# Byron G. Harlan

Byron George Harlan (August 29, 1861 – September 11, 1936) was an American singer from Kansas, a comic minstrel singer and balladeer who often recorded with Arthur Collins. The two together were often billed as "Collins & Harlan".

## Solo recordings

1899
* "Please, Mr. Conductor, Don't Put Me Off The Train" (remade 1903 on Edison Gold Moulded 7219) (w.m. J. Fred Helf)
1901
* "Hello Central, Give Me Heaven"
1903
* "Please Mother, Buy Me A Baby" (w.m. Will D. Cobb & Gus Edwards)
    - on Victor & Edison
* "Always In The Way" (w.m. Charles K. Harris)
    - on Edison Records
* "The Vacant Chair" (w. Henry S. Washburn m. George Frederick Root)
    - on Edison
1904
* '"Sweetest Girl in Dixie"
    - on Leeds Talk-o-Phone
1905
* "My Gal Sal"
* "A Picnic For Two"
* "Bright Eyes Goodbye"
* "With the Robins I'll Return"
    -on Edison Records
* "Where Morning Glories Twine Around the Door" Oxford Disc Record #3282
1906
* "Wait 'Till the Sun Shines, Nellie"
* "Cheer Up Mary" - Edison Gold Moulded 9403
* "When The Sunset Turns The Ocean's Blue To Gold - Columbia & United Talking Machine A439
1907
* "And A Little Child Shall Lead Them" - Edison Gold Moulded 9472
* "I'm Tying The Leaves So They Won't Come Down" - Edison Gold Moulded 9606
* "School Days (When We Were A Couple of Kids)" - Victor 5086
1908
* "Are You Sincere?" - Edison Gold Moulded 9973
* “Always me.” - Edison Standard Record 10009
1912
* "They Gotta Quit Kickin' My Dawg Aroun'" - Edison Standard Record 10559
1917
* "With His Hands In His Pockets (And His Pockets In His Pants)" - Edison Blue Amberol 3124
1919
* "Way Down East Where I Belong" - OKEH Record 1134-B
1921
* "Down Where I Belong" - Pathe 20660

## With Arthur Collins

1902
* "They Were All Doing The Same" - Edison Gold Moulded 8255
1903 Meet Me Down At Luna Lena - Zon-O-Phone 194
1904
* "Under The Anheuser Bush - Columbia 32409
* "Down On The Brandywine" - Edison Gold Moulded 8712
1905
* "In My Merry Oldsmobile" - Columbia 85016 (6" length cylinder - most were 5" length)
* "Peter Piper" - 20th Century Talking Machine Record 85001
* "Negro Recollections" (with Vess L. Ossman on banjo) - Edison Gold Moulded 7665
* "Every Ship Will Find A Harbor" -Edison Gold Moulded 9732
1906
* "Afloat On A Five Dollar Note" - Edison Gold Moulded 9316
* "Traveling" - Edison Gold Moulded 9287
* "Camp Meeting Time" - Edison Gold Moulded 9415
* "Take A Car" - Victor 4372
1907
* "Come On And Kiss Yo' Baby" - Victor 16224-A
* "Bake Dat Chicken Pie" - Victor 17221-B
* "Arrah Wanna" - Edison Gold Moulded 9447
* "Ev'ry Little Bit Added To What You've Got Makes Just A Little Bit More" - Edison Gold Moulded 9611
1908
* "Cohan's Rag Babe - Columbia 33282
1909
* "Down At The Huskin' Bee"
* "Down Where the Big Bananas Grow" - Edison Amberol 308
* "Make A Noise Like A Hoop And Roll Away" - Edison Standard 10122
* "My Wife's Gone To The Country" - Columbia A724
1910
* "That Beautiful Rag" - Columbia Indestructible 1424
1911
* "The Barn Dance"
* "Alexander's Ragtime Band"
1912
* "I'm Goin' Back to Dixie"
* "The Ragtime Soldier Man" - Victor and Columbia Records
1914
* "The Aba Daba Honeymoon" - Edison Blue Amberol 2468
1915
* "Alabama Jubilee"
* "Kentucky Home"
1916
* "The Kid Is Clever"
1918
* "The Old Grey Mare"
1919
* "On the Ozark Trail"
1922
* "Ham & Eggs"

## With Aileen Stanley

1913
* "Tramp! Tramp! Tramp!" - Edison Amberol "Special H" and Edison Blue Amberol "Special H"

## With Arthur Stanley

1909
* "Marching Through Georgia" - Victor 16416-A

## With Frank C. Stanley

1902
* "All Aboard for Slumberville" - Edison Gold Moulded 8187
1904
* "Blue Bell" - Edison Gold Moulded 8655
1904
* "Dixie", or "I wish I was in Dixie" - Edison Gold Moulded 8784
1905
* "You're My Heart's Desire, I Love You, Nellie Dean" - Edison Gold Moulded 9013
* "Soldier Boy" -Columbia 3067

## With Joseph Belmont

1903
* "While the Birds are Singing to Me" - Edison Gold Moulded 9583
1904
* "Robin and the Wren" - Edison Gold Moulded 8662
1905
* "Beautiful Birds Sing On" - Edison Gold Moulded 9022

## With Steve Porter

1913
* "Two Jolly Sailors" - Edison Blue Amberol 1759