Jump to content

Lee Morse discography

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Morse in 1927

Lee Morse was an American singer, songwriter, composer, and guitarist, who worked primarily in the genres of jazz and blues music in the 1920s and 1930s. She garnered significant fame in the mid-1920s, and became one of the most celebrated recording artists in the world.[1] She was marketed as "America’s Leading Singer of Blues and Southern Mammy Songs."[1]

Morse's discography includes over 60 singles of both self-composed and cover recordings, most of which were released by Perfect and Columbia Records in the 1920s. Morse continued to release singles with Columbia throughout the 1930s, as well as several releases for Decca Records. By the 1930s, however, Morse's professional career was in decline, as she struggled significantly with alcoholism. She frequently missed live engagements during this period, and her output of recorded material dwindled by the latter half of the decade.

Morse released two singles in 1950 through Decca, before dying unexpectedly in 1954. Several compilation albums chronicling her career have been released posthumously.

Singles

[edit]

1920s

[edit]
Year Title (A-side / b-side) Label Cat. # Notes Ref.
1924 "Bring Back Those Rock-A-Bye Baby Days" / "Mail Man Blues" Perfect 12165 [2]
1925 "Me Neenyah" / "Golden Dream Girl" Perfect 12182
1925 "I Like Pie, I Like Cake" / "Home" Perfect 12189 [3]
1925 "In Old Madrid" / "Juanita" Perfect 11216 [3]
1925 "A Miss in Mississippi" / "Don't Try to Cry Your Way Back to Me" Perfect 12197 [3]
1925 "Are You Sorry" / "The Shadows On The Wall" Perfect 11581 As Miss Lee Morse and Her Bluegrass Boys [2]
1925 "Too Tired" / "I Want To See My Tennessee" Perfect 12179 [2]
1925 "Yes Sir, That's My Baby" / "Ukulele Lady" Pathé 10949 [2]
1925 "Sweet Man" / "I'se Gwine Back To Dixie" Perfect 11591 As Miss Lee Morse and Her Bluegrass Boys [2]
1925 "Dallas Blues" / "Rocking Chair Blues " Perfect 11582 [4]
1925 "Cecilia" / "Blue Soldier Blues" Perfect 11586 [4]
1925 "What-Cha-Call-'Em-Blues" / "Only This Time I'll Be True" Perfect 11590 As Miss Lee Morse and Her Bluegrass Boys [4]
1925 "All Alone" / "Lee's Lullaby" Perfect 12181 [2]
1926 "Lonesome and Sorry" / "A Little Love" Pathé 25184 As Miss Lee Morse and Her Bluegrass Boys [2]
1926 "My Old Kentucky Home" / "Old Folks At Home" Perfect 11600 [2]
1926 "He's Still My Baby" / "Sad and Lonesome Little Pickaninny" Perfect 25194 [5]
1926 "Bolshevik" Perfect 11273 [6]
1926 "To-Night You Belong to Me" / "If You're Missing Me" Perfect 11631 [5]
1926 "I Wonder Where My Baby Is To-Night" / "My Sugar Babe" Perfect 11599 [2]
1926 "Animal Crackers" / "My Red-Headed, Blue-Eyed Colleen" Perfect 11624 As Miss Lee Morse and Her Bluegrass Boys [7]
1927 "The Little White House" / "Lonely Nights " Perfect 11635 As Miss Lee Morse and Her Bluegrass Boys [2]
1927 "Side By Side" / "My Idea Of Heaven" Columbia 947-D [2]
1927 "We" / "Rosita" Columbia 1082-D [5]
1927 "I've Looked All Over For A Girl Like You" / "Dawning" Columbia 1149-D [8]
1927 "Where the Wild Flowers Grow" / "I'd Love to Be in Love" Columbia 1011-D [8]
1927 "Somebody Said" / "I Hate to Say Goodbye" Columbia 1063-D [8]
1927 "Did You Mean It?" / "Old-Fashioned Romance" Columbia 1199-D [8]
1928 "Keep Sweeping the Cobwebs off the Moon" / "Give Me a Good-Night Kiss" Columbia 1276-D [8]
1928 "Poor Butterfly Waits For Me" / "After We Kiss" Columbia 1328-D [8]
1928 "In the Sing Song Sycamore Tree" / "I'm Lonely" Columbia 1381-D [8]
1928 "When I Lost You" / "Lonesome For You" Columbia 1434-D [8]
1928 "Be Sweet to Me" / "Don't Keep Me in the Dark, Bright Eyes" Columbia 1466-D [9]
1928 "Mother and Dad" / "Shadows on the Wall" Columbia 1497-D [8]
1928 "We (My Honey and Me)" / "Rosita" Columbia 1082-D [8]
1928 "Mississippi Mud" / "I Must Have That Man!" Columbia 1584-D With the Blue Grass Boys [8]
1928 "Let's Do It" / "If You Want the Rainbow" Columbia 1659-D With the Blue Grass Boys [8]
1928 "You Are My Own" / "Where the Shy Little Violets Grow" Columbia 1716-D With the Blue Grass Boys [8]
1928 "Main Street" / "Susianna" Columbia 1752-D With the Blue Grass Boys [8]
1929 "Old Man Sunshine, Little Boy Blue Bird" / "Don't Be Like That" Columbia 1621-D With the Blue Grass Boys [8]
Lee Morse Main Street

1930s

[edit]
Year Title (A-side / b-side) Label Cat. # Notes Ref.
1930 "Until Love Comes Along" / "Blue, Turning Grey Over You" Columbia 2101-D With the Blue Grass Boys [10]
1930 "Tain't No Sin (To dance around in your bones)"/ "I'm Following You " Columbia 2136-D With the Blue Grass Boys [10]
1930 "Cooking Breakfast for the One I Love" / "Sing, You Sinners" Columbia 2165-D With the Blue Grass Boys [10]
1930 "Swingin' in a Hammock" / "Seems to Me" Columbia 2225-D With the Blue Grass Boys [10]
1930 "Little White Lies" / "Nobody Cares if I'm Blue" Columbia 2248-D With the Blue Grass Boys [10]
1930 "Just a Little While" / "When the Organ Played at Twilight" Columbia 2308-D With the Blue Grass Boys [10]
1930 "Wasting My Love on You" / "Loving You the Way I Do" Columbia 2333-D With the Blue Grass Boys [10]
1930 "You're Driving Me Crazy!" / "He's My Secret Passion" Columbia 2348-D With the Blue Grass Boys [10]
1930 "The Little Things in Life" / "Tears" Columbia 2365-D With the Blue Grass Boys [10]
1931 "I'm One of God's Children (Who Hasn't Got Wings)" / "Blue Again" Columbia 2388-D With the Blue Grass Boys [10]
1931 "Walkin' My Baby Back Home" / "I've Got Five Dollars" Columbia 2417-D With the Blue Grass Boys [10]
1931 "The Tune That Never Grows Old" / "By My Side" Columbia 2436-D With the Blue Grass Boys [10]
1931 "Let's Get Friendly" / "I'm Thru with Love" Columbia 2474-D With the Blue Grass Boys [10]
1931 "It's the Girl!" / "I'm An Unemployed Sweetheart (Looking for Someone to Love)" Columbia 2497-D With the Blue Grass Boys [10]
1931 "Love Letters in the Sand" / "Mood Indigo" Columbia 2530-D With the Blue Grass Boys [10]
1931 "Call Me Darling (Call Me Sweetheart, Call Me Dear)" / "I'm For You a Hundred Percent" Columbia 2564-D With the Blue Grass Boys [10]
1932 "One Hour With You" / Medley - "Paradise" Waltz Columbia 18001-D With Eddy Duchin and His Central Park Casino Orchestra [11]
1932 "When the Lights Are Soft and Low" / "Lawd, You Made the Night Too Long" Columbia 2650-D [9]
1932 "Moonlight on the River" / "Something in the Night" Columbia 2705-D [10]
1933 "In the Little White Church on the Hill" / "The Rest of the World is Sleeping" Bluebird B-5044 [9]
1933 "Pettin' in the Park" / "I've Got to Sing a Torch Song" Bluebird B-5052 [9]
1938 "When I Lost You" / "Shadows on the Wall" Decca 1919 [9]
1938 "Careless Love" / "Sing Me a Song Of Texas" Decca 63364 [9]

1950s

[edit]
Year Title (A-side / b-side) Label Cat. # Notes Ref.
1950 "Don't Even Change a Picture on a Wall" / "Longing" Decca 27163 With the Blue Grass Boys [9]
1950 "Lonesome Darlin'" / "If Only You Knew" Decca 27066 With the Blue Grass Boys [9]
"Don't Even Change A Picture On The Wall"

Compilation albums

[edit]
Year Title Label Notes Ref.
1982 Lee Morse Revisited Take Two LP record [12]
1990 Lee Morse (1925 - 1938): I'm a Real Kind Mama Harlequin CD [13]
1998 A Musical Portrait Take Two 2-CD set [14]
2005 Echoes of a Songbird: 50 Recordings from 1924-1930 Jasmine 2-CD set [15]
2016 Sweeping the Cobwebs Asherah Records LP record
2020 Anthology: The Deluxe Collection Master Tape Records MP3 album

References

[edit]
  1. ^ a b Perry, Douglas (May 10, 2019). "Oregon's great Jazz Age star, Lee Morse, captured the blues on stage and in tragic personal life". The Oregonian. Archived from the original on May 10, 2019.
  2. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k "Lee Morse Collection, circa 1924-1941". Archives West. University of Idaho. Archived from the original on July 10, 2017.
  3. ^ a b c Laird 1996, p. 394.
  4. ^ a b c Laird 1996, p. 395.
  5. ^ a b c Laird 1996, p. 397.
  6. ^ "PATHE numerical listing discography: 10100 - 12000".
  7. ^ Laird 1996, p. 396.
  8. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o "The Lee Morse Columbia Records". The Salt Lake Tribune. Salt Lake City, Utah. March 27, 1929. p. 9 – via Newspapers.com. Open access icon
  9. ^ a b c d e f g h "Lee Morse (vocalist) discography". Discography of American Historical Recordings. University of California, Santa Barbara. Archived from the original on October 7, 2017.
  10. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q "Lee Morse (leader)". Discography of American Historical Recordings. University of California, Santa Barbara. Archived from the original on October 7, 2017.
  11. ^ "One Hour With You". Library of Congress. Archived from the original on June 11, 2019.
  12. ^ "Lee Morse Revisited". Amazon. Retrieved June 10, 2019.
  13. ^ "Lee Morse (1925 – 1938): I'm a Real Kind Mama". Amazon. Retrieved June 10, 2019.
  14. ^ "A Musical Portrait". AllMusic. Archived from the original on June 11, 2019. Retrieved June 11, 2019.
  15. ^ "Echoes of a Songbird: 50 Recordings from 1924-1930". AllMusic. Archived from the original on June 11, 2019. Retrieved June 11, 2019.

Sources

[edit]
[edit]