Life and Times of William Christopher O'Hare

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  • 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
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      • Pop/Patriotic Songs 1901-1908
      • Pop/Patriotic Songs, 1909-1931
      • Medleys
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      • 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
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Show Tune Arrangements, 1910-1914

Bright Eyes (1910)
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Syracuse, New York
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Most likely O'Hare's arrangement
Edith Chapman and Harry Anthony sing "For You, Bright Eyes"

 Jumping Jupiter (1910)
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Opening measures of Jumping Jupiter
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Witmark catalog listing
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Grace LeBoy's To the Strains of the Wedding March must have remained popular for some time, perhaps due in part to Billy Murray's recording. O'Hare and Levy didn't arrange it for band and orchestra until nearly two years after O'Hare had included it in the Jumping Jupiter Selection.
Listen to Billy Murray singing To the Strains of the Wedding March

 Madame Sherry (1910)
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Listen to Prince's Band play "Birth of Passion" from Madame Sherry
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Download O'Hare's band arrangement of"Every Little Movement"  from the North Royalton (OH) Community Band
Listen to Prince's Orchestra playing Hoschna's orchestra arrangement of the same piece.
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Listen to a vocal recording of "Every Little Movement"  from Madame Sherry
Piano roll arrangement of "Every Little Movement" from Madame Sherry
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Label from O'Hare's piano roll arrangement of Madame Sherry tunes for barn dance and schottische
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Download O'Hare's Madame Sherry March and Two-Step orchestration.
Dowlnload O'Hare's Madame Sherry, March-Two Step band score from the North Royalton (OH) Community Band
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Download O'Hare's Madame Sherry Barn Dance or Schottishe orchestration
The U.S. Military Band playing O'Hare's waltz medley from Madame Sherry

The Girl in the Train (1910-1911)

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Listen to a selection from The Girl in the Train played by the National Military Band, London; predates U.S.copyrights so not O'Hare's arrangement.
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Download O'Hare's The Girl in the Train score from North Royalton (OH) Community Band

Barry of Ballymore (1910-1911)
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Although O'Hare arranged the orchestra "selection" and individual pieces below in 1910, his band selection appeared in 1911.
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Rida Johnson Young and Ernest Ball's "Mother Machree," another Olcott hit, was introduced in Barry of Ballymore and published as sheet music for piano and voice, in several voices as part of Wiitmark's Black and White series, and for mandolin and hotel orchestra, the latter by an unnamed arranger.  However, no 1910 or 1911 orchestrations have been found.

The song was revived in later Olcott shows, including The Isle o' Dreams (1912).  A portion of O'Hare's later dance orchestration combining "Mother Machree" with a lasting hit song from that show appears later on this page.

The Girl of My Dreams (1910-1911)
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As a lead-in to "Doctor Tinkle Tinker," the show's hit song, the young Quaker leading lady wonders if the man who repaired her toys when she was a girl can also repair her broken heart.
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Advertisement in advance of New York opening
Piano roll arrangement of selections from The Girl of My Dreams
 Listen to The Girl of My Dreams song on the National Jukebox
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Click here to continue to Show Tune Arrangements, 1910-1914, Part 2

Background graphic, top of page: The Grand Opera House, New  York, home of Bright Eyes
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