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Arthur Francis Collins (February 7, 1864 - August 3, 1933) was a singer who recorded many early records.

1899

• "All Coon's Look Alike To Me" (w.m. George S. Williams)
• "Hello! Ma Baby" (w.m. Ida Emerson & Joseph E. Howard) - on Edison Records
• "I'd Leave My Happy Home For You" (w. Will A. Heelan m. Harry Von Tilzer) - on Edison Records
• "I Guess I'll Have To Telegraph My Baby" (w.m. George M. Cohan) - on Edison Records
• "Kiss Me, Honey Do" (w. Edgar Smith m. John Stromberg) - on Edison Records
• "Mandy Lee" (w.m. Thurland Chattaway) - on Edison Records

1900

• "My Sunflower Sue" with The Metropolitan Orchestra
• "You're Talking Rag Time"

1901

• "Every Darky Had A Raglan On"
• "Ain't Dat a Shame"
• "I Dreams About You"

1902

• "All Coons Look Alike To Me" (w.m. Vess L. Ossman
• "Any Old Place I Can Hang My Hat Is Home Sweet Home To Me"
• "Bill Bailey Won't You Please Come Home"
• "Drill Ye Tarriers,Drill"
• "Helen Gonne"

1903

• "Any Rags?" (w.m. Thomas S. Allen) - on Edison Records
• "Good-bye, Eliza Jane" (w. Andrew B. Sterling m. Harry Von Tilzer) - on Edison Records
• "I'm A Jonah Man" (w.m. Alex Rogers) - on Edison & Victor
• "I Wonder Why Bill Bailey Don't Come Home" (w.m. Frank Fogerty, Matt C. Woodward & William Jerome) - on Victor Records & Edison Records

1904

• "The Preacher And The Bear"

1905

• "Johnny Morgan"
• "Rufus Rastus Johnson Brown"
• "My Irish Molly O"
• "Nobody"
• "What You Going To Do When The Rent Come's 'Round"

1906

• "Abraham Washington Jefferson Lee"
• "Bill Simmons"
• "Jessamine"
>"Pretty Desdamone"
• "Won't You Fondle Me"
• "When A Poor Relation Comes To Town"

1907

• "Bake Dat Chicken Pie" (w.m Byron G. Harlan)
• "Whats The Use Of Knocking When A Man Is Down"
• "Dixie Dan"
• "Scissors to Grind"
• "Rag Babe"

1908

• "The Meanest Man in Town"
• "I Think I See My Brother Coming Home"
• "Rag Babe"

1909

• "Abraham Lincoln Jone's Or The Christening"
• "A Possum Supper At The Darktown Church"
• "Down At The Hiskin'Bee" (w.m. Byron G. Harlan)
• "Everybody's Picken' On Me"
• "Strawberries"
• "That's A Plenty"

1910

• "Casey Jones" (w.m Byron G. Harlan)
• "Contribution Box"
• "Temptation Rag"

1911

• "Play That Barbershop Chord"
• "Chicken Reel"
• "Railroad Rag"
• "Steamboat Bill"
• 'The Barn Dance" (w.m Byron G. Harlan)

1912

• "I'm Goin' Back to Dixie" (w.m Byron G. Harlan)
• "In Ragtime Land"
• "Rum Tum Tiddle"
• "Somebody Else Is Getting It"

1913

• "Row! Row! Row!"
• "Minstrel"

1914

• "Ragtime Dreams" (w.m Byron G. Harlan)

1915

• "Auntie Skinner's Chicken Dinner" (w.m. Byron G. Harlan
• "Cotton Blossom Time" (w.m. Byron G. Harlan)
• "Kentucky Home" (w.m. Byron G. Harlan)

1916

• "The Kid Is Clever" (w.m. Byron G. Harlan)
• "Pretty Baby" (w.m Byron G. Harlan)
• "Emancipation Handicap" (w.m Byron G. Harlan)
• "Honest Injun" (w.m Byron G. Harlan)
• "Two Key Rag" (w.m Byron G. Harlan)
• "If You've Got a Little Bit"
• "That Funny Jazz from Dixieland" (w.m Byron G. Harlan)
• "In Huneysuckle Time" (w.m Byron G. Harlan]])
• "On the Hoko Moko Isle" (w.m Byron G. Harlan)
• "My Lovin' Lou" (w.m Byron G. Harlan)
• "All Aboard for Chinatown" (w.m Byron G. Harlan)
• "Johnny Get A Girl" (w.m Byron G. Harlan)
• "When I'm a Sargent Man" (w.m Byron G. Harlan)
• "At the Old Planation Ball" (w.m Byron G. Harlan)
• "I'm Savin' Up the Means to Get to New Orleans" (w.m Byron G. Harlan)

1917

• "Oh Lady" (w.m Byron G. Harlan)
• "Buzzin' the Bee" (w.m Byron G. Harlan)
• "Everybody's Jazzin' It (w.m Byron G. Harlan)
• "Night Time in Little Italy" (w.m Byron G. Harlan)
• "They're Wearing 'em Higher in Hawaii" (w.m Byron G. Harlan)
• "Come Along to Caroline" (w.m Byron G. Harlan)
• "The Ghost of Saxophone" (w.m Byron G. Harlan)
• "Lily of the Valley" (w.m Byron G. Harlan)
• "Three Pickaninnies" (w.m Byron G. Harlan)
• "Mammy Blossom's possum Party (w.m Byron G. Harlan]])

1918

• "The Old Grey Mare" (w.m Byron G. Harlan)
• "Everybody's Crazy 'bout the Doggone Blues" (w.m Byron G. Harlan)
• "If You Saw All That I Saw in Arkansas" (w.m Byron G. Harlan)
• "Darktown Strutters' Ball" (w.m Byron G. Harlan)
• "Sweet n' Pretty" (w.m Byron G. Harlan)
• "I've Got Em'" (w.m Byron G. Harlan)
• "When Tony Goes Over The Top"
• "Down in the Jungle Land" (w.m Byron G. Harlan)
• "Everything is Hunky Dory" (w.m Byron G. Harlan)

1919

• "On the Ozark Trail" (w.m Byron G. Harlan)
• "Climbing Up the Golden Stairs"
• "Sipping Cider Through a Straw" (w.m Byron G. Harlan)
• "Every Day's A Holiday in Dixie" (w.m Byron G. Harlan)

1920

• "The Argentines, the Portuguese and the Greeks"

1922

• "Ham & Eggs" (w.m. Byron G. Harlan)
• "I Want a Jazzy Kiss" (w.m Byron G. Harlan)

Resources

• Arthur Francis Collins. Arthur Collins (7 February 1864 - 3 August 1933). Retrieved on May 5, 2005.
• Arthur Collins cylinder recordings, from the Cylinder Preservation and Digitization Project at the University of California, Santa Barbara Library.

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