Johnny Marvin

About the artist

John Senator Marvin (July 11, 1887 – December 20, 1944) was an early American recording artist and musician, starting in 1924 and covering a twenty-year period for many record labels. Born in Butler, Oklahoma Territory in 1897, to parents John Harvey Marvin and his wife Molly. Marvin ran away from home at age 16, to perform with a travelling show called the Royal Hawaiians, under his middle name, Senator, where he played steel guitar and ukulele.

Top songs

Happy Days Are Here Again
Angel
Melancholy (Recorded October 1929)
Oh! You Have No Idea (Recorded May 1928)
I Can't Believe That You're in Love With Me
Is She My Girlfriend? (Recorded December 1927)
Breezin' Along with the Breeze
Crazy Words, Crazy Tune
I Can`t Believe That You`re In Love With Me
Me and My Shadow

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Magnolia
Funny Face
Oh! You Have No Idea
All Alone Monday
Blue Skies
Half a Moon
Painting the Clouds with Sunshine
Little by Little
If I Had a Talking Picture of You
A Little Birdie Told Me So
Is She My Girlfriend?
Melancholy
Hooray For the Irish
12th Street Rag
It's a Million to One You're in Love
Just a Gigolo
Deed I Do
Strum My Blues Away & A Little Music In The Moonlight
Oh, How She Could Play the Ukulele!
I'm In The Seventh Heaven
'Deed I Do
Dancing with Tears in My Eyes
Singin' in the Rain
Jersey Walk
Old Man Sunshine
So Is Your Old Lady
Without You, Sweatheart
Under The Moon
There's a Rainbow 'Round My Shoulder
Just Another Day Wasted Away
It All Belongs to Me
Tip Toe Through the Tulips with Me (Recorded September 1929)
Happy Days & Lonely Nights
Where the Shy Little Violets Grow
Down the River of Golden Dreams
Ain't That A Grand & Glorious Feeling?
Sweethearts on Parade
Red Hot and Blue Rhythm
Some Sweet Day
Sweethearts of All My Dreams
True Blue Lou (Recorded September 1929)
Deed I Do (Recorded December 1926)
My Pet
Little By Little (Recorded, August 3 , 1929)
Happy Days Are Here Again (Recorded October 1929)
I'd Love to Call You My Sweetheart (Recorded October 1926)
Oh, How She Could Play Ukulele!
Blues Skies (with Ed Smalle) [Recorded January 1927]
Bye Bye Blues
Oh How She Could Play The Ukulele
Tip Toe Through The Tulips
From Midnight Till Dawn (Recorded December 1927)
Angels
12th Street Rag (Recorded 1925)
The Little White House (At the End of Honeymoon Lane) [Recorded October 1926]
Where Have You Been All My Life
(The One I Love) Just Can't Be Bothered With Me
There's Something Nice About Everyone (Recorded April 1927)
(The One I Love) Just Can’t Be Bothered With Me
I'm Just Breezing Along with the Breeze (Recorded 1926)
Breezin Along With The Breeze
Yes Sir That's My Baby (Recorded 1925)
I’m in Seventh Heaven
Just A Gigolo [1931]
Half a Moon (Recorded 1926)
Where the Shy Little Violets Grow (Recorded December 1928)
If I Had A Talking Picture Of You - from "Sunnyside Up"
Aint She Sweet (Recorded 1927)
The Memphis Blues (Recorded 1926)
Who Wouldn't (Recorded 1926)
I Still Get a Thrill
There's Everything Nice About You
I'd Love To Call You My Sweetheart
I'm Painting the Clouds with Sunshine (Recorded September 1929)
Rain (with Ed Smalle) [Recorded December 1927]
Strum My Blues Away/A Little Music In The Moonlight
After I've Called You Sweetheart
Think of Me Thinking of You (Recorded May 1928)
Ain't She Sweet
Crazy Rhythm
With You (Recorded January 1930)
Marvelous (Recorded August 1927)
You Know You Belong to Somebody Else
Yours and Mine
Sweetheart O' Mine (Recorded April 1928)
After My Laughter Came Tears (with Ed Smalle) [Recorded December 1927]
Happy Days and Lonely Nights
If I Had A Talking Picture Of You (from "Sunnyside Up")
Ain't That a Grand and Glorious Feeling?
I Get the Blues When It Rains (with Ed Smalle) [Recorded April 1929]

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