composed: 1918
Performer: Billy Murray
Composer(s):

 
Yanks Started Yankin'
Type: World War I
Year Composed: 1918
Performer: Arthur Fields
Composer(s):

 
You Can't Beat Us
Type: World War I
Year Composed: 1918
Performer: Arthur Fields
Composer(s):

 
You Can't Do What My Last Man Did
Type: Blues
Year Composed:
Performer: Ethel Waters
Composer(s): James P. Johnson

 
You Can't Keep a Good Man Down
Type: Blues
Year Composed:
Performer: Mamie Smith
Composer(s): Perry Bradford

 
Your King and Country Wants You
Type: World War I
Year Composed: 1914
Performer: Edna Thornton
Composer(s):

 
Your King and Country Wants You
Type: World War I
Year Composed: 1914
Performer: Helen Clark
Composer(s):

 
You're a Grand Old Flag
Type: World War I
Year Composed: 1906
Performer: American Quartet
Composer(s): George M. Cohan

 
You're a Grand Old Flag
Type: Patriotic
Year Composed: 1906
Performer: Billy Murray
Composer(s): George M. Cohan

 

 

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