Bert Williams

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Afro-Bahamian-American comedian, entertainer and songwriter, born November 12, 1874 in Nassau, Bahamas, British West Indies and died March 4, 1922 in New York. In 1996, Bert was inducted in the International Clown Hall of Fame.

ALBUMS

The Early Years, 1901-1909

2004, CD, Album, Comp, Archeophone Records

The Middle Years, 1910-1918

2002, CD, Comp, Archeophone Records

His Final Releases, 1919-1922

2001, CD, Comp, Archeophone Records,

The Remaining Titles 1915-1921 (Plus 1 Alternative Take (1901))

1999, CD, Comp, Document Records (2),

Bert Williams, James Reese Europe, Wilbur Sweatman

Black Manhattan

1998, CDr, Album, Comp, Endgame Records (5)

Nobody And Other Songs

1981, LP, Comp, Folkways Records, Folkways Records, Folkways Records

Song & Sayings By Bert Williams

1978, LP, Comp, Sunbeam (3)

Eddie Cantor, Bert Williams, Van And Schenck, John Steel (7), Irving Berlin

Ziegfeld Follies Of 1919

1977, LP, Comp, Gat, Smithsonian Collection,

It's Getting So You Can't Trust Nobody / It's Nobody's Business But My Own

1940, Shellac, 10", Columbia

1940, 4xShellac, 10", Album, Comp, Columbia

Brother Low Down / Unexpectedly

1922, Shellac, 10", Columbia,

You Can't Do Nothing Till Martin Gets Here / How? Fried

1922, Shellac, 12", Columbia

Not Lately / You Can't Trust Nobody

1922, Shellac, 10", Columbia

My Last Dollar / I'm Gonna Quit Saturday

1921, Shellac, 10", Columbia

Eve Cost Adam Just One Bone / You'll Never Need A Doctor No More

Get Up / I Want To Know Where Tosti Went

1920, Shellac, 10", Columbia

I'm Sorry I Ain't Got It You Could Have It If I Had It Blues / Checkers (It's Your Move Now)

1920, Shellac, 10", Columbia,

Elder Eatmore's Sermon On Throwing Stones / Elder Eatmore's Sermon On Generosity

1920, Shellac, 12", Columbia

Save A Little Dram For Me / Lonesome Alimony Blues

Ten Little Bottles / Unlucky Blues

Somebody / The Moon Shines On The Moonshine

1920, Shellac LX,

Oh! Lawdy / Bring Back Those Wonderful Days

1919, Shellac, 10", Columbia

Everybody Wants A Key To My Cellar / It's Nobody's Business But My Own

Bert Williams / Howard Kopp And Frank Banta

Nobody / One Step More

1918, Shellac, 10", Columbia, Columbia

No Place Like Home / Twenty Years

1918, Shellac, 10", Columbia,

O Death Where Is Thy Sting / When I Return

Samuel / Everybody

The Lee Family / I'm Gone Before I Go

I'm Neutral / Indoor Sports

Purpostus / Never Mo'

You Cant Get Away From It / The Darktown Poker Club

Borrow From Me / On The Right Road

1913, Shellac, 10", Columbia

Nobody / My Landlady

I Certainly Was Going Some / Woodman, Spare That Tree

Play That Barbershop Chord / Something You Don't Expect

I'll Lend You Anything / Constantly

Bert Williams / Collins And Harlan

The Mississippi Stoker / That Mesmerizing Mendelssohn Tune

Arthur Collins / Bert Williams

What You Goin' To Do When The Rent Comes 'Round / Nobody

1909, Shellac, 10", Climax Double-Disk Record

Bob Roberts (9) / Bert Williams

You Will Have To Read The Answer In The Stars / Nobody

1908, Shellac, 10", Columbia

Bert Williams / Billy Murray

Let It Alone / The Streets Of New York

Billy Murray / Bert Williams

Yankee Doodle Boy / I'm Tired Of Eating In The Restaurants

I've Such A Funny Feeling When I Look At You

1907, Shellac, 10", S/Sided, Columbia

1907, Shellac, 10", S/Sided, RE, Standard Disc Record

Here It Comes Again

1907, Flexi, 10", S/Sided, RE, Marconi Velvet-Tone Record

1906, Cyl, 2min, Columbia

In My Castle By The River Nile

1901, Shellac, 7", S/Sided, Victor Monarch Record,

The Phrenologist Coon

1901, Shellac, 7", S/Sided, Victor Monarch Record

Where Was Moses When The Light Went Out?

1901, Shellac, 10", S/Sided, Victor Monarch Record

All Going Out And Nothing Coming In

1901, Shellac, 10", S/Sided, Victor Monarch Record

Whiskey Women & Loaded Dice (40 Tales of Gambling, Money & Hard Liquor)

2017, 2xCD, Comp, Not Now Music

Encyclopedia Of Recorded Comedy Music

2012, 9xCD, Album + Box, Album, Comp, Clyde Records,

Comedy/Novelty/Country

Remembering The 40s

1980, 4xCass, Comp + Box, Comp, Reader's Digest,

Ragtime/Novelty/Easy Listening

Tex Williams And His Western Caravan

That's What I Like About The West / Downtown Poker Club

1947, Shellac, 10", Scr, Capitol Records

APPEARANCES +

2021, CD, Comp, Association For Recorded Sound Collections,

First Century Dementia - The Oldest Novelty Records of All Time

2020, 2x Vinyl,

Comedy/Dialogue

Köster / Hocker

2019, 2x Vinyl, CD,

The South Shall Rise Again & You're Blasé

2015, CD, Album, Comp, Sepia Records (2)

American Recordings I - VI

2015, 7x Vinyl, Box Set,

Cécile McLorin Salvant

Raw Silk + Now We May Begin

The Human Banjo Player

2012, CD, Not On Label (Rick Good Self-released),

The Paragon Ragtime Orchestra*, Rick Benjamin

Black Manhattan, Volume 2

2012, CD, Album, New World Records,

Pugsley Buzzard

Chicago Typewriter

2008, CD, Album, Not On Label

Das Blaue Einhorn

Verkauf Dein Pferd! (Lieder Vom Halten Und Lassen)

2007, 2xCD, Album, Car, Unicornio Records

Esquizito (2) / The Imperial Quintet Of New Orleans

Esquizito Vol. 4: Come Rain, Come Shine

2007, CD, Album, Maison Musique Records

David Massengill

We Will Be Together

2006, CD, Album, Gadfly Records

Lost Sounds - Blacks And The Birth Of The Recording Industry 1891-1922

2005, 2xCD, Comp, RM, Archeophone Records,

Vaudeville/Ragtime/Comedy/Vocal

Sounds Of Ragtime And Vaudeville Volume 1

2003, CDr, Comp, RM, Waldo Reissue Series,

Ragtime/Vocal/Vaudeville

Four Women: The Nina Simone Philips Recordings

Ukulélé Club De Paris*

Swing/Folk/Cool Jazz

Albert Nicholas And His New Orleans Friends / Jimmy Archey Avec Michel Attenoux Et Son Orchestre

Classic Jazz At Saint-Germain-des-Prés

2000, CD, Comp, RM, Gitanes Jazz Productions, Universal, EmArcy

American III: Solitary Man

Mose Scarlett, Jackie Washington (2), Ken Whiteley

We'll Meet Again

1999, CD, Album, Borealis Records,

Rebels & Outlaws: Music From The Wild Side Of Life

1998, 3xCD, Comp, MasterMusic, MasterMusic, MasterMusic, MasterMusic

Satchmo (2) And The Dukes Of Dixieland

Limehouse Blues

1997, CD, Comp, RM, Blue Moon (4)

Country Music 5

1997, CD, Comp, Caras (2), Mark Rio,

Swing-Dance Volume One

1996, CD, Comp, Drive Archive,

The Empire Saxophone Quartet*

Escape To The Center

1996, CD, Album, Open Loop,

Classical/Contemporary/Contemporary Jazz/Romantic/Neo-Romantic/Neo-Classical

Laughter And The Old Bassoon

1995, CD, Comp, RM, Not On Label,

Original Cast! 100 Years Of The American Musical Theater - The Early Years

1995, 2xCD, Comp, Metropolitan Opera Guild, RCA Special Products,

John Petters And His Rhythm

Boogie Woogie And All That Jazz - Volume II

Verve Jazz Masters 33

The Complete Capitol Small Group Recordings Of Benny Goodman 1944-1955

1993, 4x CD, Box Set,

This Is Art Deco

1993, Cassette,

Louis Armstrong

The Very Best Of

Big Band/Dixieland/Swing

Canadian Brass*, George Segal

20 Of The Best Of Jerry Reed

Country/Country Rock

Clyde McCoy And His Orchestra

Sugar Blues 1951

Jane Voss And Hoyle Osborne

Pullin' Through

1983, LP, Album, Green Linnet

Livermore's Firing Squad

The Original Broadway Cast*

1981, 2x Vinyl,

Musical/Ragtime

Somebody Else, Not Me

Remembering The 40s

1980, 8x Vinyl, Box Set,

Ragtime/Novelty/Easy Listening

Jack Parnell & His Orchestra

Big Band Stereo Spectacular

The Best Of Phil Harris

Big Band/Dixieland/Swing/Easy Listening

1979, Vinyl Los Angeles pressing,

Duke Ellington, Billie Holiday, Louis Armstrong

Big Band/Dixieland/Swing

Bubbling Brown Sugar - A New Musical Revue (Original Broadway Cast Recording)

1976, LP, Album, Gat, H & L Records

The Big Band Show

The Uptown Poker Club

The Uptown Poker Club

Country/Novelty

I Am An American

1970, LP, Brumich Records,

Spoken Word/Religious/Gospel/Choral

The World's Greatest Jazzband Of Yank Lawson And Bob Haggart

Live At The Roosevelt Grill

Het Oudje Van De Week

The Country's Favorite Son

Carol Burnett Sings

Broadway - Blues - Ballads

Portrait Of Jimmy Dean

At The Mardi Gras

The South Shall Rise Again

That's What I Like About The South

Dixieland Encore

1957, LP, Album, Soma

Priceless Pearl

1956, 7", EP, Festival Records,

Tina Marie / Nobody

1955, Shellac, 10", Single, RCA,

Rock & Roll/Soundtrack

The Seven Little Foys

Nobody / Silver Moon

Nobody / Hominy Grits

Nobody / Jim, Johnny And Jonas

Nobody Knows The Way I Feel This Mornin'

1950, 7", Single, Decca

Phil Harris And His Orchestra

Nobody / That's What I Like About The South

1949, Shellac, 10", Harmony (4),

Phil Harris And His Orchestra

Phil Harris And His Orchestra

That's What I Like About The South / The Dark Town Poker Club

Phil Harris And His Orchestra

Woodman Spare That Tree / Bump-On-The-Head Brown

1946, Shellac, 10", Ara (2)

Phil Harris And His Orchestra

The Dark Town Poker Club / Woodman, Spare That Tree

Benny Goodman Trio / Phil Harris And His Orchestra

I Want To Be Loved

Phil Harris & Orchestra*

The Dark Town Poker Club / Jelly Bean

Constantly / When It's Sleepy Time Down South

1931, Shellac, 10", Victor,

New Orleans Rhythm Kings

Tin Roof Blues / That's A Plenty

1923, Shellac Takes A/A,

1907, Cyl, 2min, Edison Gold Moulded Records

Jack Harris Sings Favorites From The Jack Harris Show

LP, Album, Mono, Pampa Records (3), Pampa Records (3)

Negro Character Songs

4xShellac, 10", Album, Davis Records,

Collins And Harlan / Arthur Collins

Underneath The Cotton Moon / My Landlady

Shellac, 10", Victor

Some Changes Made

Cass, Not On Label

Nobody / Sweet Georgia Brown

I Ain't Got Nobody

Guy Lombardo And His Royal Canadians

Golden Minstrel Songs For Dancing

They Stopped The Show

King Oliver's Creole Jazz Band

2024, 2xLP, Comp + 4xCD, Comp + Box, Comp, Dlx, Archeophone Records

1910: "Act Two, Scene New"

2019, CD, Comp, Archeophone Records,

Ziegfeld Follies Of 1919

2017, CD, Comp, RM, Calle Mayor

1919: "Jazzin' Around And Paintin' The Town"

2014, CD, Comp, Archeophone Records

Vaudeville Blues (Blues Links - Vaudeville & Rural Blues 1919-1941)

2012, 4xCD, Comp, JSP Records

Speakeasy Times

2011, CD, Comp, Starbucks

1920: "Even Water's Getting Weaker"

2011, CD, Comp, Archeophone Records

Really The Blues? A Blues History 1893-1959 Volume1 (of 4) (1893-1929)

2010, 9xCD, Comp + CD-ROM, West Hill Radio Archives,

Boogie Woogie/Country Blues/Gospel/Ragtime/Piano Blues/Cajun/Country/Hillbilly

Earl Okin Gramophone Show 11

2010, File, MP3, 128, Not On Label,

1906 - "When Things Was Lookin' Bright"

2009, CD, Comp, Archeophone Records,

Vocal/Novelty/Music Hall

Ricky Jay Plays Poker

2006, CD, Comp + DVD, NTSC + Box, 68-, Octone Records, Legacy,

That Devilin' Tune - A Jazz History, Vol. 1 (1895-1927)

2006, 9xCD, Comp, West Hill Radio Archives,

The Ziegfeld Follies: 23 Original Mono Recordings 1910-1945

2006, CD, Album, Comp, Living Era,

1913: "Come And See The Big Parade"

Broadway : The American Musical

2004, Box, Comp + 5xCD, Comp, Columbia Broadway Masterworks, Legacy

Stomp and Swerve: American Music Gets Hot

2003, CD, Comp, Archeophone Records

1907: "Dear Old Golden Rule Days"

2003, CD, Comp, Archeophone Records

2002, CD, Comp, Naxos Nostalgia,

Freedom: Songs From The Heart Of America

2002, 3xCD, Comp, Columbia, Legacy,

Rhapsodies in Black: Music and Words From the Harlem Renaissance

2000, 4xCD, Comp + Box, Rhino Records (2),

From Ragtime To Jazz - Volume 4, 1896-1922

2000, CD, Comp, Timeless Historical,

Legendary Voices Of Vaudeville

2000, 2xCD, Comp, Take Two Records

Pop Music: The Early Years 1890-1950

1999, 2xCD, Comp, Columbia,

Sony Music 100 Years: Soundtrack For A Century

1999, Box Set, 26x CD,

American Pop: An Audio History - From Minstrel To Mojo: On Record, 1893-1946

1998, 9xCD, Comp + Box, West Hill Audio Archives,

The Music Of Prohibition

Music From The New York Stage 1890-1920, Vol. 4: 1917-1920

1993, 3xCD, Comp, Pearl,

Music From The New York Stage 1890-1920: Vol 1 1890-1908

1993, 3xCD, Comp, Pearl

A Tribute To Black Entertainers

1993, 2x CD Long Box,

This Is Art Deco

Hall Of Fame, Volume 1

1987, 4xLP, Comp, Mar + Box, The Franklin Mint Record Society,

Legendary Musical Stars

1980, LP, Album, Comp, Mono, Time Life Records,

Come Josephine In My Flying Machine: Inventions And Topics In Popular Song 1910-1929

1977, LP, Comp, Gat, New World Records,

Follies, Scandals & Other Diversions - From Ziegfield To The Shuberts

1977, LP, Comp, New World Records,

Jazz Some Beginnings 1913-1926

1977, LP, Album, Comp, RBF Records, Folkways Records

1975, LP, Comp, Rounder Records

Stars Of The Ziegfeld Follies

They Stopped The Show

Ziegfeld Follies

1967, LP, Comp, Mono, Veritas Records

Cass, Comp, M.C. Productions Vintage Recordings, M.C. Productions Vintage Recordings,

Swing/Big Band/Vocal

American III: Solitary Man

Country Blues/Country Rock