Music of the United States of America

Edward Harrigan and David Braham
Collected Songs
Edited by Jon W. Finson
 

A 27/MU 7A	ISBN 0-89579-395-4	(1997) xl+323 pp.	$151.00
	ISBN 978-0-89579-395-9 (13-digit)
A 28/MU 7B	ISBN 0-89579-396-2	(1997) xi+370 pp.	$161.00
	ISBN 978-0-89579-396-6 (13-digit)

The plays of Edward Harrigan (1845-1911), and their attendant songs written with David Braham (1838-1905), reflect a turbulent era in New York City, which was just emerging as the cultural and economic center of American life. This edition includes a generous selection of Harrigan-Braham songs drawn from plays depicting a variety of ethnic groups and written at the zenith of Harrigan's career. The music, texts, and introductory essay provide a clearer picture of a body of work that Charles Hamm has described as "the beginning of urban popular song."

Music Sample (A27/MU7A)

Music Sample (A28/MU7B)

Contents 

Part I: 1873-1882 (A 27)

 

 

 Realism in Late Nineteenth-Century American Musical Theater: The Songs of Edward Harrigan and David Braham, by Jon Finson

 Songs From Sketches
The Mulligan Guards; Patrick's Day Parade; The Regular Army O!; Skidmore Guard; The Gallant "69th"; Gliding Down the Stream; The Blue and the Gray; Slavery Days; Bold Hibernian Boys!; Are You There Moriarity!; The Ginger Blues!; Sons of Temperance; Walking for Dat Cake; Our Front Stoop; Isle de Blackwell; Up at Dudley's Grove; Stem the Tide; Knights of St. Patrick; Take My Arm the Other Side; Sweet Mary Ann

 The Mulligan Guard Ball
The Babies on Our Block; Singing at the Hallway Door; The Skidmore Fancy Ball; We're All Young Fellows Bran' New

 The Little Green Leaf in Our Bible

 The Mulligan Guard Chowder
The Little Widow Dunn; O Girly! Girly!; The Skids Are Out To-Day

 The Mulligan Guards' Christmas
The Mulligan Braves; The Pitcher of Beer; The Skids Are on Review; Tu-ri-ad-i-lum; or, Santa Claus Has Come

 The Mulligan Guards' Surprise
Dat Citron Wedding Cake; The Full Moon Union; I'll Wear the Trousers, Oh!; Never Take the Horse-Shoe from the Door; Whist! The Bogie Man

 The Beauty of Limerick

 The Mulligan Guard Picnic
All Aboard for the M.G.P.; Locked Out after Nine; Mary Kelly's Beau; Roderick O'Dwyer; Sandy-Haired Mary in Our Area; Second Degree, Full Moon Union; Going Home with Nellie after Five; Hurry, Little Children, Sunday Morn!; Down in Gossip Row

 The Mulligan Guard Nominee
Hang the Mulligan Banner Up; A Night-Cap, A Night-Cap; Oh, He Promises; The Skidmore Masquerade; The Skids Are Out To-Night

 Mulligan's Silver Wedding
The Castaways; Don't You Miss the Train; John Riley's Always Dry; The Mirror's the Cause of It All; South Fifth Avenue; Third Degree Full Moon; Wheel the Baby Out

 The Major
Clara Jenkins' Tea; Major Gilfeather; Miranda, When We Are Made One; Veteran Guard Cadets; 4-11-44; Henrietta Pye; I Really Can't Sit Down; Oh, That's an Old Gag with Me

 Dip Me in de Golden Sea

 Squatter Sovereignty
The Forlorn Old Maid; The Maguires; The McIntyres; Miss Brady's Piano For-Tay; Paddy Duffy's Cart; The Widow Nolan's Goat

 The Blackbird
The Mountain Dew; The Trooper's the Pride of the Ladies

 Mordecai Lyons
Cash! Cash! Cash!; Mordecai Lyons; The Old Bowery Pit; She Lives on Murray Hill; When the Clock in the Tower Strikes Twelve

 Part II: 1883-1896 (A 28)

 McSorley's Inflation
The Charleston Blues; I Never Drink behind the Bar; The Market on Saturday Night; McNally's Row of Flats; The Old Feather Bed; Salvation Army, Oh!

 The Muddy Day
The Bunch o' Berries; The Family Overhead; The Golden Choir; On Board o' the Muddy Day; The Silly Boy; The Turn Verein Cadets

 Cordelia's Aspirations
Just Across from Jersey; My Dad's Dinner Pail; Sam Johnson's Colored Cake Walk; Waiters' Chorus; or, Two More to Come

 Dan's Tribulations
Cobwebs on the Wall; Coming Home from Meeting; The French Singing Lesson: (Une leçon de chant française); My Little Side Door

 Investigation
As Long as the World Goes 'Round; The Boodle; Hello! Bab-by; The Man That Knows It All; Plum Pudding; On Union Square

 McAllister's Legacy
Blow the Bellows, Blow!; Mister Dooley's Geese; Molly; Oh, My! How We Posé!; Pat and His Little Brown Mare

 Old Lavender
Extra! Extra!; Get Up, Jack--John, Sit Down; The Owl; Please to Put That Down; Poverty's Tears Ebb and Flow; Sweetest Love

 The Grip
The Aldermanic Board; Grogan, the Masher!; No Wealth without Labor; Oh! Dat Low Bridge!; School Days; The Soldier Boy's Canteen

 The Leather Patch
Baxter Avenue; Denny Grady's Hack; It Showered Again; Put on Your Bridal Veil

 The O'Reagans
The Little Hedge School; Mulberry Springs; Strolling on the Sands; U.S. Black Marines; When de Trumpet in de Corn-field Blows

 McNooney's Visit
The Black Maria, O!; Have One with Me?; Ho! Molly Grogan!; The Toboggan Slide

 Pete
As We Wander in the Orange Grove; Haul the Woodpile Down; Heigh Ho! Lingo Sally; Massa's Wedding Night; The Old Barn Floor; The Old Black Crow; Slavery's Passed Away; Where the Sweet Magnolia Grows

 Waddy Googan
Isabelle St. Clair; The Midnight Squad; Old Boss Barry; Where the Sparrows and Chippies Parade

 The Lorgaire
Dolly, My Crumpled-Horn Cow; I'm a Terror to All (Duet); Oh, My Molly Is Waiting for Me; Paddy and His Sweet Poteen; La Plus Belle France (Smuggler Song)

 Reilly and the 400
The Great Four-Hundred; I've Come Home to Stay; Jim Jam, Sailors Superfine; The Jolly Commodore; Maggie Murphy's Home; Taking in the Town; Uncle Reilly

 The Last of the Hogans
Danny by My Side; Hats Off to Me; Knights of the Mystic Star; The Last of the Hogans; De Rainbow Road; Take a Day Off, Mary Ann

 The Woolen Stocking
Callahan's Gang; Little Daughter Nell; Sergeant Hickey of the G.A.R.; The Sunny Side of Thompson Street (Away Down Town); They Never Tell All What They Know

 Notoriety
The Girl That's Up To Date; Melancholy Mary; The Old Neighborhood; Out on a College Rah! Rah!; Tally Ho Song; Up in the Tenderloin

 Mary Malone
The Hole in the Wall; The Pride of the London Stage; Sweet Mary Mullane