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Arthur Collins

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Arthur Francis Collins (7 February 1864-3 August 1933) was a singer who recorded a significant amount of early records. His 1905 recording "The Preacher and the Bear" was the first record to sell two-million copies, and remained the biggest selling record until the dance bands of the '20s. After about 1905, his solo records were eclipsed by the duets he recorded with Byron Harlan, including the original hit version of "Alexander's Ragtime Band (Remastered)" in 1911.

Top songs

  1. Steamboat Bill
  2. Alexander's Ragtime Band
  3. Hello! Ma Baby - Remastered
  4. Bill Bailey
  5. The Suicide Blues (Recorded 1919)
  6. O Death Where Is Thy Sting
  7. Moving Day
  8. The Preacher and the Bear (Recorded 1912)
  9. I'm Afraid to Come Home in the Dark
  10. Any Rags
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  1. Bill Simmons
  2. The Preacher And the Bear
  3. Oh! Didn't He Ramble
  4. The Ghost of the Banjo Coon (Recorded 1906)
  5. All Coons Look Alike to Me
  6. Hello, Ma Baby
  7. Gone, Gone, Gone (Edison, 1904)
  8. When Uncle Joe Plays A Rag on His Old Banjo
  9. Oh! How She Could Yacki Hacki Wicki Wacki Woo (That's Love in Honolulu)
  10. My Tiger Lily - Remastered
  11. The Aba Daba Honeymoon (Victor 17620A) [Recorded 1914]
  12. Bake Dat Chicken Pie
  13. Bye-bye, my Eva, bye-bye
  14. The Aba Daba Honeymoon
  15. All in down and out
  16. If I'm Going to Die, I'm Going to Have Some Fun (Recorded 1907)
  17. When Mose With His Nose Leads the Band
  18. I Miss That Mississippi Miss That Misses Me (Edison, 1918)
  19. Old man jazz
  20. Parson Jones' Three Reasons
  21. Scissors to Grind
  22. I'm so tired of livin', I don't care when I die
  23. I'm a Jonah man
  24. 1719 - When the Midnight Choo-choo Leaves for Alabam’
  25. Coon Coon Coon - Remastered
  26. You're Talking Rag-Time
  27. Temptation rag
  28. 1529 - Row, Row, Row
  29. Nobody
  30. Alabama Jubilee - Remastered
  31. Hello! Ma Baby
  32. 1560 - The Preacher and the Bear
  33. Bill Bailey, Won't You Please Come Home?
  34. Row, Row, Row Ziegfeld Follies of 1912
  35. I'd Leave My Happy Home for You
  36. Under The Bamboo Tree
  37. What Are You Going to Do When the Rent Comes 'Round? (Recorded 1905)
  38. Hello Ma Baby
  39. The Ragtime Goblin Man
  40. Chicken Reel (Recorded 1911)
  41. It Looks Like a Big Night Tonight (Edison, 1908)
  42. Camp Meeting Time (Edison, 1906)
  43. When Uncle Joe Plays a Rag on the Old Banjo (Recorded 1911)
  44. Steamboat Bill (Recorded 1911)
  45. Mandy Lee - Remastered
  46. Just As The Sun Went Down
  47. Zizzy Ze Zum Zum - Remastered
  48. I'm Going Back to Dixie (feat. Byron G Harlan)
  49. Everybody's Jazzin’ It (Victor 18303B) [Recorded 1917]
  50. From Here to Shanghai (Edison, 1917)
  51. Hello, Ma Baby (1899)
  52. The Oceana Roll
  53. Hitchy Coo (Edison, 1912)
  54. Mandy Lee
  55. Cohan's "Rag Babe"
  56. Bill Bailey, Won't You Please Come Home
  57. Somebody's Done Me Wrong (Recorded 1918)
  58. Down Among the Sugar Cane (Edison, 1909)
  59. Bill Simmons (Recorded 1906)
  60. Any Rags?
  61. The Aba Daba Honeymoon (Edison, 1914)
  62. The Ragtime Goblin Man - Remastered
  63. And the Great Big World Went Round and Round (Edison, 1916)
  64. I've Got a Feelin' for You
  65. Hitchy Coo - Edison, 1912
  66. I'm so Tired of Living, I Don't Care If I Die (Recorded 1910)
  67. The Ghost of the Banjo Coon (Recorded 1911)
  68. Everybody's Crazy 'Bout the Doggone Blues (Edison, 1918)
  69. Zizzy Ze Zum Zum
  70. I Was Roaming Along (Recorded 1908)
  71. Won't you come home bill bailey?
  72. That Funny Jas Band from Dixieland (Victor 18235B) [Recorded 1917]
  73. Abraham
  74. Celebratin' Day in Tennessee (Edison, 1914)
  75. Death Where is Thy Sting?
  76. Cindy I Dream
  77. How Do You Do, Miss Josephine? (Edison, 1909)
  78. Dixie Dan
  79. Suicide Blues
  80. If You've Got a Little Bit , Hold On to It (Recorded 1916)
  81. Have You Seen My Henry Brown? (Recorded 1905)
  82. I Love My Wife, But Oh You Kid (Recorded 1908)
  83. Moses Andrew Jackson, Good Bye (Recorded 1907)
  84. Hello Ma Baby 1899
  85. The Preacher Ans the Bear
  86. My Gal Irene
  87. Chicken Reel
  88. Casey Jones - Remastered
  89. Moving Day (Recorded 1906)
  90. Brother Noah Gave Out Checks for Rain (Recorded 1907)

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