Haven Gillespie (1888-1975)

Overview

James Lamont Gillespie, pen name Haven Gillespie, was an American Tin Pan Alley composer and lyricist born in Covington, Kentucky. He collaborated with a number of people such as Beasley Smith, Erwin R. Schmidt, Richard A. Whiting, Wayne King, and Loyal Curtis. He also wrote the seasonal standard Santa Claus Is Comin' to Town.

Websites:
	Haven Gillespie	Biography by wikipedia.org.
	DAHR: Haven Gillespie	List of 208 historic recordings from 1919 to 1950.

Haven Gillespie (1888-1975) has at least 2 item(s) at the Amazons which you can order on-line by clicking the item's order icon.

Old Master Painter, The
Words and Music by: Haven Gillespie.
Co-Author: Beasly Smith
Performed by: Fontane Sisters

Publisher:	Robbins Music Corporation
Suppliers:
Printed: 1949.	Sheet Music.

Some Little Bird
Music by: Haven Gillespie.
Co-Author: Lindsay McPhail, Egbert A. van Alstyne

Publisher:	Van Alsytne & Curtis
Suppliers:
Printed: 1920.	Sheet Music. Limited Availability.

Cylinders

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


	Tin Pan Parade (1928)	Richard A. Whiting	V. de Leath	Edison Blue Amberol: 5532

MIDIs

	Title	Co-Author(s)	Sequencer


	Breezin' Along With the Breeze	Seymour Simons Richard A Whiting	James Pitt-Payne
	Tin Pan Parade (1927)	Richard A. Whiting	James Pitt-Payne

Records

	Title (Release Year)	Composer	Performers	Issue


Beautiful (1928)	H. Gillespie	Scrappy Lambert	Brunswick: E26270-E26272
Blinky Moon Bay (1926)	H. Gillespie	A. Bernard Frank M. Kamplain	Brunswick: E17692-E17694
How Could Anything So Good Be Bad? (1928)	H. Gillespie	Bud Cunningham	OKeh: W401017
I'm Getting Tired of Playing Second Fiddle (1919)	H. Gillespie	Billy Murray	Columbia: 78425
I'm on My Merry Way (1927)	H. Gillespie	V. de Leath	OKeh: W80696
Right or Wrong (1930)	H. Gillespie	Jim Andrews Bill Coty	Columbia: W150625
Scissor Grinder Joe (1924)	H. Gillespie	Gene Rodemich's Orchestra	Brunswick: 13279-13282
Seeing You Again Did Me No Good (1941)	H. Gillespie	V. Monroe	Victor: BS-068675
So Sweet (1931)	H. Gillespie	Sunshine Boys	Victor: BVE-67490
Some Little Bird (1921)	H. Gillespie	Coon-Sanders Novelty Orchestra	Columbia: 79697
That's Georgia (1924)	H. Gillespie	Vernon Dalhart E. Smalle	Edison: 9713
You're in Kentucky Sure As You're Born (1923)	H. Gillespie	Garber-Davis Orchestra	Victor: B-29071
You're in Kentucky Sure As You're Born (1924)	H. Gillespie	Van & Schenck	Columbia: 81453
You're in Kentucky Sure As You're Born (1923)	H. Gillespie	Ernest Hare Billy Jones	Edison: 9293

	Title	Attribution	Instruments	Source	Remarks


Breezin' Along With the Breeze (1926)	H. Gillespie (w&m) Seymour Simons (coauth.) Richard A Whiting (coauth.) Bobby Jackson (perf.)	Piano, Voice	Sheet Music Singer
Feelin' the Way I Do (1929)	H. Gillespie (w&m) Charles Cooke (coauth.) C.N. Daniels (coauth.)	Piano, Voice	Indiana
Some Little Bird (1920)	H. Gillespie (w&m) L. McPhail (coauth.) E.A. van Alstyne (coauth.)	Piano, Voice	Indiana
Tin Pan Parade (1927)	H. Gillespie (w&m) Richard A. Whiting (coauth.) Ed Lowry (perf.)	Piano, Voice	Sheet Music Singer

Works

This list is arranged in chronological order and contains 23 works by Haven Gillespie (1888-1975). It does not claim to be complete and represents only the number of items located. Keys: ER

(w&m)

Title	Year	Attribution	Remarks


Come Back to Your Little Boy Blue (w&m)	1918
I'm Getting Tired of Playing Second Fiddle	1919	Al W. Brown (co-author) Billy Murray (perf.)
Some Little Bird (w&m)	1920	Lindsay McPhail (co-author) Egbert A. van Alstyne (co-author) Coon-Sanders Novelty Orchestra (perf.)
Skeezix (w&m)	1923	Louise Fields (co-author) Egbert A. van Alstyne (co-author)
You're in Kentucky Sure As You're Born (w&m)	1923	George A Little (co-author) Larry Shay (co-author) Garber-Davis Orchestra (perf.) Ernest Hare (perf.) Billy Jones (perf.) Van & Schenck (perf.)
Scissor Grinder Joe	1924	S. J. Stocco (co-author) Gene Rodemich's Orchestra (perf.)
That's Georgia	1924	George A. Little (co-author) Larry Shay (co-author) Vernon Dalhart (perf.) Ed Smalle (perf.)
Blinky Moon Bay (w&m)	1925	George A. Little (co-author) Al. Bernard (perf.) Frank M. Kamplain (perf.)
Breezin' Along With the Breeze (w&m)	1926	Seymour Simons (co-author) Richard A Whiting (co-author) Bobby Jackson (perf.)	Pub.
I'm on My Merry Way	1927	Seymour Simons (co-author) Richard A. Whiting (co-author) Vaughn de Leath (perf.)
Tin Pan Parade (w&m)	1927	Richard A. Whiting (co-author) Ford & Glenn (perf.) Vaughn de Leath (perf.) Ed Lowry (perf.) Harold T. Pease (perf.) Joe Rines (perf.)
⇑ Beautiful	1928	Larry Shay (co-author) Scrappy Lambert (perf.)
How Could Anything So Good Be Bad?	1928	Seymour Simons (co-author) Richard A. Whiting (co-author) Bud Cunningham (perf.)
Chinky Chinee Bogey Man	1929	Richard Whiting (co-author) Charles Neil Daniels (co-author)	Pub.
Feelin' the Way I Do (w&m)	1929	Charles Cooke (co-author) Charles Neil Daniels (co-author)	Pub.
My Sweetheart (w&m)	1929	Little Jack Little (co-author) Little Jack Little (perf.)
Bless Your Little Heart (w&m)	1930	Joe Bennett (co-author) Charlie Straight (co-author)	Pub.
Right or Wrong	1930	Arthur Sizemore (co-author) Jim Andrews (perf.) Bill Coty (perf.)
Sleepy Town Express, The (w&m)	1930
So Sweet	1931	Ben Kanter (co-author) Nelson A. Shawn (co-author) Sunshine Boys (perf.)
It's Mating Time (w&m)	1935	Abel Baer (co-author) J. Fred Coots (co-author)	Pub.
Seeing You Again Did Me No Good	1941	Lee David (co-author) Vaughn Monroe (perf.)
Old Master Painter, The (w&m)	1949	Beasly Smith (co-author) Fontane Sisters (perf.)