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The Rags of George
Linus Cobb
Featuring The Midnight Trot
(1916) and other Piano Rags of George Linus Cobb
By Ted Tjaden
(originally published June 2006 and
updated periodically)
George Linus Cobb (1886-1942) was a prolific composer
of ragtime, including both instrumental compositions
and ragtime songs. Included in this online essay is a
brief overview of Cobb's life as a composer. I have
also included a list of 215 known
compositions by Cobb (135 instrumental pieces
and 80 songs), along with identifying 4 still to-be-sourced compositions),
the most extensive listing of his compositions by
anyone to date. Also included is free online access to
the sheet music all but 1 of his 215 known
compositions, resulting in over 99% of his
compositions being available on this site. In addition
to being a composer, Cobb was also a columnist for Melody
magazine, published by Walter Jacobs Inc, who was
also his major publisher for his compositions (see below for a sample of Cobb's
"Just Between You and Me" column from the magazine).
Information on this page is set out as follows:
1) Life of George Linus Cobb
2) Walter Jacobs Inc: The
Tuneful Yankee and Melody magazines
3) Sheet Music of George Cobb
4) Commercial Recordings of
George Cobb Compositions
5) Additional avenues of
research on George Cobb
6) Bibliography
1) Life of
George Linus Cobb (August 31, 1886 – December 25, 1942)
There is surprisingly little biographical information
easily available on George Cobb. In They All
Played Ragtime (or at least in the third
printing of that book that I have), Cobb does not even
get an index entry and is not discussed in the book
(although several of his compositions are listed in
various parts of the book). As such, very little is
known about Cobb's life, compared to say Jack Yellen,
one of Cobb's major partners who wrote the lyrics to
at least 25 of Cobb's compositions; by way of
contrast, Jack Yellen was voted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame and has
a much higher profile than George Cobb. The
information on Cobb's life that follows is taken
largely from either That American Rag (Jasen and Jones:2000) or Rags and
Ragtime: A Musical History (Jasen
and Tichenor:1989). Ragtimer Frederick
Hodges presented a seminar on George Cobb in
2005 to the West Coast Ragtime Society and more
recently updated his research on his website in an
online blog post from July 2012 entitled "George
L Cobb: The Tuneful Yankee." For now, I set out
below some basic facts about the life of George Cobb
(with section 5 below containing a
list of some areas where additional research on the
life and music of George Cobb is needed):
- George Linus Cobb was born August 31, 1886, in
Mexico, New York, and died in Brookline,
Massachusetts, on Christmas Day, 1942. Research by
Bill Edwards suggests that Cobb was resident in
Mexico, New York at least through 1900 (Edwards:2007).
- Cobb entered the School of Harmony and Composition
at Syracuse University in 1905 (at the age of 19): Jasen and Jones (2000:228).
Apparently, Cobb then lived in Buffalo on graduation
where he won a local competition in 1909 for his
composition "Buffalo Means Business" (below).
- Research by Bill Edwards hints at the possibility
– without verification at this stage – that Cobb may
have served in the military prior to World War I
given his dearth of publications between 1910 and
1912 and other factors (Edwards:2007).
- Jasen and Jones (2000:229)
surmise that it was likely around this time that
Cobb hooked up with Jack Yellen, who turned out to
be Cobb's main lyricist (Yellen apparently worked as
a reporter at the Buffalo Courier), although
Jasen and Jones report that Yellen left for the
University of Michigan shortly after Cobb and Yellen
had completed a few of their first compositions
together.
"Rubber Plant" is a testament to Jacobs's good
eye for rags, and it is also proof of Cobb's
attentiveness at the Syracuse School of Harmony.
Its harmonic surprises come thick and fast, as in
silent movie music, yet it is not a showoff piece.
It is a satisfying rag of middling difficulty,
and, like most of Cobb's rags, it sounds harder to
play than it is.
- Cobb and Yellen continued their partnership in Tin
Pan Alley and had a hit with their first attempt
there: All Aboard for Dixieland (below) (Jasen
and Jones: 2000:229). Jasen and Jones document
a number of hit songs penned by Cobb and Yellen (all
available below) and note their success in writing
songs over their first few years in Tin Pan Alley
where a number of their songs were performed on
Broadway and where others, such as Alabama
Jubilee (below),
were heavily recorded.
- Cobb was married in the 1910s to Mary (last name
unknown), but she disappears by 1930. He likely
moved to the Boston area in late 1916, and a
Cambridge address shows on
his WW1 draft card (Edwards:2007).
- Jasen and Jones (2000:230) note
that in September 1916 Walter Jacobs hired Cobb to
be a staff writer and columnist for Jacobs's the
Tuneful Yankee. However, they also note that
Jacobs failed to require that Cobb exclusively
publish with Walter Jacobs. Although Walter Jacobs
was Cobb's main publisher by a long shot, Cobb did
shop his compositions around and created a number of
hits for publishers such as Will Rossiter with
Cobb's Russian Rag (below).
- His father, Louis, was a real-estate broker,
continuing in that career perhaps to his death in
the 1920s. Cobb was likely living with wife and
parents in 1920, his father still a broker (Edwards:2007).
- Jasen and Jones (2000:231)
state that Cobb used the pseudonym "Leo Gordon" on
two of his new pieces published in The Tuneful
Yankee "so he wouldn't seem to be hogging
space in the magazine." Although they do not
identify which two pieces, they likely are referring
to Georgia Rainbow (1916) (below) and Bone Head Blues
(1917) (below). However, my
research also uncovered the following four less well
known compositions by "Leo Gordon":
- Hang Over Blues (1917) (below)
- My Little Pal (1918) (below)
- Opals: Waltz (1918) (below)
- Youth and You Waltz (1917) (below)
- Cobb was the arranger for The Blacksmith
Rag, composed by "Rednip." Research by
Luigi Ranalli (Ranalli:2007),
suggests that Rednip is in fact a musician by the
name Harold Pinder (with "Rednip" being "Pinder"
spelled backwards) and not a pseudonym for Cobb.
"Rednip" also composed At the Shimmee Ball
(1919) that was published by "Pinder and Company."
- Research by Bill Edwards suggests that Cobb was
living in Somerville, MA, in 1930 with his mother.
His occupation is listed as a publishing salesman,
consistent with the fact that he was not heavily
composing at this time but was instead likely
concentrating on sales or distribution on behalf of
Walter Jacobs (Edwards:2007).
By 1940, Edwards' research has Cobb living in
Brookline, MA, according to two copies of his World
War II selective service card.
- Publishers: Cobb's most frequent publisher
of his music was Walter Jacobs, who published at
least 130 of Cobb's compositions in one form or
another. However, as was noted by Jasen
and Jones (2000:230), Walter Jacobs did not
sign Cobb to an exclusive contract; as a result,
Cobb was free to publish elsewhere, something which
he did. One of Cobb's early publishers, prior to
Walter Jacobs, was Charles I Davis, who published at
least 16 of Cobb's compositions. Another major early
publisher was HC Weasner & Co of Buffalo, New
York, who published at least 22 of Cobb's
compositions. After these publishers, the next most
frequent publisher of Cobb's music was Will Rossiter
(11 compositions). After that, Cobb spread his
compositions around, publishing with the following
publishers in descending order of the number of
publications published by each (with the number of
compositions published by that publishers indicated
in parentheses following the publisher's name):
- Jerome H Remick (6)
- Chas E Roat Music Co (Battle Creek, MI) (3)
- Harold Freeman Music (2)
- M Witmark & Sons (2)
- Ted Garton Music Co (Boston) (2)
- Vinton Music (Boston) (2)
- Self (Cobb) (1)
- Bell Music Co (1)
- Hub Music Co (1)
- Leo Feist (1)
- Metropolis Music Co (1)
- Oliver Ditson (1)
- Seidel Music Pub Co (1)
- Shapiro, Bernstein & Co (1)
- Sherman Clay & Co (1)
- Louis C Snyder (1)
- Remaining publishers unknown
- Songs: Of the 215 Cobb compositions listed
on this page, 80 appear to be songs (i.e.,
compositions with vocals). Although Cobb appears to
have penned the words to approximately 22 of these
songs, he heavily relied on Jack
Yellen as one of his major lyricists on at
least 25 of these songs. The next most prolific
vocalist on Cobb compositions appears to have been
Robert Levenson (11 songs), with the remaining
vocalists penning much fewer songs (with the number
of compositions indicated in parentheses after the
name of each vocalist):
- Jack Mahoney (3)
- J Will Callahan (2)
- Irving Crocker (2)
- Phil Volz (1)
- WL Beardsley (1)
- Lucius Pratt (1)
- WR Williams (1)
- Richard Whiting and Gus Kahn (1)
- HC Weasner (1)
- Bob Wyman (1)
- Will Garton and Leo Wood (1)
- Treve Collins (1)
- W Max Davis and Eddie Elliott (1)
- Aaron Neiberg (1)
- Norman Leigh (1)
- Instrumentals: A rough count suggests that
135 of Cobb's 215 compositions listed below are
instrumentals. Of these 135 instrumentals, Jasen and
Jones (2000) list 25 rags (including three under the
pseudonym of Leo Gordon). The remaining
instrumentals below fall into the categories of
marches, one or two-steps, novelettes or mood pieces
and waltzes (there appears to be 13 instrumental
waltzes).
2) Walter
Jacobs Inc: The Tuneful Yankee and Melody
magazines
Walter Jacobs's The Tuneful Yankee and Melody
magazines were a major source of many of Cobb's
compositions provided below in section 3. The
Tuneful Yankee commenced in January 1917 and
was a monthly magazine similar to the Ragtime
Review, published by Axel Christensen out of
Chicago (see my separate essay
on the Ragtime Review). Each monthly
issue of these magazines typically contained a
selection of short articles on ragtime or popular
music, along with usually 3 or 4 compositions
(typically by composers who had published with Walter
Jacobs) and numerous ads (once again, typically for
Walter Jacobs's publications). By the end of 1917, it
appears that Walter Jacobs was proposing a contest to
come up with a new name for the magazine, and in
January 1918, the magazine was relaunched as Melody
magazine. Cobb wrote a monthly column called "Just
Between You and Me," which was formally commenced in
the February 1918 (Vol II, Number 2) edition of Melody,
although it looks as though previous columns, which
were unattributed, were likely also written by Cobb
due to the same acerbic style deployed in the earlier
columns.
Fortunately, the Silent Film Sound & Music
Archive has digitized most of the issues for The
Tuneful Yankee and Melody, available here. Included on their site is
an index by
composer and an index by sheet music title.
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Left: Sample cover from the
February 1917 The Tuneful Yankee
(Walter Jacobs).
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Left: Sample cover from the February 1918 Melody
magazine (Walter Jacobs).
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Left: Sample "Just Between You and
Me" column by George Cobb from the February 1918 Melody
magazine (Walter Jacobs) in which
Cobb critiques piano compositions
written and submitted by readers of the
magazine.
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3) Sheet
Music of George Cobb Compositions
Set out below in chronological order is a complete
list of known compositions by George Cobb. Ragtime
songs (i.e., compositions with vocals) are identified
with "peach-colored" backgrounds, whereas instrumental
compositions are identified with "yellow" backgrounds.
Jasen and Jones in That American
Rag (2000) list 22 compositions by George
Cobb and 3 by Leo Gordon (a known pseudonym of Cobb).
Those 25 compositions listed by them are identified
below by the code "TAR" as part of the bibliographic
information and include the date of copyright
registration as identified by Jasen and Jones (where
copyright was in fact registered, which did not happen
for all of these 25 compositions).
The sheet music in the tables below that was sourced
from The Tuneful Yankee or Melody
magazine was digitized from a microfilm version of
those magazines; hence, the quality of those
particular digital versions is not perfect but the
music is quite readable.
Set out below the tables of chronological listings of
Cobb compositions is a list of 4
compositions purportedly by Cobb but where I
have been unable to obtain any confirming information
about those pieces.
Readers who have copies of any of the public domain
Cobb pieces identified below but not available are
encouraged to provide me photocopies or digital scans
of those pieces so they can be added to this site.
1905
1906
1907
1908
1909
1910
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Cobb, George. Aggravation
Rag. Boston: Walter Jacobs, 1910.
Listed in TAR. Copyright
registration date: 1 March 1910.
[view sheet music]
Source: University of
Colorado Digital Sheet Music Collection
[top]
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Cobb, George. Canned
Corn Rag. Buffalo, NY: Bell Music
Co, 1910. Listed in TAR.
Copyright registration date: 1 March 1910.
[view
sheet music]
Source: Photocopy provided by Andrew
Barrett [top]
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Cobb, George. That
Hindu Rag. Boston: Walter Jacobs,
1910. Listed in TAR.
Copyright registration date: 15 October 1910.
[view sheet
music]
Source: Melody magazine
(October-November 1924) [top]
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Cobb, George. The
High Brows: March and Two Step.
Boston: Walter Jacobs, 1910.
[view
sheet music] [piano part only]
Source: Photocopy from the Center
for Popular Music, Middle Tennessee
State University [top]
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Cobb, George. I Used
To Be Lonesome ('Till I Found You) (words
by Jack Yellen). Cleveland, OH: Charles I
Davis Music Publisher, 1910.
[view
sheet music]
Source: Maine
Music Box [top]
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1911
1912
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Cobb, George. Down
on de Levee (words by George
Cobb). Cleveland, OH: Charles I Davis Music
Publisher, 1912.
[view
sheet music]
Source: Maine
Music Box [top]
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Cobb, George. Every
Little Note Means Love When Billy Plays
that Way (words by George Cobb).
Cleveland, OH: Charles I Davis Music
Publisher, 1912.
[view sheet
music]
Source: Personal copy [top]
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Cobb, George. Honey
Lou! ('Neath the Big White Honey-Moon) (words
by Jack Yellen). Buffalo, NY: HC Weasner &
Co, 1912.
[view sheet
music]
Source: Lilly
Library (Indiana University,
Bloomington) [top]
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Cobb, George. Jolly
Dancers Ostende: Latest Ball Room Dance.
Cleveland, OH: Charles L Davis, 1912.
[view sheet
music]
Source: Photocopy from Bowling
Green State University [top]
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Cobb, George. Lady of the Lake.
Boston: Walter Jacobs, 1912.
[view sheet
music] [piano part only]
Source: Photocopy from the Center
for Popular Music, Middle Tennessee
State University and Cadenza
(magazine) (November 1915) [top]
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Cobb, George. Mister
Melody Man (words by George Cobb).
Cleveland, OH: Davis Music Publisher, 1912.
[view
sheet music]
Source: African-American Sheet Music,
1850-1920 (from Brown University) [top]
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Cobb, George. Oh
That Lovey, Dovey Glide (words by
George Cobb). Cleveland, OH: Charles I Davis
Music Publisher, 1912.
[view sheet
music]
Source: Personal copy [top]
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Cobb, George. Stunning
Grenadiers: March & Two Step.
Cleveland, OH: Charles I Davis Music
Publisher, 1912.
[view sheet music]
Source: Frederick Hodges [top]
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Cobb, George. When
Oscar Played the Flute (words by
George Cobb). Buffalo, NY: HC Weasner &
Co, 1912.
[view sheet
music]
Source: Personal copy [top]
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1913
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Cobb, George. All Aboard
for Dixie Land (words by Jack
Yellen). New York: Jerome H Remick, 1913.
[view
sheet music]
Source: Maine
Music Box [top]
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Cobb, George. The
Baboon Bounce: A Rag-Step Intermezzo.
Boston: Walter Jacobs, 1913.
[view
sheet music]
Source: University of
Colorado Digital Sheet Music
Collection [top]
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Cobb, George. Bring
Back my Lovin' Honey Boy (words
by Jack Yellen). Chicago: Will Rossiter, 1913.
[view
sheet music]
Source: Photocopy from the Center
for Popular Music, Middle Tennessee
State University [top]
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Cobb, George. Bunny
Hug Rag. Battle Creek, MI: Chas E
Roat Music Co, 1913. Listed in TAR.
Copyright registration date: 4 August 1913.
[view sheet
music]
Source: Copy provided by reader [top]
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Cobb, George. The
Get-A-Way March and Two Step.
Boston: Walter Jacobs, 1913.
[view sheet
music] [piano part only]
Source: Photocopy from the Center
for Popular Music, Middle Tennessee
State University [also available in Melody magazine
(June 1920)]
[top]
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Cobb, George. I Long
to be Way Down in Tennessee (words
by George Cobb). Cleveland, OH: Charles I
Davis, 1913.
[view
sheet music]
Source: Photocopy from the Center
for Popular Music, Middle Tennessee
State University [top]
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Cobb, George. If I
Find Another Boy Like You (words
by Jack Yellen). Cleveland, OH: Charles I
Davis, 1913.
[view
sheet music]
Source: Personal copy [top]
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Cobb, George. If
I Only Had You Again (words by
Phil Volz). Buffalo, NY: HC Weasner & Co,
1913.
[view
sheet music]
Source: Photocopy from the New
York State Library [top]
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Cobb, George. Lonesome
Moon (words by Jack Yellen).
Cleveland, OH: Charles I Davis, 1913.
[view
sheet music]
Source: Photocopy from the Center
for Popular Music, Middle Tennessee
State University [top]
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Cobb, George. On
the Good Ship Nancy Lee (words by
Jack Yellen). Buffalo, NY: HC Weasner &
Co, 1913.
[view sheet
music]
Source: Personal copy [top]
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Cobb, George. Roll
Along Old Georgia Moon (words by
George Cobb). Buffalo, NY: HC Weasner &
Co, 1913.
[view
sheet music]
Source: Indiana
University Sheet Music Collections [top]
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Cobb, George. Take
Me Back To The Days Gone By (words
by George Cobb). Buffalo, NY: HC Weasner &
Co, 1913.
[view
sheet music]
Source: Photocopy from the Center
for Popular Music, Middle Tennessee
State University [top]
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Cobb, George. You'll
Be Sorry (words by Jack Yellen).
Cleveland, OH: Charles I Davis, 1913.
[view
sheet music]
Source: Personal collection [top]
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1914
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Cobb, George. After-Glow:
A Tone Picture. Boston: Walter
Jacobs, 1914.
[view
sheet music]
Source: Maine
Music Box [top]
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Cobb, George. Dance
that Dengozo with Me: Oo-La-La (words
by WL Beardsley). Chicago: Will Rossiter,
1914.
[view
sheet music]
Source: Maine
Music Box [top]
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Cobb, George. Fleur
d'Amour: Hesitation Waltz. Boston:
Walter Jacobs, 1914.
[view sheet
music]
Source: Cadenza (magazine)
(June 1914) [top]
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Cobb, George. A
Holiday in Dixieland (words by
Lucius Pratt). Buffalo, NY: HC Weasner &
Co, 1914.
[view
sheet music]
Source: Indiana
University Sheet Music Collections [top]
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Cobb, George. Huskin'
Time: A Rural One Step. Buffalo,
NY: HC Weasner & Co, 1914.
[view sheet
music]
Source: Personal copy [top]
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Cobb, George. I'm
Coming Back in Springtime (words
by Jack Yellen). Chicago: Will Rossiter, 1914.
[view
sheet music]
Source: Personal copy [top]
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Cobb, George. Just
for To-Night (words by George
Cobb). Chicago: Will Rossiter, 1914.
[view
sheet music] [Listen to a
1914 Victor recording from Library
and Archives Canada]
Source: Indiana
University Sheet Music Collections [top]
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Cobb, George. Knock
Knees: One-Step or Two-Step.
Boston: Walter Jacobs, 1914.
[view
sheet music]
Source: Cadenza (magazine)
(November 1914) [top]
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Cobb, George. Listen
to that Dixie Band (words by Jack
Yellen). New York: Jerome H Remick, 1914.
[view
sheet music]
Source:
African-American
Sheet Music, 1850-1920 (from Brown
University)
[top]
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Cobb, George. Mammy's
Golden Wedding Day (words by Jack
Yellen). Cleveland, OH: Charles I Davis, 1914.
[view sheet music]
Source: University of Alabama
Libraries Special Collections [top]
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Cobb, George. Mammy's
Little Angel Child (words by Jack
Yellen). Chicago: Will Rossiter, 1914.
[view
sheet music]
Source: Photocopy from the Center
for Popular Music, Middle Tennessee
State University [top]
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Cobb, George. Mona
Lisa Valse. Boston: Walter Jacobs,
1914.
[view sheet
music]
Source: Cadenza (magazine)
(June 1915); and photocopy from the Center
for Popular Music, Middle Tennessee
State University [top]
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Cobb, George. On a
Summer Night (words by Jack
Yellen). Buffalo, NY: HC Weasner & Co,
1914.
[view
sheet music]
Source: Maine
Music Box [top]
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Cobb, George. On
the Banks of Honolulu Bay (words
by George Cobb). Buffalo, NY: HC Weasner &
Co, s.d.
[view sheet
music]
Source: Fordham
University Libraries Digital Collections
[top]
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Cobb, George. On the
QT: March and Two-Step. Boston:
Walter Jacobs, 1914.
Source: British Library
catalog [top]
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Cobb, George. La
Parisia: Hesitation Waltz.
Cleveland, OH: Charles I Davis, 1914.
[view sheet
music]
Source: Personal collection [top]
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Cobb, George. Sing
Ling Ting: Chinese One-Step.
Boston: Walter Jacobs, 1914.
[view
sheet music]
Source: Cadenza (magazine)
(July 1915); also British Library
catalog and Brigham
Young University Library [top]
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Cobb, George. That
Tangoing Turk: One-Step or Two-Step.
Boston: Walter Jacobs, 1914.
[view
sheet music]
Source: Cadenza (magazine)
(June 1916) and British Library
catalog [top]
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Cobb, George. That
Tantalizing Tango Tune. Words by
Jack Yellen. Cleveland, OH: Charles I Davis,
1914.
[view sheet
music]
Source: Personal copy [top]
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1915
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Cobb, George. Alabama
Jubilee (words by Jack Yellen).
New York: Jerome H Remick, 1915.
[view sheet
music]
Source:
Historic
American Sheet Music, 1850-1920 (from
Duke University) [top]
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Cobb, George. Are
You from Dixie? (Cause I'm from Dixie Too)
(words by Jack Yellen). New York: M
Witmark & Sons, 1915.
[view
sheet music] [listen
to 1916 Edison recording]
Source: Maine
Music Box [top]
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Cobb, George. Barbary:
Valse Algerienne. Boston: Walter
Jacobs, 1915.
[view sheet
music]
Sources: Cadenza (magazine)
(July 1915) [top]
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Cobb, George. Brass
Buttons: March and Two-Step.
Boston: Walter Jacobs, 1915.
[view
sheet music]
Sources: Cadenza (magazine)
(September 1915); also British Library
catalog and January 1917 Jacobs'
Band Monthly (University of
Illinois, microfiche) [top]
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Cobb, George. Buds
and Blossoms: Waltz. Boston:
Walter Jacobs, 1915.
[view
sheet music]
Sources: Cadenza (magazine)
(January 1916); also British Library
catalog [top]
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Cobb, George. Dancing
'Round the USA (with Jack
Yellen and Harry Carroll). New York: Shapiro,
Bernstein & Co, 1915.
[view sheet
music]
Source: Copy provided courtesy of Frederick
Hodges [top]
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Cobb, George. Dreaming
(words by Phil Voltz). Buffalo, NY:
HC Weasner & Co, nd.
[view sheet
music]
Source: Photocopy obtained from the
New
York State Library [top]
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Cobb, George. Golden
Dawn: A Tone Picture. Boston:
Walter Jacobs, 1915.
[view
sheet music]
Source: Jacobs' Piano
Folio of Tone-Poems and Reveries, No. 2;
also Cadenza (magazine)
(November 1915) [top]
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Cobb, George. It's
All a Dream (words by Jack
Yellen). New York: M Witmark & Sons, 1915.
[view
sheet music]
Source: Photocopy from the Center
for Popular Music, Middle Tennessee
State University [top]
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Cobb, George. Law and
Order: March. Boston: Walter
Jacobs, 1915.
[view sheet
music]
Sources: Cadenza (magazine)
(July 1916); also British Library
catalog [top]
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Cobb, George. On
Honolulu Bay (with Ted Barron)
(words by Jack Yellen). New York: Metropolis
Music Co, 1915.
[view
sheet music]
Source: Photocopy from the Center
for Popular Music, Middle Tennessee
State University [top]
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Cobb, George. On
the Road to Dublin Town (words by
Jack Yellen). New York: Jerome H Remick, 1915.
[view
sheet music]
Source: Maine
Music Box [top]
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Cobb, George. Rabbit's
Foot. Boston: Walter Jacobs, 1915.
[view sheet
music]
Source: Cadenza (magazine)
(July 1915) [top]
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Cobb, George. Roses
Mean Memories (Mem'ries Mean You) (words
by Jack Yellen). Buffalo, NY: HC Weasner &
Co, 1915.
[view
sheet music]
Source: Photocopy from the Center
for Popular Music, Middle Tennessee
State University [top]
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Cobb, George. That
Twilight Melody (words by Jack
Yellen). Buffalo, NY: HC Weasner & Co,
1915.
[view
sheet music]
Source: Personal collection [top]
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Cobb, George. Three
Nymphs: Dance Classique. Boston:
Walter Jacobs, 1915.
[view
sheet music]
Source: Cadenza magazine
(January 1915) [top]
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Cobb,
George. Virginia Sue (words by
George Cobb). Buffalo, NY: HC Weasner &
Co, 1915.
[view sheet
music]
Source: Photocopy from the Virginia
Historical Society [top]
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Cobb, George. White
Narcissus: Hesitation Waltz.
Battle Creek, MI: Charles E Roat, 1915.
[view
sheet music]
Source: Digital copy
provided by Frederick
Hodges [top]
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Cobb, George. You
Didn't Care (words by WR
Williams). Chicago: Will Rossiter, 1915.
[view
sheet music]
Source: Indiana
University Sheet Music Collections [top]
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Cobb, George. Young
April: Novelette. Boston: Walter
Jacobs, 1915.
[view
sheet music]
Source: Cadenza magazine
(May 1915) [top]
|
1916
 |
Cobb, George. Cheops:
Egyptian Intermezzo. Boston:
Walter Jacobs, 1916.
[view
sheet music]
Source: Maine
Music Box [top]
|
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Cobb,
George. Drift Wood: Novelette.
Boston: Walter Jacobs, 1916.
[view
sheet music]
Source: The Tuneful Yankee
magazine (October 1917) [top]
|
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Cobb, George. Frangipani:
Oriental Fox-Trot. Boston: Walter
Jacobs, 1916.
[view
sheet music]
Source: Cadenza magazine
(August 1916) [top]
|
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Cobb, George (as Leo
Gordon). Georgia Rainbow.
Boston: Walter Jacobs, 1916. Listed in TAR.
[view
sheet music]
Source: Melody magazine
(January 1918) [top]
|
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Cobb, George. Good
Bye Blues. Battle Creek, MI: Chas
E Roat Music Co, 1916. Listed in TAR.
[view
sheet music]
Source: Digital copy provided by Frederick
Hodges [top]
|
|
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Cobb, George. I
Can't Forget (song) (with
Richard Whiting and Gus Kahn). New York:
Jerome H Remick, 1916.
[view
sheet music]
Source: Photocopy from University
of Toronto Music Library [top]
|
|
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Cobb, George. I'm
Goin' to Hit the Trail for Alabam' (words
by George Cobb). Indianapolis, IN: Seidel
Music Pub Co, 1916.
[view sheet music]
Source:
Charles
Templeton Sheet Music Collection (MSU)
[top]
|
|
|
Cobb, George. In
the Beautiful Garden of Dreamland
(words by George Cobb). Buffalo, NY: HC
Weasner & Co, 1916.
[view
sheet music]
Source: Indiana
University Sheet Music Collections [top]
|
 |
Cobb, George. The Midnight Trot.
Chicago: Will Rossiter, 1916. Listed in TAR. Copyright registration
date: 5 April 1916.
[view sheet music]
Source: Charles
Templeton Sheet Music Collection (MSU)
[top]
|
 |
Cobb, George. Red
Rooster. Buffalo, NY: HC Weasner
& Co, 1916.
[view sheet
music]
Source: Personal copy [top]
|
 |
Cobb, George. See
Dixie First (words by Jack
Mahoney). Boston: Walter Jacobs, 1916.
[view sheet
music]
Source:
Historic
American Sheet Music, 1850-1920 (from
Duke University) [top]
|
 |
Cobb, George. There's
Someone You've Forgotten Who Has Not
Forgotten You (words by Jack
Yellen). Boston: Walter Jacobs, 1916.
[view
sheet music]
Source: The Tuneful Yankee
magazine (January 1917) [top]
|
 |
Cobb, George. When
You Dream of Old New Hampshire, I Dream of
Tennessee (words by Jack
Mahoney). Boston: Walter Jacobs, 1916.
[view
sheet music]
Source: Maine
Music Box [top]
|
|
Cobb, George. When
You're Five Times Sixteen (words
by Jack Mahoney). New York: Leo Feist, 1916.
[view sheet music]
[Listen to a
1916 His Master's Voice recording
from Library
and Archives Canada]
Source: Arizona State University
Digital Repository [top]
|
 |
Cobb, George. Won't
You Come and Love Me (words by HC
Weasner). Buffalo, NY: HC Weasner & Co,
1916.
[view sheet
music]
Source: Personal copy [top]
|
1917
 |
Cobb, George. All
Aboard for Rock-A-Bye Bay: Waltz Song (words
by Will Callahan). Boston: Walter Jacobs,
1917.
[view sheet
music]
Source: The Tuneful Yankee
magazine (August 1917) [top]
|
 |
Cobb, George. The
Battle Song of Liberty (words by
Jack Yellen). Boston: Walter Jacobs, 1917.
[view
sheet music]
Source: Maine
Music Box [top]
|
 |
Cobb, George. Blue
Sunshine: Waltz. Boston: Walter
Jacobs, 1917.
[view
sheet music] [view
extended version from The Tuneful
Yankee]
Orchestral music for this
piece is available as follows: bass, cello,
viola,
1st
violin, 2nd
violin, cornets,
drums,
trombone,
saxophone,
horns,
1st
clarinet, 2nd
clarinet, oboe/bassoon,
1st flute,
2nd flute
Source: Photocopy from University
of Toronto Music Library. Also
available in The Tuneful Yankee (November
1917) [top]
|
 |
Cobb, George (as Leo
Gordon). Bone Head Blues.
Boston: Walter Jacobs, 1917. Listed in TAR.
[view sheet
music]
Source: The Tuneful Yankee
magazine (February 1917) [top]
|
|
|
Cobb, George
(lyricist). Columbia's Call
(music by Bob Wyman). Boston: Walter Jacobs,
1917.
[view
sheet music]
Source: Indiana
University Sheet Music Collections [top]
|
 |
Cobb, George. Down
on Blue Bird Bay (words by Irving
Crocker). Boston: Walter Jacobs, 1917.
[view
sheet music]
Source: The
Tuneful Yankee
magazine (September 1917) [top]
|
 |
Cobb, George. Down
Where It's Always June (words by
George Cobb). Buffalo, NY: HC Weasner &
Co, 1917.
[view
sheet music]
Source: Photocopy from the Center
for Popular Music, Middle Tennessee
State University [top]
|
 |
Cobb, George (as Leo
Gordon). Hang Over Blues.
Boston: Walter Jacobs, 1917.
[view sheet
music]
Source: The Tuneful Yankee
magazine (June 1917) [top]
|
 |
Cobb, George. Just
Keep The Roses A-Blooming (words
by Robert Levenson). Boston: Walter Jacobs,
1917.
[view sheet
music]
Source: The
Tuneful Yankee
magazine (October 1917) [top]
|
 |
Cobb, George. Ladder
of Love Waltz. Boston: Walter
Jacobs, 1917.
[view sheet
music]
Source: The Tuneful Yankee
magazine (July 1917). Also available in
January 1918 Jacobs' Band Monthly [top]
|
 |
Cobb, George. Levee
Land: One Step. Boston: Walter
Jacobs, 1917.
[view sheet
music]
Source: Historic
American Sheet Music, 1850-1920 (from
Duke University) [top]
|
 |
Cobb, George. Mississippi
Volunteers (Forward March!) (words
by Robert Levenson). Boston: Walter Jacobs,
1917.
[view sheet
music]
Source: Historic
American Sheet Music, 1850-1920 (from
Duke University) [top]
|
 |
Cobb, George. Nautical
Toddle: Fox Trot. Boston: Walter
Jacobs, 1917.
[view sheet
music]
Source: The Tuneful Yankee
magazine (December 1917) [top]
Note: A piece with the title
Nautical Nonsense is listed
in TAR but I wonder if
that listing is in error and whether the
authors intended Nautical Toddle
instead. It is unlikely that
Cobb would have composed and titled two
pieces in the same year with such unusual
but similar titles..
|
 |
Cobb, George. The
Picture that the Shamrock Brings to Me (words
by Will Callahan). Boston: Walter Jacobs,
1917.
[view sheet
music]
Source: The Tuneful Yankee
magazine (June 1917) [top]
|
 |
Cobb, George. Send
Me a Line (When I am Across the Ocean)
(words by Irving Crocker). Boston:
Walter Jacobs, 1917.
[view
sheet music]
Source: Photocopy from the Center
for Popular Music, Middle Tennessee
State University [top]
|
 |
Cobb, George. Some
Shape: One Step. Boston: Walter
Jacobs, 1917.
[view
sheet music]
Source: Digital copy from a reader.
Also available in Tuneful Yankee
Magazine (June 1917) and January
1918 Jacob's Orchestra Monthly and
January 1918 Jacobs' Band Monthly [top]
|
 |
Cobb, George. There'll
Come a Night (words by George
Cobb). Boston: Walter Jacobs, 1917.
[view
sheet music]
Source: The
Tuneful Yankee
magazine (March/April 1917) [top]
|
 |
Cobb, George. Waiting.
Boston: Walter Jacobs, 1917.
[view sheet
music]
Source: The Tuneful Yankee
magazine (December 1917) [top]
|
 |
Cobb, George. When
the Moon was Hanging Low. Buffalo,
NY: HC Weasner, 1917.
[view sheet
music]
Source: Personal copy [top]
|
|
Cobb, George (as "Leo
Gordon"). Youth and You Waltz
(with Thomas Allen). Boston: Walter Jacobs,
1917.
[view sheet music]
Source: Jacobs' Piano Folio of
Dance Waltzes No. 8 (1917) from the
Silent Film Sound &
Music Archive [top]
|
1918
 |
Cobb, George. Calcutta:
Oriental Fox Trot. Boston: Walter
Jacobs, 1918.
[view sheet
music]
Source: Melody
magazine (November 1918) [top]
|
 |
Cobb, George. Cracked
Ice Rag. Boston: Walter Jacobs,
1918.
[view
sheet music]
Source: Melody
magazine (July 1918) [top]
|
 |
Cobb, George. Here's
How: One Step. Boston: Walter
Jacobs, 1918.
[view sheet
music]
Source: Melody
magazine (April 1918) [top]
|
 |
Cobb, George. In
the Glow of the Alamo Moon (words
by Jack Yellen). Boston: Walter Jacobs, 1918.
[view sheet
music]
Source:
Melody magazine
(March 1918) [top]
|
 |
Cobb, George. In
the Old Front Parlor (words by
Robert Levenson). Boston: Walter Jacobs, 1918.
[view sheet
music]
Source: Melody
magazine (February 1918) [top]
|
 |
Cobb, George. Irish
Confetti: Fox Trot. Boston: Walter
Jacobs, 1918. Listed in TAR.
[view sheet
music]
Source: Melody
magazine (February 1918)
[top]
|
 |
Cobb, George. Maori
Love (words by Treve Collins).
Boston: Walter Jacobs, 1918.
[view sheet
music]
Source: Melody
magazine (July 1918) [top]
|
 |
Cobb, George. Moonbeams:
Novelette. Boston: Walter Jacobs,
1918.
[view
sheet music]
Source: Melody magazine
(August 1918) [top]
|
 |
Cobb, George. (as "Leo
Gordon"). My Little Pal (words
by Robert Levenson). Boston: Walter Jacobs,
1918.
[view
sheet music]
Source: Melody magazine
(June1918) [top]
|
 |
Cobb, George. (as "Leo
Gordon"). Opals: Waltz.
Boston: Walter Jacobs, 1918.
[view sheet
music]
Source: Melody
magazine (December 1918) [top]
|
 |
Cobb, George. Peter
Gink: One Step (Adapted from "Peer Gynt"
Suite 1) (Apologies to Grieg).
Boston: Walter Jacobs, 1918.
[view
sheet music] [1919
Victor recording] [Sue
Keller MIDI]
Source: National Library
of Australia Digital Collections
[also available in
Melody magazine
(March 1918)] [top]
|
|
Cobb, George. Russian Rag.
Chicago: Will Rossiter, 1918. Listed in TAR. Copyright registration
date: 27 April 1918.
[view
sheet music]
Listen to Historic
.MP3 Recording: Montreal: His Master's
Voice, 1921: Berliner Gram-O-Phone Co
(Library and Archives Canada)
Source: Indiana
University Sheet Music Collections
[top]
|
 |
Cobb, George. Say
When. Boston: Walter Jacobs, 1918.
Listed in TAR. Note: both
TAR and Rags and Ragtime indicate
"1919" as the year of publication, which
appears to be in error.
[view sheet
music]
Source:
Melody magazine
(March 1918) [top]
|
 |
Cobb, George. Sunshine
(Spread All the Sunshine You Can) (words
by George Cobb). Boston: Walter Jacobs, 1918.
[view
sheet music]
Source: Maine
Music Box and
Melody magazine
(March 1918) [top]
|
 |
Cobb, George. Toy
Poodles: Novelty One Step. Boston:
Walter Jacobs, 1918.
[view
sheet music]
Source: Melody magazine
(May 1918) [top]
|
 |
Cobb, George. Treat
'Em Rough: One Step. Boston:
Walter Jacobs, 1918.
[view
sheet music]
Source: Melody
magazine (December 1918) [top]
|
 |
Cobb, George. What
Next! Fox Trot. Boston: Walter
Jacobs, 1918.
[view sheet
music]
Source: Melody magazine
(June 1918) [top]
|
 |
Cobb, George. When
the Lilies Bloom in France Again
(words by Robert Levenson). Boston: Walter
Jacobs, 1918.
[view sheet
music]
Source: Melody magazine
(May 1918) [top]
|
1919
 |
Cobb, George. Alhambra:
Spanish One-Step. Boston: Walter
Jacobs, 1919.
[view sheet
music]
Source: Melody magazine (August 1919)
[top]
|
 |
Cobb, George. Boodiewah
(words by Max Davis and Eddie Elliott).
Boston: Walter Jacobs, 1919.
[view
sheet music]
Source: Melody magazine (August 1919)
[top]
|
|
Hall, R.B. (revised by
George Cobb). The Commander: March.
Walter Jacobs, 1919.
[view sheet music]
Source: Melody magazine
(January 1919) [top]
|
 |
Cobb, George. Dixie
Lullaby. Boston: Walter Jacobs,
1919.
[view
sheet music]
Source: Melody
magazine (January 1919)
[top]
|
 |
Cobb, George. Fancies:
Novelette. Boston: Walter Jacobs,
1919.
[view sheet
music]
Source: Melody magazine
(July 1919) [top]
|
 |
Cobb, George. Feeding
the Kitty: A Ragtime One-Step.
Boston: Walter Jacobs, 1919. Listed in TAR.
[view
sheet music]
Source: Melody magazine (November
1919) [top]
|
 |
Cobb, George. Four
Roses (song) (words by Aaron
Neiberg). Boston: Walter Jacobs, 1919.
[view
sheet music]
Source: Melody magazine
(June 1919) [top]
|
 |
Cobb, George. Hawaiian
Sunset: Waltzes. Boston: Walter
Jacobs, 1919.
[view
sheet music]
Source: Maine
Music Box and Melody magazine
(May 1919) [top]
|
 |
Cobb, George. Javanola:
Oriental Fox-Trot and One-Step.
Boston: Walter Jacobs, 1919.
[view sheet
music]
Source: Melody magazine (June 1919)
[top]
|
 |
Cobb, George. A
Little Later On (words by Robert
Levenson). Boston: Walter Jacobs, 1919.
[view sheet
music] [scroll to page 7]]
Source: Melody
magazine (February 2019) [top]
|
 |
Cobb, George. Memoirs.
Boston: Walter Jacobs, 1919.
[view sheet
music]
Source: Melody magazine (September
1919) [top]
|
 |
Cobb, George. Mother's
Love and Kisses (song). Boston:
Walter Jacobs, 1919.
[view
sheet music]
Source: Melody magazine (September 1919)
[top]
|
 |
Cobb, George. Rose
of Burgundy (words by Robert
Levenson). Boston: Walter Jacobs, 1919.
[view
sheet music]
Source: Melody magazine
(April 1919) [top]
|
 |
Cobb, George. Stop
It: Fox Trot. Boston: Walter
Jacobs, 1919. Listed in TAR.
[view sheet
music]
Source: Melody magazine (December
1919) [top]
|
 |
Cobb, George. Tokio
(words by Robert Levenson). Boston: Walter
Jacobs, 1919.
[view sheet
music]
Source: Melody magazine
(March 1919) [top]
|
 |
Cobb, George. Water
Wagon Blues. Boston: Walter
Jacobs, 1919.
[view
sheet music]
Source: Melody magazine
(April 1919) [top]
|
1920
 |
Cobb, George. Asa's
Toddy: One Step (with Apologies to Mr
Grieg). New York: Jerome H Remick,
1920.
[view
sheet music]
Source: Photocopy from the Center
for Popular Music, Middle Tennessee
State University [top]
|
 |
Cobb, George (arranger).
Blacksmith Rag: Fox Trot
(composed by Rednip). Boston: Ted Garton Music
Co, 1920.
[view
sheet music]
Source: Indiana
University Sheet Music Collections [top]
|
 |
Cobb, George (arranger).
Blacksmith Rag (with the "Anvil Chorus")
(words by Will Garton and Leo Wood) (composed
by Rednip). Boston: Ted Garton Music Co, 1920.
[view
sheet music]
Source: Indiana
University Sheet Music Collections [top]
|
 |
Cobb, George. Bohunkus:
Novelty One Step. Boston: Walter
Jacobs, 1920.
[view sheet
music]
Source: Melody magazine
(March 1920) [top]
|
 |
Cobb, George. Crystal
Ball (words by Robert Levenson).
San Francisco, CA: Sherman Clay & Co,
1920.
[view
sheet music]
Source: Photocopy from the Center
for Popular Music, Middle Tennessee
State University [top]
|
 |
Cobb, George. Dust
'em Off Rag. Boston: Walter
Jacobs, 1920. Listed in TAR.
[view
sheet music]
Source: Melody magazine (August 1920)
[top]
|
|
Cobb, George. Give
My Love to Dixie (words by Robert
Levenson). Providence, RI: Harold Freeman
Music, 1920.
[view sheet music]
Source: Frederick Hodges [top]
|
 |
Cobb, George. I've
Been Living in the Land of Sunshine (words
by Irving Crocker). Boston: Walter Jacobs,
1920.
[view sheet
music]
Source: Melody magazine
(February 1920) [top]
|
 |
Cobb, George. Over
the Rockies (Down Frisco Way) (words
by Jack Yellen). Buffalo, NY: HC Weasner &
Co, 1920.
[view
sheet music]
Source: Maine
Music Box [top]
|
 |
Cobb, George. Peek In. Boston: Walter Jacobs,
1920.
[view sheet
music]
Source: Melody magazine
(April 1920) [top]
|
 |
Cobb, George. Umpah!
Umpah! One-Step Oddity. Boston:
Walter Jacobs, 1920.
[view
sheet music]
Source: Maine
Music Box; also Melody magazine
(October/November 1920) [top]
|
 |
Cobb, George. When
You Made My Dreams Come True (song).
Boston: Walter Jacobs, 1920.
[view
sheet music]
Source: Melody magazine
(September 1920) [top]
|
 |
Cobb, George. You've
Been a Dear Old Pal (Mother of Mine) (with
Harold Freeman and Robert Levenson).
Providence, RI: Harold Freeman Music Co, 1920.
[view
sheet music]
Source: Maine
Music Box [top]
|
1921
 |
Cobb, George. Across
the Hot Sands: March. Boston:
Oliver Ditson, 1921.
[view
sheet music]
Source: Maine
Music Box [top]
|
 |
Cobb, George. Almond
Eyes: Fox Trot. Boston: Walter
Jacobs, 1921.
[view
sheet music]
Source: Melody magazine
(August 1921) [top]
|
 |
Cobb, George. Asia
Minor: Fox Trot. Boston: Walter
Jacobs, 1921.
[view
sheet music]
Source: Melody magazine
(July 1921) [top]
|
 |
Cobb, George. The
Faun: Danse. Boston: Walter
Jacobs, 1921.
[view sheet
music]
Source: Melody magazine
(October 1921) [top]
|
 |
Cobb, George. Hop
Scotch: Fox Trot. Boston: Walter
Jacobs, 1921.
[view
sheet music]
Source: Melody magazine
(April 1921) [top]
|
 |
Cobb, George & HC
Weasner. Let's Take a Trip Back to
Dixie. New York: HC Weasner, 1921.
[view sheet
music]
Source: Personal copy [top]
|
 |
Cobb, George. Love
Lessons Waltz. Boston: Walter
Jacobs, 1921.
[view
sheet music]
Source: Melody magazine
(May 1921) [top]
|
 |
Cobb, George. Put and
Take: One Step. Boston: Walter
Jacobs, 1921.
[view sheet
music]
Source: Melody magazine
(December 1921) [top]
|
 |
Cobb, George. Shivaree:
One Step. Boston: Walter Jacobs,
1921.
[view sheet
music]
Source: Melody magazine
(October 1921) [top]
|
 |
Cobb, George. Square
and Compass March. Boston: Walter
Jacobs, 1921.
[view
sheet music]
Source: Melody magazine
(August 1921) [top]
|
|
Cobb, George. Torrid
Dora (Toreador). Chicago: Will
Rossiter, 1921. Listed in TAR.
Copyright registration date: 18 December 1921.
[view
sheet music]
Source: York
University Libraries, Sheet Music
Collections [top]
|
 |
Cobb, George. "Wild
Oats": One Step. Boston: Walter
Jacobs, 1921.
[view sheet
music]
Source: Melody magazine
(May 1921) [top]
|
1922
 |
Cobb, George. Broken
China: An Oriental Novelty.
Boston: Walter Jacobs, 1922.
[view
sheet music]
Source: Melody magazine
(March 1922) [top]
|
 |
Cobb, George. Burglar
Blues: Eccentrique Fox Trot.
Boston: Walter Jacobs, 1922.
[view
sheet music]
Source: Melody magazine
(July 1922) [top]
|
 |
Cobb, George. Carnival
Revels Dance. Boston: Walter
Jacobs, 1922.
[view
sheet music]
Source: Melody magazine
(September 1922) [top]
|
 |
Cobb, George. Ghost
Walk: Eccentric Novelty. Boston:
Walter Jacobs, 1922.
[view
sheet music]
Source: Photocopy from University
of Toronto Music Library; also
available in Melody magazine
(September 1922)
[top]
|
 |
Cobb, George. Love
and Laughter (Pizzicato) Novelette.
Boston: Walter Jacobs, 1922.
[view
sheet music]
Source: Melody magazine
(November 1922) [top]
|
 |
Cobb, George. March
of the Walking Dolls. Boston:
Walter Jacobs, 1922.
[view
sheet music]
Source: Melody magazine
(December 1922) [top]
|
 |
Cobb, George. Potato-bug
Parade: An Aroostook Episode.
Boston: Walter Jacobs, 1922.
[view
sheet music]
Source: Maine
Music Box [also
available in Melody magazine (February
1922)] [top]
|
1923
|
Cobb, George. Doll
Days: Novelette. Boston: Walter
Jacobs, 1923.
[view sheet music]
Source: Melody magazine
(March 1923) [top]
|
| |
Cobb, George. The
High Brows March. Boston: Walter
Jacobs, 1923.
[view sheet music]
Source: Melody magazine
(March 1923) [top]
|
|
Cobb, George. Mist
of Memory Waltz. Boston: Walter
Jacobs, 1923.
[view sheet music]
Source: Melody magazine
(June 1923) [top]
|
|
Cobb, George. Morning
Kisses Waltz. Boston: Walter
Jacobs, 1923.
[view sheet music]
Source: Melody magazine
(February 1923) [top]
|
|
Cobb, George. The
New Russian Rag. Chicago: Will
Rossiter, 1923. Listed in TAR.
Copyright registration date: 16 May 1923.
[view
sheet music]
Source: York
University Libraries, Sheet Music
Collections [top]
|
|
Cobb, George. A
Night In India. Boston: Walter
Jacobs, 1923.
[view sheet music]
Note: This
piece contains five movements: Twilight
in Benares; The Fakirs; Dance of the
Flower Girls; The Temple of Siva; and
March of the Brahmin Priests.
Source: Digital copy provided by Frederick Hodges [top]
|
|
Cobb, George. Piano
Salad. Boston: Walter Jacobs,
1923. Listed in TAR.
Copyright registration date: 19 January 1923.
[view sheet music]
Source: Melody magazine (January 1923)
[top]
|
|
Cobb, George. Slumber
Song (instrumental). Boston:
Walter Jacobs, 1923.
[view sheet music]
Source: Melody magazine
(January 1924) [top]
|
1924
|
Cobb, George. The
American Broadcast March. Boston:
Walter Jacobs, 1924.
[view sheet music]
Source: Melody magazine
(March 1924) [top]
|
|
Cobb, George. Cortege
of the Cyclops. Boston: Walter
Jacobs, 1924.
[view sheet music]
Source: Melody magazine
(September 1924) [top]
|
|
Cobb, George. Dance
of the Satyrs. Boston: Walter
Jacobs, 1924.
[view sheet music]
Source: Melody magazine
(May 1924) [top]
|
|
Cobb, George. Mountain
Laurel Waltz (with Thomas Allen
& RE Hildreth). Boston: Walter Jacobs,
1924.
[view sheet music]
Source: Melody magazine
(September 1925) [top]
Note: The catalog entry for
this title from the
Houston
Public Library includes George L.
Cobb as an "added author" even though
Cobb's name does not appear on the sheet
music. For now, I am keeping the listing
here pending further research.
|
|
Cobb, George. Puddle
Ducks: March Grotesque. Boston:
Walter Jacobs, 1924.
[view sheet music]
Source: Melody magazine
(April 1924) [top]
|
|
Cobb, George. Spooks:
Eccentric Novelty. Boston: Walter
Jacobs, 1924.
[view sheet music]
Source: Melody magazine
(February 1924) [top]
|
|
Cobb, George. Summer
Furs (A Syncopated Classic: Scarf Dance
Chaminade). Boston: Walter Jacobs,
1924.
[view sheet music]
Source: Melody magazine
(August 1924) [top]
|
1925
|
Cobb, George. Chromatic Capers.
Boston: Walter Jacobs, 1925. Listed in TAR. Copyright registration
date: 12 June 1925.
[view sheet music]
Source: Melody magazine
(June 1925) [top]
|
|
Cobb, George. Dance
of the Maniacs. Boston: Walter
Jacobs, 1925. Listed in TAR. Copyright
registration date: 12 June 1925.
[view sheet music]
Source: Melody magazine
(December 1927) [top]
|
|
Cobb, George. The
Days Gone By: Waltz Song (words
by George Cobb). Buffalo, NY: HC Weasner &
Co, 1925.
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Cobb, George. Static
and Code. Available in Dementia
Americana: A Super-Syncopated Suite No. 1:
For Piano. Boston: Walter Jacobs, 1925.
[view sheet music]
Source: Melody magazine
(January 1925) [top]
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Cobb, George.
Hop House Blues. Available in Dementia
Americana: A Super-Syncopated Suite
No. 2: For Piano. Boston: Walter
Jacobs, 1925.
[view sheet music]
Source: Melody magazine
(February 1925) [top]
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Cobb, George. Owl
on the Organ. Available in Dementia
Americana: A Super-Syncopated Suite
No. 3: For Piano. Boston: Walter
Jacobs, 1925.
[view sheet music]
Source: Melody
magazine (March 1925)
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Cobb, George.
Savanna Sunset. Available in Dementia
Americana: A Super-Syncopated Suite
No. 4: For Piano. Boston: Walter
Jacobs, 1925.
[view sheet music]
Source: Melody
magazine (April 1925)
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Cobb, George. Hero
of the Game: March. Boston: Walter
Jacobs, 1926.
[view sheet music]
Source: Melody Magazine
(January 1927) [note: the
British Library catalog shows a 1914
date of publication for this
composition] [top]
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Cobb, George. The
Lion Tamer: Galop. Boston: Walter
Jacobs, 1926.
[view sheet music]
Source: Melody magazine
(October 1926) [top]
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Cobb, George. "Old
Ironsides": March. Boston: Walter
Jacobs, 1926.
[view sheet music]
Source: Melody magazine
(March 1926) [top]
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Cobb,
George. Patrol of the Pelicans.
Chicago: Will Rossiter, 1926.
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Cobb, George. Power
and Glory: Processional March.
Boston: Walter Jacobs, 1926.
[view sheet music]
Source: Melody magazine
(September 1926) [top]
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Cobb, George. Remembrance.
Boston: Walter Jacobs, 1926.
[view sheet music]
Source: Melody magazine
(February1926)
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Cobb, George. Cubistic
Rag. Boston: Walter Jacobs, 1927.
Listed in TAR. Copyright
registration date: 14 October 1927.
[view sheet music]
Source: Melody magazine
(April 1928) [top]
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Cobb, George. Lindy:
Youth with the Heart of Gold (with
Norman Leigh). Boston: Walter Jacobs, 1927.
[view
sheet music]
Source: York
University Libraries, Sheet Music
Collections [top]
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Cobb, George. Piano
Sauce. Boston: Hub Music Co,
1927. Listed in TAR. Copyright
registration date: 13 August 1927.
[view sheet music]** [view transcription by
Vincent Johnson] [view
Musescore arrangement] [top]
**Note: This is a PDF file converting very
low resolution photos of the original score.
It is largely unreadable unless you "Zoom
In" on each page using the zoom feature of
your browser or PDF reader.
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Cobb, George. Procrastination
Rag. Boston: Walter Jacobs, 1927.
Listed in TAR. Copyright
registration date: 19 June 1927.
[view sheet music]
Source: Melody magazine
(July 1927) [top]
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Cobb, George. The
Tipster: Eccentric March. Boston:
Walter Jacobs, 1927.
[view sheet music]
Source: Melody magazine
(February 1927) [top]
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1928
1929
1942
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Cobb, George. Uncle
Sam Goes to Town (Mow 'em Down, Mow 'em
Down, Mow 'em Down). 1942.
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Unidentified compositions by George Cobb
Various Internet sources suggest the following titles
are compositions by George Cobb, but I have not been
able to confirm the existence of these compositions
through bibliographic entries or other methods of
verification:
- Cleola
- Ivory Echoes (mentioned on page 3 of Patrol of the Pelicans).
- Krazy Kat Cartoon Cues
- Puttin' Out The Kitten Cues
4) Commercial
Recordings of George Cobb Compositions
Set out below are several commercially available CD
recordings that contain the music of George Cobb:
5) Additional
Avenues of Research on George Cobb
There are a number of additional avenues for
additional research to be done on George Cobb,
including:
- Syracuse, NY: a search of the archives at
Syracuse University for any fonds on George Cobb and
a search for student newspapers or music clubs from
the era circa 1903 to say 1908 when Cobb was likely
there; a search of city directories from that era.
- Buffalo, NY: a search of Buffalo,
New York, newspapers for mention of Cobb's "Buffalo
Means Business" prize-winning song and a search of
local archives and city directories for information
on Cobb.
- Boston: a search of city directories,
archives and public and university libraries for
information on Cobb and Walter Jacobs and the
various musical periodicals published by Walter
Jacobs; also search for obituaries for Cobb (date of
death: December 25, 1942).
- Analysis of music: I have spent so much
time compiling Cobb's music, I have not had a chance
to analyze it. There are several areas of work that
could be done in this regard:
- I suspect most of Cobb's compositions were
written first for piano with a number of them
being arranged for orchestra or band; it is
possible, however, that some of his music was
written specifically for orchestra or band with
piano parts included. Further work could be done
to catalogue which of Cobb's compositions have
been arranged for orchestra or band and to analyze
whether those compositions were first written for
piano or not.
- Jason and Tichenor (1989:174)
describe Cobb's rag as spanning three phases –
Popular, Advanced and Novelty. Given the foregoing
extended list of over 200 compositions, there is
likely further room for more detailed analysis of
his compositions in light of these three phases.
- Music in context: Cobb appears to have been a
clever person with many allusions in his music to
contemporary life and to classical compositions
(e.g., Torrid Dora, Asa's
Toddy). Researching the antecedents
and inspirations for some of his compositions
would likely produce interesting research and
insights into his work.
6) Bibliography
Set out below are resources that contain information
on George Cobb.
- Edwards, Bill ("Perfessor").
Email from Bill Edwards to Ted Tjaden (13 July
2007).
- Jasen, David & Gene Jones. That
American Rag: The Story of Ragtime from Coast to
Coast. New York: Schirmer Books, 2000 [Internet Archive version].
- Ranalli, Luigi. "Who was
Rednip"? (11 October 2007). Posting on Elite
Syncopations Discussion Listserv. Available online:
<https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/EliteSyncopations/info>
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