Alfred Bryan (lyricist)

Template:Short description Template:Infobox person Alfred Bryan (September 15, 1871 – April 1, 1958) was a Canadian lyricist.

Bryan was born in Brantford, Ontario. He worked as an arranger in New York and wrote lyrics for many Broadway shows in the late 1910s and early 1920s; often collaborating with composer Jean Schwartz. In the 1920s he moved to Hollywood to write lyrics for screen musicals.<ref name="Shof">Template:Cite web</ref>

Bryan worked with several composers during his career. Among his collaborators were Henriette Blanke-Belcher,<ref name=":2" /> Fred Fischer, Al Sherman, Larry Stock and Joe McCarthy.<ref name="Shof"/> Perhaps his most successful song was "I Didn't Raise My Boy to Be a Soldier" (1915), with music by Al Piantadosi.<ref name="Van Wienen 289">Template:Harvnb</ref> The song sold 650,000 copies during the first three months and became one of 1915's top-selling songs in the United States.<ref>Template:Harvnb</ref> Although Bryan himself was not a committed pacifist, he described the American public's anti-war sentiments in his lyrics.<ref name="Van Wienen 289"/>

He died in Gladstone, New Jersey, aged 86.

Musicals

• Shubert Gaieties of 1919
• Hello, Alexander (1919)
• The Century Revue (1920)
• The Midnight Rounders of 1920
• The Midnight Rounders of 1921
• Make It Snappy (1922)
• A Night in Spain (1927)

Songs

• 1904 We'll Be Together When the Clouds Roll By (music by Kerry Mills)
• 1906 Everybody Gives Me Good Advice (music by James Kendis and Herman Paley)
• 1909 I'll Do Anything But (music by Henriette Blanke-Belcher)<ref name=":2">Template:Cite web</ref>
• 1910 Put Your Head Upon my Shoulder (music by Henriette Blanke-Belcher)
• 1910 Come Josephine in My Flying Machine (music by Fred Fisher)
• 1911 My Irish Girl (music by Henriette Blanke-Belcher)
• 1913 Peg o' My Heart (music by Fred Fisher)
• 1913 I'm On My Way to Mandalay (music by Fred Fisher)
• 1914 Who Paid The Rent For Mrs. Rip Van Winkle? (music by Fred Fischer)
• 1914 Down in Waterloo. (m: Albert Gumble & Jack Wells)<ref name=":0" />
• 1914 When It's Night-Time Down in Burgundy. (m: Herman Paley)<ref name=":1">Template:Cite book</ref>
• 1915 I Didn't Raise My Boy to Be a Soldier. (m: Al. Piantadosi)<ref name=":0" />
• 1915 When Our Mothers Rule the World. (m: Jack Wells)<ref name=":1" />
• 1916 Don't Cry Dolly Grey. (m: Herman Paley)<ref name=":0" />
• 1916 I Wouldn't Steal the Sweetheart of a Soldier Boy. (m: Herman Paley)<ref name=":0" />
• 1917 Buy a Red Cross Rossie. (m: Harry Tierney)<ref name=":0">Template:Cite book</ref>
• 1917 Chimes of Normandy. (m: Jack Wells)<ref name=":0" />
• 1917 Cleopatra. (m: Harry Tierney)<ref name=":0" />
• 1917 Don't Try to Steal the Sweetheart of a Soldier. (m: Van and Schenack)<ref name=":0" />
• 1917 For One Sweet Day. (m: Harry Tierney)<ref name=":0" />
• 1917 Get a Girl to Lead the Army. (m: Harry Tierney)<ref name=":0" />
• 1917 God Save Us all. (m: Harry Tierney)<ref name=":0" />
• 1917 I Want a Good Girl and I Want Her Bad. (m: Harry Tierney)<ref name=":0" />
• 1917 If You'll Be a Soldier I'll Be a Red Cross Nurse. (m: Harry Tierney)<ref name=":0" />
• 1917 I'm Crazy Over Every Girl in France. (m: Pete Wendling & Jack Wells)<ref name=":0" />
• 1917 It's Time for Every Boy to Be a Soldier. (m: Harry Tierney)<ref name=":0" />
• 1917 Lorraine (My Beautiful Alsace Lorraine). (m: Fred Fisher)<ref name=":0" />
• 1917 My Yokohama Girl. (m: Harry Tierney)<ref name=":0" />
• 1917 Over the Top with Jack Wells and Pete Wendling<ref name=":1" />
• 1917 Sweet Little Buttercup. (m: Herman Paley)<ref name=":1" />
• 1917 There's a Vacant Chair in Every Home Tonight. (m: Ernest Breuer)<ref name=":1" />
• 1917 Universal Peace Song God Save Us All. (m: Harry Tierney)<ref name=":1" />
• 1917 Vegetable Song. (m: Harry Tierney)<ref name=":1" />
• 1918 Big Chief Killahun with Edgar Leslie. (m: Maurice Abrahams)<ref name=":0" />
• 1918 Cheer Up Father, Cheer Up Mother. (m: Herman Paley)<ref name=":0" />
• 1918 Come Across, Yankee Boy, Come Across. (m: Fred Fisher)<ref name=":0" />
• 1918 Comprenez-Vous Papa. (m: Ray Lawrence)<ref name=":0" />
• 1918 Girls of France with Edgar Leslie & Harry Ruby<ref name=":0" />
• 1918 Joan of Arc They Are Calling You with Willie Weston. (m: Jack Wells)<ref name=":0" />
• 1918 Mister McAdoo with Joseph McCarthy. (m: Fred Fisher)<ref name=":0" />
• 1918 Oui, Oui, Marie with Joe McCarthy. (m: Fred Fisher)<ref name=":1" />
• 1918 Wee, Wee, Marie (Will You Do Zis for Me) with Joe McCarrthy. (m: Fred Fisher)<ref name=":1" />
• 1918 When Alexander Takes His Ragtime Band to France with Cliff Hess & Edgar Leslie<ref name=":1" />
• 1918 When the Boys from Dixie Eat the Melon on the Rhine. (m: Ernest Breuer)<ref name=":1" />
• 1918 When They Do the Hula Hula on the Boulevard. (m: Ray Lawrence)<ref name=":1" />
• 1918 White House Is the Light House of the World with Irving Caesar<ref name=":1" />
• 1919 I'm Going to Break That Mason-Dixie Line Until I Get to That Gal of Mine. (m: Jean Schwartz)<ref name=":0" />
• 1919 On the Road to Calais. (m: Al Jolson)<ref name=":1" />
• 1920 Hiawatha's Melody of Love with Artie Mehlinger. (m: George W. Meyer)
• 1930 Twenty Swedes Ran Through the Weeds (Chasing One Norwegian) with Billy Moll
• 1932 She Went to Old St. Mary's and He Went to Notre Dame. (m: George W. Meyer)

Notes

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External links

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• Sheet music for his song "We'll Be Together When the Clouds Roll By"Template:Dead link from the collection at University of Oregon Libraries
• Alfred Bryan recordings at the Discography of American Historical Recordings.