Will E. Skidmore
Last updated: 14.03.25
All that can presently (November 2015) be gleaned about by internet searching is that Will E. Skidmore is the one-off composer of Craps (1910) published by Cosmopolitan Music, Little Rock, Arkansas, USA.
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| Title | Co-Author(s) | Sequencer |
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| Title (Release Year) | Composer | Performers | Issue |
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Never Let No One Man Worry Your Mind (1920) | W.E. Skidmore | Marion Harris | Columbia: 79452 |
| Title | Attribution | Instruments | Source | Remarks |
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I'm a Tryin' to Teach My Sweet Papa Right From Wrong (1918) | W.E. Skidmore (w&m) Marshall Walker (coauth.) S. Tucker (perf.) |
Piano, Voice | Indiana |  |
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I'm a Trying to Teach My Sweet Papa Right From Wrong (1918) | W.E. Skidmore (w&m) Marshall Walker (coauth.) S. Tucker (perf.) Kings of Sophistication (perf.) |
Piano, Voice | Sheet Music Singer | Pub. |
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It's Nobody's Business But My Own (1919) | W.E. Skidmore (music) Marshall Walker (coauth.) B.A. Williams (perf.) |
Piano, Voice | Sheet Music Singer | |
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Please Don't Take My Harem Away (1919) | W.E. Skidmore (w&m) | Piano, Voice | Indiana | |
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Pray For the Lights to Go Out (1916) | W.E. Skidmore (music) Renton Tunnah (words) Dot Barnett (perf.) Al. G. Fields (perf.) Dot Barnett (perf.) |
Piano, Voice | IMSLP Indiana Indiana |
Pub. |
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Somebody's Done Me Wrong (1918) | W.E. Skidmore (music) Billy Beard (perf.) S. Tucker (perf.) |
Piano | IMSLP Sheet Music Singer |
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Wait Until Your Papa Comes Home (1918) | W.E. Skidmore (music) S. Williams (words) S. Tucker (perf.) |
Piano, Voice | Indiana | Pub. |
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⇑When My Great-Grand-Daddy and My Great-Grand-Mammy (1917) | W.E. Skidmore (music) Marshall Walker (words) |
Piano, Voice | Indiana | Pub. |
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You Can't Get Lovin' Where There Ain't Any Love (1919) | W.E. Skidmore (music) Jack Baxley (words) Marion Harris (perf.) Aileen Stanley (perf.) |
Piano, Voice | Sheet Music Singer | Pub. |
This list is arranged in chronological order and contains 22 works by Will E. Skidmore.
It does not claim to be complete and represents only the number of items located. Keys:
(w&m)
(w&m)
| Title | Year | Attribution | Remarks |
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| I'm Goin' to Ease Back | 1903 | |
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| Craps | 1910 |  |
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| Bug House Rag | 1916 | ||
| Pray For the Lights to Go Out | 1916 | Renton Tunnah (words) Dot Barnett (perf.) Al. G. Fields (perf.) |
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| I Never Asked to Come to This World | 1917 | ||
| I'm Old Enough For a Little Lovin' | 1917 | Marshall Walker (words) Isabella Patricola (perf.) |
Pub. |
| It Takes a Long Tall Brown-Skin Gal to Make a Preacher Lay His Bible Down | 1917 | Marshall Walker (words) Rae Samuels (perf.) |
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| Them Doggon'd Triflin' Blues | 1917 | Ruby Darby (perf.) | |
| When My Great-Grand-Daddy and My Great-Grand-Mammy/ Used to Cuddle and Coo in a Cocoanut Tree | 1917 | Marshall Walker (words) | Pub. |
| I'm a Trying to Teach My Sweet Papa Right From Wrong (w&m) | 1918 | Marshall Walker (co-author) Kings of Sophistication (perf.) Sophie Tucker (perf.) |
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| It's a Mean Old Dog That Won't Scratch His Mama's Fleas | 1918 | ||
| ⇑ Message in the Bottle From the Sea, The | 1918 | Clyde Hooper (words) | Pub. |
| Somebody's Done Me Wrong | 1918 | Billy Beard (perf.) Sophie Tucker (perf.) |
Pub. |
| Wait Until Your Papa Comes Home | 1918 | Spencer Williams (words) Sophie Tucker (perf.) |
Pub. |
| When I Gets Out in No-Man's Land | 1918 | Marshall Walker (words) Billy Beard (perf.) |
Pub. |
| I'm Gonna Jazz My Way Right Straight Through Paradise | 1919 | Marshall Walker (words) | |
| It's Nobody's Business But My Own | 1919 | Marshall Walker (co-author) Lee Edmonds (perf.) Bert A. Williams (perf.) |
Pub. |
| Never Let No One Man Worry Your Mind (w&m) | 1919 | Jack Baxley (co-author) Marion Harris (perf.) |
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| Please Don't Take My Harem Away (w&m) | 1919 | |
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| You Can't Get Lovin' Where There Ain't Any Love | 1919 | Jack Baxley (words) Marion Harris (perf.) Aileen Stanley (perf.) |
Pub. |
| Every Once in a While | 1920 | Marshall Walker (words) Marion Harris (perf.) |
Pub. |
| Save a Little Dram For Me | 1920 |