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The following is an incomplete listing of Lardner's musical output. Any
help filling in the blanks would be appreciated:
stopping@swmich.edu.
Please note: B&L refers to the Bruccoli and Layman bibliography.
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1910 |
"Little Puff of Smoke,Goodnight: A Southern
Croon"
Words by R.W. Lardner, Music by G. Harris (Doc) White
Sheetmusic: First Edition, 1910 Victor
Kremer Co., Chicago [B&L B1]
Varient ads (2) on page 6 may indicate different printings
Second Edition, 1916 Howard Rossiter Co., Chicago
"My Old Kentucky Home--Good Night"
Based on contract in Newberry between Lardner
and T.B. Harms & Francis Day & Hunter, dated 18 April 1910. No evidence of
publication exists.
(B&L Note 2, page 137)
"I Wonder What My Stomach Thinks of Me"
Based on contract in Newberry between Lardner
and T.B. Harms & Francis Day & Hunter, dated 18 April 1910. No evidence of
publication exists.
(B&L Note 2, page 137)
"Swanie Swanson"
Based on contract in Newberry between Lardner
and T.B. Harms & Francis Day & Hunter, dated 18 April 1910. No evidence of
publication exists.
(B&L Note 2, page 137)
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1911 |
"Gee! It’s A Wonderful Game"
Words by R.W. Lardner, Music by G. Harris (Doc) White
Sheetmusic: 1911, Jerome H. Remick
& Co., New York-Detroit (PN 4501) [B&L B2]
Recording: Probable, heard with female
singer on the PBS "Baseball," inning II
WEB: Lyrics can be found at:
http://www.concentric.net/~Gamba/wonderfulgame.html
Complete copies of "Gee! It's A
Wonderful Game" and "Prohibition Blues" can be found on the Lester S. Levy
Collection of Sheet Music WEB site (part of Special
Collections at the Milton S. Eisenhower Library of The Johns Hopkins University). You can
access the sheets by searching for Lardner at: http://levysheetmusic.mse.jhu.edu/
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1913 |
"Beside the Bonnie Brier Bush"
Contributed to Aubrey
Stauffer’s 1913 Chicago production, In Allah’s Garden.
No copies located.
(B&L Note 4, page 138)
"Lydia Pynkham"
Contributed to Aubrey Stauffer’s 1913
Chicago production, In Allah’s Garden.
No copies located.
(B&L Note 4, page 138)
"Oh You Fatima
Girl"
Contributed to Aubrey Stauffer’s 1913
Chicago production, In Allah’s Garden.
No copies located.
(B&L Note 4, page 138)
"That Old Quartet"
Lardner wrote the lyrics for the 1913 version
of this Nat Mann song.
No copies located.
(B&L Note 5, page 138)
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1916 |
"Teddy You’re A
Bear"
(Played with Great Success by the Progressive National Band)
Words by Ring W. Lardner, Music by Lee S.
Roberts
Sheetmusic: 1916, Jerome H. Remick
& Co., New York-Detroit (PN 1593 2) [B&L B3]
"Old Bill Baker"
Words by Ring Lardner, Music by Jerome
Kern
Written for the show Very Good Eddie
(Book by Philip Bartholomae & Guy Bolton, Words by Schuyler Greene & Herbert
Reynolds
Sheetmusic: 1916, T.B. Harms &
Francis Day & Hunter, New York (PN 5431-4) [B&L B4]
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1917 |
"No Place Like
Home"
Words (and music) by Ring Lardner
Also identified as "Home, Sweet Home
(That’s Where the Real War Is)"
Sung by Bert Williams in the 1917 Ziegfeld
Follies
Recording: 1917, Columbia A2438
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1919 |
"Toledo Blues"
Yardley reports that Ring and friends
gathered at the house of Herman Saxon, a Toledo theatre owner on the evening of June 30,
1919 to ring in prohibition in that state. Ring wrote a song that he said, "was
learned and sung by a chorus composed of Tad, Tiny Maxwell, Jimmy Isaminger, Harry Witwer,
Rube Goldberg and all the rest of the stews" (qtd. 210).
I guess I’ve got those there Toledo
Blues,
About this fight I simply can’t enthuse.
I do not care if Dempsey win or lose,
Owing to the fact I’ve got Toledo Blues.
"Prohibition
Blues"
Lyrics by Ring Lardner, Music attributed
to Nora Bayes
Sung by Nora Bayes in "Ladies
First"
Music most likely written by Lardner
Sheetmusic: 1919, Jerome Remick &
Co., New York-Detroit (PN 754-4) [B&L B5]
Recording: 1919, Columbia A2823
WEB: Complete copies of
"Gee! It's A Wonderful Game" and "Prohibition Blues" can be found on
the Lester S. Levy Collection of Sheet Music WEB site (part of Special
Collections at the Milton S. Eisenhower Library of The Johns Hopkins University). You can
access the sheets by searching for Lardner at: http://levysheetmusic.mse.jhu.edu/
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1929 |
"Montana Moon"
Words and music "overheard" by
Ring Lardner and George S. Kaufman
For June Moon
Sheetmusic: 1929, Harms, Inc., New
York (PN 8401-4) [B&L B6]
"June Moon"
Words and music "overheard" by
Ring Lardner and George S. Kaufman
For June Moon
Sheetmusic: 1929, Harms, Inc., New
York (PN 8400-4) [B&L B7]
"Hello Tokio!"
Words and music "overheard" by
Ring Lardner and George S. Kaufman
For June Moon
Sheetmusic: published in the acting
version of June Moon, 1929, Samuel French Inc., New York. [B&L A24.2]
"Give Our Child a
Name"
Words and music "overheard" by
Ring Lardner and George S. Kaufman
For June Moon
Sheetmusic: published in the acting
version of June Moon, 1929, Samuel French Inc., New York. [B&L A24.2]
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1930 |
"Be Good to Me"
Lyrics by Ring Lardner, Music by Vincent
Youmans.
Written for the show, Smiles.
Sheetmusic: 1930 (copyright 1931),
Vincent Youmans Inc., New York. [B8] No complete copy located.
"If I Were You, Love
(I’d Jump Right in the Lake)
Lyrics by Ring Lardner, Music by Vincent
Youmans
Written for the show, Smiles.
Sheetmusic: 1930, Vincent Youmans
Inc., New York. [B&L B9]
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