Lee S. Roberts

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Leland Stanford Roberts (1884–1949), commonly known as Lee S. Roberts, was an American composer and pianist.^[1]

He is best known for his composition 'Smiles' with lyricist J. Will Callahan,^[2] written in 1917, but was a prolific composer across many genres of music.

He was also the Vice-President of the QRS Music Roll Company, and recorded hundreds of piano rolls under his name and also the pseudonym Stanford Robar.^[3] He was particularly active in recording salon and ballad style music.

He lived in San Francisco.^[4]

Partial List of compositions[]

• After All
• A Little Birch Canoe & You
• Amourette
• Answer
• Autumn of Life, The
• Baby Days
• Broken Moon
• Cheerio
• Ching Chong
• Drowsy Baby
• Harlequin
• Harriman Cake Walk
• Hawaiian Nights
• High Ball
• Hula Dreams
• I Miss You Miss America
• Italian Nights
• Lonesome-That's All
• Lover's Lane
• Mammy's Lullaby
• March of the Tanks
• Montezuma
• Moon Dreams
• My Country Forever
• Nailo
• Oh! Harold
• Patches
• Please
• Sad Hawaiian Sea
• Smiles
• Souvenir Of The West
• Story of Peter Rabbit
• T'Jours A Moi
• Triennial "K.T." March
• That Old Fashioned Mother Of Mine
• Valse Parisienne
• Wanting You So
• Without Thee
• You Don't Know

References[]

External links[]

• Free scores by Lee S. Roberts at the International Music Score Library Project (IMSLP)

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