Nat D. Mann
Nathaniel D. Mann (1866–1915) was an American composer best known for his work with L. Frank Baum. He composed at least two songs with Baum, "Different Ways of Making Love" and "It Happens Ev'ry Day," and another with John Slavin, "She Didn't Really Mind the Thing at All," for The Wizard of Oz stage musical in 1902, and in 1908, composed the first original film score (27 cues) for The Fairylogue and Radio-Plays, one of the earliest feature-length fiction films (and the earliest film adaptations of the novels The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, The Marvelous Land of Oz, Ozma of Oz, John Dough and the Cherub, and Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz, presented by Baum himself), which debuted September 24, 1908. With Baum, he also composed the musical The King of Gee-Whiz (dated February 23, 1905), which went through various titles such as Montezuma (November 1902), King Jonah XIII (September 1903), and The Son of the Sun (1905). This was collaboration with and based on a novel by Emerson Hough, which was never completed and the extant scenario published in 1969. His other works include The Sultan of Sulu with George Ade and Alfred George Whathall (1902), "Moon, Moon," sung by Christie MacDonald in The Toreador (1902), The Mayor of Tokio with William Frederick Peters (1905), The Alaskan with R. F. Carroll (1909), Imam : A Mohammedan Serenade (1912), and the one-act ballet, La Naissance de la Rose (Opus 52) (1914). Much of his work consisted of coon songs. He was a brother of actors Louis Mann and Sam Mann. He died in San Francisco on April 12, 1915. |
Date Range of DAHR Recordings: 1898 - 1913
Roles Represented in DAHR: composer, lyricist
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Recordings
Company | Matrix No. | Size | First Recording Date | Title | Primary Performer | Description | Role | Audio |
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Berliner | 1824 | 7-in. | Aug. 1898 | Honey, you’se ma lady love | Artists vary | Male vocal solo | lyricist, composer | |
Berliner | 1883 | 7-in. | Aug. 1898 | What right has he on Broadway | John Terrell | Male vocal solo | composer | |
Berliner | 01003 | 7-in. | 2/19/1900 | Honey, you'se my lady love | Arthur Collins | Male vocal solo | lyricist, composer | |
Victor | [Pre-matrix B-]1270 | 10-in. | 2/19/1902 | Moon, moon, moon | Harry Macdonough | Male vocal solo, with piano | lyricist, composer | |
Victor | [Pre-matrix A-]1270 | 7-in. | 2/19/1902 | Moon, moon, moon | Harry Macdonough | Male vocal solo, with piano | lyricist, composer | |
Victor | [Pre-matrix B-]1737 | 10-in. | 11/11/1902 | My Sulu Lulu Loo | American Band of Providence | Band | composer | |
Victor | [Pre-matrix A-]1737 | 7-in. | 11/11/1902 | My Sulu Lulu Loo | American Band of Providence | Band | composer | |
Victor | [Pre-matrix B-]2123 | 10-in. | 3/30/1903 | My Sulu Lulu Loo | W. H. Thompson | Male vocal solo | composer | |
Victor | [Pre-matrix A-]2123 | 7-in. | 3/30/1903 | My Sulu Lulu Loo | William H. Thompson | Male vocal solo | composer | |
Victor | A-840 | 7-in. | 12/16/1903 | Thoughts of love | Arthur Pryor's Band | Band | composer | |
Victor | B-1223 | 10-in. | 4/15/1904 | The windmill | Arthur Pryor's Orchestra | Orchestra | composer | |
Victor | B-12899 | 10-in. | 2/10/1913 | Mobile Minstrels | Victor Minstrel Company | Minstrels, with orchestra | composer | |
Columbia | 167 | 10-in. | ca. 1901 | Honey, you'se my lady love | Artists vary | Male vocal solo, with piano | composer, lyricist | |
Columbia | 167 | 7-in. | ca. 1901 | Honey, you'se my lady love | Artists vary | Male vocal solo, with piano | composer, lyricist |
Citation
Discography of American Historical Recordings, s.v. "Mann, Nat D.," accessed October 8, 2024, https://adpprod2.library.ucsb.edu/names/113384.
Mann, Nat D.. (2024). In Discography of American Historical Recordings. Retrieved October 8, 2024, from https://adpprod2.library.ucsb.edu/names/113384.
"Mann, Nat D.." Discography of American Historical Recordings. UC Santa Barbara Library, 2024. Web. 8 October 2024.
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LCNAR: Mann, Nat. D. (Nathaniel D.) - http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no2007008676
Wikidata: Nathaniel D. Mann - http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q6969566
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