Life and Times of William Christopher O'Hare

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      • 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
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      • Vocal Arrangements, Secular and Sacred
      • Misc. Arrangements
      • An Orchestrator's Prank
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      • Instrumentals, 1901-1902
      • Instrumentals, 1903-1909
      • Early NY Songs
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      • Misc Compositions, 1917-1934
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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
  • Blog
  • Contact Me

Orchestra & Band Arrangements
of Popular and Patriotic Songs, 1909-1931

Pansies Mean Thought, And Thoughts Mean You (Witmark, 1909)
Ev'ry Day (Witmark, 1909)
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Manuel Romain singing Pansies Mean Thoughts
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Download O'Hare's orchestration of Ev'ry Day from Ohio State University
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Dixieland, I Love You (Witmark, 1909)
Good-Night, Dear (Witmark, 1909)
Down Where the Big Bananas Grow (Witmark, 1909)
Take Me Back to Babyland (Witmark, 1910)
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Listen to Billy Murray sing Dixieland, I Love You
Listen to John Barnes "Jack" Wells sing Good-Night Dear
Listen to Collins and Harlan sing Down Where the Big Bananas Grow.
Listen to William Larkin sing Take Me Back to Babyland

That's Yiddisha Love (Witmark, 1910)
Baby Rose (Witmark, 1911)
Any Girl Looks Good in Summer (Witmark, 1911)
Georgia Land (Witmark, 1912)
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Listen to Edward Meeker sing That's Yiddisha Love
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Listen to Billy Murray sing Baby Rose
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Listen to Walter Van Brunt and chorus sing Any Girl Looks Good in Summer
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Listen to Georgia Land performed by the Peerless Quartet.

To Have, To Hold, To Love (Witmark, 1913)
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Listen to Arthur Pryor's Band play To Have, to Hold, to Love; probably Sol Levy's arrangement; orchestra arrangement O'Hare's
Why Is the Ocean So Near the Shore?  (Witmark 1913
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Listen to Ada Jones sing Why Is the Ocean So Near the Shore?
Dixie Days
(Witmark, 1913)

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Dixie Days song recording information
Back to the Old Folks at Home (Witmark, 1913)
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Listen to Henry Burr and Albert Campbell sing Back to the Old Folks at Home

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Download sheet music
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Download sheet music
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Listen to a Walk of the Fishes

Here Comes the Whippoorwill (Witmark, 1914)
Tampa Bay (Witmark, 1914)
Kiss Me Again, I Like It (Witmark, 1914)
By the Old Wishing Well (Witmark, 1914)
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Listen to Tampa Bay
Download O'Hare's Tampa Bay orchestration from Ohio State University
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Listen to Helen Clark and Henry Burr sing Kiss Me Again, I Like It
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Listen to Henry Burr and Albert Campbell sing By the Old Wishing Well

Mississippi Barbecue (Witmark, 1914)
That Baby Buffalo Rag (Witmark,1914)
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Listen to Collins and Harlan sing The Mississippi Barbecue
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Listen to the Elliotts sing That Baby Buffalo Rag
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Across the Rio Grande (Witmark, 1914)
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Listen to Billy Murray and the Heidelberg Quintette sing Across the Rio Grande
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Following Mexico's capture and release of several U.S.sailors, the U.S. capture and occupation of Veracruz inspired this patriotic song performed by Ernest Ball and recorded by Billy Murray, Will Oakland, and other members of the Heidelberg Quintette.

Hoppy Herbert (Witmark 1914)
All the Girls Are Lovely by the Seaside (Witmark,1914)
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Download the Hoppy Herbert sheet music
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Listen to Jack Charman sing All the Girls Are Lovely by the Seaside
Click here to continue to Pop and Patriotic Song Arrangements, 1909-1931, Part 2

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