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 51-75 of 513 records)
Company | Matrix No. | Size | First Recording Date | Title | Primary Performer | Description | Role | Audio |
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Victor | B-8407 | 10-in. | 11/30/1909 | I'd rather say hello than say good-bye | Hamilton Hill | Male vocal solo, with orchestra | lyricist | |
Victor | B-9323 | 10-in. | 7/25/1910 | I won't be back 'till August | Ed Morton | Male vocal solo, with orchestra | lyricist | |
Victor | B-9664 | 10-in. | 11/21/1910 | Winter | "That Girl" Quartet | Female vocal quartet, with orchestra | lyricist | |
Victor | B-9666 | 10-in. | 11/21/1910 | That's the fellow I want to get | Billy Murray | Male vocal solo, with orchestra | lyricist | |
Victor | B-9667 | 10-in. | 11/21/1910 | You never miss the water till the well runs dry | Billy Murray | Male vocal solo, with orchestra | lyricist | |
Victor | B-9669 | 10-in. | 11/22/1910 | Come, Josephine in my flying machine | American Quartet ; Ada Jones | Female vocal solo, with male vocal quartet | lyricist | |
Victor | B-9707 | 10-in. | 12/13/1910 | Winter | Haydn Quartet | Male vocal quartet, with orchestra | lyricist | |
Victor | B-9735 | 10-in. | 12/22/1910 | Come, Josephine in my flying machine | Blanche Ring | Female vocal solo, with orchestra | lyricist | |
Victor | B-10147 | 10-in. | 4/5/1911 | That was before I met you | Walter Van Brunt | Male vocal solo, with orchestra | lyricist | |
Victor | B-10192 | 10-in. | 4/18/1911 | Dublin daisies | Gene Greene | Male vocal solo, with orchestra | lyricist | |
Victor | B-10370 | 10-in. | 5/23/1911 | I like the hat, I like the dress, and I like the girl that's in it | Byron G. Harlan | Male vocal solo, with orchestra | lyricist | |
Victor | B-10947 | 10-in. | 9/11/1911 | Make me love you like I never loved before | "That Girl" Quartet | Female vocal quartet, with orchestra | lyricist | |
Victor | B-11542 | 10-in. | 2/1/1912 | I live uptown | Ada Jones ; Billy Murray | Female-male vocal duet, with orchestra | lyricist | |
Victor | B-11566 | 10-in. | 2/5/1912 | Bring back my golden dreams | Peerless Quartet | Male vocal quartet, with orchestra | lyricist | |
Victor | B-11808 | 10-in. | 4/1/1912 | When you're married | Billy Murray | Male vocal solo, with orchestra | lyricist | |
Victor | B-11949 | 10-in. | 4/30/1912 | Whistle it | Ada Jones | Female vocal solo, with orchestra | lyricist | |
Victor | B-12111 | 10-in. | 6/17/1912 | You may be Irish, Murphy, but I think that you're in Dutch | Billy Murray | Male vocal solo, with orchestra | lyricist | |
Victor | B-12880 | 10-in. | 2/6/1913 | Always take a girl named Daisy ('Cause daisies won't tell) | Henry Burr ; Albert Campbell | Male vocal duet, with orchestra | lyricist | |
Victor | B-12905 | 10-in. | 2/12/1913 | When I waltz with you | Helen Clark | Female vocal solo, with orchestra | lyricist | |
Victor | B-13628 | 10-in. | 7/24/1913 | Peg o' my heart | Charles Harrison | Tenor vocal solo, with orchestra | lyricist | |
Victor | B-14035 | 10-in. | 11/5/1913 | Flow along, River Tennessee (To the home of the girl I love) | Henry Burr ; Albert Campbell | Male vocal duet, with orchestra | lyricist | |
Victor | B-14091 | 10-in. | 11/18/1913 | I'm on my way to Mandalay | Henry Burr ; Albert Campbell ; Will Oakland | Male vocal trio, with orchestra | lyricist | |
Victor | B-14526 | 10-in. | 2/27/1914 | She got even with Stephen | Billy Murray | Male vocal solo, with orchestra | lyricist | |
Victor | B-14703 | 10-in. | 4/14/1914 | Who paid the rent for Mrs. Rip van Winkle? | Billy Murray | Male vocal solo, with orchestra | lyricist | |
Victor | B-14814 | 10-in. | 5/11/1914 | When it's moonlight on the Alamo | Peerless Quartet | Male vocal quartet, with orchestra | lyricist |
Citation
Discography of American Historical Recordings, s.v. "Bryan, Alfred," accessed April 25, 2024, https://adp.library.ucsb.edu/names/105828.
Bryan, Alfred. (2024). In Discography of American Historical Recordings. Retrieved April 25, 2024, from https://adp.library.ucsb.edu/names/105828.
"Bryan, Alfred." Discography of American Historical Recordings. UC Santa Barbara Library, 2024. Web. 25 April 2024.
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