Bratton West Songs

I'm On The Water Wagon Now (1903) with Paul West

I'm On The Water Wagon Now (1903) John W Bratton with Paul West

This was featured in the Englander/Smith Broadway Musical called The Office Boy Victoria Theatre NY 2 Nov 1903 2 Jan 1904

Laces and Graces (1903) Instrumental composed by John W Bratton & Gustave Salzer
Sunshine & Roses (PF) (1903) John W Bratton
Finale i (1903) John W Bratton with Paul West
One of the Customs of China (1903) John W Bratton with Paul West
For I am a Married Man (1903) John W Bratton with Paul West
Society on de Bowery (1903) John W Bratton with Paul West
Make Believe (1903) John W Bratton with Paul West
They've Never Been Married Before (1903) John W Bratton with Paul West
One Nice Little Million (1903) John W Bratton with Paul West



My Cosey Corner Girl (1903) with Chas N Douglas

My Cosey Corner Girl (1903) John W Bratton with Chas N Douglas
Recorded
* Henry Burr on Columbia
* Harry Macdonough on Edison
Very unusually this cover does not credit the lyricist

Words
Beside the murmuring sad sea waves
Some lovers like to sit
And watch the white winged seagulls
O'er old ocean's bosom flit
While others claim a country lane
With moonlight bright above
Is the ideal and only real
And proper place for love
By silv'ry stream some say love's dream
Takes on an added zest
There ev'ry glance takes on romance
And kisses taste the best
Then cheek to cheek on mountain peak
Some love to flirt and kiss
But of all the lot the choicest spot
In my opinion's this
CHORUS
In a little corner cosey
Where I sit with my darling Rosie
With her dear little hand in mine
And gaze into eyes devine
Ah my cosey corner pillow
Beats the moonlight stream or billow
And my heads in a whirl as I kiss each curl
Of my cosey corner girl

With lamp turn'd low..naught but glow
Of soft and mystic light
I seek my cosey corner
And the girl I love tonight
Mid draperies and downy ease
Luxurious and divine
I take sweet sips from ruby lips
Of she...whose only mine
On moonlight tryst let some insist
By mountain lake or stream
Where rude mosquitoes interfere
And spoil love's sweet young dream
In wooded dell let others tell
Of love's sweet ecstacy
But when I spoon I want no moon
The place I choose will be..
CHORUS

In a Lotus Field (PF) (1903) John W Bratton
How I Thought I Look (1903) John W Bratton with Paul West
Le Banc Pre fe re (PF) (1903) John W Bratton
My Telephone Belle (1903) John W Bratton with Paul West

The Love Song of the Flowers (1903) John W Bratton with Arthur J Lamb
A Pretty Little Peach from Orange (1903) John W Bratton with Paul West

The Amorous Esquimaux (PF) (1903) John W Bratton

Pretty Little Boarding School Girls (1903) John W Bratton with Paul West




"Goodbye Teddy You Must March, March, March" John W Bratton with Paul West published in 1904 (3 years before TBP) during the presidential election campaign, basically tells Teddy Roosevelt to move out of the White House because Alton Parker, the Democrat opponent is going to win the election.
In reality, it was Teddy 1 Alton 0

That's the Girl (1904) John W Bratton with Paul West
Seeing New York in the Rubber Neck Hack (1904) John W Bratton with Paul West
I Love You Forever & Aye (1904) John W Bratton with Paul West
Resolved (1904) John W Bratton with Paul West



In a Pagoda (PF) (1904) John W Bratton 

In a Pagoda (PF) (1904) John W Bratton
In Black and White (1904) John W Bratton with Paul West



Happy Jappy Soldier Man (1904) John W Bratton with Paul West

Happy Jappy Soldier Man (1904) John W Bratton with Paul West

Additional music & songs by John W. Bratton and Paul West is credited in Leslie Stuart's Musical "The School Girl" 1904





The Pearl & the Pumpkin
Broadway Show by Bratton & West
72 Performances
21 Aug 1905
4 Nov 1905
Broadway Theatre
Featuring Honeymoon Hall and Jack O' Lantern Joe

A PRE-CURSOR TO THE TEDDY BEARS' PICNIC? Note, above, that in 1905 John Walter Bratton wrote an instrumental called The Squirrels' Picnic


Involved in the illustration of the book The Pearl and the Pumkin, on which the musical was based, was former newspaper cartoonist William Wallace Denslow (1856-1915) who was famous for the illustrations in The Wonderful Wizard Of Oz by L Frank Baum. Indeed he arrogantly believed that it was his pictures that made the book the success it was




From the Broadway Musical The Pearl and the Pumkin based on the book by Paul West and pictures by W W Denslow



Honeymoon Hall (1904) John W Bratton

Honeymoon Hall (1904) John W Bratton
Recorded 1905 - Harry Macdonough on Victor
Mademoiselle New York (1904) John W Bratton with Paul West
Come My True Love (1905) John W Bratton





Jack O' Lantern Joe (1905) John W Bratton with Paul West

Jack O' Lantern Joe (1905) John W Bratton with Paul West





The Little Black Man (1905) John W Bratton with Paul West


The Little Black Man (1905) John W Bratton with Paul West


This and many of the previously shown songs seem disgraceful in current times. For information about so called coon songs CLICK HERE 




When America Is Captured By The Japs (1905) John W Bratton with Paul West 


When America Is Captured By The Japs (1905) John W Bratton with Paul West