Collins & Harlan, the team of American singers Arthur Collins and Byron G. Harlan, formed a popular comic duo between 1903 and 1926. They sang

ragtime Ragtime, also spelled rag-time or rag time, is a musical style that flourished from the 1890s to 1910s. Its cardinal trait is its syncopated or "ragged" rhythm. Ragtime was popularized during the early 20th century by composers such as Scott J ...

standards as well as what were known as "

coon song Coon songs were a genre of music that presented a stereotype of black people. They were popular in the United States and Australia from around 1880 to 1920, though the earliest such songs date from minstrel shows as far back as 1848, when they we ...

s" – music sung by white performers in a black dialect. Their material also employed many other stereotypes of the time including Irishmen and farmers. Rival recording artist Billy Murray nicknamed them "The Half-Ton Duo" as both men were rather overweight. Collins and Harlan produced many number one hits with recordings of minstrel songs such as "My Gal Irene", "I Know Dat I'll be Happy Til I Die", "Who Do You Love?" and "Down Among the Sugarcane". Their song "That Funny Jas Band from Dixieland", recorded November 8, 1916, is among the first recorded uses of the word "jas" which eventually evolved to "jass", and to the current spelling "

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Songs by year

;1902 "First Rehearsal for the Husking Bee", "Jerry Murphy is a Friend of Mine", "Two Rubes in a Tavern", "The Troubles of the Reuben and the Maid", "Under the Bamboo Tree", "Down Where the Wurtzburger Flows" ;1903 "It Was The Dutch", "Parody on Hiawatha", "Moriarity", "Hurrah For Baffin's Bay", "They Were All Doing the Same", "Oh, Didn't He Ramble?", "He was a Sailor", "Strike Out McCracken", "Closing Time at the Country Grocery", "Trouble" ;1904 "What Would the Neighbors Say?", "Barney", " Under the Anheuser Bush", "Goodbye, Fedora", "Possum Pie", "Down on the Brandywine", "Gone, Gone, Gone", "Village Maid", "Heinie" ;1905 "Tammany", "Leader of the German Band", "Mule Song", "Down Where the Sweet Potatoes Grow", "Coax Me", "Oh, Oh, Sallie", "Jaspar, Don't You Hear Me Calling You?", "Murphy", "Farewell Mister Abner Hemingway", "Peter Piper", "Take a Car", "Come on, Little Girl, Come Along", "Hey! Mister Joshua" ;1906 "Camp Meeting Time", "Nigger Loves His Possum", "I'm A-Dreaming of You", "Out in an Automobile", "My Lovin' Henry", "Central, Give Me Back My Dime", "Gretchen", "Traveling", "When Mose With His Nose Leads the Band", "It's Up to You to Move", "Honey, Won't You Love Me Like You Used to?", "Come Take a Skate With Me", "Susan, Kiss Me Good and Hard", "Won't You Leave Your Happy Home For Me?", "Afloat On a Five Dollar Note", "Anxious" ;1907 "Arrah Wanna", "Good-a-Bye John", "I'm Thinkin' Bout You Honey All the Time", "Won't You Throw a Kiss To Me", "I'm Keeping My Love-Lamp Burning For You", "Lovin' Time", "And a Little Bit More", "Every Little Bit, Added to What You've Got", "Just Help Yourself", "I'm Runnin' After Nancy", "Who Do You Love?", "Bake Dat Chicken Pie", "I Know Dat I'll be Happy Til I Die" ;1908 "Down in Jungle Town", "My Gal Irene", "Come on and Kiss Your Baby", "Nothing Hardly Ever Troubles Me", "Cohan's Rage Babe", "A High Old Time in Dixie", "Alexander and His Clarinet" ;1909 "Down Among The Sugar Cane", "My Wife's Gone to the Country", "The Right Church, But the Wrong Pew", "Alabam ;1910 "Ain't You Coming Out Tonight?", "

Casey Jones John Luther "Casey" Jones (March 14, 1863 – April 30, 1900) was an American railroader who was killed when his passenger train collided with a stalled freight train at Vaughan, Mississippi. Jones was a locomotive engineer for the Illinois ...

", "Swingin in De Sky" ;1911 "I'm Going Back to Dixie", "Under the Yum Yum Tree", "Put Your Arms Around Me, Honey", "

Alexander's Ragtime Band "Alexander's Ragtime Band" is a Tin Pan Alley song by American composer Irving Berlin released in 1911 and is often inaccurately cited as his first global hit. Despite its title, the song is a march as opposed to a rag and contains little sync ...

", "Baby Rose", "On Mobile Bay" ;1912 "Hitchy-Koo", " The Ragtime Soldier Man" ;1913 "When the Midnight Choo-Choo Leaves for Alabam, "The International Rag", "Melinda's Wedding Day", "At the Levee on Revival Day" ;1914 " Aba Daba Honeymoon", "I Love the Ladies", "It's a Very Easy Thing to Put a Ring Upon a Finger, But Try to Take it Off" ;1915 " Alabama Jubilee", "Auntie Skinner's Chicken Dinner", "Those

Charlie Chaplin Sir Charles Spencer Chaplin Jr. (16 April 188925 December 1977) was an English comic actor, filmmaker, and composer who rose to fame in the era of silent film. He became a worldwide icon through his screen persona, the Tramp, and is conside ...

Feet" ;1916 "That Funny Jas Band from Dixieland", "Oh, How She Could Yacki Hacki Wicki Wachi Woo (That's Love in Honolulu)", "All Aboard for Chinatown", "At the Old Plantation Ball", "Come Along to Caroline" ;1917 "Three Pickaninnies", " The Old Grey Mare" ;1918 "

Darktown Strutters' Ball "Darktown Strutters' Ball" is a popular song by Shelton Brooks, published in 1917. The song has been recorded many times and is considered a popular and jazz standard. There are many variations of the title, including "At the Darktown Strutters' ...

" ;1919 " Sipping Cider Through a Straw"

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That Funny Jas Band from Dixieland (1916) on Archive.orgCollected Works of Collins & Harlan Part 1Collected Works of Collins & Harlan Part 2Collected Works of Collins & Harlan Part 3Collected Works of Collins & Harlan Part 4Collins & Harlan cylinder recordings
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