Byron George Harlan (August 29, 1861 – September 11, 1936) was an American singer from

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, a comic

minstrel A minstrel was an entertainer, initially in medieval Europe. It originally described any type of entertainer such as a musician, juggler, acrobat, singer or fool; later, from the sixteenth century, it came to mean a specialist entertainer ...

singer and

ballad A ballad is a form of verse, often a narrative set to music. Ballads derive from the medieval French ''chanson balladée'' or ''ballade'', which were originally "dance songs". Ballads were particularly characteristic of the popular poetry and ...

eer who often recorded with Arthur Collins. The two together were often billed as "

Collins & Harlan 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 bl ...

Solo recordings

1899 *"Please, Mr. Conductor, Don't Put Me Off The Train" (remade 1903 on Edison Gold Moulded 7219) (w.m. J. Fred Helf) 1901 *" Hello Central, Give Me Heaven" 1903 *"Please Mother, Buy Me A Baby" (w.m. Will D. Cobb & Gus Edwards) :- on Victor & Edison *"Always In The Way" (w.m. Charles K. Harris) :- on Edison Records *" The Vacant Chair" (w. Henry S. Washburn m. George Frederick Root) :- on Edison 1904 *'"Sweetest Girl in Dixie" :- on Leeds Talk-o-Phone 1905 *"My Gal Sal" *"A Picnic For Two" *"Bright Eyes Goodbye" *"With the Robins I'll Return" :-on Edison Records *"Where Morning Glories Twine Around the Door" Oxford Disc Record #3282 1906 *"

Wait 'Till the Sun Shines, Nellie "Wait 'Till the Sun Shines, Nellie" is a 1905 popular song with music written by Harry Von Tilzer and lyrics by Andrew B. Sterling. History "Wait 'Till the Sun Shines, Nellie" has been recorded many times and is now considered a pop standar ...

" *"Cheer Up Mary" - Edison Gold Moulded 9403 *"When The Sunset Turns The Ocean's Blue To Gold - Columbia & United Talking Machine A439 1907 *"And A Little Child Shall Lead Them" - Edison Gold Moulded 9472 *"I'm Tying The Leaves So They Won't Come Down" - Edison Gold Moulded 9606 *" School Days (When We Were A Couple of Kids)" - Victor 5086 1908 *"Are You Sincere?" - Edison Gold Moulded 9973 1912 *"They Gotta Quit Kickin' My Dawg Aroun'" - Edison Standard Record 10559 1917 *"With His Hands In His Pockets (And His Pockets In His Pants)" - Edison Blue Amberol 3124 1919 *"Way Down East Where I Belong" - OKEH Record 1134-B 1921 *"Down Where I Belong" - Pathe 20660

With Arthur Collins

1902 *"They Were All Doing The Same" - Edison Gold Moulded 8255 1903 Meet Me Down At Luna Lena - Zon-O-Phone 194 1904 *"Under The Anheuser Bush - Columbia 32409 *"Down On The Brandywine" - Edison Gold Moulded 8712 1905 *" In My Merry Oldsmobile" - Columbia 85016 (6" length cylinder - most were 5" length) *"Peter Piper" - 20th Century Talking Machine Record 85001 *"Negro Recollections" (with Vess L. Ossman on banjo) - Edison Gold Moulded 7665 1906 *"Afloat On A Five Dollar Note" - Edison Gold Moulded 9316 *"Traveling" - Edison Gold Moulded 9287 *"Camp Meeting Time" - Edison Gold Moulded 9415 *"Take A Car" - Victor 4372 1907 *"Come On And Kiss Yo' Baby" - Victor 16224-A *"Bake Dat Chicken Pie" - Victor 17221-B *"Arrah Wanna" - Edison Gold Moulded 9447 *"Ev'ry Little Bit Added To What You've Got Makes Just A Little Bit More" - Edison Gold Moulded 9611 1908 *"Cohan's Rag Babe - Columbia 33282 1909 *"Down At The Huskin' Bee" *"Down Where the Big Bananas Grow" - Edison Amberol 308 *"Make A Noise Like A Hoop And Roll Away" - Edison Standard 10122 *"My Wife's Gone To The Country" - Columbia A724 1911 *"The Barn Dance" *"

Alexander's Ragtime Band "Alexander's Ragtime Band" is a Tin Pan Alley song by American composer Irving Berlin released in 1911 and is often inaccurately cited as his first global hit. Despite its title, the song is a march as opposed to a rag and contains little sync ...

" 1912 *"I'm Goin' Back to Dixie" *" The Ragtime Soldier Man" - Victor and Columbia Records 1914 *"The

Aba Daba Honeymoon "Aba Daba Honeymoon" is a popular song written and published by Arthur Fields and Walter Donovan in 1914, known through its chorus, "Aba daba daba daba daba daba dab, Said the chimpie to the monk; Baba daba daba daba daba daba dab, Said the monke ...

" - Edison Blue Amberol 2468 1915 *"Alabama Jubilee" *"Kentucky Home" 1916 *"The Kid Is Clever" 1918 *" The Old Grey Mare" 1919 *"On the Ozark Trail"It is unclear which Ozark Trail the song is referring to. - A recording of the song can be found at

/ref> 1922 *"Ham & Eggs"

With Aileen Stanley

1913 *" Tramp! Tramp! Tramp!" - Edison Amberol "Special H" and Edison Blue Amberol "Special H"

With Arthur Stanley

1909 *"

Marching Through Georgia "Marching Through Georgia" (sometimes spelled as "Marching Thru' Georgia" or "Marching Thro Georgia") is a marching song written by Henry Clay Work at the end of the American Civil War in 1865. The title and lyrics of the song refer to U.S. Ar ...

" - Victor 16416-A

With Frank C. Stanley

1902 *"All Aboard for Slumberville" - Edison Gold Moulded 8187 1904 *"Blue Bell" - Edison Gold Moulded 8655 1904 *"

Dixie Dixie, also known as Dixieland or Dixie's Land, is a nickname for all or part of the Southern United States. While there is no official definition of this region (and the included areas shift over the years), or the extent of the area it cover ...

", or "I wish I was in Dixie" - Edison Gold Moulded 8784 1905 *" You're My Heart's Desire, I Love You, Nellie Dean" - Edison Gold Moulded 9013

With Joseph Belmont

1903 *"While the Birds are Singing to Me" - Edison Gold Moulded 9583 1904 *"Robin and the Wren" - Edison Gold Moulded 8662 1905 *"Beautiful Birds Sing On" - Edison Gold Moulded 9022

With Steve Porter

1913 *"Two Jolly Sailors" - Edison Blue Amberol 1759

References

External links

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Byron Harlan cylinder recordings
from the Cylinder Audio Archive at the

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Library.
Byron G. Harlan recordings
at the Discography of American Historical Recordings. {{DEFAULTSORT:Harlan, Byron G. 1861 births 1936 deaths American male singers Blackface minstrel performers Pioneer recording artists