Henry Creamer (1879-1930)

Overview

According to the Internet source given below, together with Turner Layton Henry Sterling Creamer was part of the successful songwriting and vaudeville duo Creamer & Layton. They chiefly remembered for their After You've Gone (1918) published by Broadway Music Corp., New York, USA and Way Down Yonder in New Orleans (1922) published by Shapiro, Bernstein & Co., New York & Chicago, USA
Henry Creamer was an American singer, dancer, songwriter and stage producer/director. born in Richmond, Virginia. He was a co-founder with James Reese Europe of the Clef Club, an important early organization for African-American musicians and entertainers in New York City.
He died at Mount Sinai Hospital in Manhattan, New York.

Websites:
	Henry Creamer	Biography by wikipedia.org.

Cylinders

	Title (Release Year)	Co-Author(s)	Performers	Issue


	After You've Gone (1919)	T. Layton	Gladys Rice	Edison Blue Amberol: 3666

MIDIs

	Title	Co-Author(s)	Sequencer


After You've Gone (1918)	T. Layton	James Pitt-Payne
Bronx Express (1922)	T. Layton	James Pitt-Payne
Childhood Days (1922)	T. Layton	Unknown
Come Along I'm Through With Worryin' (1922)	Layton	Unknown
Cute Little Wigglin Dance (1917), The	T. Layton	James Pitt-Payne
Ev'rybody's Crazy 'bout the Doggone Blues (1918)	T. Layton	Unknown
Good-Bye Alexander (1918)	T. Layton	James Pitt-Payne

MP3s

	Title (Release Year)	Co-Author(s)	Performers	Issue


	After You've Gone (1918)	T. Layton	Marion Harris

Records

	Title (Release Year)	Composer	Performers	Issue


After You've Gone (1927)	H. Creamer	R. Etting	Columbia: W143563
Good-Bye Alexander (1918)	H. Creamer	Farber Sisters	Columbia: 77840
I'm Nobody's Gal (1922)	H. Creamer	Dolly Kay	Columbia: 80526
Won't You Be a Dear, Dear Daddy (1918)	H. Creamer	Farber Sisters	Columbia: 77754

CDs

	Performer	CD Title	Supplier


Brass Music CDs:
Sellers Engineering Band	Band Played on
Jazz Music CDs:
Bix Beiderbecke	The Art of Bix Beiderbecke
Pee Wee Russell	The Land of Jazz
Jack Teagarden	Jack Teagarden - Big T: A Hundred Years from Today
Sidney Bechet	Les Oignons
Thomas Waller	Complete Associated Transcription Session 1935-1939	CD(s) & MP3 Album(s)
Thomas Waller	The Definitive Fats Waller Vol. 1: His Piano, His Rhythm
Thomas Waller	A Handful of Keys	CD(s) & MP3 Album(s)
Thomas Waller	Live at the Yacht Club
Thomas Waller	Piano Masterworks Vol. 2 (1929-1943)
⇑Thomas Waller	Piano Solos-Turn on the Heat
Thomas Waller	Yacht Club Swing & Other Radio	CD(s) & MP3 Album(s)
Thomas Waller	Yacht Club Swing 1938
Ragtime Music CDs:
Various Artists	From Ragtime to Jazz Vol. 4: 1896-1922	CD(s) & MP3 Album(s)
Various Artists	Ragtime to Jazz: Vol. 1	CD(s) & MP3 Album(s)
Various Artists	Tunes for Tommy	CD(s) & MP3 Album(s)
Knucklehead Jug Band	Incognito
Firehouse Stompers	Leaving Our Mark
Tommy Yetta	Tommy Yetta: New Orleans Jazz: Autographed (signed): Vinyl LP
James Price Johnson	Carolina Shout	CD(s) & MP3 Album(s)
James Price Johnson	Harlem Stride Piano
⇑James Price Johnson	Harlem Stride Piano 1921-1929
James Price Johnson	James P. Johnson 1921-28
James Price Johnson	James P. Johnson 1921-44
James Price Johnson	James P. Johnson 1943-44
Paul Lingle	Live at the Jug Club
Big Tiny Little	Honky Tonk Piano	CD(s) & MP3 Album(s)
Paragon Ragtime Orchestra	Black Manhattan	CD(s) & MP3 Album(s)
Stephane Grappelli	Stephane's Tune-Original Recordings
Wilbur C. Sweatman	Jazzin' Straight Thru' Paradise	CD(s) & MP3 Album(s)
Wilbur C. Sweatman	Recorded in New York 1916-1935
Sue Keller	I Got What It Takes	CD(s) & MP3 Album(s)
⇑George Lewis	George Lewis' Ragtime Band of New Orleans: The Oxford Series Vol. 03
Jody Dall'Armi	On the Level, You're a Little Devil
Budapest Ragtime Band	Funny Christmas
Budapest Ragtime Band	Trubadur
Rod Miller	Rod Miller Ragtime
Butch Thompson	Butch & Doc
Johnny Maddox	Dixieland Blues	CD(s) & MP3 Album(s)

	Title	Attribution	Instruments	Source	Remarks


After You've Gone (1918)	H. Creamer (music) T. Layton (coauth.)	Piano, Voice	Indiana Sheet Music Singer
Bronx Express (1922)	H. Creamer (w&m) T. Layton (coauth.) Charles Coburn (perf.) Iva Coburn (perf.)	Piano, Voice	Sheet Music Singer
Childhood Days (1922)	H. Creamer (w&m) T. Layton (coauth.) K. Norman (perf.) Joe Darcy (perf.)	Piano, Orchestra	IMSLP Sheet Music Singer
Come Along I'm Through With Worryin' (1922)	H. Creamer (w&m) Layton (coauth.) Gilda Gray (perf.)	Piano, Voice	Sheet Music Singer
Cute Little Wigglin' Dance (1917), The	H. Creamer (w&m) T. Layton (coauth.)	Piano, Voice	Indiana	Pub.
Down in Borneo Isle (1917)	H. Creamer (w&m) T. Layton (coauth.)	Piano	Indiana	Pub.
Ev'rybody's Crazy 'bout the Doggone Blues (1918)	H. Creamer (w&m) T. Layton (coauth.) B.A. Williams (perf.) B.A. Williams (perf.)	Piano	Sheet Music Singer Indiana	Pub.
⇑Good-Bye Alexander (1918)	H. Creamer (w&m) T. Layton (coauth.)	Piano, Voice	Indiana Sheet Music Singer	Pub.
I'm Too Tired to Make Love (1918)	H. Creamer (w&m) T. Layton (coauth.)	Piano, Voice	Indiana	Pub.
If I Could Be With You One Hour To-Night (1926)	H. Creamer (music) J.P. Johnson (coauth.)	Piano	Greer	Pub.
Liza Jane (1918)	H. Creamer (music) T. Layton (coauth.)	Piano, Voice	Indiana	Pub.
Strut, Miss Lizzie - Song (1921)	H. Creamer (w&m) T. Layton (coauth.) Van & Schenck (perf.)	Piano, Voice	Indiana
Sweet Emalina, My Gal (1917)	H. Creamer (w&m) T. Layton (coauth.)	Piano, Voice	Indiana	Pub.
Way Down Yonder in New Orleans (1922)	H. Creamer (w&m) T. Layton (coauth.) Lillian Bernard (perf.) Tess Gardella (perf.) B. Seeley (perf.)	Piano	Indiana Indiana Indiana	Pub.

Sheet Music

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After You've Gone (D/D/A/A/T/T/T/B/B/GB)

Score and Parts.
Publisher: Polyphonic Publications (PP00117)

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Works

This list is arranged in chronological order and contains 38 works by Henry Creamer (1879-1930). It does not claim to be complete and represents only the number of items located. Keys: ER

(w&m)

1917-1919

Title	Year	Attribution	Remarks


Bombo-Shay, The (w&m)	1917	Turner Layton (co-author) Henry Lewis (co-author) Anna Held (perf.)
Cute Little Wigglin' Dance, The (w&m)	1917	Turner Layton (co-author)
Down in Borneo Isle (w&m)	1917	Turner Layton (co-author)	Pub.
Sweet Emalina, My Gal (w&m)	1917	Turner Layton (co-author)	Pub.
That's It	1917	Turner Layton (co-author)
After You've Gone	1918	Turner Layton (co-author) Ruth Etting (perf.) Marion Harris (perf.) Guy Lefeuvre (perf.) Gladys Rice (perf.) Lee White (perf.) Gladys Rice as as Rachael Grant	Pub.
Ev'rybody's Crazy 'bout the Doggone Blues (w&m)	1918	Turner Layton (co-author) Bert A. Williams (perf.)	Pub.
Good-Bye Alexander (w&m)	1918	Turner Layton (co-author) Farber Sisters (perf.)	Pub.
I Can't Let 'em Suffer (w&m)	1918	Turner Layton (co-author) Farber Sisters (perf.)	Pub.
I'm Too Tired to Make Love (w&m)	1918	Turner Layton (co-author)	Pub.
I'm Waiting For You Liza Jane (w&m)	1918	Turner Layton (co-author)	Pub.
⇑ Liza Jane	1918	Turner Layton (co-author)	Pub.
Sweet N' Pretty Gee! I Wish You Were Mine (w&m)	1918	Turner Layton (co-author)	Pub.
Won't You Be a Dear, Dear Daddy	1918	Farber Sisters (perf.)
I'll Sing You a Song About Dear Old Dixie Land (w&m)	1919	Turner Layton (co-author) Al Jolson (perf.)
One and Two and Three and Four (w&m)	1919	Turner Layton (co-author)

1920-1924

Title	Year	Attribution	Remarks


I'm Wild About Moonshine (w&m)	1920	Turner Layton (co-author)
It Must Be Love (w&m)	1920	Turner Layton (co-author)	Pub.
Open Your Heart (w&m)	1920	Turner Layton (co-author)	Pub.
Pussy Foot (w&m)	1920	Turner Layton (co-author)	Pub.
When the Shadows Softly Come and Go	1920	Turner Layton (co-author) Vivian Holt (perf.) Lillian Rosedale (perf.)
Dear Old Southland	1921	Layton (co-author) Turner (co-author) Ruby Norton (perf.)
Strut, Miss Lizzie - Song (w&m)	1921	Turner Layton (co-author) Van & Schenck (perf.)	Pub.
Bronx Express (w&m)	1922	Turner Layton (co-author) Charles Coburn (perf.) Iva Coburn (perf.)
Childhood Days (w&m)	1922	Turner Layton (co-author) Joe Darcy (perf.) Karyl Norman (perf.)
Come Along I'm Through With Worryin' (w&m)	1922	Layton (co-author) Gilda Gray (perf.)
I'm Nobody's Gal	1922	Henry Creamer (words) Dolly Kay (perf.)
⇑ Way Down Yonder in New Orleans (w&m)	1922	Turner Layton (co-author) Lillian Bernard (perf.) Tess Gardella (perf.) Isabella Patricola (perf.) Martha Pryor (perf.) Jessie Reed (perf.) Blossom Seeley (perf.)	Pub.
Whoa, Tillie, Take Your Time (w&m)	1923	Turner Layton (co-author)
Africa	1924	James F. Hanley. (co-author) Frances Williams (perf.)	Pub.
Go 'long, Mule	1924	Robert A. King (co-author) Sargent & Marvin (perf.)	Pub.
Go, Emmaline	1924	Turner Laytom (co-author) Ray Brown (co-author) Harry Downing (perf.)	Pub.

1925-1935

Title	Year	Attribution	Remarks


I'm Happy Go Lucky There's Nothing on My Mind	1925	Harry Jentes (co-author) L Flatow (co-author) Elsie Clark (perf.)
Oh Say! Can I See You To-Night	1925	Turner Laytom (co-author) Joe Schuster (co-author) Leon Flatow (co-author)
I Need Lovin'	1926	Turner Laytom (co-author) Jimmy Johnson (co-author) George Price (perf.)	Pub.
If I Could Be With You One Hour To-Night	1926	James Price Johnson (co-author) Joan Crawford (perf.) Ruth Etting (perf.) Florence Richardson (perf.)	Pub.
Clementine - from New Orleans	1927	Harry Warren (co-author)
Down by the River	1935	Turner Layton (words)

Videos

	Composer	Title	Performer


	H. Creamer	I'm Happy Go Lucky There's Nothing on My Mind (2:56)	Elsie Clark
	H. Creamer	When the Shadows Softly Come and Go (2:40)	Vivian Holt L. Rosedale