Ray Henderson
About the artist
Ray Henderson (December 1, 1896 – December 31, 1970), was an American songwriter. Born Raymond Brost in Buffalo, New York, Henderson moved to New York City and became a popular composer in Tin Pan Alley. He was one third of a successful songwriting and music publishing team with Lew Brown and Buddy De Sylva from 1925 through 1930, responsible for several editions of the revue called George White's Scandals and such book musicals as Good News, Hold Everything!, and Follow Thru.
Top songs
- Henderson: Bye Bye Blackbird
- Bye Bye Blackbird
- The Birth of the Blues - 78rpm Version
- The Best Things In Life Are Free
- Life Is Just A Bowl Of Cherries
- The Black Bottom
- Bye, bye, blackbird
- Good News
- Together
- Sonny Boy
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- The Birth Of The Blues
- Five Foot Two, Eyes of Blue
- I'm Sitting On Top Of The World
- Button Up Your Overcoat (excerpt)
- Birth of the Blues (From "George White's Scandals")
- Bye, Bye Blackbird
- Just A Memory
- So Blue
- That's Why Darkies Were Born
- Button up Your Overcoat
- Little Pal
- Life Is Just a Bowl of Cherries (Reprise)
- I'm a Dreamer, Aren't We All
- Love Me or Leave Me: It All Depends On You
- 5-Step: Five-Step
- The Varsity Drag [From Good News]
- Broadway (arr. S. Mattsson)
- Birth of the Blues
- Don't Tell Him What Happened to Me
- George White's Scandals: Life Is Just A Bowl Of Cherries
- You're the Cream In My Coffee
- Fred På Salg
- Broadway
- Mädchen, warum weinest du?
- Henderson: Black Bottom
- George White's Scandals of 1926: The Birth of the Blues
- The Thrill Is Gone (arr. S. Blythe and C. Terry)
- Bye Bye Blackbird - People I Know/Soundtrack Version
- Hold Everything: You're the cream in my coffee
- The Roaring Twenties
- And You Will Find Something Nice (From "You Try Somebody Else")
- It All Depends On You
- Say It with Songs: Little Pal
- Henderson: Alabamy Bound
- Wednesday Dawn
- Bye Bye Blackbird (Arr. for Guitar by Pete Batchelar & Richard Wright)
- Voice
- The Birth of the Blues (From "George White's Scandals of 1926")
- Five Foot Two Eyes Of Blue
- Broke Down in Bala
- Don't bring Lulu
- John's Number 9 Fantasy
- The Best Things in Life Are Fr
- Bye, Bye, Mozart - After Mozarts Die Zauberflöte, K. 620
- Shepherd Eyes
- Sunny Side Up
- Take it Home
- 5 AM
- Say It with Songs/Little Pal
- Mammy Is Gone
- That's Why the Darkies Were Born
- I'm Sittin' On Top Of The World
- The Kids on the Corner
- Henderson: Bye, Bye, Blackbird
- Lucky in Love
- Hey God
- The Thrill Is Gone
- George White's Scandals of 1926: Black Bottom (arr. for piano player)
- Five Foot Two, Eyes of Blue (arr. F. Grofe) (Ampico piano roll recording)
- Solo
- Sue
- Bag Lady Blues
- Cliffhanger
- Five-Step
- Bye Bye Blackbird (Arr. for Guitar)
- Liverpool Transendance
- Broadway (arr. S. Mattsson): Broadway
- Five Foot Two
- Charleston
- I Want to Be Bad
- The Walls
- The Varsity Drag (Good News)
- Five Foot Two Eyes of Blue (Ray Henderson)
- Varsity Drag
- Georgette (From the stage revue "Greenwich Village Follies")
- Bye,Bye Blackbird
- I'm sitting on the top of the world (Foxtrott)
- When I Grow Up
- Black Bottom
- Hey
- (Here I Am) Broken Hearted
- The Singing Fool: Sonny Boy
- The Thrill Is Gone (inst): The Thrill Is Gone
- Boogie Improvisation
- Keep Your Sunny Side Up
- Beautiful Friend
- Five Foot Two, Eyes of Blue (Has Anybody Seen My Girl?)
- Alabamy Bound (Arr. B. Mayerl for Piano)
- 5 foot two eyes of blue
- Bye-bye Blackbird: Szállj, szállj madár (Bye Bye Blackbird) [Sung in Hungarian]
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