Harry P. Guy

Harry P. Guy (1870 in Zanesville, Ohio – 1950) was an African American ragtime composer who lived in Detroit after 1895.^[1] After writing his first compositions in Ohio,^[2] he became one of the greatest contributors to ragtime music in Detroit,^[3] and was called one of the city's "unique and unusually gifted musicians." He later fell into obscurity and died in poverty. He died in Detroit at age 80^[4]

List of compositions

1887

• The Floweret - Waltz
  

  Echoes from the Snowball Club, (1898)
  

  Pearl of the Harem, (1901)

1888

• My Wooing

1889

• When the Dew Begems the Lea

1898

• Echoes from the Snowball Club - Original Rag Time Waltz
• Now For a Stranger Don't Cast Me Aside

1899

• Cleanin' Up in Georgia - Cakewalk Patrol or Two Step
• Belle of the Creoles

1901

• Pearl of the Harem - Oriental Rag Two Step
• Pepper Pot Rag

1902

• Daughters of Dahomey - An Oriental Ragtime Waltz
• Song of the Western Hunter

1904

• Down in Mobile - March Characteristic

1906

• Walkin' and Talkin'

1907

• Sixty-Six - Intermezzo

1914

• As Long As There Is Love (I Will Love You) (with Eddie McGrath)

1915

• Love's Eternity

1917

• We'll Stand Our Flag and the United States

1918

• Yankee's Doodle In the Flight To Stay

1921

• You and I
• That Home In Paradise (Love and Home Forever)

1928

• Big Hearted Baby (with Raymond B. Egan)

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