Billy Murray Waltz Me Around Again Willie

First posted 11/26/2017; updated v/25/2019.

Tenor vocalist known as "The Denver Nightingale." Born William Thomas Murray on five/25/1877 to Irish immigrants in Philadelphia, PA. His family moved to Denver, Colorado in 1882. Died 8/17/1954. His popularity lasted through the beginning quarter of the 20th century, a time when, what he called his "hammering" way of shouting into an acoustic recording horn, was the applied science prior to the rising of the electric microphone, which ushered in the era of crooners.

He joined a vaudeville troupe in 1893 and performed in minstrel shows early in his career. He started recording regularly in New York in 1903. He became the definitive interpreter of George 1000. Cohan, recording the hitting version of nearly every Cohan song from 1905 on. In addition to his solo recordings, he worked with the Haydn Quartet (1898-1914), Columbia Comedy Trio (1907), with Ada Jones (1907-22), American Quartet (1910-25?) and the Heidelberg Quintet (1911-fifteen).

Murray has eight songs ("You're a M Old Flag," "Take Me Out to the Ball Game," "Give My Regards to Broadway," "By the Light of the Silvery Moon," Run across Me in St. Louis, Louis," "Yankee Putter Male child," "Casey Jones," and "In My Merry Oldsmobile") featured in the DMDB book The Tiptop 100 Songs of the Pre-Stone Era, 1890-1953.

For a complete list of this act's songs and albums honored past the DMDB, bank check out the DMDB Music Maker Encyclopedia entry.

Peak 100 Songs

Dave'due south Music Database lists are determined by song's appearances on best-of lists every bit well as chart success, sales, radio airplay, streaming, and awards.

AQ = American Quartet, HQ = Haydn Quartet, AJ = Ada Jones. Songs which hit the top of the U.South. pop charts are noted (#i).

DMDB Meridian 1%:

1. You lot're a 1000 Quondam Flag (aka "The G Old Rag") (1906) #ane
2. Take Me Out to the Brawl Game (w/ HQ, 1908) #one
3. Give My Regards to Broadway (1905) #i
4. By the Lite of the Argent Moon (w/ HQ, 1910) #1
5. Meet Me in St. Louis, Louis (1904) #1
6. Yankee Doodle Male child (1905) #1
vii. Casey Jones (w/ AQ, 1910) #1
8. In My Merry Oldsmobile (1905) #1
9. Harrigan (1907) #ane

10. Oh, You Beautiful Doll (w/ AQ, 1911) #1
eleven. Come Josephine in My Flying Automobile (w/ AJ, 1911) #1
12. Pretty Baby (1916) #1
xiii. Cuddle Upwards a Piddling Closer, Lovey Mine (w/ AJ, 1908) #one
fourteen. That Erstwhile Gang of Mine (w/ Ed Smalle, 1923) #1
15. Navajo (1904) #1
16. One thousand-One thousand-K-Katy (Stammering Song) (1918)
17. Be My Little Babe Bumble Bee (w/ AJ, 1912) #i

DMDB Superlative 5%:

18. Everybody Works But Father (1905) #1
19. Come Accept a Trip in My Air Ship (1905) #1
xx. Let's Take an Old-Fashioned Walk (w/ AJ, 1907) #i

21. I Love a Piano (1916) #1
22. Alexander'due south Ragtime Ring (1911)
23. Shine on, Harvest Moon (w/ AJ, 1909) #1
24. Under the Anheuser Busch (1904)
25. Alexander (Don't You Love Your Baby No More?) (1904) #1
26. Under Any Former Flag at All (1908) #1
27. When We Are M-A-R-R-I-Due east-D (w/ AJ, 1908) #1
28. Teasing (I Was But Teasing Yous) (1904)
29. Waltz Me Around Again, Willie (westward/ HQ, 1906)
xxx. Forty-Five Minutes from Broadway (1906)

31. I'll See You in C-U-B-A (1920)
32. He'd Have to Become Under, Get out to Go Nether, to Fix Up His Automobile (1914)
33. Play a Elementary Melody (westward/ Edna Brown, 1916)
34. Bedelia (1904) #1
35. Carrie (Carrie Marry Harry) (1910) #ane
36. Brand Believe (due west/ AJ, 1908)
37. No Wedding Bells for Me (1907)
38. All Solitary (due west/ AJ, 1911)
39. Down past the O-howdy-O (I've Got the Sweetest Little O, My! O!) (westward/ Baton Jones, 1921)
40. Camptown Races (Gwine to Run All Night) (1911)

41. I'm Afraid to Come Home in the Dark (1908)
42. Cheyenne (Shy Anne) (1906)
43. The Gaby Glide (1912)
44. He's a Devil in His Own Home Town (1914)
45. Higher Life (1906)
46. I've Taken Quite a Fancy to You (west/ AJ, 1908)
47. He Goes to Church on Sunday (1907)
48. Smarty (w/ AJ, 1908)
49. Over There (1917)
50. Wouldn't You Like to Have Me for a Sweetheart? (westward/ AJ, 1908) #1

51. Up in a Cocoanut Tree (1903)
52. When You're All Dressed Up and No Place to Go (1914)
53. What Do Yous Want to Make Those Optics at Me For? (due west/ AJ, 1917)
54. It Looks Like a Big Dark This evening (1908)
55. For Me and My Gal (1917)
56. San Antonio (Cowboy Song) (1907)
57. What's the Affair with Male parent? (1910)
58. Won't You Be My Dearest? (w/ AJ, 1907)
59. Bagdad (1913)
lx. The Vamp (w/ Joseph C. Smith & Harry MacDonough, 1919)

61. They Were All Out of Step But Jim (1918)
62. I'thou Awfully Glad I Met Y'all (w/ AJ, 1909)
63. I Wonder Who's Kissing Her Now (1910)
64. Tessie (You Are the Simply But) (1903)
65. I Tin't Do the Sum (1904)
66. On San Francisco Bay (1907)
67. Have Me Around Over again (1907)
68. Not Because Your Hair Is Curly (1906)

DMDB Peak ten%:

69. I Wish I Had a Girl (1909)
lxx. It Had to Be You (west/ Aileen Stanley, 1924)

71. Yes! We Have No Bananas (westward/ Corking White Manner Orchestra, 1923)
72. Just As We Used To (1919)
73. There'due south No Moon Like the Honeymoon (w/ AJ, 1908)
74. Whatever Place the Quondam Flag Flies (1912)
75. The Twentieth Century Rag (1914)
76. Alcoholic Blues (1919)
77. Take Me Up with You, Dearie (w/ HQ, 1909)
78. After You've Gone (west/ Gladys Rice, 1919)
79. Ain't It Funny What a Difference a Few Hours Can Make (1904)
80. The Little Ford Rambled Correct Along (1915)

81. Keep on Smiling (westward/ HQ, 1908)
82. Streets of New York (1907)
83. Dance of the Grizzly Conduct (w/ AQ, 1911)
84. Considering I'thousand Married Now (1907)
85. Whatsoever Fiddling Girl That's a Nice Girl Is the Right Little Girl for Me (west/ the AQ, 1910)
86. The Wedding ceremony Glide (w/ AJ, 1912)
87. My Sweetie Went Away (west/ Ed Salle, 1923)
88. Bon Bon Buddy (1908)
89. The Game of Peek-a-Boo (I'd Like to Encounter a Fiddling More than of Yous) (1907)
90. It's Nice to Have a Sweetheart (w/ AJ, 1907)

91. Dixie Land, I Love You (1909)
92. Stumbling (1922)
93. Yankee Doodle Blues (w/ Ed Smalle, 1922)
94. Information technology'southward Great to Be a Soldier Human being (1907)
95. Hello Hawaii, How Are You? (1916)
96. I Wonder Where My Infant Is Tonight (w/ Henry Burr, 1926)
97. The Hat My Father Wore on St. Patrick's Twenty-four hours (w/ HQ, 1909)
98. Hinky Dinky Parlay Voo (Mademoiselle from Armentieres) (w/ Ed Smalle, 1924)
99. Continue on the Sunny Side (1906)
100. Are You from Dixie? 'Cause I'm from Dixie Too (w/ Irving Kaufman, 1916)

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