John Walter Bratton  (1867-1947)
Last updated: 31.08.24
According to the Internet source given below, John Walter Bratton was an American songwriter born in Wilmington, Delaware who achieved success during the 1890's together with the lyricist, Walter H. Ford. Their big hits included I Love You In The Same Old Way (1896) and Darling Sue. His instrumental piece The Teddy Bear's Picnic (1907) was also very popular and enjoyed a revival after lyrics for it were written in 1939 by Ethyl Wood. Of ragtime interest is his The Jungle Jubilee (1910), a rag novelty. Bratton died in 1947 in Brooklyn, NY.


John Walter Bratton  (1867-1947) has at least 5 item(s) at the Amazons which you can order on-line by clicking the item's order icon.
Down Red Rose Lane Song
Words and Music by: John Walter Bratton.
Publisher: Leo Feist
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Printed: 1913. Sheet Music 5 pages. Limited availability.
Teddy Bears Picnic, The for Xylophone or Marimba with Piano Accompaniment
Music by: John Walter Bratton.
Publisher: M. Witmark and Sons
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Printed: 1949. Sheet Music. Limited Availability.
For Xylophone or Marimba with Piano Accompaniment
Two Little Blue Little True Little Eyes Song
Music by: John Walter Bratton.
Words by: George A. Norton
Publisher: M. Witmark and Sons
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Printed: 1903. Sheet Music. Limited Availability.
When the Fightin' Irish Come Home Song
Words and Music by: John Walter Bratton.
Publisher: Leo Feist
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 ⇑ Printed: 1919. Sheet Music 3 pages. Limited availability.
You'll Always Be Just Sweet Sixteen to Me Song
Music by: John Walter Bratton.
Words by: Paul West
Publisher: Leo Feist
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Printed: 1908. Sheet Music 5 pages. Limited availability.
  Title (Release Year) Co-Author(s) Performers Issue
         
cylinder15.gif There Are Fifty-Seven Ways to Catch a Man (1910) Stella Mayhew Edison Amberol: D-23
cylinder15.gif Sadie, My Lady (1896-1900) Dan W. Quinn Columbia Phonograph Co.: 5273
  Title (Release Year) Co-Author(s) Performers Issue
         
audioextmp315.gif The Teddy Bears Picnic (1908) Paul West Edison Symphony Orchestra Edison's National Phonograph Company: 9777
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Recorder Music CDs:
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Brass Music CDs:
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Jazz Music CDs:
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Ragtime Music CDs:
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cd15.gif Paragon Ragtime Orchestra Knockout Drops CD(s) & MP3 Album(s) flag15us.gif flag15uk.gif flag15de.gif flag15fr.gif flag15ca.gif flag15it.gif flag15es.gif
cd15.gif Paragon Ragtime Orchestra More Candy CD(s) & MP3 Album(s) flag15us.gif flag15uk.gif flag15de.gif flag15fr.gif flag15it.gif flag15es.gif
cd15.gif The Great American Main St. Band Silks & Rags flag15us.gif flag15uk.gif flag15de.gif flag15fr.gif flag15ca.gif
cd15.gif Tom Brier Generic
cd15.gif Palm Court Theatre Orchestra The Picnic Party CD(s) & MP3 Album(s) flag15us.gif flag15uk.gif flag15de.gif flag15fr.gif flag15ca.gif flag15it.gif flag15es.gif
     Title Instruments Remarks
       
sm15.gif Teddy Bears' Picnic, The S/D/A/T/B wvicon.gif
This list is derived from information provided by Monologues.co.uk which went down sometime in 2023.
The loss of this valuable resource is very sad and a mystery.
     Title Attribution Remarks
       
  Just As if She Didn't Know John Walter Bratton (music)
Walter Ford (words)
Marie Lloyd (perf.) 		 
     Title Attribution Instruments Source Remarks
           
pdf15.gif Down Red Rose Lane (1913) J.W. Bratton (w&m) Piano, Voice Indiana wvicon.gif
pdf15.gif In a Cosey Corner (1901) J.W. Bratton (music) Piano YorkSpace wvicon.gif
pdf15.gif Just a Word For Father (1900) J.W. Bratton (music)
Walter H. Ford (words)		 Piano, Voice Indiana wvicon.gif
pdf15.gif Laces and Graces (1903) J.W. Bratton (music)
Gus Salzer (coauth.)		 Piano YorkSpace Pub.
pdf15.gif Little Black Man (1905), The J.W. Bratton (music)
Paul West (words)		 Piano, Voice Indiana Pub.
pdf15.gif My Little Hong Kong Baby (1902) J.W. Bratton (music)
Paul West (words)
Violet Dale (perf.)		 Piano, Voice Indiana Pub.
pdf15.gif My Sunday Dolly (1898) J.W. Bratton (music)
Walter H. Ford (words)		 Piano, Voice Indiana Pub.
pdf15.gif  ⇑On a Saturday Night (1922) J.W. Bratton (music)
William Andrew Downs (words)		 Piano, Voice Indiana Pub.
pdf15.gif Seeing New York in the Rubber-Neck Hack (1904) J.W. Bratton (music)
Paul West (words)		 Piano, Voice Indiana Pub.
pdf15.gif Teddy Bears Picnic (1907), The J.W. Bratton (music)
Paul West (coauth.)		 Piano, Voice Indiana Pub.
pdf15.gif Then I'll Come Back to You (1917) J.W. Bratton (w&m)
Ed Morton (perf.)		 Piano, Voice Indiana Pub.
pdf15.gif You'll Always Be Just Sweet Sixteen to Me (1908) J.W. Bratton (music)
Paul West (words)		 Piano, Voice Indiana Pub.
This list is arranged in chronological order and contains 136 works by John Walter Bratton (1867-1947). It does not claim to be complete and represents only the number of items located. Keys: ER pdf15.gif (w&m)
Title Year Attribution Remarks
       
Marie 1893  wvicon.gif
Rose Glenroy (w&m) 1893  wvicon.gif
Two Pictures 1893 Walter H. Ford (words)
Julius P. Witmark (perf.) 		 Pub.
Bells of Fate 1894 Walter H. Ford (words)
W Murray Smith (perf.) 		 Pub.
His Little Sweetheart, Nell 1894 Walter H. Ford (words)  Pub.
My Dainty Cigarette 1894 Walter H. Ford (words)  Pub.
My Dear Old Chum 1894 Walter H. Ford (words)
Lottie Gilson (perf.)
Old Stage Door, The (w&m) 1894 Robert S Baird (perf.)  Pub.
Only Me 1894 Walter H. Ford (words)
Joseph B. Maxwell (perf.)
Alfred L. Simpson (perf.) 		 Pub.
She Didn't Do a Thing to Him 1894 Walter H. Ford (words)  Pub.
Tarry Carrie Till We Marry 1894 Walter H. Ford (words)  Pub.
⇑ Tell Me Ruby, Will You True Be? 1894 Walter H. Ford (words)  Pub.
Under the City Lights 1894 Walter H. Ford (words)  Pub.
Waiting For Nora's Return 1894 Walter H. Ford (words)  Pub.
What D'ye Think of Hoolihan? 1894 Walter H. Ford (words)  Pub.
Henrietta! Have You Met Her? 1895 Walter H. Ford (words)  Pub.
Honey Does You Love Yer Man? 1895 Walter H. Ford (words)
Flora Irwin (perf.) 		 Pub.
I Did'nt Think He'd Do It, But He Did 1895 Walter H. Ford (words)
I'll Not Forsake You, Tom 1895 Walter H. Ford (words)
Al Bellman (perf.) 		 Pub.
Just As if She Didn't Know 1895 Walter H. Ford (words)
Hawthorne Sisters (perf.)
Marie Lloyd (perf.) 		 Pub.
Melody He Used to Sing, The 1895 Walter H. Ford (words)  Pub.
Songs We Hear on the Stage 1895 Walter H. Ford (words)
Henry V Donnelly (perf.)
Edward Girard (perf.) 		 Pub.
Sunshine of Paradise Alley, The 1895 Walter H. Ford (words)
Hawthorne Sisters (perf.)
Julius P. Witmark (perf.) 		 Pub.
⇑ Because We're Together 1896 Walter H. Ford (co-author)
I Love You in the Same Old Way 1896 Walter H. Ford (words)
Richard J. José (perf.)
Joseph B. Maxwell (perf.)
Alfred L. Simpson (perf.) 		 Pub.
Title Year Attribution Remarks
       
Isabelle 1896 Walter H. Ford (words)  wvicon.gif
It's Sunshiny Weather 1896 Walter H. Ford (words)  Pub.
Japanese Lantern Dance 1896  wvicon.gif
Lika a Good Little Girl Should Do 1896 Walter H. Ford (words)  Pub.
She Always Dressed in Black 1896 Walter H. Ford (words)
Fannie Leslie (perf.) 		 Pub.
She's Been a Mother to Me 1896 Walter H. Ford (words)  Pub.
Since Maggie Bought the Parrot 1896 Walter H. Ford (words)  Pub.
Sunday Night in Lover's Lane 1896 Walter H. Ford (words)  wvicon.gif
Belle of the Season, The 1897  Pub.
Dance of the Waves 1897  Pub.
Gayest Manhattan 1897
⇑ Genevieve! 1897 Walter H. Ford (words)  Pub.
Lurline 1897  Pub.
Mary's Not As Green As She Looks 1897 Walter H. Ford (words)  Pub.
Only a Newsboy 1897 Arthur J. Lamb (words)
Sadie, My Lady 1897 Walter H. Ford (words)
Dan W. Quinn (perf.) 		 Pub.  cylinder15.gif
At the Sound of the Sunset Gun 1898 Walter H. Ford (words)
Robert S Baird (perf.) 		 wvicon.gif
Cinderella 1898 Walter H. Ford (words)  Pub.
Don't Ask Me to Forget 1898 Walter H. Ford (words)  Pub.
Gold, Wine and Kisses 1898  Pub.
Hats Off to the Boys Who Made Good 1898 Walter H. Ford (words)  Pub.
Have a Kiss With Me 1898 Walter H. Ford (words)  Pub.
I'm Nothing to You Now 1898 Walter H. Ford (words)
Lottie Gilson (perf.) 		 Pub.
⇑ My Sunday Dolly 1898 Walter H. Ford (words)  Pub.
Oh Liza, How I Despise Her 1898 Walter H. Ford (words)  Pub.
Title Year Attribution Remarks
       
Old Folks Are Longing For You May, The 1898 Walter H. Ford (words)  wvicon.gif
Queen of Hearts, The 1898  Pub.
You May Regret Some Day 1898 Walter H. Ford (words)  Pub.
Change Will Do You Good 1899
Dear Old Soul 1899 Walter H. Ford (words)
Richard J. José (perf.) 		 Pub.
Heigh Ho 1899 Walter H. Ford (words)  Pub.
I Got All I Can Do to Keep My Hands Off You 1899
Mandy From Mandalay 1899 Walter H. Ford (words)  Pub.
My Queen Irene 1899 Walter H. Ford (words)
Truly Shattuck (perf.) 		 Pub.
Pride of the Pier, The 1899 Walter H. Ford (words)
Lottie Gilson (perf.)
Rubber Neck Jim 1899  Pub.
⇑ That You May Be Mine 1899 Walter H. Ford (words)  Pub.
Touch of a Woman's Hand, A 1899 Walter H. Ford (words)  Pub.
You'se Honey to Yo' Mammy Just De Same 1899 Walter H Ford (words)
Isadore Rush (perf.) 		 Pub.
Billet Doux 1900
Just a Word For Father 1900 Walter H. Ford (words)  wvicon.gif
My Little Lady Bug 1900 Walter H. Ford (words)  Pub.
My May Day 1900
My Sunbeam From the South 1900 Walter H. Ford (co-author)
My Sunflower Sue 1900 Walter H. Ford (words)
Peter F. Dailey (perf.) 		 Pub.
Scion of the House of High-Ball, A 1900
Spring-Time Bells 1900
You Never Can Tell What a Kiss Will Do 1900
⇑ Barn Yard Frolics 1901  youtube15.jpg
He Ought to Have a Tablet in the Hall of Fame 1901 Arthur L. Robb (words)
Francis Wilson (perf.) 		 Pub.
Title Year Attribution Remarks
       
In a Cosey Corner 1901  wvicon.gif
At Sunrise 1902 J. W. Bratton (words)  Pub.
My Little Hong Kong Baby 1902 Paul West (words)
Violet Dale (perf.)
Adele Ritchie (perf.) 		 Pub.
She Read the New York Papers Every Day 1902 Grace Cameron (perf.)
Amorous Esquimaux, The 1903 Paul West (words)  Pub.
I Want to Play Hamlet 1903
I'm on the Water Wagon Now 1903 Paul West (words)
Frank Daniels (perf.) 		 Pub.
Laces and Graces 1903 Gus Salzer (co-author)  Pub.
My Cosey-Corner Girl 1903 Chas. Noel Douglas (words)
Geo. Grossmith Jr. (perf.)
Edna May (perf.) 		 Pub.
Two Little Blue Little True Little Eyes 1903 George A. Norton (words)  amazon15.gif Pub.
Good-By, Teddy! 1904 Paul West (words)
Alton Brooks Parker (perf.) 		 wvicon.gif
⇑ Happy Jappy Soldier Man 1904 Paul West (words)
Eleanor Falk (perf.) 		 Pub.
Honeymoon Hall 1904 Paul West (words)  Pub.
In a Pagoda 1904  Pub.
In Black and White 1904
Mademoiselle New York 1904 Paul West (words)  Pub.
Roses' Honeymoon, The 1904 J.W. Bratton (words)  Pub.
Seeing New York in the Rubber-Neck Hack 1904 Paul West (words)  Pub.
That's the Girl 1904
Come My True Love 1905
Come On, Let's Two-Step 1905
Hang Together 1905
Jack O'Lantern Joe 1905 Paul West (words)  Pub.
⇑ Lily White 1905
Little Black Man, The 1905 Paul West (words)  Pub.
Title Year Attribution Remarks
       
Sitting on the Starboard Tack 1905
Skating 1905 Frank Daniels (perf.)
String of Pearls 1905
Tricks 1905
When America Is Captured by the Japs 1905 Paul West (words)
Inga Orner (perf.) 		 wvicon.gif
Rosy Lips 1906  wvicon.gif
Town at the End of the Line, The 1906 Arthur J. Lamb (words)
Emma Carus (perf.) 		 wvicon.gif
Molly McGinnity You're My Affinity (w&m) 1907 Walter H. Ford (co-author)
James F. Macdonald (perf.) 		 Pub.
Somebody's Been Around Here Since I've Been Gone 1907 Walter H. Ford (words)
Maude Raymond (perf.)
Spangles 1907  Pub.
Teddy Bears Picnic, The 1907 Paul West (co-author)
Edison Symphony Orchestra (perf.) 		 amazon15.gif Pub.  audioextmp315.gif
⇑ Baby Say 'da! Da!' 1908
Come Out Sue 1908
My Boy Bill 1908 Paul West (words)
Mabel Russel (perf.) 		 Pub.
You'll Always Be Just Sweet Sixteen to Me 1908 Paul West (words)  amazon15.gif wvicon.gif
Ev'ry Baby Is a Sweet Bouquet 1909 Paul West (words)  Pub.
Mister Jigger 1909
Jungle Jubilee, The 1910
Rest of the Week She's Mine, Caroline, The 1910 Richard Carle (perf.)
There Are Fifty-Seven Ways to Catch a Man 1910 Stella Mayhew (perf.)   cylinder15.gif
Patsy Rosenstein 1911
Down Red Rose Lane (w&m) 1913  amazon15.gif Pub.
Then I'll Come Back to You (w&m) 1917 Bowman Brothers (perf.)
Ed Morton (perf.) 		 Pub.
⇑ When the Fightin' Irish Come Home (w&m) 1919  amazon15.gif Pub.
Hello Prosperity! 1921
Title Year Attribution Remarks
       
On a Saturday Night 1922 William Andrew Downs (words)  wvicon.gif
Mender of Broken Dreams 1925
Mouse! Mouse! 1925
Do You Think She'll Ever Love Me Any More? ? Walter H. Ford (words)
He Thought He Was in Heaven ? Walter H. Ford (words)
I Did'nt Marry All Your Kin ? Walter H. Ford (words)
It's Alright, But It's Awkward ? Walter H. Ford (words)
Just a Little Case of May Be ? Walter H. Ford (words)
Night at the Play, A ?
O'Dwyer Caught a Cold ? Walter H. Ford (words)
Trilby Waltzes ?
     Composer Title Performer
       
youtube15.jpg J.W. Bratton Barn Yard Frolics (3:51) Ragtime Dorian Henry
youtube15.jpg J.W. Bratton The Teddy Bears' Picnic (3:32) Ma Douguo Recorder Orchestra