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Arthur Collins recorded hundreds of songs, and in many cases he recorded the same song multiple times for various recording outfits. His signature song was Arthur Longbrake's The Preacher and the Bear, which he first recorded in 1905. His rendition, widely dispersed among a variety of releases, constitutes the most popular non-operatic record ...
Collins & Harlan, the team of American singers Arthur Collins and Byron G. Harlan, formed a popular comic duo 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 time including Irishmen and ...
Arthur Collins recorded "Nobody" for the Victor label (no. 4391) on May 22, 1905. [1] "Nobody" is a popular song with music by Bert Williams and lyrics by Alex Rogers, published in 1905. [2] The song was first publicly performed in February 1906, in the Broadway production Abyssinia.
George Fairman wrote the song. [4] Sheet music was published for it by Capitol Music House of Columbus, Ohio in 1904. [5] Publisher Arthur Longbrake composed the song using the pseudonym Joe Arzonia. [6] Ragtime artist Arthur Francis Collins recorded the song in 1905 and it became a huge hit, selling over a million records. [1]
The song was first recorded by Arthur Collins on an Edison 5470 phonograph cylinder. [6] The song may be best known today as the introductory song in the famous Warner Bros. cartoon One Froggy Evening (1955), sung by the character later dubbed Michigan J. Frog and high-stepping in the style of a cakewalk.
"Steamboat Bill" is a 1910 song with music by the vaudeville group The Leighton Brothers and lyrics by Ren Shields. It became one of the first hit recordings in the United States through its 1911 recording by Arthur Collins, [1] mostly known for the music in Disney's Steamboat Willie, the first released Mickey Mouse sound cartoon.
In 1902, the first recording, sung and played by Arthur Collins on piano [1] In 1953, the song featured in the film Meet Me at the Fair, directed by Douglas Sirk, where it was sung by Jo Ann Greer who dubbed the singing voice of actress Carole Mathews. In 1960, Bobby Darin recorded the song, where it went to #19 on the Hot 100, [2] #13 in ...
The serio-comic "flirtation song" was popularized by singer Grace La Rue, and recorded by Billy Murray on Zonophone, Harry Tally on Columbia Records, [1] and Arthur Collins on Edison Records. [2] According to Edison Phonograph Monthly, the song has "somewhat of the rag-time rhythm," and was "very popular among vaudeville singers generally."