Clarence Williams (1898-1965)
Last updated: 09.10.23
Clarence Williams was an American jazz an artist and entrepreneur. He was born near New Orleans, the son of Choctaw Indian having Creole heritage. His father was a bass player and hotel owner Clarence Williams started his musical education performing in the family hotel and singing in the streets leaving homer aged 12 to commence a long career in jazz of which he claimed to be the first user of the word in printed sheet music. He was variously a piano player, prolific composer, recording artist and producer, agent, cabaret manager, publisher and enormously influential in the jazz world of his day. Together with Thomas Waller, Clarence Williams is credited with being the co-composer of Wildcat Blues (1923).
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Wild Flower Rag (1916) | A/T/T/B/GB(B) | Midi Ragtime Recorder Ens. |
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Wild Flower Rag (1916) | Midi | Colin D. McDonald |
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Canadian Brass | Basin Street | CD(s) & MP3 Album(s)        |
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Bix Beiderbecke | Jazz Masters: From Original Recordings | |
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Acker Bilk | The Very Best of Acker Bilk | |
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Jack Teagarden | Jack Teagarden - Big T: A Hundred Years from Today | |
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Jack Teagarden | Time for T: Classic Big Band Recordings from the Swing Era | |
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Stumptown Jazz | On Track | |
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Stumptown Jazz | Hot Time in the Old Town | |
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Sidney Bechet | The Creole Prodigy | |
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Sidney Bechet | Les Oignons | |
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The Olympia Brass Band | Music of New Orleans | |
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⇑Thomas Waller | Career Perspective 1922-1943 | CD(s) & MP3 Album(s) |
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Thomas Waller | Centennial Collection | CD(s) & MP3 Album(s) |
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Thomas Waller | Fats Waller: 1922-26 | |
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Thomas Waller | Golden Greats | |
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Thomas Waller | Part 2 I'm Gonna Sit Right Down: The Early Years | |
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Thomas Waller | Low Down Papa | CD(s) & MP3 Album(s) |
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Thomas Waller | Sugar Blues | CD(s) & MP3 Album(s) |
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Peter Bocage | Peter Bocage with the Creole Serenaders | CD(s) & MP3 Album(s) |
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Chris Barber | Band Box, Vol. 1-2 | |
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Chris Barber | The Absolutely Essential 3CD Collection | |
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Chris Barber | The Very Best of Chris Barber | |
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⇑Monty Sunshine | Remembering Monty Sunshine | CD(s) & MP3 Album(s) |
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Boswell Sisters | Shout Sister Shout | |
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Ferdinand Morton | The Chronological Jelly Morton (1930-1939) | CD(s) & MP3 Album(s) |
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Clarence Williams | Clarence Williams 1934-1937 | CD(s) & MP3 Album(s) |
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Clarence Williams | Whoop It Up! Volume 1: 1927-1929 | |
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Ted Lewis | Is Everybody Happy?: Ted Lewis and His Band | |
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Ted Lewis | Jazzworthy 1929-33 | |
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Various Artists | Boogie Woogie Blues | CD(s) & MP3 Album(s) |
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Various Artists | Cotton Club: A Nostalgic Collection | |
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Various Artists | The Hits of '22: Do It Again! | |
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Various Artists | New Orleans Jazz | |
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⇑Various Artists | The Obscure & Neglected Chicagoans | |
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Various Artists | Player Piano Memories | CD(s) & MP3 Album(s) |
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Various Artists | The Riverside History of Classic Jazz | |
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Various Artists | That Devilin' Tune | CD(s) & MP3 Album(s) |
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Various Artists | Whiplash | CD(s) & MP3 Album(s) |
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New Orleans Ragtime Orchestra | Creole Belles | CD(s) & MP3 Album(s) |
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New Orleans Ragtime Orchestra | New Orleans Ragtime Orchestra | |
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Claude Bolling | Original Blues | CD(s) & MP3 Album(s) |
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Claude Bolling | Original Ragtime/Original Boogie Woogie/Original Piano Blues | CD(s) & MP3 Album(s) |
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James Price Johnson | Harlem Stride Piano | |
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James Price Johnson | Harlem Stride Piano 1921-1929 | |
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⇑James Price Johnson | James P. Johnson 1921-44 | |
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James Price Johnson | James P. Johnson 1928-38 | |
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James Price Johnson | James P. Johnson 1938-42 | |
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James Price Johnson | Parlor Piano Solos from Rare Piano Rolls | CD(s) & MP3 Album(s) |
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James Price Johnson | Runnin' Wild (1921-1926) | |
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James Price Johnson | Snowy Morning Blues | CD(s) & MP3 Album(s) |
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Paul Lingle | Live at the Jug Club | |
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Trebor Jay Tichenor | Those Southern Blues | |
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Trebor Jay Tichenor | Wild Flower Rag | |
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Lightnin' Wells | Ragtime Millionaire | |
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Willie 'The Lion' Smith | Lion Roars: His Greatest 1934-44 | |
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⇑Muggsy Spanier | The Great 16 | |
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Handy's Memphis Blues Band | W.C. Handy's Memphis Blues Band | CD(s) & MP3 Album(s) |
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Eubie Blake | Memories of You | CD(s) & MP3 Album(s) |
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Chrysanthemum Ragtime Band | Preserves | |
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Wilbur C. Sweatman | Jazzin' Straight Thru' Paradise | CD(s) & MP3 Album(s) |
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White-Gresty Ragtimers | Mugsy Remembered | |
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Sue Keller | I Got What It Takes | CD(s) & MP3 Album(s) |
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Sue Keller | Those Irresistible Blues | CD(s) & MP3 Album(s) |
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George Lewis | George Lewis' Ragtime Band of New Orleans: The Oxford Series Vol. 07 | |
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Butch Thompson | Butch Thompson's King Oliver Centennial Band | |
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Butch Thompson | Lincoln Avenue Blues | |
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⇑Johnny Maddox | Back Home in Tennessee | CD(s) & MP3 Album(s) |
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Johnny Maddox | Dixieland Blues | CD(s) & MP3 Album(s) |
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Bill Edwards | The Two Sides of Perfessor Bill |
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| DBE642 | Wild Flower Rag (1916) A/T/T/B/GB(B), approx. 3 mins |
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Achin' Hearted Blues (1922) | C. Williams (music) S. Williams (words) C. Johnson (words) |
Piano, Voice | Kirk |  |
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Sugar Blues (1919) | C. Williams (music) Lucy Fletcher (words) |
Piano, Voice | Kirk | |
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Wild Flower Rag (1916) | C. Williams (music) | Piano | IMSLP | Pub. |
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You're Some Pretty Doll (1917) | C. Williams (w&m) | Piano | IMSLP | |
This list is arranged in chronological order and contains 90 works by Clarence Williams (1898-1965).
It does not claim to be complete and represents only the number of items located. Keys: ER
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| Beat It While Your Shoes Are Good | 1905 | ||
| Brown Skin, Who You For | 1915 | |
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| I Can Beat You Doing What You're Doing Me | 1915 | Armand J. Piron (co-author) | Pub. |
| You Missed A Good Woman | 1915 | ||
| Barrel House Rag | 1916 | Fate Marable (co-author) | Pub. |
| If You Don't Want Me, Please Don't Dog Me 'round | 1916 | Pub. | |
| That Ought to Do It | 1916 | ||
| Wild Flower Rag | 1916 | Pub. |
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| I Never Knew What the Blues Were | 1917 | Clarence Williams (perf.) | Pub. |
| You're Some Pretty Doll (w&m) | 1917 | |
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| No More Cabarets in Town | 1918 | Sophie Tucker (perf.) | |
| ⇑ You Can Have It, I Don't Want It | 1918 | May Hill (co-author) Armand J Piron (co-author) |
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| Baby, Won't You Please Come Home? | 1919 | Charles Warfield (words) | |
| Dance They Called the Georgia Hunch | 1919 | ||
| I Ain't Gonna Give Nobody None O' This Jellyroll | 1919 | Spencer Williams (co-author) | Pub. |
| Royal Garden Blues (w&m) | 1919 | Spencer Williams (co-author) | |
| Sugar Blues | 1919 | Lucy Fletcher (words) | Pub. |
| Don't Tell Your Monkey Man | 1920 | ||
| Look What a Fool I've Been | 1921 | ||
| Achin' Hearted Blues | 1922 | Spencer Williams (words) Clarence Johnson (words) |
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| Got to Cool My Doggies Now | 1922 | ||
| I Wish I Could Shimmy Like My Sister Kate | 1922 | |
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| Tain't Nobody's Biz-Ness if I Do | 1922 | Porter Grainger (words) Graham Prince (words) |
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| Gulf Coast Blues | 1923 | |
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| Jailhouse Blues | 1923 | Bessie Smith (co-author) | |
| Kansas City Man Blues | 1923 | Clarence Johnson (words) | |
| Kiss Me Again | 1923 | Thomas Waller (co-author) | |
| Mixing the Blues | 1923 | Pub. | |
| West Indies Blues | 1923 | Spencer Williams (words) Edgar Dowell (words) |
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| Michigan Water Blues | 1924 | ||
| Omaha Blues | 1924 | ||
| ⇑ Darktown Capers | 1925 | Clarence Johnson (co-author) | Pub. |
| Gravier Street Blues | 1925 | Pub. | |
| My Own Blues | 1925 | Pub. | |
| Papa, De-Da-Da | 1925 | Clarence Todd (words) Spencer Williams (words) |
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| Charleston Hound | 1926 | Spencer Williams (co-author) "Fats" Waller1 (co-author) Eddie Rector (co-author) |
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| Midnight Stomp | 1926 | Thomas Waller (co-author) | Pub. |
| Nobody But My Baby Is Getting My Love | 1926 | Andy Razaf (co-author) | |
| Old Folks Shuffle | 1926 | Thomas 'Fats' Waller (co-author) | |
| What's the Matter Now | 1926 | Spencer Williams (co-author) |
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| Cushion Foot Stomp | 1927 | ||
| Close Fit Blues | 1928 | |
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| Let Me Forget | 1928 | James White (co-author) Ben Garrison (co-author) |
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| Organ Grinder Blues | 1928 |  |
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| I've Got What It Takes | 1929 | Hezekiah Jenkins (words) | |
| Wild Flower | 1929 | ||
| Shout, Sister, Shout! | 1930 | Alex Hill (words) Tim Brymn (words) Boswell Sisters (perf.) |
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| Harlem Rhythm Dance | 1933 | Andy Razaf (words) | Pub. |
| I Can't Dance, I Got Ants in My Pants | 1934 | Charlie Gaines (co-author) Larry Wagner (co-author) |
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| Let Every Day Be Mother's Day | 1935 | Taushe Hammed (words) Willie "The Lion" Smith (words) |
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| Keystone Blues | 1940 | Pub. | |
| ⇑ Red Onion Blues | 1940 | Pub. | |
| Mama's Got It | 1942 | A. J. Piron (co-author) | |
| Ugly Chile | 1946 | George Brunis (words) | |
| Bottomland [I'm Goin' Back to Bottomland] | ? | Jo Trent (words) | |
| Bozo | ? | ||
| Candy Lips | ? | ||
| Chizzlin' Sam | ? | ||
| Church Street Sobbin' Blues | ? | ||
| Dixieland Jazz | ? |
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| Harlem Joys | ? | Walter Bishop (words) Willie "The Lion" Smith (words) |
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| Have You Ever Felt That Way? | ? | ||
| I'm Busy and You Can't Come In | ? | ||
| I'm Getting My Bonus in Love | ? | Porter Grainger (words) | |
| I'm Goin' Back to Bottomland [Bottomland] | ? | Jo Trent (words) | |
| If You Don't, I Know Who Will | ? | Chris Smith (words) Tim Brymn (words) |
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| In Our Cottage of Love | ? | ||
| Lazy Mama | ? | ||
| Log Cabin Blues | ? | ||
| Longshoreman's Blues | ? | ||
| Mississippi Blues (Home Town Toddle) | ? | ||
| ⇑ Need a Little Sugar in My Bowl | ? | W.A.D. Danny Small (words) Tim Brymn (words) |
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| Pane in the Glass, A | ? | ||
| Red River Blues | ? | ||
| Roumania | ? | Spencer Williams (words) Dave Peyton (words) |
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| Shake It Down | ? | ||
| Steamboat Days | ? | ||
| Sweet Emmanlina | ? | ||
| Take You Black Bottom Outside | ? | ||
| Terrible Blues | ? |
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| Texas Moaner Blues | ? | Fae Barnes (words) | |
| That Streamline Gal of Mine | ? | Cecil Scott (words) Willie "The Lion" Smith (words) |
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| Walk That Broad | ? | ||
| What Makes Me Love You So?, (Oh Baby) | ? | Fred Longshaw (words) | |
| What Ya Want Me to Do? | ? | Joe Oliver (words) | |
| Whip Me With Plenty of Love | ? | Louis Urquhart (words) | |
| Whoop It Up | ? | ||
| You Don't Know My Mind | ? | Virginia Liston (words) Sam H. Gray (words) |
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| You Don't Understand | ? | Spencer Williams (words) James Price Johnson (words) |
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| You've Got to Give Me Some | ? |