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Byron George Harlan in 1919

Byron George Harlan (August 29, 1861 – September 11, 1936) was an American singer from Kansas, a comic minstrel singer and balladeer who often recorded with Arthur Collins. The two together were often billed as "Collins & Harlan".

Solo recordings

1899

• "Please, Mr. Conductor, Don't Put Me Off The Train" (remade 1903 on Edison Gold Moulded 7219) (w.m. J. Fred Helf)^[1]

1901

• "Hello Central, Give Me Heaven"

1903

• "Please Mother, Buy Me A Baby" (w.m. Will D. Cobb & Gus Edwards)

- on Victor & Edison

• "Always In The Way" (w.m. Charles K. Harris)

- on Edison Records

• "The Vacant Chair" (w. Henry S. Washburne m. George Frederick Root)

- on Edison

1904

• '"Sweetest Girl in Dixie"

- on Leeds Talk-o-Phone

1905

• "My Gal Sal"


• "A Picnic For Two"


• "With the Robins I'll Return"

-on Edison Records

• "Where Morning Glories Twine Around the Door" Oxford Disc Record #3282

1906

• "Wait 'Till the Sun Shines, Nellie"


• "Cheer Up Mary" - Edison Gold Moulded 9403


• "When The Sunset Turns The Ocean's Blue To Gold - Columbia & United Talking Machine A439

1907

• "And A Little Child Shall Lead Them" - Edison Gold Moulded 9472


• "I'm Tying The Leaves So They Won't Come Down" - Edison Gold Moulded 9606

1908

• "Are You Sincere?" - Edison Gold Moulded 9973

1912

• "The Ragtime Soldier Man" - Victor and Columbia Records


• "They Gotta Quit Kickin' My Dawg Aroun'" - Edison Standard Record 10559

1917

• "With His Hands In His Pockets (And His Pockets In His Pants)" - Edison Blue Amberol 3124

1919

• "Way Down East Where I Belong" - OKEH Record 1134-B

^[2]1921

• "Down Where I Belong" - Pathe 20660

With Arthur Collins

1902

• "They Were All Doing The Same" - Edison Gold Moulded 8255

1903
Meet Me Down At Luna Lena - Zon-O-Phone 194

1904

• "Under The Anheuser Bush - Columbia 32409


• "Down On The Brandywine" - Edison Gold Moulded 8712

1905

• "In My Merry Oldsmobile" - Columbia 85016 (6" length cylinder - most were 5" length)


• "Peter Piper" - 20th Century Talking Machine Record 85001


• "Negro Recollections" (with Vess L. Ossman on banjo) - Edison Gold Moulded 7665

1906

• "Afloat On A Five Dollar Note" - Edison Gold Moulded 9316


• "Traveling" - Edison Gold Moulded 9287


• "Camp Meeting Time" - Edison Gold Moulded 9415


• "Take A Car" - Victor 4372

1907

• "Come On And Kiss Yo' Baby" - Victor 16224-A


• "Bake Dat Chicken Pie" - Victor 17221-B


• "Arrah Wanna" - Edison Gold Moulded 9447


• "Ev'ry Little Bit Added To What You've Got Makes Just A Little Bit More" - Edison Gold Moulded 9611

1908

• "Cohan's Rag Babe - Columbia 33282

1909

• "Down At The Huskin' Bee"


• "Down Where the Big Bananas Grow" - Edison Amberol 308


• "Make A Noise Like A Hoop And Roll Away" - Edison Standard 10122


• "My Wife's Gone To The Country" - Columbia A724

1911

• "The Barn Dance"


• "Alexander's Ragtime Band"

1912

• "I'm Goin' Back to Dixie"

1914

• "The Aba Daba Honeymoon" - Edison Blue Amberol 2468

1915

• "Alabama Jubilee"


• "Kentucky Home"

1916

• "The Kid Is Clever"

1918

• "The Old Grey Mare"

1919

• "On the Ozark Trail"

1922

• "Ham & Eggs"

with Aileen Stanley

1913

• "Tramp! Tramp! Tramp!" - Edison Amberol "Special H" and Edison Blue Amberol "Special H"

with Arthur Stanley

1909

• "Marching Through Georgia" - Victor 16416-A

with Frank C. Stanley

1902

• "All Aboard for Slumberville" - Edison Gold Moulded 8187

1904

• "Blue Bell" - Edison Gold Moulded 8655

1904

• "Dixie", or "I wish I was in Dixie" - Edison Gold Moulded 8784

1905

• "You're My Heart's Desire, I Love You, Nellie Dean" - Edison Gold Moulded 9013

with Joseph Belmont

1903

• "While the Birds are Singing to Me" - Edison Gold Moulded 9583

1904

• "Robin and the Wren" - Edison Gold Moulded 8662

1905

• "Beautiful Birds Sing On" - Edison Gold Moulded 9022

with Steve Porter

1913

• "Two Jolly Sailors" - Edison Blue Amberol 1759

References

External links

• 
  Works by Byron G. Harlan at Project Gutenberg
  


• 
  Works by or about Byron G. Harlan at Internet Archive
  


• 
  Byron Harlan cylinder recordings, from the Cylinder Audio Archive at the University of California, Santa Barbara Library.


• 
  Discography of Byron G. Harlan on Victor Records from the Encyclopedic Discography of Victor Recordings (EDVR)