List of songs written by Blanche Merrill
This is a list of songs by Blanche Merrill. In all cases she wrote the lyrics, so there is no separate column for lyricist. In a handful of cases she also composed the music although most of the time music was composed by others, often by Leo Edwards. In some cases the credit is listed as "words and music by Blanche Merrill and ..." this phraseology has been incorporated into the appropriate cell.
For published songs, the source of information is the publication itself. For unpublished songs, the source of information the song's mention in reviews, or the Library of Congress's Catalog of Copyright Entries.
The majority of Merrill's unpublished songs are probably lost, although copies could exist in the archives of the various performers for whom she wrote. The Library of Congress's copyright deposit would also have copies of songs which she copyrighted but never published.[1]
Title | Show or vaudeville act | Music composed by | Written for | Publisher | Year of publication (or first mention) | Source |
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Ain't That Always the Way | Leo Edwards | Fanny Brice | 1939 | First published in Fanny Brice's Comedy Songs[2] | ||
Becky is Back in the Ballet | Leo Edwards | Fanny Brice | New York: Shapiro, Bernstein & Co. | 1922 | First performed in 1915.[3] | |
Best That You Get When You Get It is Only an Even Break, The | An Even Break | Mollie Fuller | 1925 | [4] | ||
Bootlegger's Bride, The | Belle Baker? | 1927 | [5] | |||
Boots, Boots, Boots | Jean Schwartz | New York: Waterson, Berlin & Snyder | 1918 | |||
Breaking Home Ties | 1923 | [6] | ||||
Broadway Sam | Passing Show of 1915 | Leo Edwards | Willie Howard | 1915 | [7][8] | |
Buckwheat Cake Tosser in Child's, The ("The Buckwheat Tosser") | Ziegfeld Follies of 1924 | Edna Leedom | 1924 | [9][10] | ||
Bye and Bye | Leo Edwards | Horace Wright and Rene Dietrich | New York: Chas. K. Harris | 1912 | ||
Coat of Mine | M.K. Jerome | New York: Waterson, Berlin & Snyder | 1919 | |||
Dance of the Rake, The | Leo Edwards | Fanny Brice | 1939 | First published in Fanny Brice's Comedy Songs[2] | ||
Dancing Mad | Ziegfeld Follies of 1923 | Leo Edwards | Edna Leedom, Fanny Brice | 1923 | IBDB,[11] | |
Dippy Doodle-Um (The Crazy Quilt Song) | M.K. Jerome | New York: Waterson, Berlin & Snyder | 1919 | |||
Dog's Tale of Love, A | Anna Chandler | 1921 | [12] | |||
Dying Swan, The | Ziegfeld Follies of 1916 | Leo Edwards | Fanny Brice | 1916 | [13] | |
Egotistical Eva | Blanche Merrill | Eva Tanguay | New York: Chas. K. Harris | 1910 | [14] | |
Egyptian | Ziegfeld Follies of 1917 | Leo Edwards | Fanny Brice | 1917 | [15] First published in Fanny Brice's Comedy Songs[2] | |
Every Little Heart That's Lonely | Leo Edwards | New York: Shapiro, Bernstein & Co. | 1923 | Arr. By Ed. Morbach Jr. | ||
Getting Mad Was Never Made For Us | Blanche Merrill | John Hyams and Leila McIntyre | New York: Waterson, Berlin & Snyder | 1914 | Cover | |
Girl I Used To Be, The | Life | Mable McCane | 1924 | [16] | ||
Give an Imitation of Me | Blanche Merrill | Eva Tanguay | New York: Chas. K. Harris | 1910 | ||
Good Night Blue Eyes | Leo Edwards | New York: Waterson, Berlin & Snyder | 1918 | |||
Hat, The | Ziegfeld Follies of 1916 | Leo Edwards | Fanny Brice | 1916 | [13] | |
Here's To You, My Sparkling Wine | Leo Edwards | New York: G. Schirmer | 1915 | |||
Hocus Pocus | 1923 | [6] | ||||
Humpty Dumpty | The Trained Nurses | Leo Edwards | New York: Chas. K. Harris | 1912 | ||
I am a Thief | The Burglar | Maurice Burkhardt | 1916 | [17] | ||
I Can't Be True To One Little Girl When Another Little Girl Comes 'Round | The Trained Nurses | Leo Edwards | New York: Chas. K. Harris | 1912 | ||
I Can't Do This I can't Do That | Page Mister Cupid | Jean Schwartz | New York: Jerome H. Remick & Co. | 1920 | Alternative titles: Don't ever wear that tie again it's so loud it makes me start Why I can't do this and I can't do that | |
I Can't Help It | Blanche Merrill | Eva Tanguay | New York: Chas. K. Harris | 1910 | Cover | |
I Don't Care Any More Than I Used To | Eva Tanguay | 1923 | [18] | |||
I Don't Know Whether to Do It or Not | Blanche Merrill | Fanny Brice | 1915 | Known from recording. | ||
I Got a Rock | Blanche Merrill | Lillian Shaw | New York: Chas. K. Harris | 1911 | cover | |
I Look Like the Last Rose of Summer | Blanche Merrill? | Lillian Shaw | 1917 | [19] | ||
I Want To Dance, Dance, Dance | Leo Edwards | Edith Cliford, Harry Tighe / Mae West | New York: Chas. K. Harris | 1912 | Cover | |
I Was All Right When Things Were All Wrong | So This Is Love | Ann Butler | 1925 | [20] | ||
If Anything Happens, It Happens To Me | Ziegfeld Follies of 1924 | Edna Leedom | 1924 | [9] | ||
If You Love Me Like I Love You | Gus Edwards | 1934 | ||||
Ike Don't Make No Strike | Leo Edwards | New York: Chas. K. Harris | 1913 | |||
I'll Get Along Somehow | Life | Mable McCane | 1924 | [16] | ||
I'm a Harmony Baby | Blanche Merrill, Harry De Costa, M.K. Jerome, Fred Rich | New York: Waterson, Berlin & Snyder | 1923 | Lyrics by Blanche Merrill, Harry De Costa, M. K. Jerome and Fred Rich | ||
I'm a Hieland Lassie | Leo Edwards | Fanny Brice | 1921 | Originally titled "Bony hei'land lassie"; "melody by L. Edwards, arr. By Ed. Marbach"; First published in Fanny Brice's Comedy Songs[2] | ||
I'm a Little Butterfly | Edwin Weber | Fanny Brice | 1939 | First published in Fanny Brice's Comedy Songs[2] | ||
I'm an Indian | Leo Edwards | Fanny Brice | New York: Mills Music | 1922 | First mentioned in 1918;[21] Reprinted in Fanny Brice's Comedy Songs[2] | |
I'm Bad | Leo Edwards | Fanny Brice | 1939 | First published in Fanny Brice's Comedy Songs[2] | ||
I'm From Chicago | Leo Edwards | New York : Waterson, Berlin & Snyder | 1917 | |||
I'll Goin' To Be Bad | Life | Mable McCane | 1924 | [16] | ||
I'm Going to Build a Theatre of My Own | Sonia Meroff | 1921 | [22] | |||
I'm Looking for a Blue Bird (to Chase My Blues Away) | Fred Rich | New York: Maurice Richmond | 1921 | |||
I'm Lucky To Get By | Leo Edwards | Eva Tanguay | New York: Chas. K. Harris | 1913 | Cover | |
I've Dug All I Could, But See What I'm Getting | Anna Chandler | 1921 | [12] | |||
If We Could Only Take Their Word | Leo Edwards | Fanny Brice | 1939 | Performed in the Ziegfeld Follies of 1916[23] | ||
If You Want a Little Doggie, Whistle and I'll Come To You | Leo Edwards | New York: Chas. K. Harris | 1915 | |||
If You Want to Know Them Yes Them | Bobby Folsom | 1926 | [24] | |||
In a Little Cottage By the Railroad Track | Davey's Troubles | Blanche Merrill | Herman Timberg | New York: Waterson, Berlin & Snyder | 1913 | |
In a Pretty Little White House of Our Own | Ziegfeld Follies | Leo Edwards | New York: Chas. K. Harris | 1912 | ||
In My Streamlined Trailer | Words and music by the Duncan Sisters & Blanche Merrill | Duncan Sisters | 1947 | Catalog of Copyright Entries, p. 4793 | ||
In the Corner of My Heart | Words and music by the Duncan Sisters & Blanche Merrill | Duncan Sisters | 1947 | Catalog of Copyright Entries, p. 4844 | ||
In the Days of Girls and Boys | Leo Edwards | 1911 | [25] | |||
It's a Dog's Life | Life | Mable McCane | 1924 | [16] | ||
It's All a High Hat | 1923 | Song satirizing Henry Ford's ambition to be president. Lyric published in Variety[26] | ||||
Jake! Jake! The Yiddisha Ball-Player | Irving Berlin | New York: Waterson, Berlin & Snyder | 1913 | |||
Jazz Baby | M.K. Jerome | New York: Waterson, Berlin & Snyder | 1919 | |||
Jumping Into Something | George A. Whiting and Sadie Burt | 1926 | [27] Possibly the same as "We're Jumping Into Something" | |||
Just 'Round the Corner from Broadway | Gus Edwards | Gus Edwards | New York: Shapiro, Bernstein & Co. | 1914 | Cover | |
K-I-S-S Kiss | The Trained Nurses | Leo Edwards | New York: Chas. K. Harris | 1912 | ||
Let's Pretend We're Kids Again | Gus Edwards | 1934 | ||||
Little Jazz Band of Our Own, A | Eva Tanguay | 1921 | [28] | |||
Little Wigwam For Two, A | Page Mister Cupid | Jean Schwartz | New York: Jerome H. Remick & Co. | 1920 | ||
Love is an Old Fashion'd Feeling | Page Mister Cupid | Jean Schwartz | New York: Jerome H. Remick & Co. | 1920 | ||
Low Heel Shoes | Hazel Flynn | Lulu McConnell | 1939 | [29] | ||
Make 'Em Laugh | Around the World | Edwin Weber | Fanny Brice | 1922[30] | First published in Fanny Brice's Comedy Songs (New York: Mills Music, 1939). | |
May Walk | Blanche Merrill | [31] | ||||
Melodious Jazz | M.K. Jerome | New York: Waterson, Berlin & Snyder | 1920 | |||
Moll, The | Jack Stanley | 1933 | ||||
Money | Blanche Merrill | Eva Tanguay | New York: Chas. K. Harris | 1911 | Cover | |
Moving Picture Baby | Music Box Revue (1925) | Leo Edwards | Fanny Brice | 1925 | Billboard, August 15, 1925, p. 90. | |
My Bill | 1923 | [6] | ||||
My Little Dancing Heart | Page Mister Cupid | Jean Schwartz | New York: Jerome H. Remick & Co. | 1920 | ||
My Syncopated Melody Man | Blanche Merrill and Eddie Cox | New York: Meyer Cohen Music Publishing | 1918 | Lyrics by Blanche Merrill and Eddie Cox | ||
'Neath the Light of the Twinkling Star | Leo Edwards | New York: Chas. K. Harris | 1913 | |||
Nosie Rosie Posie | Leo Edwards | Trixie Friganza | New York: Chas. K. Harris | 1912 | Cover | |
Oh! God! Let My Dream Come True! | Al Piantadosi | Shapiro, Bernstein & Co. | 1916 | |||
Oh, That Heavenly Man | Leo Edwards | New York: Chas. K. Harris | 1913 | |||
Old Established Firm | Puzzles of 1925 | Jimmy Hussey | 1925 | Variety[32] | ||
Page Mister Cupid | Page Mister Cupid | Jean Schwartz | New York: Jerome H. Remick & Co. | 1920 | ||
Painted Rose | Blanche Merrill & James Hanley | 1930 | Unpublished; "Words and melody by Blanche Merrill and James Hanley" | |||
Pavlowa | Greenwich Village Follies of 1921 | Leo Edwards | Fanny Brice | 1921 | [33] First published in Fanny Brice's Comedy Songs[2] | |
Poor Little Cinderella | Dance and Grow Thin | Blanche Merrill | New York: Irving Berlin Inc. | 1917 | ||
Poor Little Moving Picture Baby | Leo Edwards | Fanny Brice | 1939? | First published in Fanny Brice's Comedy Songs[2] | ||
(Poor Little) Wall Flower | Jack and Jill | Muriel Pollock | 1923 | [34] | ||
Pretty Birdie | Dance and Grow Thin | Blanche Merrill | New York: Irving Berlin Inc. | 1917 | ||
Put a Little Letter in My Letter Box | Dance and Grow Thin | Blanche Merrill | New York: Irving Berlin Inc. | 1917 | ||
Quack, Quack | Arthur Freed | Marie Callahan and Billy Hanson | 1927 | [35] | ||
Queen of the May | Blanche Merrill | Rosetta Duncan | 1932 | [36] | ||
Ragtime Drama, A | Blanche Merrill | 1917 | A Ragtime Drama with Ada Jones and Billy Murray, recorded by the Victor Talking Machine Company on January 23, 1917, matrix B-19114 and issued as Victor 18288-B.[37] | |||
Result of Going to Dancing School, The | Arthur Freed? | Fanny Brice | 1927 | [35] | ||
Rolling Down the River | Blanche Merrill ? | Dora Maugham | 1930 | [38] | ||
Russian Art | Leo Edwards | Fanny Brice | 1939 | First published in Fanny Brice's Comedy Songs[2] | ||
Shadowland | Gus Edwards | Gus Edwards | New York : Shapiro, Bernstein & Co. | 1914 | Cover | |
Society Debutante | Fanny Brice | Before 1926 | [39] | |||
Spring | Leo Edwards | Fanny Brice | 1922 | First published in Fanny Brice's Comedy Songs (New York: Mills Music, 1939). | ||
Strawberries in January | Duncan Sisters | Duncan Sisters | 1947 | Catalog of Copyright Entries, p. 4793 | ||
Tanguay Rag | Blanche Merrill | Eva Tanguay | New York: Chas. K. Harris | 1910 | Cover [40] | |
Tanguay Tangle | Leo Edwards | Eva Tanguay | New York: Chas. K. Harris | 1913 | Cover | |
That's Why I'm Back Again | Blanche Merrill ? | Dora Maugham | 1930 | [38] | ||
There is Life in the Old Boy Yet | Page Mister Cupid | Jean Schwartz | New York: Jerome H. Remick & Co. | 1920 | ||
There's Dirty Work Down in Denmark | Ziegfeld Follies of 1924 | Edna Leedom | 1924 | [9] | ||
They Think I'm Nutty On and off | Blanche Merrill | Eva Tanguay | New York: Chas. K. Harris | 1911 | ||
This is the Day | M.K. Jerome | New York: Waterson, Berlin & Snyder | 1919 | |||
Those Bad, Bad Women of History | Blanche Merrill ? | Dora Maugham | 1930 | [38] | ||
Toodle-Oodle-oo | M.K. Jerome | New York: Waterson, Berlin & Snyder | 1919 | At some point interpolated into the Greenwich Village Follies of 1921[41] | ||
Toothache | Arnold New | 1933 | ||||
Trailing Along in a Trailer | Leo Edwards | Fanny Brice[42] | New York: Mills Music | 1936 | ||
Twit, Twit, Twit | Jean Schwartz | New York: Waterson, Berlin & Snyder | 1918 | |||
We Take Our Hats off to You, Mr. Wilson! | Blanche Merrill | New York: Leo Feist Inc. | 1914 | |||
Welcome Stranger | Belle Baker | 1921 | [43] | |||
Welcome Stranger | Duncan Sisters | 1947 | Catalog of Copyright Entries, p. 4793 | |||
We're Jumping Into Something | Puzzles of 1925 | Blanche Merrill | Jimmy Hussey, (Helen Broderick) | 1925 | Variety[32] Possibly the same as "Jumping Into Something" | |
We've had a lovely time, so long, good bye | The Trained Nurses | Leo Edwards | New York: Chas. K. Harris | 1912 | ||
What Is it Happened To Me? | Life | Mable McCane | 1924 | [16] | ||
What Price Love | George Whiting and Sadie Burt | 1926 | [27] | |||
When the Cat's Away | Puzzles of 1925 | Dorothy Appleby | 1925 | [44] | ||
While They Were Dancing Around | Leo Edwards | New York: Chas. K. Harris | 1912 | |||
Whistle and Help me Along | The Trained Nurses | Leo Edwards | New York: Chas. K. Harris | 1912 | ||
Whose Little Girl is the Girl You're With Tonight | Leo Edwards | New York: Edward B. Marks Music | 1925 | |||
Why Didn't I Meet You Long Ago | Page Mister Cupid | Jean Schwartz | New York: Jerome H. Remick & Co. | 1920 | ||
Will You Bring Back My Bonnie To Me | Leo Edwards | Emma Carus | New York: Chas. K. Harris | 1912 | Cover | |
You Can't Believe Them | Ann Ford and George Goodridge | 1921 | [45] | |||
Zulu Zo | Anna Chandler | 1921 | [12] |
Notes[]
- ^ On Bill Edwards' biography of Merrill at Rag Piano, he lists four songs which have been unable to be located or identified. They are: "The Antique Girl" from 1912 with music by Leo Edwards (this might have been confused with a concurrent Broadway musical of the same title), "Back Talk" from 1938 (no composer listed), "Telegraph a Song," an unpublished song from 1939, and "Loose Ankles" another song from 1939 composed by Arthur Freed.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j Blanche Merrill, Leo Edwards, Edwin Weber, Fanny Brice's Comedy Songs (New York: Mills Music, 1939).
- ^ Barbara Wallace Grossman, Funny Woman: The Life and Times of Fanny Brice (Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 1991), p. 86.
- ^ R.C. "Moller Fuller and Company in 'An Even Break'", Billboard (December 5, 1925), p. 20.
- ^ Ung., "New Acts This week: Belle Baker, Songs," Variety (April 13, 1927), p . 26.
- ^ a b c Con., "New Shows This Week: Palace," Variety (January 12, 1923), p. 19.
- ^ "Passing Show of 1915," Internet Broadway Database, accessed July 13, 2018.
- ^ Sime, "Passing Show of 1915," Variety (June 4, 1915), p. 14.
- ^ a b c "Blanche Merrill Called In," Variety July 30, 1924), p. 16.
- ^ "Inside Stuff on Vaudeville," Variety (August 13, 1924), p. 9.
- ^ "Ziegfeld Follies (1923)," Billboard (August 16, 1924), p. 89.
- ^ a b c Abel., "New Acts This Week: Anna Chandler: Songs," Variety (September 9, 1921), p. 19.
- ^ a b "Ziegfeld Follies of 1916," Internet Broadway Database accessed July 13, 2018.
- ^ notice in Billboard (September 10, 1910), p. 56.
- ^ "Ziegfeld Follies of 1917," Internet Broadway Database accessed July 3, 2018.
- ^ a b c d e Con., "New Acts This Week: Mabel McCane," Variety (August 12, 1925), p. 12.
- ^ "Maurice Burkhardt, 'The Burglar'," Variety (October 29, 1915), p. 16.
- ^ Con., "New Acts This Week: Eva Tanguay," Variety (January 17, 1924), p. 30.
- ^ Mary B. Mullett, "Still in Her Twenties She Has Won Fame and Fortune as Songwriter" The Sun (February 11, 1917), p. 7.
- ^ G.J.H., "Ann Butler and Company," Billboard (October 3, 1925), p. 19.
- ^ "Why Worry Reopening," Variety (August 16, 1918), p. 13.
- ^ Abe., "New Acts This Week: Sonia Meroff," Variety (December 9, 1921), p. 20.
- ^ full-page advertisement, Variety (June 16, 1916), p. 29.
- ^ "Vaudeville House Reviews: Broadway," Variety (September 22, 1926), p. 21.
- ^ Renewal: Library of Congress Copyright Office, Catalog of Copyright Entries, Part 3: Musical Compositions (Washington D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1939), p. 888.
- ^ Blanche Merrill, "First Presidential Lyric," Variety (August 9, 1923), p. 11.
- ^ a b Ung., "New Acts This Week: Whiting and Burt, Songs and Talk," Variety (November 10, 1926), p. 17.
- ^ "New Acts This week: Cabaret," Variety (December 16, 1921), p. 20.
- ^ "Chatter: Broadway," Variety (April 26, 1939), p. 45.
- ^ Most likely this is the song alluded to in "Fanny Brice: Around the World," Variety (June 16, 1922), p. 18.
- ^ https://www.ascap.com/ace#ace/search/workID/430039586
- ^ a b Ibee., "New Plays Produced Within Week on B'way: Puzzles of 1925," Variety (February 4, 1925), p. 20.
- ^ "Greenwich Village Follies of 1921," Internet Broadway Database" accessed June 28, 1921.
- ^ Gordon Whyte, "Jack and Jill," Billboard (March 31, 1923), p. 10.
- ^ a b "Hollywood Music Box," Variety (February 9, 1927), p. 43.
- ^ Rush., "Palace, N.Y.," Variety (May 10, 1932), p. 39.
- ^ "Victor matrix B-19114," Discography of American Historical Recordings Santa Barbara Library, University of California, accessed July 15, 2018.
- ^ a b c E.S.S., "Dora Maughan," Billboard (August 9, 1930), p. 51.
- ^ "Los Angeles," Variety (April 28, 1926), p. 92.
- ^ Copyright renewal: Library of Congress Copyright Office, Catalog of Copyright Entries, Part 3: Musical Compositions (Washington D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1939), p. 1872.
- ^ Based on list of songs at Ovrtur.com.
- ^ "Blanche Merrill Back," Variety (September 16, 1936), p. 45.
- ^ Jack Lait, "Vaudeville Reviews: Brighton," Variety (July 1, 1921), p. 15.
- ^ "Fulton: Puzzles of 1925," Billboard (August 15, 1925), p. 92.
- ^ "New Shows This Week: Riverside," Variety (July 22, 1921), p. 19.
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