ALEXANDER'S RAGTIME BAND
(Irving Berlin)


Arthur Collins & Byron Harlan - 1911
Billy Murray - 1911
Prince's Orchestra (Instr.) - 1912
Victor Military Band (Instr.) - 1912
Bessie Smith - 1927
Ted Lewis & His Band - 1927
Boswell Sisters - 1935
Henry Busse & His Orch. - 1936
Louis Armstrong & His Orch. - 1937
Alice Faye (feat. in the film "Alexander's Ragtime Band") - 1938
Bing Crosby & Connee Boswell - 1938
Benny Goodman Quartet - 1938
Ray Noble & His Orch. (Instr.) - 1938
Jack Hylton & His Orch. (vocal: Primrose Orrock) - 1938
Bunk Johnson & His New Orleans Band - 1945
Bing Crosby & Al Jolson - 1947
Benny Goodman & His Orch. - 1949
Stan Boreson - 1950
Sonya Hedenbratt & Kenneth Fagerlund's Kvintett - 1951
Frankie Carle (Instr.) - 1952
Anne Lloyd & The Sandpipers - 1953
Mitch Miller & His Orch. - 1953
Ethel Merman, Dan Dailey, Donald O'Connor, Mitzi Gaynor & Johnnie RayJohnnie Ray
(feat. in the film "There's No Business Like Show Business") - 1954
Johnnie Ray (with Percy Faith's Orch.) - 1954
Les Elgart & His Orch. - 1955
Joe "Fingers" Carr (Instr.) - 1956
Erroll Garner (Instr.) - 1957
Ella Fitzgerald - 1958
Kirby Stone Four - 1958
Jay Blackton, His Orch. & Chorus - 1958
Gery Scott with Gustav Brom And His Orch. - 1958
Pete Fountain (Instr.) - 1960
Pee Wee Hunt (Instr.) - 1960
Neil Hefti Quintet (Instr.) - 1960
Hal Schaefer & His Orch. (Instr.) - 1961
Roy Smeck & His All Star Serenaders (Instr.) - 1962
Chet Atkins (Instr.) - 1963
Ray Conniff & Billy Butterfield (Instr.) - 1963
Brother Jack McDuff - 1967
Beryl Bryden & The New Orleans Syncopators - 1970
Eva Olmerová & The Traditional Jazz Studio - 1973
Ethel Merman - 1974
George Segal & The Imperial Jazzband - 1974
Judith Durham & The Hottest Band In Town - 1974
Peter Petrel & The Dreamland Orch. - 1977

Also recorded by:
Svend Asmussen Quintet; The Diamond Five; Judy Garland;
Dutch Swing College with Neva Raphaello; Nellie Lutcher;
Harry Roy & His Band; Enoch Light And The Light Brigade;
Bob Scobey's Frisco Jazz Band; Sam Butera & The Wildest;
Glenn Miller & The AAF Band; Claude Bolling Et Son Orch.;
Sarah Vaughan & Billy Eckstine; Kenny Ball & His Jazzmen;
William Flynn& His Orch; Roy Fox & His Band; Ray Charles;
Sweet Sixteen Girl's Choir; Gottlieb's Orch.; Hotcha Trio;
Morton Downey; Dan Hill & His Orch.; Storyville Jazz Band;
Miff Mole's Molers; Steve Allen; Paul Whiteman & His Orch.
Harry Zimmerman's Band; Liberace; Sid Phillips & His Band;
Alix Combelle Et Son Orch ......... and many others.



Come on and hear, come on and hear
Alexander's Ragtime Band
Come on and hear, come on and hear
It's the best band in the land
They can play a bugle call
Like you never heard before
So natural that you want to go to war
That's just the bestest band what am, honey lamb

Come on along, come on along
Let me take you by the hand
Up to the man, up to the man
Who's the leader of the band
And if you care to hear the Swanee River
Played in ragtime
Come on and hear, come on and hear
Alexander's Ragtime Band


(Transcribed by Mel Priddle - October 2013)