Shannon Four

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Shannon Four / The Singing Sophomores / The Revelers / The Merrymakers / Shannon Quartet / Acme Male Quartet / The Florida Four

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Lewis James Wilfred Glenn Elliott Shaw

The quartet, organized in 1918, performed under the name The Shannon Four before changing their name to The Revelers sometime in the 1920’s.

ALBUMS

William Coombs / Shannon Four

Ring Out Wild Bells / All Through The Night

1925, Shellac, 10", Vocalion (2),

Drinking Song - From "The Student Prince" / Way Down Home

1925, Shellac, 10", Columbia,

Shannon Four / Al Bernard

Ev'ry Sunday Afternoon / Pretty Puppy

1925, Shellac, 10", Columbia,

The Two Gilberts / The Shannon Four*

Why Robinson Crusoe Got The Blues / Last Night On The Back Porch

1924, Shellac, 10", Regal,

Helen Clark / Shannon Four

The Holy City / The Hymns Of The Old Church Choir

1924, Shellac, 10", Perfect (3),

Sing A Little Song / Follow The Swallow

1924, Shellac, 10", Columbia

Shannon Four / Arthur Hall (2) And Gilbert Girod

Hinky Dinky Parlay Voo / Jump Fritz

1924, Shellac, 10", Paramount

California Here I Come / Linger Awhile

1924, Shellac, 10", Columbia

Lewis James / Shannon Four

London Bridge Is Falling Down On The Isle Of Childhood Dreams / Polly Put The Kettle On

1924, Shellac, 10", Columbia

Peerless Quartette / Shannon Four

When I'm Gone You'll Soon Forget / When You're Gone I Won't Forget

1924, Shellac, 10", Okeh

Shannon Four / Lewis James And Franklyn Baur

When Lights Are Low / Sleep

1924, Shellac, 10", Columbia

Wait'll You See My Gal / Any Old Time At All

1924, Shellac, 10", Columbia

Any Old Time At All / Swanee River Rose

1924, Shellac, 10", Okeh

Plantation Medley

1924, Shellac, 10", Regal

Harry C. Browne And Shannon Four

Shinbone Alley / Marsa' Joe

1924, Shellac, 10", Fla, Columbia

Shannon Four / Robert Bruce

Carry Me Back To Old Virginny / The Sweetest Story Ever Told

1924, Shellac, 10", Red, Perfect (3), Pathé,

Shannon Four / Henrietta Wakefield

Hinky Dinky Parlay Voo? / Habanera From "Carmen"

1924, Shellac, 10", Oriole (3)

Shannon Four / Arthur Fields

Hinky Dinky Parlay Voo? / Jimminy Gee!

1924, Shellac, 10", Grey Gull

Shannon Four / Lewis James

Rose Of Old Castile / Pinin' Just For You

1924, Shellac, 10", Okeh

Old Time Medley, Part 7 / Old Time Medley, Part 8

Lewis James / Shannon Four

Wonderful One / I'm Drifting Back To Dreamland

1923, Shellac, 10", Columbia

Carolina Mammy / Open Your Arms My Alabamy

1923, Shellac, 10", Columbia,

Shannon Quartet*

By The Watermelon Vine / Louisiana Lou

1923, Shellac, 10", Victor,

Harvard Songs Medley No. I / Harvard Songs Medley No. II

1923, Shellac, 10", Columbia

Medley Of "Old Timers"

1923, Shellac, 10", Columbia

Henry Burr / Shannon Quartet*

Beautiful Isle Of Somewhere / Christ Arose!

1923, Shellac, 10", Victor

Back In The Old Neighborhood / When Mother Sings "Sweet And Low"

1923, Shellac, 10", Columbia

Shannon Four / Charles Hart

Dreamy Melody / Out There In The Sunshine With You

1923, Shellac, 10", RP, Columbia

Charles Hart (2) And Elliott Shaw / Shannon Four

Mother's Love / There's A Rainbow In The Sky

1923, Shellac, 10", Columbia

Shannon Four, Virginia Burt, Charles Hart

The Hymns Of The Old Church Choir / Shall We Meet?

1923, Shellac, 10", Okeh

Yale Songs - Medley I / Yale Songs - Medley II

1923, Shellac, 10", Columbia

Oscar Seagle, Shannon Four

Brown October Ale / Stein Song

1923, Shellac, 10", Columbia,

Al Jolson / Shannon Four

Coal-Black Mammy / Lindy Lady

1923, Shellac, 10", Columbia

That Old Gang Of Mine / Last Night On The Back Porch

Shannon Four / Wilfred Glenn With Shannon Four

Winter Song / When Good Fellows Get Together

Swingin' Down The Lane / Underneath The Mellow Moon

Shannon Four / Charles Hart

Dreamy Melody / Out There In The Sunshine With You

Shannon Four / Billy Jones (4) And Ernest Hare

Ka-Lu-A / Lalawana Lullaby

1922, Shellac, 10", Columbia

Shannon Four / Crescent Trio

Plantation Lullaby / Georgia

1922, Shellac, 10", Okeh

Southern Medley

1922, Shellac, 10", Columbia

Christmas Tidings

1922, Shellac, 10", Columbia,

Billy Jones (4) / Shannon Four

Gee! But I Hate To Go Home Alone / Rock Me In My Swanee Cradle

1922, Shellac, 10", Columbia,

Dear Old Melodies

1922, Shellac, 10", Okeh,

Hart Sisters / Shannon Four

Honey Lu / Wake Up Little Girl You're Just Dreaming

1922, Shellac, 10", Columbia

Princeton Songs - Medley No. 1 / Princeton Songs - Medley No. 2

1922, Shellac, 10", Columbia

Gounod Mixed Quartette / Shannon Four

Home Sweet Home / Anne Laurie

1922, Shellac, 10", Okeh

All Hail The Power Of Jesus' Name / Ten Thousand Times Ten Thousand

1922, Shellac, 10", Okeh,

Vocal/Barbershop

Shannon Four / Sam Ash

Weep No More (My Mammy) / I Wonder Who

1922, Shellac, 10", Red, Vocalion (2)

Nearer My God To Thee / Onward Christian Soldiers

1922, Shellac, 10", Cleartone Record

Ernest Hare / Shannon Four

Snow Flakes / On The Old Bob Sled

1922, Shellac, 10", OKeh,

Old Time Medley (Part V) / Old Time Medley (Part VI)

Old Time Medley

Royal Dadmun / Shannon Four

Face To Face / Nearer My God To Thee

Billy Jones-Ernest Hare* / Shannon Four

Ten Little Fingers And Ten Little Toes / Plantation Lullaby

Shannon Four / Arthur Burns

When You're Gone I Won't Forget / Mother Of Pearl

1921, Shellac, 10", Aeolian Vocalion

Helen Clark & Elliot Shaw* / The Shannon Four*

Throw Out The Life Line / Hymn Medley

1921, Shellac, 10", Red, Vocalion (2)

Reed Miller & Charles Hart (2) / Shannon Four

I Need Thee Every Hour / Hymn Medley

1921, Shellac, 10", Red, Aeolian Vocalion

Shannon Four / Irving Kaufman

When You're Gone I Won't Forget / As We Live And Love We Learn

1921, Shellac, 10", Emerson Records (2)

Crescent Trio / Shannon Four

Jane / Ain't You Coming Out Malinda

1921, Shellac, 10", Red, Vocalion (2)

Samuel Ash* And Shannon Four / Charles Hart

County Kerry Mary / Bonnie Lassie

1921, Shellac, 10", Okeh

Lewis James And Shannon Four / Charles Hart (2) And Crescent Trio

My Sunny Tennessee / Ain't You Coming Out Malinda?

1921, Shellac, 10", His Master's Voice

Shannon Four / Crescent Trio

Drowsy Head / Wandering Home

1921, Shellac, 10", His Master's Voice

Shannon Four / The Three Virginians

Annie Laurie / Carry Me Back To Old Virginny

1921, Shellac, 10", Okeh,

Shannon Four / Reed Miller

Cornfield Medley / Oh Lawdy

1921, Shellac, 10", Vocalion (2)

Lewis James, Shannon Four, Sam Ash

Do You Ever Think Of Me / I've Fallen In Love With The Girl Of My Dreams

1921, Shellac, 10", Okeh

Sam Ash & Shannon Four / Lewis James

Peggy O'Neil / The Last Little Mile Is The Longest (When You're Longing For Home Sweet Home)

1921, Shellac, 10", Okeh

Crescent Trio / Shannon Four

Somebody's Mother / There's Only One Pal After All

1921, Shellac, 10", Okeh,

Lewis James And Elliott Shaw / Shannon Four

Passage Bird's Farewell / The Vacant Chair

1921, Shellac, 10", Pathé

Lewis James And Shannon Four / Billy Jones

There's Only One Pal After All / Peggy O'Neil

1921, Shellac, 10", His Master's Voice

Shannon Four / Elliot Shaw* & Charles Hart

All By Myself / Carolina Lullaby

1921, Shellac, 10", RP, Red, Vocalion (2)

Colin O'More And Shannon Four / The Cathedral Quartet

Adeste Fideles / Christmas Carols

1921, Shellac, 10", Red, Vocalion (2)

Sweet Genevieve / Sweet Adeline

1921, Shellac, 10", Silvertone

Charles Hart (2) & Elliott Shaw / Shannon Four

Mandy 'N' Me / Plantation Lullaby

1921, Shellac, 10", Red, Vocalion (2)

Shannon Four / Lewis James & Shannon Four

Melon Time In Dixieland / When The Autumn Leaves Begin To Fall

1921, Shellac, 10", OKeh

Lewis James & Shannon Four / Shannon Four

Just Keep A Thought For Me / Humming

1921, Shellac, 10", Okeh

Shannon Four / William Lowe

Forsaken / Dreaming Alone In The Twilight

1921, Shellac, 10", Actuelle

Royal Dadmun / Shannon Four

Oh Promise Me / Kentucky Babe

1921, Shellac, 10", Regal (3)

Medley Of Irish Melodies

Shannon Four - Jane Neilson

Beautiful Saviour / When Cathedral Bells At Twilight Chime

Shannon Four / Charles Hart (2) And Elliot Shaw*

Tuck Me To Sleep / Down In Happy Valley

Silent Night / Oh Come All Ye Faithful

Joseph Phillips* / Shannon Four

The Holy City / The Voice Of The Chimes

Soldier's Farewell / Sweet Adeline

Christians Awake! Salute The Happy Morn / God Rest Ye, Merrie Gentlemen

Shannon Four / Peerless Quartet*

College Days / Auld Lang Syne

Darling Nelly Gray / In The Evening By The Moonlight

Shannon Four / Peerless Quartet*

Now I Know / I'll Aways Be Waiting For You

1920, Shellac, 10", Victor,

Reed Miller / Shannon Four

Drink To Me Only With Thine Eyes / Kentucky Babe

1920, Shellac, 10", Emerson Records (2)

Shannon Four / Ernest Hare

Wond'ring / Just Like A Gipsy

1920, Shellac, 10", Brunswick,

Henry Burr With Peerless Quartette / Shannon Four

When You And I Were Young Maggie / The Old Oaken Bucket

1920, Shellac, 10", Okeh

Charles Hart (2) And Male Trio* / Shannon Four

Oh What A Pal Was Mary / Mandy

1920, Shellac, 10", Brunswick

Sterling Trio / Shannon Four

Wonderful Pal / There's A Lot Of Blue-Eyed Marys Down In Maryland

1920, Shellac, 10", Victor

Billy Murray / Shannon Four

How Sorry You'll Be / When You're Alone

1920, Shellac, 10", Empire (23)

Peerless Quartet* / Shannon Four

Cornfield Medley / Georgia Moon

1920, Shellac, 10", Empire (23)

Shannon Four / Charles Harrison

Auld Lang Syne / All Through The Night

1920, Shellac, 10", Brunswick

Shannon Four, Greek Evans

Kentucky Babe / Can't Yo' Heah Me Callin' Caroline

1920, Shellac, 10", Okeh

Shannon Four / Charles Hart (2), Elliott Shaw

Ching-a-Ling Jazz Bazaar / Hawaiian Love

1920, Shellac, 10", LAT, Aeolian Vocalion,

Shannon Four, Reed Miller, Royal Dadmun

Nearer My God To Thee / Softly And Tenderly

1920, Shellac, 10", Okeh

Shannon Four / Charles Hart (2) & Elliott Shaw

I Love You Just The Same, Sweet Adeline / Meet Me In Bubble Land

1920, Shellac, 10", Emerson Records (2)

Shannon Four / Turner Roe

Ching-a-Ling's Jazz Bazaar / I'll Always Keep A Corner In My Heart For Tennessee

1920, Pathé Disc, 25cm, 80 RPM, Pathé

Southern Medley / The Cornfield Medley

1920, Shellac, 10", His Master's Voice

Elliott Shaw / Sam Ash & Shannon Four

Like We Used To Be

1920, Shellac, 10", Okeh,

Charles Hart (2) / The Shannon Four*

You're A Million Miles From Nowhere (When You're One Little Mile From Home) / Floatin' Down To Cotton Town

1920, Shellac, 10", Lat, Lyric Record

Reed Miller & Royal Dadmun / Shannon Four

Holy Ghost With Light Divine / Jesus Savior, Pilot Me

Scotch Songs - Medley No. 1 / Scotch Songs - Medley No.2

Charles Hart (2) & Elliott Shaw / Shannon Four

Mandalay (Where The Moonbeams Play) / Colleen

Barbershop/Vocal

Helen Clark / Shannon Four

My Old Kentucky Home / Old Black Joe

Louise Terrell / Shannon Four

My Old Kentucky Home / Old Black Joe

Henry Burr / Shannon Four

I'll Still Remember When You Forget / When You're Gone I Won't Forget

Charles Hart (2) - Lewis James / Charles Hart (2) And Shannon Four

Dreamy Alabama / The Music Of Wedding Chimes

1919, Shellac, 10", Victor,

Shannon Four / American Quartet

Mandy / "Breeze" (Blow My Baby Back To Me)

1919, Shellac, 10", Victor

Lewis James And Shannon Four / Charles Hart

Mother Here's Your Boy / Watch, Hope And Wait Little Girl (I'm Coming Back To You)

1919, Shellac, 10", Victor

Elizabeth Spencer - Henry Burr / Lewis James And Shannon Four

You're Still An Old Sweetheart Of Mine / The Gates Of Gladness (On The Road To Sunshine Land)

1919, Shellac, 10", Victor,

Shannon Four / Earle F. Wilde

1919, Pathé Disc, 27cm, 80 RPM, Pathé

Joseph Phillips* / Shannon Four

Forgotten / Old Black Joe

1919, Shellac, 10", Lat, Okeh

Joseph A. Phillips / Shannon Four

For All Eternity / Sweet And Low

1919, Shellac, 10", Okeh

Shannon Four / Earle F. Wilde

The Hymns Of The Old Church Choir / Tell Mother I'll Be There

Holy Night, Peaceful Night / Adeste Fideles

Peerless Quartet* / Shannon Four

Liberty Bell (It's Time To Ring Again) / There Is A Service Flag Flying At Our House

1918, Shellac, 10", Victor,

Novelty/Marches

Walter Van Brunt / Helen Clark And The Shannon Quartet*

Climbing Up De Golden Stairs / Lullaby

1918, Edison Disc, Edison Records

Geoffrey O'Hara / Lewis James And Shannon Four

Send Me A Curl / All Aboard For Home, Sweet Home

1918, Shellac, 10", Victor,

Shannon Four / Peerless Quartet*

Tom, Dick And Harry And Jack (Hurry Back) / Au Revoir, But Not Goodbye, Soldier Boy

1918, Shellac, 10", Victor

Charles Hart (2) And Shannon Four / American Quartet

What Are You Going To Do To Help The Boys? / Keep Your Head Down Fritzie Boy

1918, Shellac, 10", Victor

Shannon Four / Charles Hart

There's A Vacant Chair In Every Home To-Night / The Dream Of A Soldier Boy

1918, Shellac, 10", Victor

Henry Burr / Charles Hart (2) And Shannon Four

Each Stitch Is A Thought Of You, Dear / A Little Bit Of Sunshine

1918, Shellac, 10", Victor

Harry Macdonough And Shannon Four, Helen Clark

Goodbye, Mother Machree / One For All And All For One

1918, Shellac, 10", Victor,

Hike! Hike! Hike! / Any Old Place The Gang Goes

1918, Shellac, 10", Gennett

Charles Hart (2), Helen Clark And Shannon Four

Garden Of My Dreams / Any Old Time At All

1918, Shellac, 10", Victor

Wilfred Glenn, Shannon Four

Old Black Joe / Soldiers' Farewell

1918, Shellac, 10", Ver, Aeolian Vocalion

Shannon Four / American Quartet

Hail! Hail! The Gang's All Here! / Bring Back The Kaiser To Me

Charles Hart (2) And Shannon Four / Billy Murray

The Last Long Mile / K-K-K-Katy

Elizabeth Spencer With Shannon Four / Peerless Quartet*

Sweet Little Buttercup / Homeward Bound

Shannon Four / American Quartet

Break The News To Mother / You're A Grand Old Flag

1917, Shellac, 10", Victor

Shannon Four / American Quartet

Melody Land / Cheer Up 'Liza

1917, Shellac, 10", Victor

Shannon Four / Geoffrey O'Hara

Just A Little Cottage In The Country Calling "Come Back Home" / The South Will Do Her Part

1917, Shellac, 10", Victor

Shannon Four / Sterling Trio

Wake Up Virginia (And Prepare For Your Wedding Day) / The Sweetest Little Girl In Tennessee

1917, Shellac, 10", Victor

Shannon Four / Albert Campbell–Henry Burr*

Hello, Aloha, Hello / In The Land Of Wedding Bells

1917, Shellac, 10", Victor,

Shannon Four / American Quartet

I May Be Gone For A Long, Long Time / Over There

Old Oaken Bucket / On The Banks Of The Wabash

Shellac, 10", Silvertone

Shannon Four / Ernest Hare

Casey Jones / Steamboat Bill

Shellac, 10", Silvertone

Billy Jones (4) / Shannon Four

Frankie / Daisy Days

Shellac, 10", Apex (3)

Shannon Four / Elliott Shaw

Kentucky Babe / Can't Yo' Heah Me Callin' Caroline

Shellac, 10", Bell Record (2)

Peerless Quartet* / Shannon Four

Carry Me Back To Old Virginny / My Old Kentucky Home

Shellac, 10", Hytone Phonograph Record

Shannon Four / Charles H. Hart* With Shannon Four

Sweet And Low / Silver Threads Among The Gold

Shellac, 10", Paramount,

Louise Terrell / Shannon Four

Aloha Oe (Farewell To Thee) / Juanita

Shellac, 10", Silvertone

Shannon Four / Stellar Quartet

Kentucky Babe / Sweet And Low

Shellac, 10", Medallion (2)

Vernon Dalhart, Shannon Four

Sing A Little Song / Where The Dreamy Wabash Flows

Shellac, 10", Okeh

Charles Harrison (3) / Shannon Four

There Comes A Someday

Shellac, 10", Red, Aeolian Vocalion

Walter Scanlan / Shannon Four

The Sunshine Of Your Smile / I Love You Just The Same, Sweet Adeline

Shellac, 10", Symphonola

Bernard* & Hare* / Shannon Four

Casey Jones Went Down On The Robert E. Lee / Whistling Jim

Shellac, 10", Resona

APPEARANCES +

Harry C. Browne

Early Minstrel Songs Recorded 1916-1923

2004, CD, Comp, B.A.C.M.

Don Voorhees And His Earl Carroll's Vanities Orchestra*

The Riff Song / One Alone

Columbia Dance Orchestra

Tripping Along / Mickey Donohue

1924, Shellac, 10", Columbia

Acme Male Quartet

Southern Medley / Plantation Medley

Charles Hart (2) / Lewis James

Paul Revere (Won't You Ride For Us Again) / Bring Me A Letter From My Old Home Town

1918, Shellac, 10", Victor

1917: "Yankees To The Ranks"

2012, CD, Comp, Archeophone Records

The Great War (An American Musical Fantasy)

2006, 2xCD, Comp, Archeophone Records

1981, LP, Comp, Mono, Eastside Record Corporation

Praise The Lord And Pass The Ammunition: Songs Of World Wars I & II

1977, LP, Comp, Mono, New World Records,

Walter Van Brunt / Shannon Quartet

The Low-Back'd Car / Katy Mahone

1917, Edison Disc, Mono, Edison Records