Life and Times of William Christopher O'Hare

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  • Home
  • Washington, D.C.
    • Formative Years
    • DC Family >
      • Early Ancestors
      • Paternal Grandparents
      • Ancestral Home: Linden Grove
      • Parents
      • Siblings
  • Shreveport
    • City Background & O'Hare Activities
    • Music Director >
      • Grand Opera House
      • Choral Societies
      • Community Productions
      • Churches
    • Music Teacher
    • Composer--Before Levee Revels
    • Composer-- Levee Revels and after
    • Changes & Problems at the Opera House
  • Marriage & Sons
    • Lottie Slater
    • Wm. Crockett O'Hare
    • Vincent Slater O'Hare
  • NYC
    • Arrival & Background
    • Arranger >
      • Rags & Other Instrumentals
      • Pop/Patriotic Songs 1901-1908
      • Pop/Patriotic Songs, 1909-1931
      • Medleys
      • Misc. Shows, 1902-1905
      • Misc. Shows, 1906-1909
      • Misc. Shows, 1910-1914
      • Hippodrome Background & O'Hare's First Tunes
      • Hippodrome Shows
      • Vocal Arrangements, Secular and Sacred
      • Misc. Arrangements
      • An Orchestrator's Prank
    • Composer >
      • Instrumentals, 1901-1902
      • Instrumentals, 1903-1909
      • Early NY Songs
      • Sacred Music/Organist
      • Silent Films
      • Misc Compositions, 1905-1914
      • Misc Compositions, 1917-1934
    • Letter to the Editor
  • Death
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Medley Overtures,
Lancers, Rolls
Part 2

The Pacer, Medley Overture (Witmark, 1907)

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Listen to Harry Anthony sing Far Away Someone Thinks of You To-night
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Click, scroll to Smile on Me, and select "Cylinders on the Web"
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Listen to Those Songs My Mother Used to Sing sung by Ruth Lenox and Henry Burr
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The Ruler, Medley Overture (Witmark, 1908)

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Listen to Ada Jones and Billy Murray perform When You Steal a Kiss or Two
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Listen to Billy Murray sing Somebody's Been Around Here Since I've Been Gone
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The Master, Medley Overture (Witmark, 1909)

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Witmark catalog listing
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Allentown, PA, 1910
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Edward Meeker sings They All Take Off Their Hats to Mr. Murphy
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Listen to Manuel Romain sing To the End of the World with You

The King, Medley Overture (Witmark, 1910)

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Witmark listing
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Listen to Collins and Harlan sing Down Where the Big Bananas Grow
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Listen to John McCormack sing Where the River Shannon Flows
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Listen to Billy Murray sing Come, Be My Sunshine, Dearie
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Listen to Eddie Weston sing You Don't Know . . .
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Recorded by Edward M. Favor on Victor B-8963 but not found
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Listen to Billy Murray sing Shaky Eyes
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Listen to Reed Miller sing In the Garden of My Heart
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O'Hare's piano roll arrangement of this 1910 medley of popular songs
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Everett, WA (1914)

The Surprise, Medley Overture (Witmark, 1911)

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Portion for Witmark listing of band scores
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Listen to That Girl Quartet sing Honeymooning, Honey, in Bombay
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Listen to Henry Burr sing My Heart Has Learned to Love You
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Listen to Manuel Romain sing Down in Sunshine Valley
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Recorded by Elizabeth Wheeler on Victor B-10834 but not found
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Listen to Charles Harrison sing Killarney and You
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Listen to Walter van Brunt sing Any Girl Looks Good in Summer
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Listen to Billy Murray and chorus sing Baby Rose
Listen to Reinald Werrenwrath sing Good-Bye, My Love, Good-Bye
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Click here to listen to O'Hare's The Surprise, Medley Overture played by Arthur Pryor's Band 
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Riverside, CA, 1914

Due to time limitations of early recordings, some tunes included in O'Hare's orchestra and band scores of The Surprise, as well as in his piano roll arrangement, are not included on the record.

The Delight, Medley Overture (Witmark, 1912)

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Listen to Orpheus Quartet sing If All My Dreams Were Made of Gold
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Listen to Walter Van Brunt and chorus sing Driving Home the Cows
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Listen to Ada Jones and Walter Van Brunt sing That's What I Call a Good Time
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Listen to Byron Harlan sing They Gotta Quit Kickin' My Dawg Aroun'
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Listen to Alan Turner sing Till The Sands of the Desert Grow Cold
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Listen to Collins and Harlan sing Lady Angeline
O'Hare's piano roll arrangement of The Delight

Tip-Top, Medley Overture (Witmark, 1913)

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Listen to My Tango Maid, a vocal version of Lodge's instrumental Tango Land
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Listen to the tune of Sweet Eileen Asthore  by scrolling down this Parlor Songs page
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Listen to Helen Clark sing I'll Change the Shadows to Sunshine
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Opening of Tip-Top
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Listen to O'Hare's arrangement of Tip-Top, played by Conway's Band
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San Francisco concert program, 1914

Songs of America (Witmark, 1913)

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Town Talk, Medley Overture (Witmark, 1914)

Medley Selections
Dolly McHugh, You Planted a Rose in the Garden of Love, Everybody Does It in the Good Old Summertime, Harmony Bay, The Irish Tango, While the Rivers of Love Flow On
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Listen to Henry Burr sing You Planted a Rose in the Garden of Love
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Listen to the Heidelberg Quintette sing Harmony Bay
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Listen to Henry Burr and the Peerless Quintette sing The Irish Tango
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Listen to C. W. Harrison sing While the Rivers of Love Flow On
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Washington, D. C. (1914)
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Seattle, WA (1915)
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San Francisco, CA (1915)

Hymns of the Sabbath (Witmark, 1914)

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Performance advice appearing before the opening of the violin part below attests to O'Hare's experience as violinist, pianist, organist, and choir master. Whether a director wishes to use the full medley or a single hymn from the medley, whether piano, organ, or neither would accompany the violins, or whether "Amens" might be wanted during a church performance but unwanted at another venue, O'Hare offers suggestions for the best possible result.


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Fantasy on the Anthems of the Allied Nations (Boston Music Company, 1918)

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Since no one was sure which way Russia would go, O'Hare's medley arrangement of national anthems includes instructions for omitting the Russian national anthem. 
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Background graphic, top of page: Witmark building, c. 1903
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