Tin Pan Opera

Speranza

Tin Pan Opera: Operatic Novelty Songs in the Ragtime Era


Larry Hamberlin

“Egyptian Moonlight: An Oriental Love Song.” New York: Garton, 1919. Piantadosi, Al, and Billy Dunham. “Good-bye Mister Caruso.” New York: Cooper, 1909. Piantadosi, Al (m), Jack Glogau (m), Joe McCarthy (w). “That Italian Serenade.

1904
Strawberries.
Pietro Mascagni as character

1905
Charles Daniels/James O’Dea. Niccolini
Good-a-by Jock I kiss you de farewell
Instead of us going to play
Cavalier Rusticana I sell the banana

1909. My Irish Caruso.

1909. My cousin Caruso.My Cousin Caruso", song written by Gus Edwards, lyrics by Edward Madden, published by Gus Edwards Music Co., NYC, around 1909. The cover features a drawing of Enrico Caruso by Enrico Caruso and a facsimile autograph

1909 Good-Bye Mister Caruso (Dunham; Piantadosi) Comic song about Caruso's lost voice Drawing of Caruso on a ship; Harry

Italian-dialect novelty song about Caruso losing his voice and returning to Italy.

My head is goin’ dip
I think I got the pip
Since I read about Caruso
Ev’rything I was a-stop
No more work the barber shop
when I hear his voice he los-a

1910
Al Piantadosi/Thomas J. Gray. Rusty-Can-O Rag
There’s one sweet melody
It sounds so good to me
From sunny Italy.
Oh wop don’t stop
Playing the rusty can-o rag.

1910
Irving Berlin/Ted Snyder, That Opera Rag.

1912

1912
Edwards/Madden. Mister Pagliatch

Edwards/Madden. Mister Pagliatch
Pagliatch he’s short and the fat
And when he walk he shake like dis a-like dat
He look a like one great big clown
But when he sing he knock you down.
Vesti la giubba e la faccia infarina

1914
Felix Arndt. Operatic Nightmare: Desecration No. 2