Lew Brown  (1893-1958)
Last updated: 07.10.25
According to the Internet source given below, Lew Brown (Russian-born Louis Brownstein) was an American lyricist for popular songs.
On his own estimation in 1939 he had written or collaborated on about 7,000 songs. Brown was one third of a successful songwriting and music publishing team with Buddy DeSylva and Ray Henderson (De Sylva, Brown & Henderson Inc.) from 1925 until 1931 and also wrote or co-wrote many Broadway shows and Hollywood films.
His most-popular songs Include Button Up Your Overcoat, Don't Sit Under the Apple Tree (1942), Life Is Just a Bowl of Cherries (1931), That Old Feeling(1937) and The Birth of the Blues. (1926).
Of ragtime interest is The Ragtime Dream (1914) published by Leo Feist, New York, USA.

Websites:
url15.gif Lew Brown Biography by wikipedia.org.  
url15.gif  DAHR: Lew Brown List of 1116 historic recordings from 1911 to 1955.
Lew Brown  (1893-1958) has at least 2 item(s) at the Amazons which you can order on-line by clicking the item's order icon.
b078yym4hb_m.jpgI'm Afraid I'm Beginning to Love You
Music by: Lew Brown.
Co-Author: Joe Goodwin
Publisher: Leo Feist
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Printed: 1913. Sheet Music.
b00a6oqy82_m.jpgRagtime Dream, The
Music by: Lew Brown.
Words by: Joe Goodwin
Publisher: Leo Feist
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Printed: 1913. Sheet Music.
  Title (Release Year) Co-Author(s) Performers Issue
         
cylinder15.gif Stay Home, Little Girl, Stay Home (1923) James F Hanley Merry Sparklers Edison Blue Amberol: 4834
cylinder15.gif I'm Tellin' the Birds - Tellin' the Bees How I Love You (1926) C. Friend Clyde Doer Orchestra Edison Blue Amberol: 5305
  Title Co-Author(s) Sequencer
       
audiomidi15.gif Beer Barrel Polka (1934) Wladimir A. Timm
Jaromir Vejvoda		 Unknown
audiomidi15.gif Beer That I Left on the Bar (1950), The James Pitt-Payne
audiomidi15.gif Don't Sit Under the Apple Tree (1942) Unknown
audiomidi15.gif Give Me a Ukulele and Leave the Rest to Me (1926) G. Williams James Pitt-Payne
audiomidi15.gif I Got It, You'll Get It (1922) L. Pollack James Pitt-Payne
audiomidi15.gif I'd Climb the Highest Mountain if I Knew I'd Find You (1926) James Pitt-Payne
audiomidi15.gif Last Night on the Back Porch (1923) Carl Schraubstader James Pitt-Payne
audiomidi15.gif Let's Call It a Day (1932) R. Henderson James Pitt-Payne
audiomidi15.gif Let's Make Memories Tonight (1939) Chas Tobias
Sam H Stept		 James Pitt-Payne
audiomidi15.gif Life Is Just a Bowl of Cherries (1931) James Pitt-Payne
audiomidi15.gif My Song (1931) R. Henderson Unknown
audiomidi15.gif That Old Feeling (1937) S. Fain James Pitt-Payne
audiomidi15.gif Thrill Is Gone, The (1931) R. Henderson James Pitt-Payne
audiomidi15.gif Whose Izzy Is He (1924) B. Green
Murray Sturm		 James Pitt-Payne
  Title (Release Year) Composer Performers Issue
         
recordmp3.gif Beer Barrel Polka (1939) L. Brown Elisse Cooper Victor: BS-035371
recordmp3.gif Boy Named Lem, A (1939) L. Brown F. Martin
Fran Rogers		 Victor: BS-034966
recordmp3.gif Comes Love (1939) L. Brown Helen Forrest Victor: PBS-036265
recordmp3.gif Comes Love (1939) L. Brown Dorothy Lamour Victor: PBS-036375
recordmp3.gif If I Can't Have You I Don't Want Nobody at All (1922) L. Brown Dolly Kay Columbia: 80430
recordmp3.gif Let's Make Memories Tonight (1939) L. Brown F. Martin
Bill Stoker		 Victor: BS-034965
     Performer CD Title Supplier
       
Jazz Music CDs:
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Ragtime Music CDs:
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     Title Attribution Instruments Source Remarks
           
pdf15.gif Beer Barrel Polka (1934) L. Brown (w&m)
Wladimir A. Timm (coauth.)
Jaromir Vejvoda (coauth.)		 Piano, Voice Sheet Music Singer wvicon.gif
pdf15.gif Beer That I Left on the Bar (1950), The L. Brown (w&m)
V. Monroe (perf.)		 Piano, Voice Sheet Music Singer Pub.
pdf15.gif Don't Sit Under the Apple Tree (1942) L. Brown (w&m)
Charlie Tobias (words)
Sam H. Stept (words)		 Piano, Voice Sheet Music Singer wvicon.gif
pdf15.gif Give Me a Ukulele and Leave the Rest to Me (1926) L. Brown (w&m)
G. Williams (coauth.)		 Piano, Voice Sheet Music Singer Pub.
pdf15.gif I Got It, You'll Get It (1922) L. Brown (w&m)
L. Pollack (coauth.)		 Piano, Voice Sheet Music Singer wvicon.gif
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pdf15.gif		 I'd Climb the Highest Mountain if I Knew I'd Find You (1926) L. Brown (music)
S. Clare (words)
 Piano Greer
Sheet Music Singer		 wvicon.gif


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pdf15.gif		 Last Night on the Back Porch (1923) L. Brown (music)
Carl Schraubstader (coauth.)
Jim Doherty (perf.)		 Piano, Voice

Greer
Sheet Music Singer		 wvicon.gif
pdf15.gif  ⇑Let's Call It a Day (1932) L. Brown (w&m)
R. Henderson (coauth.)
Lupe Velez (perf.)
J. Durante (perf.)
Hope Williams (perf.)		 Piano, Voice Sheet Music Singer wvicon.gif
pdf15.gif Let's Make Memories Tonight (1939) L. Brown (w&m)
Chas Tobias (coauth.)
Sam H Stept (coauth.)
Buddy Ebsen (perf.)
Judy Canova (perf.)
Dixie Dunbar (perf.)
Jackie Heller (perf.)
Lois January (perf.)
Jack Pearl (perf.)		 Piano, Voice Sheet Music Singer wvicon.gif
pdf15.gif Life Is Just a Bowl of Cherries (1931) L. Brown (w&m)
R. Henderson (words)		 Piano, Voice Sheet Music Singer wvicon.gif
pdf15.gif My Song (1931) L. Brown (w&m)
R. Henderson (coauth.)		 Piano, Voice Sheet Music Singer Pub.
pdf15.gif That Old Feeling (1937) L. Brown (w&m)
S. Fain (coauth.)
Warner Baxter (perf.)
Joan Bennett (perf.)
Helen Vinson (perf.)
Mischa Auer (perf.)
Alan Mowbray (perf.)
Jerome Cowan (perf.)
Marjorie Gateson (perf.)
Dorothy McNulty (perf.)
Alma Kruger (perf.)
Polly Rowles (perf.)		 Piano, Voice Sheet Music Singer wvicon.gif
pdf15.gif Thrill Is Gone, The (1931) L. Brown (w&m)
R. Henderson (coauth.)		 Piano, Voice Sheet Music Singer Pub.



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pdf15.gif		 Whose Izzy Is He (1924) L. Brown (music)
B. Green (coauth.)
Murray Sturm (coauth.)
Josephine Harmon (perf.)
Van & Schenck (perf.)		 Piano, Voice


Greer
Sheet Music Singer		 Pub.
This list is arranged in chronological order and contains 91 works by Lew Brown (1893-1958). It does not claim to be complete and represents only the number of items located. Keys: pdf15.gif (w&m)
Title Year Attribution Remarks
       
I'm Afraid I'm Beginning to Love You 1913 Joe Goodwin (co-author)  amazon15.gif wvicon.gif
Oh! Mrs. Fortune Teller Please Find My Lovin' Man 1913 Hermen Palen (words)  wvicon.gif
Ragtime Dream, The 1913 Joe Goodwin (words)  amazon15.gif Pub.
Everybody Loves My Girl 1914 Nathan D. Ayer (co-author)
My Mind's Made Up to Marry Carolina 1917 Rubey Cowan (words)  wvicon.gif
You'll Always Find a Lot of Sunshine in My Old Kentucky Home 1918 Rubey Cowan (words)  Pub.
I Don't Want to Love No One But You 1919 Rubey Cowan (co-author)
Will Stoddard (co-author)
Oh They're Such Nice People 1921 J. Brandon Walsh (words)
I Got It, You'll Get It (w&m) 1922 Lew Pollack (co-author)  Pub. pdf15.gif 
If I Can't Have You I Don't Want Nobody at All 1922 Carey Morgan (co-author)
Dolly Kay (perf.) 		  recordmp3.gif
If I Knew You Then As I Know You Now (w&m) 1923 Billy Joyce (co-author)
James F. Hanley (co-author)
Martha Pryor (perf.) 		 wvicon.gif
⇑ Jazzmania (w&m) 1923 N. T. Granlund (co-author)
James F. Hanley (co-author)
Last Night on the Back Porch (w&m) 1923 Carl Schraubstader (co-author)
Jim Doherty (perf.)
Isabella Patricola (perf.)
Harry Rappi (perf.)
Welder Sisters (perf.) 		 wvicon.gif pdf15.gifpdf15.gif 
Stay Home, Little Girl, Stay Home (w&m) 1923 James F Hanley (co-author)
Artie Mehlinger (perf.)
Merry Sparklers (perf.)
Matty White (perf.) 		 Pub.  cylinder15.gif
Whose Izzy Is He 1924 Bud Green (co-author)
Murray Sturm (co-author)
Frances Arms (perf.)
Josephine Harmon (perf.)
Van & Schenck (perf.) 		 Pub. pdf15.gifpdf15.gif 
If You Hadn't Gone Away (w&m) 1925 Ray Henderson (co-author)
Billy Rose (co-author)
Courtney Sisters (perf.)
Marion Harris (perf.) 		 Pub.
Let Me Introduce You to My Rosie 1925 Eddie Cantor (perf.)
Birth of the Blues, The (w&m) 1926 Ray Henderson (co-author)
Give Me a Ukulele and Leave the Rest to Me (w&m) 1926 Gene Williams (co-author)  Pub. pdf15.gif 
How I Love You 1926 Cliff Friend (co-author)
Title Year Attribution Remarks
       
I'd Climb the Highest Mountain if I Knew I'd Find You 1926 Sidney Clare (words)
Grace Aldrich (perf.)
Radio Franks (perf.)
Louise Lake (perf.)
Betty Taylor (perf.) 		 wvicon.gif pdf15.gifpdf15.gif 
I'm Tellin' the Birds - Tellin' the Bees How I Love You 1926 Cliff Friend (co-author)
Clyde Doer Orchestra (perf.)
Eddy &. Burt (perf.)
Sid Hall (perf.)
Dolly Kramer (perf.)
Scrappy Lambert &. Bill Millpot (perf.) 		 Pub.  cylinder15.gif
It All Depends on You 1926 B. G. De Sylva (co-author)
Ray Henderson (co-author)
Best Things in Life Are Free, The 1927 B. G De Sylva (co-author)
Ray Henderson (co-author)
I Wonder How I Look When I'm Asleep 1927 B. G. De Sylva (co-author)
Ray Henderson (co-author)
Lucky in Love (w&m) 1927 B. G. De Sylva (co-author)
Ray Henderson (co-author)
So Blue 1927 B. G. De Sylva (co-author)
Ray Henderson (co-author)
Without You Sweetheart 1927 B. G. De Sylva (words)
Ray Henderson (words)
Josephine Harmon (perf.)
Don't Hold Everything 1928 B. G. De Sylva (co-author)
Ray Henderson (co-author)
For Old Times' Sake 1928 B. G. De Sylva (co-author)
Ray Henderson (co-author)
I Could Give Up Anything But You 1928 B. G. De Sylva (co-author)
Ray Henderson (co-author)
⇑ I Want to Be Bad 1928 B. G. De Sylva (co-author)
Ray Henderson (co-author)
Pompanola 1928 B. G. De Sylva (co-author)
Ray Henderson (co-author)
Anna Caldwell (words)
You Wouldn't Fool Me, Would You? 1928 B. G. De Sylva (co-author)
Ray Henderson (co-author)
You're My Necessity 1928 B. G. De Sylva (co-author)
Ray Henderson (co-author)
You're the Cream in My Coffee 1928 B. G. De Sylva (co-author)
Ray Henderson (co-author)
I'm a Dreamer 1929 B. G De Sylva (co-author)
Ray Henderson (words)
If I Had a Talking Picture of You 1929 B. G. De Sylva (co-author)
Ray Henderson (co-author)
Little Pal 1929 Ray Henderson (co-author)
Al Jolson (words)
B. G. De Sylvia (words)
Seventh Heaven 1929 Ray Henderson (co-author)
Al Jolson (words)
B. G. De Sylva (words)
Title Year Attribution Remarks
       
Used to You 1929 Ray Henderson (co-author)
Al Jolson (words)
B. G. De Sylva (words)
Why Can't You 1929 Ray Henderson (co-author)
Al Jolson (words)
B. G. De Sylva (words)
You've Got Me Pickin' Petals Off O' Daisies 1929 B. G De Sylva (co-author)
Ray Henderson (co-author)
Don't Tell Her 1930 B. G De Sylva (co-author)
Ray Henderson (co-author)
Good For You-Bad For Me (w&m) 1930 Ray Henderson (co-author)
I'll Know Him 1930 B. G. De Sylva (co-author)
Ray Henderson (co-author)
I'm Flying High 1930 B. G. De Sylva (co-author)
Ray Henderson (co-author)
Never Swat a Fly 1930 B. G De Sylva (co-author)
Ray Henderson (co-author)
Old Fashioned Girl 1930 B. G De Sylva (co-author)
Ray Henderson (co-author)
Come to Me (w&m) 1931 B. G De Sylva (co-author)
Ray Henderson (co-author)
If You Haven't Got Love 1931 Ray Henderson (co-author)
B. G. De Sylva (words)
⇑ Life Is Just a Bowl of Cherries 1931 Ray Henderson (words)  wvicon.gif pdf15.gif 
My Song 1931 Ray Henderson (co-author)  Pub. pdf15.gif 
That's Why Darkies Were Born (w&m) 1931 Ray Henderson (co-author)  Pub.
This Is the Missus 1931 Ray Henderson (co-author)  Pub.
Thrill Is Gone, The 1931 Ray Henderson (co-author)  Pub. pdf15.gif 
Gone 1932 Ray Henderson (co-author)
Home to Harlem (w&m) 1932 Ray Henderson (co-author)
I Hate to Think That You'll Grow Old, Baby (w&m) 1932 Ray Henderson (co-author)
Ramona (perf.)
It's Great to Be Alive (w&m) 1932 Ray Henderson (co-author)
Title Year Attribution Remarks
       
Let's Call It a Day 1932 Ray Henderson (co-author)
Jimmie Durante (perf.)
Lupe Velez (perf.)
Hope Williams (perf.) 		 wvicon.gif pdf15.gif 
You Can Make My Life a Bed of Roses 1932
I've Got to Pass Your House to Get to My House 1933  wvicon.gif
Ooh, I'm Thinking 1933 Ray Henderson (co-author)
Baby Take a Bow (w&m) 1934 Jay Gorney (co-author)
Beer Barrel Polka 1934 Wladimir A. Timm (co-author)
Jaromir Vejvoda (co-author)
Blue Barron (perf.)
Larry Clinton (perf.)
Elisse Cooper (perf.)
Gray Gordon (perf.)
Milt Herth (perf.)
Sammy Kaye (perf.)
Rose Marie (perf.)
Doris Rhodes (perf.) 		 wvicon.gif pdf15.gif  recordmp3.gif
Broadway's Gone Hill-Billy 1934 Jay Gorney (co-author)
Lew Brown (words)
Ramona (perf.)
Carolina (w&m) 1934 Jay Gorney (co-author)
Lionel Barrymore (perf.)
Janet Gaynor (perf.) 		 wvicon.gif
Foolin' With the Other Woman's Man (w&m) 1934 Harry Akst (co-author)
Here Comes the Navy 1934 W. A. Timm (co-author)
Jaromir Vejvoda (co-author)
Lt. Comdr. Clarence P. Oakes U.S.N.R (words)
Lt. Comdr. Clarence P. Oaks U.S.N.R (perf.) 		 Pub.
I'm Laughin' 1934 Jay Gorney (co-author)
⇑ I've Loved the Same Girl For Fifty Years 1934 Lou Alter (words)  Pub.
If Love Makes You Give Up Steak and Potatoes Then (w&m) 1934 Lou Alter (co-author)  Pub.
She's 'way Up Thar 1934 Jay Gorney (co-author)
Stand Up and Cheer (w&m) 1934 Harry Akst (co-author)
Jay Gorney (co-author) 		 wvicon.gif
This Is Our Last Night Together 1934 Jay Gorney (co-author)
Lew Brown (words)
We're Out of the Red 1934 Jay Gorney (words)
Ramona (perf.)
That Old Feeling (w&m) 1937 Sammy Fain (co-author)
Mischa Auer (perf.)
Warner Baxter (perf.)
Joan Bennett (perf.)
Jerome Cowan (perf.)
Marjorie Gateson (perf.)
Alma Kruger (perf.)
Dorothy McNulty (perf.)
Alan Mowbray (perf.)
Polly Rowles (perf.)
Helen Vinson (perf.) 		 wvicon.gif pdf15.gif 
Boy Named Lem, A (w&m) 1939 Sam H. Stept (co-author)
Charlie Tobias (co-author)
Freddy Martin (perf.)
Fran Rogers (perf.) 		  recordmp3.gif
Comes Love 1939 Sam H. Stept (co-author)
Charlie Tobias (co-author)
Judy Canova (perf.)
Dixie Dunbar (perf.)
Buddy Ebsen (perf.)
Helen Forrest (perf.)
Jackie Heller (perf.)
Lois January (perf.)
Dorothy Lamour (perf.) 		 wvicon.gif  recordmp3.gif recordmp3.gif
Title Year Attribution Remarks
       
I Can't Afford to Dream (w&m) 1939 Charlie Tobias (co-author)
Sam H. Stept (co-author)
It's Me Again (w&m) 1939 Charlie Tobias (co-author)
Sam H. Stept (co-author)
Let's Make Memories Tonight (w&m) 1939 Chas Tobias (co-author)
Sam H Stept (co-author)
Judy Canova (perf.)
Dixie Dunbar (perf.)
Buddy Ebsen (perf.)
Jackie Heller (perf.)
Lois January (perf.)
Freddy Martin (perf.)
Jack Pearl (perf.)
Bill Stoker (perf.) 		 wvicon.gif pdf15.gif  recordmp3.gif
Time For Jukin' (w&m) 1939 Charlie Tobias (co-author)
Walter Kent (co-author)
Uncle Sam's Lullaby 1939 Judy Canova (perf.)
Buddy Ebsen (perf.)
Jack Pearl (perf.)
Don't Cry, Cherie 1941 Ray Henderson (co-author)
Don't Sit Under the Apple Tree 1942 Charlie Tobias (words)
Sam H. Stept (words)
King Sisters (perf.) 		 wvicon.gif pdf15.gif 
I Came Here to Talk For Joe 1942 Charlie Tobias (co-author)
Sam H. Stept (co-author)
Dick Jurgens (perf.) 		 wvicon.gif
I Planted a Rose 1943 Nacio Herb Brown (words)
Ralph Freed (words) 		 wvicon.gif
Dummy Song 1944 Billy Rose (co-author)
Ray Henderson (co-author) 		 Pub.
Beer That I Left on the Bar, The 1950 Vaughn Monroe (perf.)  Pub. pdf15.gif