Gordon Solie Oregon Music collection, 1845-2006

Overview of the Collection

Creator
Solie, Gordon, collector
Title
Gordon Solie Oregon Music collection
Dates
1845-2006 (inclusive)
Quantity
2.55 cubic ft., (6 flat boxes and 3 phonograph record boxes)
46 sound discs: analog, 33 1/3, 45 and 78 rpm; 7 in., 10 in. and 12 in.
Collection Number
Coll 365
Summary
Oregon-related sheet music, phonograph records, and related material collected by Gordon Solie.
Repository
Oregon Historical Society Research Library
1200 SW Park Avenue
Portland, OR
97205
Telephone: 503-306-5240
Fax: 503-219-2040
libreference@ohs.org
Access Restrictions

The collection is open to the public.

Languages
English

Biographical NoteReturn to Top

Gordon Solie joined the music faculty at Portland State University’s in 1960. Solie aslo played the bassoon with chamber ensembles, the symphony, and the Portland Opera Orchestra. As personnel director for the Britt Music Festival, he helped recruit its first orchestra in 1963. After retiring, he formed the music publishing company Editions VIENTO.

Content DescriptionReturn to Top

Collection consists of Oregon-related sheet music, phonograph records, and related material collected by Gordon Solie. Sheet music relates topically to Oregon and includes Oregon events such as the Portland Rose Festival and the Lewis and Clark Centennial Exposition as well as versions of the Oregon state song. Oregon composers and lyricists represented include the DeMoss family and Bertha Lorton. Phonograph recordings include numerous musicians and groups including the Singing Sentinels, Herman Kenin and the Multnomah Hotel Orchestra (Portland, Or.), the Castle Jazz Band, and Fess Parker.

Other Descriptive InformationReturn to Top

Use of the CollectionReturn to Top

Restrictions on Use

The Oregon Historical Society is the owner of the materials in the Research Library and makes available reproductions for research, publication, and other uses. Written permission must be obtained from the Research Library prior to any use of reproductions. The Society does not necessarily hold copyright to all the materials in the collections. In some cases, permission for use of reproductions may require seeking additional authorization from the copyright holders.

Preferred Citation

Gordon Solie Oregon Music collection, Coll 365, Oregon Historical Society Research Library

Administrative InformationReturn to Top

Arrangement

The collection is arranged in the following series:

  • Series A: Assorted materials
  • Series B: Sheet music
  • Series C: Phonograph records

Preservation Note

Acquisition Information

Lib. Acc. 27882

Processing Note

Preservation steps include removal of sheet music from albums and placement of phonograph records in archival sleeves. Original phonograph album covers retained.

Separated Materials

The book, Doris Huffman, Oregon’s Flamboyant Fourth 1876; 1976, was cataloged separately.

Related Materials

The Performing Arts Collection, Mss 1523, in the Oregon Historical Society Research Library, contains additional Oregon-related sheet music.

Detailed Description of the CollectionReturn to Top

The following section contains a detailed listing of the materials in the collection.

Series A:  Assorted materials, 1905-2006Return to Top

Container(s) Description Dates
Box/Folder
6/2
Biographical materials
 1993; undated
6/3
Clippings and copies
 1959-2005 ; undated
6/4
CorrespondencePostcards
 1992-2005; undated; 1905; undated
6/5
Song and Album Indexes
 2006; undated

Series B:  Sheet music, 1845-1977Return to Top

Filed alphabetically by title.
Container(s) Description Dates
Box/Folder
1/1
Sheet music, A
  • Alaska, 1960 (2 photocopies)
  • All Hail Oregon, 1958
  • All the World Loves the Portland Rose, 1915 (1 original & 2 photocopies)
  • Allies’ March Song, 1942
  • America My America, 1917
  • America’s Greatest War Song, 1899
  • American Boy, 1917 (photocopy)
  • Arrah Go On I’m Gonna Go Back to Oregon, 1916 (4 originals & 1 photocopy)
  • As My Love Came Out To Meet Me, 1874 (photocopy)
  • Ashland the Beautiful, 1916 (photocopy)
  • At Night When I’m Sleeping Alone, 1925
  • At The Portland Fair, 1922 (original & photocopy)
  • At The Shrine Of The Rose, 1920 (2 originals)
  • Awakening, 1922
  • The Anchor Of My Soul, 1926
  • The Argonaut Schottische, 1883 (photocopy)
1/2
Sheet music, Ba-Be
  • Baby Eyes, 1880 (photocopy)
  • Back to the Days of Abraham, 1909 (photocopy)
  • Bailey Gatzert March, 1905 (original & photocopy)
  • The Ballad of Davy Crockett, 1954
  • The Beautiful Blue Danube Waltzes, undated
  • Beautiful Columbia Glory Of The West, 1923 (photocopy)
  • Beautiful Oregon, 1936 (photocopy)
  • Beautiful Oregon, 1941
  • Beautiful Oregon I Love You, 1948
  • Beautiful Oregon Rose, 1921 (original & photocopy)
  • Beautiful Rogue River Valley, 1932
  • Beautiful Rogue, 1946
  • Beautiful Willamette, 1903 (photocopy)
  • Beautiful Willamette, 1904
  • Beautiful Willamette Valley, 1974
  • The Beaver State March, 1915
  • Beavers, 1921
  • Belle of Portland, 1897 (photocopy)
  • Beside The Old Oregon Trail, 1931 (photocopy)
  • Betty Darling, 1961
1/3
Sheet music, Bi-By
  • Binding Ties Of Washington County, 1928 (photocopy)
  • Bird Notes, 1899 (photocopy)
  • Blue Diamond Waltz, 1917
  • Bow Down Thine Ear, O Lord!, 1889 (photocopy)
  • The Boys In Blue And Tan, 1917 (photocopy)
  • Brave Gallant Defenders, 1918
  • Bro. Bill The Town Belongs To You, 1912 (2 originals)
  • The Brown Bird, 1911
  • The Buckaroo, 1923
  • Building Ships For Uncle Sam, 1918 (2 photocopies)
  • The Bullwhacker’s Song, 1952 (photocopy)
  • Butterfly, 1920
  • By A Lazy Stream, 1931
  • By The Banks Of Old Willamette, 1909
1/4
Sheet music, C
  • A Canoe and You, 1928
  • Call of the Northwest, 1962 (2 originals & 1 photocopy)
  • Canton on Parade March, 1949 (original & photocopy)
  • Carmela, 1929
  • Carry Me Back, 1919
  • Centen Oregon, 1959 (photocopy)
  • Cherry Blossom Waltz, 1916
  • Chimes of Peace, 1943 (photocopy)
  • Chinese Wedding Bells, 1920
  • Ching-A-Ling, 1922
  • Chinook Wind Whispers Waltz, 1882 (photocopy)
  • Christ Our Savior Arose, 1946
  • The Christmas Bells Are Ringing, 1961 (photocopy)
  • Cigarette Pal, 1939
  • The City of Roses, 1928 (photocopy)
  • The City of Roses, 1936 (2 originals)
  • Cliff House Waltz, 1892 (photocopy)
  • Columbia’s Banner, 1905
  • Come To Roseland With Me, 1919 (photocopy)
  • Corvallis March, 1932
  • Covered Wagons, 1958 (photocopy)
  • Cowboys Will Roam, 1945
  • Crater Lake March, 1916 (photocopy)
  • Crater Lake Waltz, 1932 (original & photocopy)
  • Crater Lake, 1917
1/5
Sheet music, D
  • Darn Eve For Eatin’ That Apple, undated (manuscript)
  • Dear Old College Days, 1920 (original & photocopy)
  • Dear Old North Pole, 1909
  • Dear Old Oregon, 1923
  • Dear Old Portland, 1905
  • Dear Old Portland Town, 1916 (1 original & 2 photocopies)
  • Deschutes, 1902 (original & photocopy)
  • Devotion, 1902 (original & photocopy)
  • Diamond Lake Land, 1964
  • Dolere, 1910 (photocopy)
  • Don’t Forget Your Mother, undated (photocopy)
  • Down the Old Sheet Music Trail, 1993
  • Down The Trail To Mother Dear, 1918 (3 originals)
  • Dream Memories, 1931
  • Dreaming Of You Dear, 1908
  • Dreamy Broadway Rose, 1948
  • Dreamy Oregon Moon, 1931 (2 originals & 1 photocopy)
  • Driver’s Song, 1955 (photocopy)
1/6
Sheet music, E
  • Eskimo Baby, 1934
  • The Estacada, 1904
  • Even In The Rain, 1948 (photocopy)
  • Evening In Old Japan, 1927 (photocopy)
  • Every Harsh Word Means A Heart-Ache, 1917 (photocopy)
  • Everything’s Different Now, 1926 (photocopy)
1/7
Sheet music, F
  • Fair Oregon, undated (photocopy)
  • Fairyland, 1919
  • Favorite Compositions, 1888 (photocopy)
  • Festival March, 1910 (original & photocopy)
  • Fight For Oregon State, 1940 (original & photocopy)
  • Fight On For Oregon!, 1940
  • Fighting For Freedom And You, 1918 (photocopy)
  • Flow On, Beautiful Oregon, 1890 (photocopy)
  • Flower-Gowned, Forest-Bound, Rose-Crowned, Portland, 1917 (original & photocopy)
  • Flowers On A Window Ledge, 1968
  • Flying Thru’, 1927
  • Folk Songs Of Oregon, 1948 (photocopy)
  • For Myself Alone, 1924
  • For You A Rose In Portland Grows, 1916 (1 original & 2 photocopies)
  • For You A Rose, 1947 (original & photocopy)
  • Forestry March, 1905
  • Fuzzy Face Packy, 1962 (photocopy)
2/1
Sheet music, G
  • Gems of Love, 1895 (photocopy)
  • Gen. George A. White March, 1942
  • The Gens March, 1915 (2 originals)
  • Glorious Old Oregon, 1920 (photocopy)
  • The Glorious Oregon Trail, 1953
  • Go To Sleep My Little Baby, 1953 (2 photocopies)
  • God Bless The Boys In Uniform, 1944 (1 original & 2 photocopies)
  • God Uphold Our Mighty Nation, 1898
  • The Golden Sunset Trail, 1915 (photocopy)
  • The Golden Threads are Turning into Silver, 1920
  • Good Bye, 1895 (photocopy)
  • Good-Bye Katarine, 1919 (photocopy)
  • Goodbye Shirley Goodbye, 1943
  • Grand March, 1902
  • The Gray Haired Pioneer, 1905 (photocopy)
  • Great Oregon, 1922 (photocopy)
  • The Green Hills Of Oregon, 1908
2/2
Sheet music, H
  • 100 Years For Oregon, 1959 (original & photocopy)
  • Hail To Old O.A.C., 1914 (2 originals)
  • Harry -T- And The Mountain, 1980
  • Hats Off To Old Glory, 1941
  • Hello Bill, 1925 (2 photocopies)
  • Here’s To Our Country, 1910
  • Hill Cadet March, 1944 (3 originals)
  • Home Economics Extension Song, undated (original & photocopy)
  • Home Her Heroes Come, 1931
  • Home Made Love, 1944
  • Honey Dear, 1918 (photocopy)
  • How Can I Think The Stars, 1955
  • Hunting For Love, undated
2/3
Sheet music, I
  • I Am A Son Of An Oregon Son, 1912
  • I Am Going Back To Walla Walla Valley, 1910
  • I Belong To Uncle Sammy And I Come From The U.S.A, 1918.
  • I Have Tried To Forget, 1923
  • I Haven’t Anyone To Love Me, 1952
  • I Love You Too, 1918 (2 photocopies)
  • I Pledge Allegiance, 1940 (photocopy)
  • I Want A Saxophone, 1922
  • I Will Be Waiting For You Darling, 1911 (original & photocopy)
2/4
Sheet music, If-It
  • If I Could Live My Life, 1928
  • I’ll Fight For You And Uncle Sam Too, 1917 (photocopy)
  • I’ll Love You More And More, 1915
  • I’ll Pretend, 1959 (photocopy)
  • I’ll Take A Gun And Fight For You, 1917
  • I’m Going Back Home Again To Mother, 1924 (original & photocopy)
  • I’m In Love With A Mystic Shriner, 1920 (2 originals)
  • In My Home Among The Fir Clad Hills Of Dear Old Oregon, 1905
  • In Portland For The Fair, 1925 (photocopy)
  • In Summer’s Dreaming Time, 1912
  • In The Service Of Our Country, 1918
  • In The Shadows Of Old Mont Hood, 1934 (photocopy)
  • In The Shadows Of The Stars, 1933
  • In The Sweet Bye And Bye, 1923
  • The Island Of Heart’s Desire, 1930
  • It Doesn’t Hurt A Soul To Dream, undated
  • It Happened At The Festival Of Roses, 1949
  • It’s Dandy In Sandy, undated (photocopy)
2/5
Sheet music, J
  • Jantzen Hop, 1931 (photocopy)
  • Jeff High School March, 1923
  • The Jolly Coons, 1881 (2 photocopies)
  • Journal Juniors’ March, 1932 (2 originals & 1 photocopy)
  • Journeying, 1925 (photocopy)
  • June Brings Dreams, 1921
  • June Time In Old Oregon, 1909
  • Just A Flower From My Old Southern Home, 1904
  • Just Another Shattered Dream, 1903
  • Just For You, I’ll Be True, 1918
  • Just Like A Love Thief, 1922
2/6
Sheet music, K
  • The Kaiser’s Dinner, 1918 (2 originals)
  • Keep-A-Komin, 1902
  • Keep the Light of Liberty Burning, 1942 (photocopy)
  • Keep Oregon Green, undated
  • Keep Oregon Green, 1946 (see also My Country’s Flag and Mine)
  • The Kirmess March, undated (2 originals)
  • Kiss Me Again My Sweetheart, 1946 (photocopy)
2/7
Sheet music, L
  • Laffargue March And Two Step, 1912
  • Land Of Oregon, 1904 (photocopy)
  • Laughter Of The Blowing Wind, 1927
  • The Legion, American Legion, 1965
  • Let Me Get Back To The Pacific Coast, 1909 (photocopy)
  • Let’s Go Steppin’, 1944
  • Let’s Go!, 1918
  • Lewis & Clark Indian Guide, 1905
  • Lewis and Clark Centennial March, 1902
  • Lewis and Clark Exposition Waltz, 1903 (original & photocopy)
  • Libby Schottische, 1882 (photocopy)
  • Life Is But A Dream, 1921
  • Like Clear Waters Flowing (photocopy), undated
  • Lillies of Willamette Valley, 1890 (2 photocopies)
  • Little Boy Blue, 1905
  • The Little Boy That Died, 1912
  • Little Cabin In The Cascade Mountains, 1929
  • Little Love Song, 1923 (photocopy)
  • Little Pal of Mine, 1944
  • Little White Church, 1954
  • The Little White Cottage in The Lane, 1940
  • Loggin’, 1942
  • Lonely, 1932
  • Lorena’s Message And The Reply, 1892
  • Love and Roses (2 originals)
  • Love Is All, 1928
  • Lovers, 1921 (photocopy)
  • A Lover’s Lullaby, 1937
  • Love’s Roses, 1934
  • Loving You In Memory, 1932
  • Lullaby Song, 1944
3/1
Sheet music, Ma-Mo
  • Mammy’s Slumber Song, 1919
  • Manzinita, 1905
  • Maraquita Waltz, 1892 (photocopy)
  • March of the 2nd Oregon, 1900 (original & photocopy)
  • March On To Oregon, 1932 (1 original & 2 photocopies)
  • The Marching Boys, 1915
  • Marguerite, 1883
  • May God Bless You, My Mother, 1953
  • May Our Star Spangled Banner Still Wave O’er Them, 1943
  • Meditation, 1913 (original & photocopy)
  • Meet Me At The “Round Up”, 1924
  • Meet Me Tonight In My Dreams, 1925 (2 originals)
  • Mellow Moon, 1935 (photocopy)
  • Mellow Southern Moon, 1925 (original & photocopy)
  • Melodie, 1903 (photocopy)
  • Memories of Oregon, 1919
  • The Merry-Go-Round , 1962
  • A Merry Heart, 1878 (photocopy)
  • The Message of the Portland Rose, undated (photocopy)
  • Mighty Oregon March Song, 1916 (photocopy)
  • Miss Oregon, 1953
  • The Mocking Birds, 1908 (photocopy)
  • Moonlight Memories, 1948 (photocopy)
  • More Ways Than One, 1946
  • Mother Dear, 1923
  • A Mother’s Day Bouquet, 1952
  • The Movie Kid, 1916 (photocopy)
3/2
Sheet music, Mu-My
  • Multnomah Club Two Step, 1905 (original & photocopy)
  • Multnomah (Down the Waters), 1923
  • Multnomah March, 1875 (photocopy)
  • Murmuring Of The Forest, undated (photocopy)
  • Murmurs From The Pacific, 1882 (photocopy)
  • My Black Gal She’s a Cuckoo and a Honey, 1899 (photocopy)
  • My Broadway Blue Bird, 1925
  • My Country’s Flag And Mine, 1946
  • My Evergreen Oregon, 1955 (2 originals)
  • My Fair Oregon Rose, 1930 (1 original & 3 photocopies)
  • My Heart Found It’s Heaven, 1938 (photocopy)
  • My Heart Goes Back To Dear Old Pendleton, 1914 (photocopy)
  • My Love I Sing To Thee, 1901
  • My Old Oregon Home, 1905
  • My Oregon Rose, Queen of the Portland Garden of Roses, undated (photocopy)
  • My Own Oregon, 1940 (photocopy)
  • My Pa’s Richer Than Your Pa, 1900 (photocopy)
  • My Portland Rose, undated
  • My Red Cross Girl Good Bye, 1914
  • My Sailor Boy, 1940
  • My Secret Love, 1948
  • My Soldier Boy, 1917
  • My Soul Has Wings, 1946 (photocopy)
  • My Sunset Farm, 1917 (photocopy)
  • My Sweet Willamette Maid, 1905 (photocopy)
  • My Sweetheart Is A Portland Rose, 1928 (photocopy)
3/3
Sheet music, N
  • Ne-Hah-Nee, 1942
  • A New Carol, 1944
  • New Moon, 1926
  • North Of Fifty Three March, 1919 (original & photocopy)
  • Northern Lights Waltz, 1903 (original & photocopy)
  • The Night Wind Waltz, 1903 (original & photocopy)
3/4
Sheet music, O-Orange
  • Ochoco Lodge No. 46 I.O.O.F. March, 1943 (photocopy)
  • Of What Is The Old Man Thinking, 1891 (photocopy)
  • Oh You Round Up Let’er Buck, 1912
  • The Old Columbia Shore, 1925 (photocopy)
  • The Old Covered Wagons Came Rollin’ Along, 1948
  • Old Seaside Gay Seaside, 1955
  • Old Sourdough Joe, 1962 (photocopy)
  • O Love Of My Heart, 1929
  • Olympian Waltzes, 1890 (photocopy)
  • On, On To Oregon, 1950
  • On The Old Willamette Shore, 1935 (original & photocopy)
  • On the Oregon Trail, 1925 (original & photocopy)
  • On The Trail, 1905 (photocopy)
  • On To Oregon, 1931 (2 originals & 1 photocopy)
  • One Smile For Me Sweetheart, 1882 (photocopy)
  • Oneonta, 1973 (original & photocopy)
  • Only For You I’ll Sing This Lullaby, 1939
  • Orange O, 1938
3/5
Sheet music, Oregon - Oregon My
  • Oregon: 1859-1959, 1959 (photocopy)
  • Oregon: A Patriot Song, 1895 (original & photocopy)
  • Oregon: Song, 1928 (2 originals)
  • Oregon: A State Song for Mixed Voices, 1952 (2 photocopies)
  • Oregon The Best!, 1959 (photocopy)
  • Oregon Centennial Web Foot Song, 1959 (original & photocopy)
  • Oregon Echoes Op. 48, 1895 (photocopy)
  • Oregon, The Flower of the West, 1959 (photocopy)
  • Oregon For Me, 1957 (original & photocopy)
  • Oregon Girl, 1935
  • The Oregon Grape, 1910 (original & photocopy)
  • Oregon, I Hear You Calling Me, 1921 (original & photocopy)
  • Oregon Industrial March, 1900 (photocopy)
  • Oregon Line (That Oregon Trail), 1941 (photocopy)
  • The Oregon March And Two Step, 1898 (photocopy)
  • The Oregon March And Two Step, 1899 (photocopy)
  • Oregon My Home, 1924
  • Oregon My Oregon (Oregon’s State Song), 1920 (4 originals & 1 photocopy)
  • Oregon My Own, 1918 (photocopy)
3/6
Sheet music, Oregon Q - Oregon W
  • Oregon, Queen Of The Sea, 1903 (2 photocopies)
  • Oregon, Queen Of The West, 1929
  • Oregon Quick Step, 1845 (2 photocopies)
  • Oregon Rose Time Fox Trot, 1925
  • Oregon, She Flies With Her Own Wings, 1913 (photocopy)
  • Oregon State Song (by Roy Marion Wheeler), 1922 (original & photocopy)
  • Oregon Sunsets, 1944
  • The Oregon Trail, 1935 (4 originals & 1 photocopy)
  • The Oregon Trail March, 1948 (photocopy)
  • The Oregon Volunteers, 1899 (photocopy)
  • The Oregon Waltz, 1845 (photocopy)
  • The Oregon Waltz (Lucky You and Lucky Me), 1959
  • Oregon, Where Love is Best, 1921 (3 originals & 1 photocopy)
  • Oregon, Where Snow-Caps Touch the Sky”, 1938 (2 originals)
3/7
Sheet music, Our - Over
  • Our America’s Nurse, 1943 (photocopy)
  • Our Auxiliary March, 1951 (photocopy)
  • Our B-29s, 1945
  • Our Country Grand, 1896
  • Our Dear Old Willamette, 1911
  • Our Emblem Flower, 1899 (photocopy)
  • Our Flag, 1940
  • Our Flag To The Front, 1889 (original & photocopy)
  • Our Heroes Welcome Home, 1899
  • Our Mystic Rites, 1943 (original & photocopy)
  • Our Oregon, 1948 (photocopy)
  • Outward Bound, 1927
  • Over The White Flying Foam, 1925
4/1
Sheet music, P (except Portland)
  • Papa’s Baby Boy, 1884 (photocopy)
  • Pearl O’ Reilly, 1936 (photocopy)
  • Peerless Oregon, 1898 (photocopy)
  • Peggy With Irish Eyes, 1920
  • Pioneer Grand March, 1882 (photocopy)
  • Pioneer’s March, 1959 (photocopy)
  • The Pirates, 1927
  • Pohaco One Step Song, 1921 (2 originals)
  • Poppies Carry On, 1932
  • Prairie Mother’s Lullaby, 1953 (photocopies of handscript and published versions)
  • Prairie Queen, 1915
  • Praying For Country And You Dear, 1942 (photocopy)
  • Prineville Centennial March, 1968 (photocopy)
  • Put Me Off At Portland Oregon Song, 1905 (3 originals)
4/2
Sheet music, Portland
  • Portland Carnival March Two-Step, 1900 (photocopy)
  • The Portland Exposish March Two-Step, 1905 (original & photocopy)
  • The Portland Exposition Waltz, 1890
  • Portland Industrial Exposition, 1893 (photocopy)
  • Portland Lancers, 1872 (photocopy)
  • Portland Light Battery March, 1882 (photocopy)
  • Portland My Portland (Thou Like A Rose) or (Just as A Rose), 1923
  • Portland National Elk’s March, 1912
  • The Portland Oregon Rose Song (Special School Edition), 1919
  • The Portland Oregon Rose Song, 1920 (photocopy)
  • (All the World Love the) Portland Rose, 1915 (2 originals)
  • Portland Rose, 1956 (photocopy)
  • The Portland Rose Song, 1925 (original & photocopy)
  • Portland Rose, Song for Medium Voice, undated (photocopy)
  • Portland Rose Valse, 1954 (original & photocopy)
  • Portland and Roses, undated
  • Portland Roses Song, 1914
  • Portland Town To Klamath Falls, 1941 (photocopy)
  • Portland Wants Us In Nineteen Twelve, 1911 (2 originals)
  • Portland You’re A Dear Old Town, 1911 (original & photocopy)
4/3
Sheet music, Q-R
  • Queen of Roses , 1920
  • Rail Road Polka, 1895
  • Rainbow Tango, 1913 (original & photocopy)
  • Rainbows And Roses, 1946
  • Ramblin’ Blues, 1941 (photocopy)
  • Ramblin’ Sam From Alabam’, 1945
  • The Regimental March Two Step, 1901 (photocopy)
  • Rhododendron Polka, 1899 (photocopy)
  • Roll, Columbia Roll, 1941 (photocopy)
  • Roll On, Columbia, 1941 (2 photocopies)
  • Rolling The Moon, 1920 (2 originals)
  • A Rose Bud, 1914 (photocopy)
  • Rose Festival March, Introducing “For You a Rose in Portland Grows”, 1922 (photocopy)
  • A Rose For Every Heart, 1925 (original & photocopy)
  • Roses Are Blooming Again, 1936 (photocopy)
  • Royal Ann, Intermezzo Characteristic, 1919
4/4
Sheet music, Sa-Sl
  • Sacajawea Lullaby, 1903 (photocopy)
  • Sacajawea March Two-Step, 1905
  • Sacajawea’s Papoose Waltz, 1905
  • Sad And Lonely Waltz, 1917 (photocopy)
  • Sail On Victorious, Unseen Sail, 1918 (photocopy)
  • Sail, Sail, Sailing Along, 1934
  • Sailing Back to Dreamland, undated (photocopy)
  • Salem Wonderland, 1940
  • Salute the Stars in That Old Flag, 1916
  • The Santa Claus Polka, 1962
  • Say Me, 1929 (2 originals)
  • Sea Of Marmora, 1915 (photocopy)
  • Senator Mitchell’s March, 1888
  • She Is Beautiful, 1919
  • She’s Sleeping Neath Oregon’s Tall Pines, 1905 (1 original & 2 photocopies)
  • The Shipyards Victory Song, 1943
  • Shriner’s Song, 1920 (photocopy)
  • Silver Wings, 1944 (1 original & 2 photocopies)
  • Sing O’ Rolling River, 1949
  • Singing Through The Sage, undated (photocopy)
  • Siskiyou March And Two Step, 1909 (photocopy)
  • Sleep Sweet, 1927
4/5
Sheet music, So-Sw
  • Social Schottische, 1876 (photocopy)
  • So Disappointed In You, 1930
  • Sometime Song, 1925
  • Song Of The Driver, 1955 (photocopy)
  • Song of Liberty, 1939 (photocopy)
  • The Song Of The Moon, 1926
  • The Song Within Your Heart, 1943
  • Sounds From The Willamette Waltzes, Opus 33, undated (photocopy)
  • Souvenir March, 1905
  • The Spirit Of The NRA, 1933
  • The Spirit Of ’76, 1936
  • Spirit Voices, 1895 (photocopy)
  • Springtime, 1951
  • A Star On The Service Flags For Me, 1943
  • The Sucker State Song & Chorus, undated (photocopy)
  • Suffrage Hymn, circa 1912 (photocopy)
  • Sunrise, 1909
  • Sunshine Blues, 1947
  • Sunshine Song, 1932
  • Swanee Moon, 1932
  • Sweet Hawaii Echo, 1948
  • Sweet Oregon, 1894 (2 originals)
  • Sweet Oregon, 1905 (original & photocopy)
  • Sweet Oregon, 1925
  • Sweet Oregon, 1930
  • Sweet Rose Of Oregon, undated (photocopy)
  • Sweet Thoughts Bright Thoughts, 1882 (photocopy)
  • The Sweetest, Whitest Rose, 1923
  • Sweetheart Be Mine (title changed to Early in June), 1934
5/1
Sheet music, Ta-Tha
  • Tacoma Quickstep and Waltz, 1890 (photocopy)
  • Take Me Back To Dream by the Old Mill Stream, 1935
  • Tall Pines Of Oregon, 1953 (original & photocopy)
  • Tell Me Why, 1948
  • That Beautiful Home Of The Rose, 1922 (4 originals & 2 photocopies)
  • That Dear Old Yankee Flag, undated (photocopy)
  • That Pioneer Mother Of Mine, 1937
  • That’s My Home In Oregon, 1932 (photocopy)
  • That’s Why I Raised My Boy To Be A Soldier, 1916 (original & photocopy)
5/2
Sheet music, Thee-Two
  • Thee - I - Adore O Oregon, 1916
  • The-(i)-o-dore, 1907 (original & photocopy)
  • Theme #2 ( for the Oregon Symphony Orchestra), 1986 (photocopy)
  • Then You’ll Remember Me, 1913
  • The Theodore March, 1924
  • There’ll Be A Campmeeting In Heaven, 1944 (photocopy)
  • There’s A Rainbow At The End Of The Trail, 1945
  • There’s Mischief In Their Eyes, 1880 (photocopy)
  • There’s Only One Girl For Me, My Wandolyn, It Is You, 1934
  • They Have Left Her Alone, 1927
  • The Thirty-third Star, 1924 (photocopy)
  • This Is The Hour, 1945 (photocopy)
  • This Is My America, 1905 (photocopy)
  • This Land Called Oregon, 1949
  • Though You Break My Heart, 1952 (2 originals)
  • Thoughts Of You, Song, 1920 (original & photocopy)
  • Thoughts Of You, Waltz Ballad, 1924 (photocopy)
  • Thy Will Be Done, 1975
  • To A Lovely Marguerite, undated (manuscript & edited original)
  • To You We’re Always True, 1917 (photocopy)
  • The Townsend Plan Will Succeed, 1938 (photocopy)
  • The Townsend Song, 1935
  • Townsend Victory March, 1935 (original & photocopy)
  • Turkey Time, 1962
  • Turtle Dove, 1925 (photocopy)
  • The Two Orphans, 1876 (photocopy)
5/3
Sheet music, U
  • Und Yah, Der Kaiser Too, 1917 (photocopy)
  • Under The Townsend Plan, 1935
  • Under the Willow Tree, 1930
  • Under Western Skies, 1920
  • University March, 1885 (photocopy)
  • The U.S. Volunteer, 1918 (original & photocopy)
5/4
Sheet music, V
  • The Valley Of The Rogue, 1916 (1 original & 2 photocopies)
  • Valley Of Willamette, circa 1898 (photocopy)
  • Valse Alluring, 1941
  • Valse La Grace, 1909
  • Victory Song, 1942 September 11
  • Violet, 1893 (photocopy)
  • Vocal Exercises Of Maestro Wm. F. Grosvenor, 1944
5/5
Sheet music, Wa-We
  • Waiting, 1926
  • Wallowa Love, 1931 (photocopy)
  • Waltz, undated
  • The Water Mill, 1882 (photocopy)
  • “We” Are Three, 1929
  • We Love This Land, 1923
  • We Will Win It Bye And Bye, 1918 (photocopy)
  • We’d Better Bide A Wee, 1886 (photocopy)
  • We’ll All Cheer The Flag, 1918 (original & photocopy)
  • We’ll Be After You Jack Pershing, 1919
5/6
Sheet music, Wha-Whe
  • What If Our Dreams Came True, 1926
  • When The Boys Come Back To The U.S.A., 1919 (original & photocopy)
  • When It’s Pear Blossom Time In The Rogue River Valley, 1955
  • When Oregon Goes Dry, 1915
  • When Sammy Goes Over the Top, 1918 (photocopy)
  • When The Shriners Meet In Portland, Are Ye Goin?, 1920
  • When The Song Birds Bow Their Heads, 1910 (original & photocopy)
  • When This Old Town Was New, 1905 (photocopy)
  • When You Come On To Oregon (Booster Song Exposition Oregon 1925), 1921 (original & photocopy)
  • When You Come On To Oregon (Official song Pacific American International Exposition Oregon 1930), 1921 (1 original & 2 photocopies)
  • Where Rolls The Oregon, 1905 (2 originals)
  • Where Rolls The Oregon, 1916 (original & photocopy)
  • Where Roses Grow, 1931
  • Where the Bright Willamette Slowly Wends Its Way, 1918
  • Where The Oregon Rolls, 1944 (photocopy)
  • Where The Santiam River Flows, 1933 (photocopy)
  • Where Thou Goest, 1959 (original & photocopy)
5/7
Sheet music, Whi-Wo
  • Whirlwind March and Two-Step, undated (1 original & 2 photocopies)
  • White Fields, 1948 (photocopy)
  • Whitman’s Ride, 1923 (original & photocopy)
  • The Whole World Knows the Portland Rose, 1915 (1 original & 3 photocopies)
  • The Whole World Knows the Portland Rose, undated (photocopy)
  • Whose Heart Will You Break Tonight, 1944 (2 originals)
  • Wiley B. Allen’s Progressive March, 1890 (photocopy)
  • Willamette Falls March, 1893
  • Woodbine Schottische, undated
5/8
Sheet music, Y
  • You Are My Lovely One, 1957
  • You Bet I’ll Stay In the U.S.A. , 1915(original & photocopy)
  • You Can’t Put a Yoke on a Yankee, 1942
  • You Were The Girl In My Dreams Last Night, 1939
  • You’re In Oregon, My Friend, 1959 (3 originals)
  • You’re Still Deep, Deep In My Heart, 1931
  • Your Love, 1928
6/1
Bertha Lorton manuscript sheet music and lyrics
 1941-1946; undated
6/7
The Columbian Souvenir Songs, DeMoss Family, Lyric Bards,
1893
6/8
Sheet music booklets
  • Timberbound Songbook, 1977
  • Songs of Oregon State, undated
  • Songs of Our Oregon, 1918
  • Walt Disney’s “Davy Crockett: King Of The Wild Frontier!” Song Album, 1955

Series C:  Phonograph records, circa 1905-1982Return to Top

Use of original phonograph albums restricted pending availability of service copies.

Container(s) Description Dates
33 1/3 rpm
Box/Folder
Box 6
Lausmann’s Lousy Loggers Band
Pacific Logging Congress (Seattle, Wash.)
1972
Box 6
The KGON Album 2: Homegrown
KGON Radio (Portland, Or.)
1982
7/1
Herman Kenin on the Arthur Godfrey Show
 1960 November 18
45 rpm
Box/Folder
7/2
Baby FaceTwelfth Street Rag
Oregon Jazz Band
undated
7/3
Ain’t Love GrandThe Devil on Mt. Hood
The Wear Family, Dewayne & Patty Wear
undated
78 rpm
Box/Folder
6/6
Christmas music
Singing Sentinels Oregon Shipbuilding Corporation (Portland, Or.)
4 discs
 circa 1944
7/4
Courtship of Miles StandishWhat's Good for the Goose (Is Good for the Gander)
Thorf Anderson Elgy Watkins Al Haas
undated
7/5
Lewis & Clarke Centennial March
E.A. Barns Prince’s Military Band
circa 1905
7/6
Ory’s Creole TromboneGeorgia Camp Meeting
Castle Jazz Band
1947 December 29
7/7
Kansas City StompDarktown Strutter’s Ball
Castle Jazz Band
1949 January 11
7/8A & 7/8B
No Bob Hop Scop BluesTiger Rag
Castle Jazz Band
2 copies
 1949 January 11
7/9
When the Saints Come Marching In
Castle Jazz Band
1949 August 6
7/10
I’ve Been Floating Down that Old Green River Farewell Blues
Castle Jazz Band
1949 April 21
7/11
Winter Garden RagHeliotrope Bouquet
Lee Stafford
1950 January 7
Teddy Bear BluesGladiolus Rag
Lee Stafford
1950 January 7
7/13
Royal Garden BluesStory Book Ball
Castle Jazz Band
1950 February 28
7/14
SensationSunset Cafe Stomp
Castle Jazz Band
1950 September 14
8/1
When I Think of YouOn the Oregon Trail
Earl and Bell
1921
8/2
Arrah Go On, I’m Gonna Go Back to Oregon Nows the Time
Marguerite Farrell
1916
8/3
Jacksonville Jubilee SongMr. Dunn and Mr. Bradstreet
Vic Flood
circa 1910
8/4
Oregon State SongMy Own United States
Walter R. Jenkins and Orchestra
1923
8/5
All I Want Is YouPretty Little Thing
Kenin’s Multnomah Hotel Orchestra
1927
8/6A & 8/6 B
Some Other DaySad ‘N’ Blue
Herman Kenin’s Multnomah Hotel Orchestra
2 copies
 1927
8/7A & 8/7B
A Canoe and You When Love Comes Stealing
Herman Kenin’s Multnomah Hotel Orchestra
2 copies
 1928
8/8
On the Oregon TrailYou’re So Near (And Yet So Far)
Lenox Dance Orchestra
Majestic Dance Orchestra
circa 1925
8/9
Chainbreak – sponsored news Assorted commercials
Multnomah College School of Radio A.D. Johnson
undated
8/10
untitled (Assorted commercials?)
Multnomah College School of Radio
undated
9/1
Ballad of Davy CrockettI Gave My Love
Fess Parker
circa 1955
9/2A & 9/2B & 9/2C
Oh, Joe, With Your Fiddle and Bow Arrah Go On, I’m Gonna Go Back to Oregon
Peerless Quartet
3 copies
 1916
9/3
I Had Someone Else Before I Had YouOn the Oregon Trail
The Radio Franks
circa 1925
9/4
“My Lord” What a Mornin’Luncheon Dedication Songs
Singing Sentinels
circa 1944
9/5
Blue Tail FlyCome Good Wind Medley
Singing Sentinels
circa 1944
9/6
Down the WaysBrahms Lullaby
Singing Sentinels
circa 1944
9/7
I Had a Dream DearOn the Sea
Singing Sentinels
circa 1944
9/8
My TaneSweet Leilani
Singing Sentinels
circa 1944
9/9
I’m a Rollin’ MedleyI’ll Be Ready
Singing Sentinels
circa 1944
9/10
Songs of Old Oregon
University Singers University of Oregon
Disc 2
  • Oregon Pledge Song
  • As I Sit and Dream at Evening
  • Oh, What a Beautiful City
 circa 1955
9/11
On the AlamoSweet Betty Lou
Elgy Watkins Al Haas
undated

Names and SubjectsReturn to Top

Subject Terms

  • Music--Oregon--History
  • Performing arts--Oregon--History
  • Songs, American

Personal Names

  • Solie, Gordon--Collector

Geographical Names

  • Oregon--State songs

Form or Genre Terms

  • Phonograph records
  • Sheet music

Other Creators

  • Personal Names
    • Kenin, Herman (creator)
    • Lorton, Bertha (creator)
    • Parker, Fess (creator)
    Corporate Names
    • Castle Jazz Band (creator)
    • Multnomah College School of Radio (creator)
    • Portland Rose Festival
    • Singing Sentinels (creator)
    Family Names
    • DeMoss Family. (creator)

Finding aid prepared by Shawna Gandy and Bryce Notbohm
2014

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