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Percy Wenrich (1880-1952)

According to the Internet sources given below, Percy Wenrich was an American composer of popular music born in Joplin, Missouri. His father was postmaster and his mother was a gifted amateur pianist who taught him piano and organ at an early age. Influenced both by "classic" and the then prevalent folk ragtime music, he began writing his own compositions, his father helping out with the lyrics. He acquired the sobriquet "The Joplin Kid" whilst playing around the Joplin bars (a double meaning for either his home town Scott Joplin or both). His first published work L'Inconnu (1897) was printed when he was just 17. In 1901 he studied music at the Chicago Musical College at the same continuing to write popular music. Whilst in Chicago, two works were published: Ashy Africa (1903) and Just Because I'm From Missouri (1903)
In his early years, although writing in many genres, his ragtime music made the greatest impact with such titles as Peaches and Cream (1905) and The Smiler (1905). In or around 1907, he met and married Dolly Connolly (1888-1965), a vaudeville performer. From the 1910s until the 1920s, Wenrich both wrote for and toured with Dolly Connolly and he also accompanied her when she was a recording star with Columbia Records. Although he wrote mostly for her he still found time to write a number of stage musicals. In 1930 they both retired to New York. He, too, was another prolific composer with a penchant for pseudonyms, the most often used being Earl la Farge.
List of Percy Wenrich works.

Sheet Music:

1. [§] Across the Ocean (1909), Tenor/Tenor/Tenor/Bass/Great Bass(Bass)
2. [§] Alamo Rag (1910), Tenor/Tenor/Bass/Bass/Great Bass(Bass)/Vocal(Optional Tenor)
3. [§] Ashy Africa (1903), Treble/Tenor/Tenor/Bass/Bass/Great Bass(Bass)
4. [§] Auto Race (1908), Tenor/Tenor/Tenor/Bass/Great Bass(Bass)
5. [§] Blushes (1908), Treble/Tenor/Tenor/Bass/Great Bass(Bass)
6. [§] Catnip (1911), Tenor/Tenor/Bass/Bass/Great Bass(Bass)
7. [§] Chestnuts (1906), Tenor/Tenor/Tenor/Bass/Great Bass(Bass)
8. [§] Chicago Express (1905), Treble(Tenor)/Tenor/Tenor/Bass/Great Bass(Bass)
9. [§] Chicago Express (1905), Treble(Tenor)/Tenor/Bass
10. [§] Crab Apples (1908), Treble(Tenor)/Tenor/Tenor/Bass/Great Bass(Bass)
11. [§] Dance of the Wild Flowers (1905), Tenor/Tenor/Tenor/Bass/Great Bass(Bass)
12. [§] Dancing Wavelets (1911), Treble/Tenor/Bass/Bass/Great Bass(Bass)
13. [§] Dixie Blossoms (1906), Treble/Tenor/Tenor/Tenor/Bass/Great Bass(Bass)
14. [§] Dixie Darlings (1907), Treble/Tenor/Bass/Bass/Great Bass(Bass)
15. [§] Dixie Kicks (1908), Treble(Tenor)/Tenor/Tenor/Tenor/Bass/Great Bass(Bass)
16. [§] Egyptian Rag (1910), Tenor/Tenor/Tenor+Bass/Bass/Great Bass(Bass)
17. [§] Fairy Queen (1907), Tenor/Tenor/Tenor/Bass/Great Bass(Bass)
18. [§] Fighting the Flames (1907), Tenor/Tenor/Tenor/Bass+Tenor/Bass/Great Bass(Bass)
19. [§] The Fireman's Dream (1907), Treble(Tenor)/Tenor/Bass/Bass/Great Bass(Bass)
20. [§] Flower Girl (1907), Treble/Tenor/Tenor/Tenor+Bass/Bass/Great Bass(Bass)
21. [§] Fun-Bob (1907), Tenor/Tenor/Tenor/Bass/Great Bass(Bass)
22. [§] Georgia Jingles (1907), Treble(Tenor)/Tenor/Bass/Bass/Great Bass(Bass)
23. [§] Happy Hours (1908), Tenor/Tenor/Tenor+Bass/Bass/Great Bass(Bass)
24. [§] Home Sweet Home and Annie Laurie (1906), Treble(Tenor)/Tenor/Bass/Bass/Great Bass(Bass)
25. [§] Irish Beauties (1911), Treble/Tenor/Tenor/Bass/Great Bass(Bass)
26. [§] Just Because I'm From Missouri (1903), Treble/Tenor/Tenor/Tenor+Bass/Bass/Great Bass(Bass)/Vocal(Optional Tenor)
27. [§] Lilac Blossoms (1908), Treble(Tenor)/Tenor/Tenor/Bass/Great Bass(Bass)
28. [§] The Little Jap (1905), Treble(Tenor)/Tenor/Tenor/Bass/Great Bass/U
29. [§] Memphis Rag (1908), Treble(Tenor)/Tenor/Tenor/Bass/Great Bass(Bass)
30. [§] Memphis Rag (1908), Tenor/Tenor/Bass
31. [§] Moon Kisses (1906), Tenor/Tenor/Tenor/Bass/Bass/Great Bass(Bass)
32. [§] Noodles (1906), Tenor/Tenor/Bass/Bass/Great Bass(Bass)
33. [§] Noodles (1906), Tenor/Tenor/Bass
34. [§] Old Folks at Home / My Old Kentucky Home (1913), Tenor/Tenor/Bass/Bass/Great Bass(Bass)
35. [§] Peaches and Cream (1905), Treble/Tenor/Tenor/Bass/Bass/Great Bass(Bass)
36. [§] Pennant Rag (1905), Treble/Tenor/Tenor/Bass/Bass/Great Bass(Bass)
37. [§] Persian Lamb Rag (1908), Tenor/Tenor/Tenor/Bass/Great Bass(Bass)
38. [§] Put On Your Old Grey Bonnet (1909), Tenor/Tenor/Bass/Bass/Great Bass(Bass)/Vocal(Optional Tenor)
39. [§] Ragtime College Turkey Trot (1913), Tenor/Tenor/Tenor/Bass/Great Bass(Bass)/Vocal(Optional Tenor)
40. [§] Ragtime Ripples (1908), Tenor/Tenor/Tenor/Bass/Bass/Great Bass(Bass)
41. [§] Rainbow (1908), Treble/Tenor/Tenor/Tenor/Bass/Great Bass(Bass)
42. [§] Red Rose Rag, Descant/Treble/Tenor/Bass
43. [§] The Red Rose Rag (1911), Tenor/Tenor/Bass/Bass/Great Bass(Bass)/Vocal(Optional Tenor)
44. [§] Roosevelt March (1910), Treble/Tenor/Tenor/Tenor/Bass+Tenor/Great Bass(Bass)
45. [§] Rose-Buds (1908), Tenor/Tenor/Bass+Tenor/Bass/Great Bass(Bass)
46. [§] Silver Bell (1910), Tenor/Tenor/Bass/Bass/Great Bass(Bass)/Vocal(Optional Tenor)
47. [§] The Skeleton Rag (1911), Tenor/Tenor/Bass/Bass/Great Bass(Bass)/Vocal(Optional Tenor)
48. [§] The Smiler (1907), Treble/Tenor/Tenor+Bass/Bass/Great Bass(Bass)
49. [§] Steeplechase Fox-Trot (1916), Treble(Tenor)/Tenor/Bass/Bass/Great Bass(Bass)
50. [§] Sunflower Rag (1911), Treble(Tenor)/Tenor/Tenor/Bass(U)
51. [§] Sunflower Tickle (1908), Treble(Tenor)/Tenor/Tenor/Bass/Great Bass(Bass)
52. [§] Sweetmeats (1907), Tenor/Tenor/Tenor/Bass/Great Bass(Bass)
53. [§] Twelve Tenor Solos, Tenor
54. [§] Wenonah (1903), Tenor/Tenor/Tenor/Bass/Great Bass(Bass)
55. [§] Westward, Ho! (1909), Tenor/Tenor/Tenor+Bass/Bass/Great Bass(Bass)
56. [§] When You Wore a Tulip (1914), Tenor/Tenor/Tenor/Bass/Great Bass(Bass)
57. [§] Whipped Cream (1913), Treble/Tenor/Tenor+Bass/Bass/Great Bass(Bass)
58. [§] Wild West (1908), Tenor/Tenor/Tenor/Bass/Great Bass(Bass)