Alfred Bryan
Alfred Bryan (September 15, 1871 – April 1, 1958) was a Canadian lyricist. Bryan was born in Brantford, Ontario. He worked as an arranger in New York and wrote lyrics for many Broadway shows in the late 1910s and early 1920s. In the 1920s he moved to Hollywood to write lyrics for screen musicals. Bryan worked with several composers during his career. Among his collaborators were Henriette Blanke-Belcher, Fred Fischer, Al Sherman, Larry Stock and Joe McCarthy. Perhaps his most successful song was "I Didn't Raise My Boy to Be a Soldier" (1915), with music by Al Piantadosi. The song sold 650,000 copies during the first three months and became one of 1915's top-selling songs in the United States. Although Bryan himself was not a committed pacifist, he described the American public's anti-war sentiments in his lyrics. He died in Gladstone, New Jersey, aged 86. |
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Recordings (Results 26-50 of 513 records)
Company | Matrix No. | Size | First Recording Date | Title | Primary Performer | Description | Role | Audio |
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Victor | B-4039 | 10-in. | 11/14/1906 | Cheer up, Mary | Byron G. Harlan | Male vocal solo, with orchestra | lyricist | |
Victor | E-4146 | 8-in. | 1/14/1907 | Bonnie Jean | Haydn Quartet | Male vocal quartet, with orchestra | lyricist | |
Victor | B-4146 | 10-in. | 12/19/1906 | Bonnie Jean | Haydn Quartet | Male vocal solo and male vocal quartet, with orchestra | lyricist | |
Victor | B-4463 | 10-in. | 5/7/1907 | Deutschland | Harry Tally | Male vocal solo, with orchestra | lyricist | |
Victor | E-4463 | 8-in. | 5/7/1907 | Deutschland | Harry Tally | Male vocal solo, with orchestra | lyricist | |
Victor | B-4466 | 10-in. | 5/7/1907 | A friend of mine told a friend of mine | Harry Tally | Male vocal solo, with orchestra | lyricist | |
Victor | E-4466 | 8-in. | 5/7/1907 | A friend of mine told a friend of mine | Harry Tally | Male vocal solo, with orchestra | lyricist | |
Victor | B-6164 | 10-in. | 4/30/1908 | Are you sincere? | Elise Stevenson | Female vocal solo, with orchestra | lyricist | |
Victor | B-6312 | 10-in. | 7/17/1908 | Music makes me sentimental | Ed Morton | Male vocal solo, with orchestra | lyricist | |
Victor | B-6348 | 10-in. | 8/13/1908 | Cheer up, cherries will soon be ripe | Byron G. Harlan | Male vocal solo, with orchestra | lyricist | |
Victor | B-6383 | 10-in. | 9/2/1908 | Rainbow | Haydn Quartet ; Billy Murray | Male vocal solo and male vocal quartet, with orchestra | lyricist | |
Victor | B-6464 | 10-in. | 9/25/1908 | Grandma | Byron G. Harlan | Male vocal solo, with orchestra | lyricist | |
Victor | B-6570 | 10-in. | 10/29/1908 | When I marry you | Byron G. Harlan | Male vocal solo, with orchestra | lyricist | |
Victor | B-6712 | 10-in. | 1/11/1909 | Summer-time reminds me of you | Arthur C. Clough | Male vocal solo, with orchestra | lyricist | |
Victor | B-6745 | 10-in. | 1/22/1909 | In those good old country days | Harry Tally | Male vocal solo, with orchestra | lyricist | |
Victor | B-6747 | 10-in. | 1/22/1909 | Good luck, Mary | Harry Tally | Male vocal solo, with orchestra | lyricist | |
Victor | B-6759 | 10-in. | 1/29/1909 | Love me like I liked to be loved | Clarice Vance | Female vocal solo, with orchestra | lyricist | |
Victor | B-6931 | 10-in. | 3/26/1909 | Good luck, Mary | Haydn Quartet ; Harry Macdonough | Male vocal quartet and male vocal solo, with orchestra | lyricist | |
Victor | B-6983 | 10-in. | 4/13/1909 | Summer reminds me of you | Walter Van Brunt | Male vocal solo, with orchestra | lyricist | |
Victor | B-8079 | 10-in. | 6/28/1909 | Dublin daisies | Peerless Quartet | Male vocal quartet, with orchestra | lyricist | |
Victor | B-8096 | 10-in. | 7/7/1909 | Don't be an old maid, Molly | Haydn Quartet | Male vocal quartet, with orchestra | lyricist | |
Victor | B-8173 | 10-in. | 8/24/1909 | I'm going to do what I please | Ada Jones | Female vocal solo, with orchestra | lyricist | |
Victor | B-8222 | 10-in. | 9/10/1909 | When I marry you | Haydn Quartet ; Ada Jones ; Billy Murray | Female-male vocal duet and male vocal quartet, with orchestra | lyricist | |
Victor | B-8298 | 10-in. | 10/14/1909 | Can't you see | Harry Macdonough ; Elizabeth Wheeler | Female-male vocal duet, with orchestra | lyricist | |
Victor | B-8311 | 10-in. | 10/22/1909 | When I marry you | Haydn Quartet ; Harry Macdonough ; Elizabeth Wheeler | Female-male vocal duet and male vocal quartet, with orchestra | lyricist |
Citation
Discography of American Historical Recordings, s.v. "Bryan, Alfred," accessed December 2, 2023, https://adp.library.ucsb.edu/names/105828.
Bryan, Alfred. (2023). In Discography of American Historical Recordings. Retrieved December 2, 2023, from https://adp.library.ucsb.edu/names/105828.
"Bryan, Alfred." Discography of American Historical Recordings. UC Santa Barbara Library, 2023. Web. 2 December 2023.
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