Columbia matrix 3388. You're a grand old rag / Billy Murray

TitleSource
You're a grand old rag (Primary title)Disc label (RDI)
George Washington, Jr. (Work title)Brooks/Rust
You're a grand old flag (Normalized title)Sheet music
Authors and ComposersNotes
George M. Cohan (composer)
George M. Cohan (lyricist)
Composer information source: Disc label; sheet music.
PersonnelNotes Hide Additional Titles
Billy Murray (vocalist : tenor vocal)
  • Description: Male vocal solo, with orchestra
  • Category: Vocal
  • Language: English
  • Master Size: 10-in.
Notes
Source(s): Tim Brooks files (issues); Rigler-Deutsch Index.
Additional number: M-656.
Brooks/Rust: "Due to complaints that 'rag' was disrespectful Cohan almost immediately changed the title of this 1906 hit to 'You're a Grand Old Flag.' Columbia continued to list it as 'Rag' into the 1910s, however."
Take Date and PlaceTakeStatusLabel Name/NumberFormatNote Hide Additional Titles
between January and May 1906 New York, New York [1] Unknown
between January and May 1906 New York, New York 2 Master Columbia 3388 10-in.
between January and May 1906 New York, New York 2 Master Columbia A342 10-in.
between January and May 1906 New York, New York 2 Master Kalamazoo 6888 10-in.
between January and May 1906 New York, New York 2 Master Oxford 3388 10-in.
between January and May 1906 New York, New York 2 Master Standard 3388 10-in.

You're a grand old rag / Billy Murray

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between 1906 and 1909 New York, New York Unknown Master Star 2285 10-in.

Citation

Discography of American Historical Recordings, s.v. "Columbia matrix 3388. You're a grand old rag / Billy Murray," accessed March 19, 2024, https://adp.library.ucsb.edu/index.php/matrix/detail/2000138945/3388-Youre_a_grand_old_rag.

Columbia matrix 3388. You're a grand old rag / Billy Murray. (2024). In Discography of American Historical Recordings. Retrieved March 19, 2024, from https://adp.library.ucsb.edu/index.php/matrix/detail/2000138945/3388-Youre_a_grand_old_rag.

"Columbia matrix 3388. You're a grand old rag / Billy Murray." Discography of American Historical Recordings. UC Santa Barbara Library, 2024. Web. 19 March 2024.

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