Percy Wenrich

Percy Wenrich (January 23, 1880 – March 17, 1952) was an American composer of ragtime and popular music. He is best known for writing the songs "Put on Your Old Grey Bonnet" and "When You Wore a Tulip and I Wore a Big Red Rose", along with the rag "The Smiler". For more than 15 years, Wenrich toured with his wife, vaudeville performer, Dolly Connolly; for whom he wrote several hit songs, including "Red Rose Rag", "Alamo Rag" and "Moonlight Bay". He was known throughout his lifetime as "The Joplin Kid".

Birth and Death Data: Born January 23, 1887 (Joplin), Died March 17, 1952 (New York City)

Date Range of DAHR Recordings: 1903 - 1949

Roles Represented in DAHR: composer, lyricist, songwriter, tenor vocal

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= Recordings were issued from this master. No recordings issued from other masters.

Recordings (Results 201-225 of 256 records)

Company	Matrix No.	Size	First Recording Date	Title	Primary Performer	Description	Role
Brunswick	10184-10186	10-in.	3/27/1923	Dreams of India	Arnold Johnson Orchestra	Jazz/dance band	composer
Brunswick	E36499	10-in.	3/23/1931	Put on your old grey bonnet	Casa Loma Orchestra	Jazz/dance band, with male vocal solo	composer
Brunswick	E16284-E16286	10-in.	8/31/1925	In the purple twilight	Benny Krueger’s Orchestra	Jazz/dance band	composer
Brunswick	E17215-E17217	10-in.	12/23/1925	Baby	Harry Archer Orchestra	Jazz/dance band, with male vocal solo	composer
Brunswick	E17218-E17221	10-in.	12/23/1925	Lantern of love	Harry Archer Orchestra	Jazz/dance band, with male vocal solo	composer
Brunswick	E17222-E17224	10-in.	12/23/1925	Lantern of love	Franklyn Baur	Male vocal solo and female vocal trio, with orchestra	composer
Brunswick	E17225-E17227	10-in.	12/23/1925	Land of romance	Franklyn Baur	Male vocal solo, with orchestra	composer
Brunswick	E17384-E17386	10-in.	1/7/1926	Lantern of love	Franklyn Baur	Male vocal solo and female vocal trio, with orchestra	composer
Brunswick	E17387-E17389	10-in.	1/7/1926	Land of romance	Franklyn Baur	Male vocal solo, with orchestra	composer
Brunswick	E18016-E18018	10-in.	2/18/1926	Land of romance	Virginia Rea	Female vocal solo and mixed vocal chorus, with orchestra	composer
Brunswick	E18029-E18031	10-in.	2/19/1926	Baby	Franklyn Baur ; Brunswick Hour Orchestra ; Walter G. Haenschen ; Virginia Rea	Female-male vocal duet, with orchestra	composer
Brunswick	E21783-E21785	10-in.	3/8/1927	When you wore a tulip (And I wore a big red rose)	McClung Brothers	Male vocal duet, with fiddle (violin) and guitar	composer
Brunswick	E22245-E22247	10-in.	4/4/1927	When you wore a tulip and I wore a big red rose	Dixieland Four	Male vocal quartet, with lute, guitar, and piano	composer
Brunswick	E22248-E22249	10-in.	4/4/1927	Moonlight Bay	Dixieland Four	Male vocal quartet, with lute, guitar, and piano	composer
Brunswick	E23132-E23134	10-in.	5/13/1927	Put on your old grey bonnet	Dixieland Four	Male vocal quartet, with piano	composer
Brunswick	E26073-E26074	10-in.	1/19/1928	Snow deer	Buell Kazee	Male vocal solo, with violin, guitar, and whistling	composer
Brunswick	E26077-E26078	10-in.	1/19/1928	Snow deer	Sookie Hobbs ; Buell Kazee	Male vocal duet, with violin, guitar, and whistling	composer
Brunswick	C2090	10-in.	7/20/1928	Snow deer	Floyd Thompson and his Home Towners	Male vocal solo, with fiddle (violin), guitar, and harmonica	composer
Brunswick	C2289	10-in.	8/31/1928	Snow deer	Floyd Thompson Home Towners	Male vocal solo, with instrumental trio	composer
Brunswick	ATL936	10-in.	3/20/1930	Put on your old gray bonnet	Hoky Poky Boys ; Hoke Rice	Instrumental ensemble, with vocal	composer
Brunswick	1097W-1099W	10-in.	8/10/1925	In the purple twilight	The Ambassadors	Jazz/dance band	composer
Brunswick	DAL1056	10-in.	4/24/1940	Rainbow	Light Crust Doughboys	String band	composer
Edison	1058	10-in.	5/29/1912	Silver bell	Metropolitan Quartet	Mixed vocal quartet, with orchestra	composer
Edison	1181	10-in.	8/8/1912	Silver bell	Helen Clark ; Edwin Skedden	Female-male vocal duet and vocal ensemble, with orchestra	composer
Edison	1568	10-in.	7/14/1922	Keep on building castles in the air	Ernest L. Stevens Trio	Saxophone, banjo, and piano	composer

(Results 201-225 of 256 records)

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Citation

Discography of American Historical Recordings, s.v. "Wenrich, Percy," accessed November 21, 2024, https://adpprod2.library.ucsb.edu/names/105790.

Wenrich, Percy. (2024). In Discography of American Historical Recordings. Retrieved November 21, 2024, from https://adpprod2.library.ucsb.edu/names/105790.

"Wenrich, Percy." Discography of American Historical Recordings. UC Santa Barbara Library, 2024. Web. 21 November 2024.