Charles W M Shackford, a well known baritone singer published his creative songs between and 1891 and 1910. It was not uncommon for a newspaper in the early 1900s to include a question asking what popular piece of music was recently published by Charles Shackford. We’re trying to document a list of the music he wrote in one place and add links to copies of the music or blogs written about these pieces. Thanks to Hobie Shackford we’ve added some links to folks singing these songs.
Asleep at the Switch (1897). You can hear this sung at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZR2gHREFzhM
The Belle of Beauty Row (1897) – no copies found
Daisy, Bloomers, Wheel and All (1895)
Dancing With the Girl You Love (1896)
The Dear Girl Next Door (1894)
Does Little Willie Want It? (1895)
Do not forget me Sweetheart (1897)
Do You Think of Mother Sitting By the Fireside All Alone? (1894)
Don’t Speak of Her Faults (1899)
Down By the Congo (1903)
The Face in the Firelight (1902). Sung at Only a Face in the Firelight: https://www.itma.ie/newfoundland/discover-explore/songbook/only-a-face-in-the-firelight (rather an amusing version) and the same song with the name The Face in the Firelight: https://www.loc.gov/item/playlist?tracks=jukebox-119477
I’d Like To But I’m Fraid (1896)
If All the World Were Mine (1907) at Baylor
I Love You More and More (1895) – at New York Public Library
The Girl I Loved all Summer (1897) – at John Hopkins
Goodbye Ma Baby (1899) – words by Chas Shackford
Granpa’s Story (1894) – can not find a copy – mentioned in Indianapolis Journal, 8 August 1895
Happy Days in Dixie: A Song in Ebony by Kerry Mills and Charles Shackford (1897) – at Univ Maine
I Love Your More and More (????) mentioned in Boston Sunday Globe, 6 Nov 1898
Jack Jack Won’t You Come Back — words (1897)
Just a Little World of Two (1902)
Just at the Close of the Day (1907) – sheet music being sold on e-Bay
Just at the Turn of the Tide (1901) – copy at New York Public Library
The Kind of Girl to Love (1897)
Last Night Dear Heart (1900)
Love Will Find A Way (1900) – copy with cover at University of Maine
Love Your More and More (????) – mentioned in Indianapolis Journal, 8 August 1895
Marie A Love Ballad (1907) – blog about this song
Modern Century Girl (1896 or 1898)
My Mary Carey (1898)
My Star My Queen (????) – mentioned in Indianapolis Journal, 8 August 1895 — cannot find a copy
Nancy and the Shark (1896) – at Baylor
One Smile From Her (1896)
Only A Little Yaller Coon (1896)
The Palace of Weary Nights (1904) words by Arthur J Lamb, music by Chas Shackford
The Prettiest Girl in the Block (1896)
Say You’re Mine, Sadie McIntyre mentioned in Boston Sunday Globe, 6 Nov 1898
The Sea is My Sweetheart – Baritone or Bass Solo(1905)
The Secret in my Heart (1905)
The Shadows on the Hearth (1904) – advertised on eBay
One Smile From Her (1896)
Somebody Else (1903) – mentioned in Boston Sunday Globe, 6 Nov 1898
The Songs of Other Days (1903)
Sunlight and Shadows (1891)
Sweet Bird of Song (1896) – cover says words by Chas Schackford but first page of the song says Words by C. SHACKFORD – sheet music being sold on eBay for $26.98, also on GoogleBooks, The Etude, Vol 20, No 2, Feb 1902
Sweetheart the Time Will Come (1897/1898)
The Old Tattered Flag (before Aug 1894)
Take Me Back to Dixie (1906)
There’s a Baby in the House (1896)
There’s No One in My Heart But You (1910)
Thoughts; ballad (1903) – words by Chas Shackford, music by Carlotta Williamson
The Thompson Street Cadets (1896)
When the Golden Summer’s Gone (1906)
When Two Hearts are One (1901)
Without You the World Don’t Seem the Same – at Biblio for purchase (1910)
You Can’t Forget the Old Love (1899)
You’ll Miss that Smile Someday (July 1899)
SHACKFORD Family History 