Shelton Brooks (1886-1975)
Last updated: 22.11.21
According to the Internet source given below, Shelton Brooks was an American composer of popular music. He was born in Canada, Amherstburg, Ontario but moved to Detroit, Michigan in 1901. In addition to being a composer, he was variously songwriter, singer, pianist, Vaudeville and musical performer. Later in the 1930s he had radio show on CBS. His best known successes include: All Night Long, At the Darktown Strutters' Ball, Every Day, Some of These Days, Somewhere in France, Swing That Thing, That Man of Mine, There'll Come A Time, and Walkin' The Dog.
Of ragtime interest is The Cosey Rag (1911) published by Will Rossiter, Chicago, Illinois, USA.
Of ragtime interest is The Cosey Rag (1911) published by Will Rossiter, Chicago, Illinois, USA.
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Shelton Brooks (1886-1975) has at least 36 item(s) at the Amazons which you can order on-line by clicking the item's order icon.
 All Night Long SongWords and Music by: Shelton Brooks.
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All That I Had Is Gone Song Words and Music by: Shelton Brooks. Co-Author: W. R. Williams
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At an Old-Time Ball Song Words and Music by: Shelton Brooks.
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At the Cotton Pickers' Jubilee Song Words and Music by: Shelton Brooks.
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 Cosey Rag, The SongWords and Music by: Shelton Brooks.
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Darktown Strutters' Ball, The Song Words and Music by: Shelton Brooks.
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Darktown Strutters' Ball, The A jazz melody (H. D. M. P. Co. Sixpenny Ed) Music by: Shelton Brooks.
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Darktown Strutters' Ball, The Words and Music by: Shelton Brooks.
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Down on the Levee Song Words and Music by: Shelton Brooks.
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Ev'ry Day Song Music by: Shelton Brooks. Words by: W. R. Williams
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Give Me One More Chance Song Words and Music by: Shelton Brooks.
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Honey Gal Song Words and Music by: Shelton Brooks.
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I Cert'ny Wish He Would Come Back Song Words and Music by: Shelton Brooks.
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I Want to Do the Bear-Cat Dance Song Words and Music by: Shelton Brooks.
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I Want to Shimmie Song Words and Music by: Shelton Brooks. Co-Author: G. Clarke
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 I Wonder Where My Easy Rider's Gone SongWords and Music by: Shelton Brooks.
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If I Were a Bee and You Were a Red, Red Rose Song Words and Music by: Shelton Brooks.
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Jean Song Words and Music by: Shelton Brooks.
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Lonesome For You Song Words and Music by: Shelton Brooks.
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Love-Sick Blues Song Words and Music by: Shelton Brooks.
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 Ruff Johnson's Harmony Band SongWords and Music by: Shelton Brooks.
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Some of These Days Song Words and Music by: Shelton Brooks.
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 Some of These Days SongWords and Music by: Shelton Brooks.
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Somewhere, Somewhere in France Song Music by: Shelton Brooks. Words by: Wm. Vaughan Dunham
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Somewhere, Somewhere in France Song Music by: Shelton Brooks. Words by: Wm. Vaughan Dunham
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 Tell Me Why You Want to Go to Paree SongWords and Music by: Shelton Brooks.
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That Humming Tune Song Words and Music by: Shelton Brooks.
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There'll Come a Time Song Words and Music by: Shelton Brooks.
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Wake Me Up Cooin' the Blues Song Words and Music by: Shelton Brooks. Co-Author: #CLrobinsonjr#1
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 Walkin' the Dog SongWords and Music by: Shelton Brooks.
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 When You Hear That Dixie Jazzband Play SongWords and Music by: Shelton Brooks.
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Why Did You Make Me Love You Song Words and Music by: Shelton Brooks.
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Yo' Got to Be Kind to Me Song Words and Music by: Shelton Brooks.
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You Ain't Talking to Me Song Music by: Shelton Brooks. Words by: Mat. Marshall
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You Can't Mend a Broken Heart Song Words and Music by: Shelton Brooks.
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You Go in Mister Friend of Mine, I'll Stay Out Here Song Words and Music by: Shelton Brooks.
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Turk Murphy | Turk Murphy's Jazz Band Favorites | CD(s) & MP3 Album(s)        |
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Various Performers | Super Jazz-Best of New Orleans | CD(s) & MP3 Album(s) |
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Thomas Waller | Fats Waller: 1939-40 | CD(s) & MP3 Album(s) |
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Thomas Waller | Fats Waller: Portrait Vol.2 | |
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Thomas Waller | Handful of Fats | CD(s) & MP3 Album(s) |
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Thomas Waller | A Handful of Keys | CD(s) & MP3 Album(s) |
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Ted Lewis | Is Everybody Happy?: Ted Lewis and His Band | |
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Various Artists | Honky Tonk Piano | |
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Various Artists | Lost Sounds: Blacks and the Birth of the Recording Industry 1891-1922 | |
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Various Artists | Pioneer Recording Bands 1917-1920 | CD(s) & MP3 Album(s) |
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⇑Various Artists | Player Piano Memories | CD(s) & MP3 Album(s) |
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Various Artists | Please Don't Shoot the Piano Player (Nostalgic Player Piano Music) | CD(s) & MP3 Album(s) |
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Various Artists | Ragtime to Jazz: Vol. 1 | CD(s) & MP3 Album(s) |
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Various Artists | Real Ragtime | |
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Various Artists | Rhapsody in Blue | |
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Various Artists | Spirit of Ragtime | |
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Various Artists | Stomp and Swerve: American Music Gets Hot | CD(s) & MP3 Album(s) |
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Various Artists | That Devilin' Tune | CD(s) & MP3 Album(s) |
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Willie Knox | Ragtime Piano | |
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James Price Johnson | Father of the Stride Piano | |
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James Price Johnson | James P. Johnson 1944-45 | CD(s) & MP3 Album(s) |
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⇑James Reese Europe | Featuring Noble Sissle | |
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James Reese Europe | James Reese Europe's 369th US Infantry Hell FightersBand | CD(s) & MP3 Album(s) |
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James Reese Europe | Too Much Mustard | CD(s) & MP3 Album(s) |
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Paragon Ragtime Orchestra | Minding the Score: The Music of Harry L. Alford | CD(s) & MP3 Album(s) |
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Alan Martin | Everything is Ragtime Now | |
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Hot String Band Music | Got My Dancin' Boots On | |
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Chrysanthemum Ragtime Band | Preserves, Vol. 1 | |
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Richard Zimmerman | Ragtime Favorites - Richard Zimmerman | |
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Wilbur C. Sweatman | Jazzin' Straight Thru' Paradise | CD(s) & MP3 Album(s) |
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Six Brown Brothers | Those Moaning Saxophones | |
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Mark Birnbaum | Hot Piano! Ragtime Blues Jazz Classical Mark Birnbaum | |
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⇑George Lewis | George Lewis' Ragtime Band of New Orleans: The Oxford Series Vol. 01 | |
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George Lewis | George Lewis' Ragtime Band of New Orleans: The Oxford Series Vol. 02 | |
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George Lewis | George Lewis' Ragtime Band of New Orleans: The Oxford Series Vol. 07 | |
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Heliotrope Ragtime Orchestra | It's a Bear | |
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Budapest Ragtime Band | Grace and Beauty | |
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Butch Thompson | The Butch Thompson Trio Plays Favorites | |
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Joe ''Fingers'' Carr | Honky Tonk Hits of Joe "Fingers" Carr | |
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Johnny Maddox | Red Hot Ragtime Volume 2 | CD(s) & MP3 Album(s) |
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Bill Edwards | The Two Sides of Perfessor Bill |
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| DBE915 | The Darktown Strutters' Ball (1917) - Song T/T/B/B/GB(B), approx. 3½ mins. |
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This list is arranged in chronological order and contains 45 works by Shelton Brooks (1886-1975).
It does not claim to be complete and represents only the number of items located. Keys: ER
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| Honey Gal | 1909 |   |
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| You Ain't Talking to Me | 1909 | Mat. Marshall (words) Clifford (perf.) Burke (perf.) |
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| Some of These Days | 1910 | S. Tucker (perf.) Mary Small (perf.) Mae Curtis (perf.) Reine Davies (perf.) |
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| You Go in Mister Friend of Mine, I'll Stay Out Here | 1910 | |
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| Cosey Rag, The | 1911 | Irene Howley (perf.) | |
| It's Awf'ly Hard to Say Good-Bye to Someone You Love | 1911 | Bill Conklin (perf.) Harry L Newman, (perf.) |
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| That Humming Tune | 1911 | Alexander & Scott (perf.) | |
| There'll Come a Time | 1911 | |
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| All Night Long | 1912 | Grace Wilson (perf.) | |
| At an Old-Time Ball | 1913 | |
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| I Want to Do the Bear-Cat Dance | 1913 | |
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| ⇑ I Wonder Where My Easy Rider's Gone | 1913 | S. Tucker (perf.) | |
| All That I Had Is Gone (w&m) | 1914 | W. R. Williams (co-author) | |
| Down on the Levee | 1914 | |
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| Give Me One More Chance | 1914 | Lee White (perf.) Maude Lambert (perf.) |
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| I Cert'ny Wish He Would Come Back | 1914 | Elizabeth M. Murray (perf.) Maude Lambert (perf.) |
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| Lonesome For You | 1914 | |
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| Ruff Johnson's Harmony Band | 1914 | Neil McKinley (perf.) | |
| Yo' Got to Be Kind to Me | 1914 | |
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| If I Were a Bee and You Were a Red, Red Rose (w&m) | 1915 | |
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| Since You Went Away | 1915 | |
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| You Can't Mend a Broken Heart | 1915 | Dolce Sisters (perf.) | |
| Walkin' the Dog | 1916 | Dena Caryll (perf.) Jessie Stoner (perf.) |
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| Darktown Strutters' Ball, The | 1917 | S. Tucker (perf.) Joe Cook (perf.) Dorothy Brenner (perf.) |
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| Somewhere, Somewhere in France | 1917 | Wm. Vaughan Dunham (words) | |
| Why Did You Make Me Love You | 1917 | |
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| At the Cotton Pickers' Jubilee | 1918 | |
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| ⇑ Ev'ry Day | 1918 | W. R. Williams (words) S. Tucker (perf.) Claudie Tracey (perf.) |
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| Love-Sick Blues | 1918 | |
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| When You Hear That Dixie Jazzband Play | 1918 | |
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| I Want to Shimmie | 1919 | G. Clarke (co-author) | |
| Jean | 1919 | |
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| Tell Me Why You Want to Go to Paree | 1919 | |
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| Wake Me Up Cooin' the Blues (w&m) | 1919 | J.R. Robinson (co-author) | |
| Jazz Dance Repertoire, The | 1920 | Chris Smith (words) | |
| Don't Leave Your Little Blackbird Blue | 1930 | J. Jordan (co-author) Porter Grainger (co-author) |
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| Rhythm Train | 1937 | |
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| After All These Years | ? | Ethel Waters (perf.) | |
| Dream in a Dream | ? | Jo Trent (co-author) | |
| Hole in the Wall | ? | ||
| Jazzbo Jenkins | ? | ||
| She Done Him Wrong | ? | Mae West (perf.) | |
| Swing That Thing | ? | ||
| ⇑ That Man of Mine | ? | Ted Koehler (words) | |
| This Is My Sunday Off | ? |