Lee Morse was a popular singer of the 1920s and early 1930s. She is best remembered today for the backing bands that were assembled for her recording sessions under the name of the Bluegrass Boys. The bands featured many of the best White jazz musicians of the 1920s. Presumably the band was called the Bluegrass Boys to make it sound like they were from the South (Kentucky is called the Bluegrass state).
Lee Morse’s family had Southern roots but she grew up in Oregon and Idaho, but few if any of the excellent Jazz musicians who played on these records were from the South. The band’s music had nothing to do with the string band style of music that arose in the 1940s called Bluegrass.
| Title | Recording Date | Recording Location | Company |
| A Garland Of Old-Fashioned Roses | 9-28-1925 | New York, New York | Pathé Actuelle 25170 Perfect 11604 |
| Any Old Place Is Lover’s Lane (Lee Morse) |
6-25-1925 | New York, New York | Pathé Actuelle 25151 Perfect 11585 B |
| A Little Kiss Each Morning (A Little Kiss Each Night) Talkie Hit from Motion Picture “The Vagabond Lover” (Woods) |
12-5-1929 | New York, New York | Columbia 2063-D |
| Ain’t That Too Bad? (Endor / Ward) |
11-1926 | New York, New York | Pathé Actuelle 25205 Perfect |
| Adelleria | 12-7-1928 | New York, New York | Columbia unissued |
| Animal Crackers (Link / Coslow / Rich) |
6-29-1926 | New York, New York | Pathé Actuelle 25190 Perfect 11624 |
| An Old-Fashioned Romance (Lee Morse) |
5-1925 | New York, New York | Pathé Actuelle 025146 B Perfect 11580 B |
| Be Sweet To Me (Lee Morse / Downey / Dubin) |
6-25-1928 | New York, New York | Columbia 1466-D |
| Better Shoot Straight With Your Mama (Lee Morse) |
12-1924 | New York, New York | Pathé Actuelle 32101 Perfect 12180 B Silvertone 1301 |
| Blue Again (Dorothy Fields / Jimmy McHugh) |
1-16-1931 | New York, New York | Columbia 2388-D |
| Blue Soldier Blues (Lee Morse) |
6-25-1925 | New York, New York | Pathé Actuelle 25152 Perfect 11586-B |
| Blue Soldier Blues (Lee Morse) |
5-1925 | New York, New York | Pathé Actuelle 25152 Perfect 10950 |
| Blue, Turning Grey Over You (Andy Razaf / Fats Waller) |
1-16-1930 | New York, New York | Columbia 2101-D |
| Blue Waltz (Lee Morse) |
5-7-1925 | New York, New York | Pathé Actuelle 25145 Perfect 11579 |
| Bolshevik (Nat Bonx / Moe Jaffe) |
10-8-1926 | New York, New York | Pathé Actuelle 36541 Perfect 14722 |
| By My Side (Link / Gray / Lown / Dick) |
3-27-1931 | New York, New York | Columbia 2436-D |
| Call Me Darling (Call Me Sweatheart) (Dick) |
10-19-1931 | New York, New York | Columbia 2564-D |
| Cecilia (Herman Ruby / Dave Dreyer) |
7-1-1925 | New York, New York | Pathé Actuelle 25152 Perfect 11586 |
| Cooking Breakfast For The One I Love Talkie Hit from United Artists Production “Be Yourself!” (Billy Rose / Henry Tobias) |
3-27-1930 | New York, New York | Columbia 2165-D Columbia DB 161 |
| Could I? I Certainly Could (Jack Yellen / Milton Ager) |
4-20-1926 | New York, New York | Pathé Actuelle 25182 Perfect 11616 |
| Daddy’s Girl (Lee Morse) |
6-29-1926 | New York, New York | Pathé Actuelle 25189 Perfect 11623 |
| Don’t Be Like That (Gottler / Tobias / Pinkard) |
10-23-1928 | New York, New York | Columbia 1621-D |
| Don’t Even Change a Picture on the Wall (Lee Morse) |
6-19-1950 | New York, New York | Decca 27163 Coral 65589 |
| Don’t Keep Me In The Dark, Bright Eyes (Wendling / Bryan) |
6-25-1928 | New York, New York | Columbia 1466-D |
| Everything Is Peaches (For Peaches And Me) (H. Squires) |
10-1926 | New York, New York | Pathé Actuelle 36546 Perfect 14727 |
| Everybody Loves My Baby But My Baby Don’t Love Nobody But Me (Jack Palmer / Spencer Williams) |
11-28-1924 | New York, New York | Pathé Actuelle 32101 Perfect 12180 A Silvertone 1301 |
| He’s A Good Man To Have Around Theme Song from Motion Picture “Honky Tonk” (Ager / Yellen) |
5-27-1929 | New York, New York | Columbia 1866-D |
| He’s My Secret Passion (Young and Valentine) |
11-26-1930 | New York, New York | Columbia 2348-D |
| He’s Still My Baby (Raskin / Coslow / Little) |
8-1926 | New York, New York | Pathé Actuelle Perfect |
| Hoodle-Dee-Doo-Dee-Doo-Doo | 6-1-1926 | New York, New York | Pathé Actuelle 25187 Perfect 11621 |
| I Ain’t Got Nobody To Love (Coslow / Silver) |
5-1926 | New York, New York | Pathé Actuelle 32107 Perfect 12186-A |
| If I Can’t Have You (If You Can’t Have Me) Talkie Hit from Motion Picture “Footlights And Fools” (Meyer / Bryan) |
10-18-1929 | New York, New York | Columbia 2012-D |
| If You Only Knew (V. Horton / W. Berquist / H. Kogen) |
5-19-1950 | New York, New York | Decca 27066 Coral 65589 |
| If You’re Missing Me (David / Rose) |
8-17-1926 | New York, New York | Pathé Actuelle 25197 Perfect 11631 |
| If You Want The Rainbow (You Must Have Rain) (Levant / Rose / Dixon) |
11-3-1928 | New York, New York | Columbia 1659-D |
| I Love My Baby (My Baby Loves Me) (Green / Warren) |
11-1925 | New York, New York | Pathé Actuelle 25168 Perfect 11602 |
| I Love You, Believe Me, I Love You (The Dream Of My Heart) Talkie Hit from Motion Picture “The Vagabond Lover” (Boutelje / Cowan / Bartholomae) |
12-5-1929 | New York, New York | Columbia 2063-D |
| I Love You So (I Do) (Lee Morse) |
9-1925 | New York, New York | Pathé Actuelle 25158 Perfect 11592 B Starck 158 |
| I’m Doing What I’m Doing For Love Theme Song from Motion Picture “Honky Tonk” (Ager / Yellen) |
5-27-1929 | New York, New York | Columbia 1866-D |
| In The Hush Of The Night (Hoffman / Lerner) |
7-3-1929 | New York, New York | Columbia 1896-D |
| In The Sing Song Sycamore Tree | 1-23-1928 | New York, New York | Columbia 1381-D |
| I Wonder Where My Baby Is Tonight? (Walter Donaldson) |
11-11-1925 | New York, New York | Pathé Actuelle 25165 Perfect 11599 |
| I’ll Make You Fall In Love With Me (Lee Morse) |
3-1926 | New York, New York | Pathé Actuelle 25178 Perfect 11612 |
| I’m An Unemployed Sweetheart (Waiting For Someone To Love) (Monaco / Leslie / Washington) |
7-8-1931 | New York, New York | Columbia 2497-D |
| I’m Following You Talkie Hit from Motion Picture “It’s A Great Life” (Dreyer / Macdonald) |
2-27-1930 | New York, New York | Columbia 2136-D |
| I’m For You A Hundred Per Cent | 10-19-1931 | New York, New York | Columbia 2564-D |
| I’m In Love With You – That’s Why (Dixon / Henderson) |
New York, New York | Pathé Actuelle Perfect 11609 |
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| I’m Lonely (Lee Morse) |
12-9-1927 | New York, New York | Columbia 1381-D |
| I’m One Of God’s Children (Who Hasn’t Got Wings) (Alter / Hammerstein / Ruskin) |
1-16-1931 | New York, New York | Columbia 2388-D |
| I’m Thru’ With Love (Matty Malneck / Fud Livingston / Gus Kahn) |
6-3-1931 | New York, New York | Columbia 2474-D |
| In The Sing-Song Sycamore Tree | 1-23-1928 | New York, New York | Columbia |
| In The Middle Of The Night (Walter Donaldson / Fred Rose) |
1-14-1926 | New York, New York | Pathé Actuelle 25172 Perfect 11606 |
| I Must Have That Man! (from “Blackbirds of 1928”) (Dorothy Fields / Jimmy McHugh) |
9-13-1928 | New York, New York | Columbia 1584-D Regal G20397 |
| I’se Gwine Back To Dixie (Lee Morse) |
8-17-1925 | New York, New York | Pathé Actuelle 25157 Perfect 25157 |
| I Still Get A Thrill (Thinking Of You) (Coots / Davis) |
7-25-1930 | New York, New York | Columbia 2270-D |
| It’s The Girl! (Baer / Oppenheim) |
7-8-1931 | New York, New York | Columbia 2497-D |
| I’ve Got Five Dollars (Rodgers / Hart) |
2-20-1931 | New York, New York | Columbia 2417-D |
| I’ve Looked All Over For A Girl Like You (Lee Morse / Downey) |
8-27-1927 | New York, New York | Columbia 1149-D |
| Jersey Walk from “Honeymoon Lane” (Dowling / Hanley) |
11-4-1926 | New York, New York | Pathé Actuelle 25202 Perfect 11636 |
| June Brought Roses (Stanley / Openshaw) |
3-31-1925 | New York, New York | Pathé Actuelle 25139 Perfect 11573 |
| Just For You | 3-31-1925 | New York, New York | Pathé Actuelle 25139 Perfect 11573 |
| Just A Little While (Irving Berlin) |
7-26-1930 | New York, New York | Columbia 2308-D |
| Just You And I (Lee Morse) |
12-10-1928 | New York, New York | Columbia 2270 |
| Lazy Lady Blues (Lee Morse) |
1-25-1928 | New York, New York | Columbia |
| Lawd, You Made The Night Too Long (Lewis / Young) |
4-28-1932 | New York, New York | Columbia 2650-D |
| Let A Smile Be Your Umbrella (Kahal / Wheeler / Fain) |
1-23-1928 | New York, New York | Columbia 1303-D |
| Lets Do It (Lets Fall In Love) (from “Paris”) (Cole Porter) |
12-7-1928 | New York, New York | Columbia 1659-D |
| Let’s Get Friendly (Dougherty / Yellen / Silvers) |
6-3-1931 | New York, New York | Columbia 2474-D |
| Little White Lies (Walter Donaldson) |
7-7-1930 | New York, New York | Columbia 2248-D |
| Lonesome Darlin’ (Bob Nicholson / Bob Buchanan) |
6-19-1950 | New York, New York | Decca 27066 |
| Lonesome For You (Lee Morse) |
6-6-1928 | New York, New York | Columbia 1434-D |
| Longing (Ervin Drake / Jimmy Shield) |
5-19-1950 | New York, New York | Decca 27163 Coral 65589 |
| Look Up And Smile (H. Squires) |
10-1926 | New York, New York | Pathé Actuelle 36545 B Perfect 14726 B |
| Look What You’ve Done To Me Talkie Hit from Motion Picture “Why Leave Home” (Conrad / Mitchell / Gottler) |
10-18-1929 | New York, New York | Columbia 2012-D |
| Love Letters In The Sand (Charles Kenny / Nick Kenny / J. Fred Coots) |
9-4-1931 | New York, New York | Columbia 2530-D |
| Love Me (Airus / Lee Morse) |
9-11-1929 | New York, New York | Columbia 1972-D |
| Loving You The Way I Do (from “Hot Rhytmn”) (Blake / Scholl / Morrisey) |
10-31-1930 | New York, New York | Columbia 2333-D |
| Main Street (Lee Morse / Downey) |
9-13-1928 | New York, New York | Columbia 1752 -D |
| Mississippi Mud (Harry Barris) |
9-13-1928 | New York, New York | Columbia 1584-D Regal G20397 |
| Miss You (Henry Tobias / Harry Tobias / Charles Tobias) |
7-3-1929 | New York, New York | Columbia 1896-D |
| Moanin’ Low (from “The Little Show”) (Ralph Rainger / Howard Dietz) |
7-24-1929 | New York, New York | Columbia 1922-D |
| Mood Indigo (Duke Ellington / Barney Bigard / Irving Mills) |
9-4-1931 | New York, New York | Columbia 2530-D |
| Moonlight On The River | 8-26-1932 | New York, New York | Columbia 2705-D |
| Mother And Dad (Lee Morse) |
6-6-1928 | New York, New York | Columbia 1497-D |
| My Fate Is In Your Hands (Fats Waller / Andy Razaf) |
11-4-1929 | New York, New York | Columbia 2037-D |
| Nobody Cares If I’m Blue (Talkie Hit from First National Picture “Bright Lights”) (Harry Akst / Grant Clarke) |
7-7-1930 | New York, New York | Columbia 2248-D |
| Old Man Sunshine, Little Boy Bluebird (Harry Warren / Mort Dixon) |
10-23-1928 | New York, New York | Columbia 1621-D |
| Oh Boy! What A Girl (Wright / Bessinger / Green) |
8-27-1925 | New York, New York | Pathé Actuelle 25158 Perfect 11592 Starck 158 |
| Only This Time I’ll Be True (Lee Morse) |
8-1925 | New York, New York | Pathé Actuelle 25156 Perfect 11590 |
| Poor Papa (He’s Got Nothing At All) (Billy Rose / Harry Woods) |
2-16-1926 | New York, New York | Pathé Actuelle 25174 Perfect 11608 |
| Rockin’ Chair Blues (Lee Morse) |
5-14-1925 | New York, New York | Pathé Actuelle 25148 Perfect 11582 |
| Seems To Me | 6-5-1930 | New York, New York | Columbia 2225-D |
| Sing You Sinners (Talkie Hit from Paramount Picture’s Lasky Production “Honey”) (Sam Coslow / Franke E. Harling) |
3-27-1930 | New York, New York | Columbia 2165-D Columbia DB 161 |
| So Beats My Heart For You | 7-25-1930 | New York, New York | Columbia 2270-D |
| Someone Will Miss Me Sometime (Lee Morse) |
8-12-1925 | New York, New York | Pathé Actuelle 25161 Perfect 11595 |
| Something In The Night (Wenrick / Kresa / Young) |
8-26-1932 | New York, New York | Columbia 2705-D |
| Susianna (Spencer Williams) |
12-7-1928 | New York, New York | Columbia 1752-D |
| Sweetheart’s Holiday (Robinson / Kahal) |
9-11-1929 | New York, New York | Columbia 1972-D |
| Sweet Man (Turk / Pinkard) |
8-12-1925 | New York, New York | Pathé Actuelle 11591 Perfect 25157 |
| Sweetness (Lombardo / Cohn / Miller) |
7-24-1929 | New York, New York | Columbia 1922-D |
| Swingin’ In The Hammock (Wendling / Seymour / O’Flynn) |
6-5-1930 | New York, New York | Columbia 2225-D |
| ‘Tain’t No Sin (To Take Off Your Skin, and Dance Around In Your Bones) (Donaldson / Leslie) |
2-27-1930 | New York, New York | Columbia 2136-D |
| Tears | 12-23-1930 | New York, New York | Columbia 2365-D |
| Telling Eyes (Lee Morse) |
1925 | New York, New York | Pathé Actuelle 32107 Perfect 12186-B |
| Tentin’ Down To Tennessee (Howard / Woods) |
2-16-1926 | New York, New York | Pathé Actuelle 25174 Perfect 11608 |
| The Deep Wide Ocean Blues (Lee Morse) |
12-9-1925 | New York, New York | Pathé Actuelle 25168 Perfect 11602 B |
| The Jersey Walk (Creamer / Dowling / Hanley) |
11-1926 | New York, New York | Pathé Actuelle 25202 Perfect 11636 |
| The Little Things In Life (Irving Berlin) |
12-23-1930 | New York, New York | Columbia 2365-D |
| The Little White House from “Honeymoon Lane” (Dowling / Hanley) |
11-4-1926 | New York, New York | Pathé Actuelle 25201 Perfect 11635 |
| The Old Folks At Home (Stephen Foster) |
9-28-1925 | New York, New York | Pathé Actuelle 25166 Perfect 11600 |
| The Tune That Never Grows Old (Lee Morse) |
3-27-1931 | New York, New York | Columbia 2436-D |
| There Must Be A Silver Lining (That’s Shining For Me) (Walter Donaldson / Lee Morse) |
1-23-1928 | New York, New York | Columbia 1303-D |
| Those Daisy Days (Lee Morse) |
4-1925 | New York, New York | Pathé Actuelle 25140 B Perfect 025140 |
| To Be Forgotten (Irving Berlin) |
11-4-1929 | New York, New York | Columbia 2037-D |
| Tuck In Kentucky (And Smile) (Holden / O’Brien / Roberts) |
10-1926 | New York, New York | Pathé Actuelle 36556 Perfect 14737 |
| Ukelele Lady (Gus Kahn / Richard Whiting) |
5-1925 | New York, New York | Pathé Actuelle 25145 Perfect 11579 |
| Under The Ukelele Tree (Dixon / Henderson) |
12-11-1924 | New York, New York | Pathé Actuelle 25179 Perfect 11613 |
| Until Love Comes Along | 1-16-1930 | New York, New York | Columbia 2101-D |
| Waiting (Lee Morse) |
12-11-1924 | New York, New York | Pathé Actuelle 25179 Perfect 11613 |
| Wake Up And Dream | 10-23-1928 | New York, New York | Columbia |
| Walkin’ My Baby Back Home (Fred Ahert / Roy Turk) |
2-20-1931 | New York, New York | Columbia 2417-D |
| Want A Little Lovin’? (Davis / Warren) |
8-27-1925 | New York, New York | Pathé Actuelle 25161 Perfect 11595 |
| Wasting My Love On You | 10-31-1930 | New York, New York | Columbia 2333-D |
| What-Cha-Call Em’ Blues (Steve L. Roberts) |
6-25-1925 | New York, New York | Pathé Actuelle 25156 Perfect 11590 |
| When I Lost You (Irving Berlin) |
6-6-1928 | New York, New York | Columbia 1434-D |
| When Lights Are Soft And Low | 4-28-1932 | New York, New York | Columbia 2650-D |
| When The Organ Played At Twilight (Campbell / Connelly / Wallace) |
7-26-1930 | New York, New York | Columbia 2308-D |
| Where The Shy Little Violets Grow (Gus Kahn / Harry Warren) |
10-23-1928 | New York, New York | Columbia 1716-D |
| Where The Wild, Wild Flowers Grow | 3-16-1927 | New York, New York | Columbia 1011-D |
| Where’d You Get Those Eyes? (Walter Donaldson) |
6-29-1926 | New York, New York | Pathé Actuelle 25189 Perfect 11623 |
| With All My Heart (Lee Morse) |
11-4-1926 | New York, New York | Pathé Actuelle 25202 B Perfect 11636 |
| Yes, Sir, Thats My Baby (Gus Kahn / Walter Donaldson) |
5-7-1925 | New York, New York | Pathé Actuelle 025146 Perfect 11580 |
| You Are My Own (Lee Morse) |
9-28-1928 | New York, New York | Columbia 1716-D |
| You’re Driving Me Crazy! (What Did I Do?) (Walter Donaldson) |
11-26-1930 | New York, New York | Columbia 2348-D |
| Artist | Instrument |
| Larry Abbott | Clarinet, Alto Saxophone |
| Rube Bloom | Piano |
| Irving Brodsky | Piano |
| Jimmy Dorsey | Clarinet, Alto Saxophone |
| Tommy Dorsey | Trombone, Trumpet |
| Hymie Farberman | Trumpet |
| Benny Goodman | Clarinet |
| Jimmy Johnston | Bass Saxophone |
| Stan King | Drums |
| Manny Klein | Trumpet |
| Carl Kress | Guitar |
| Eddie Lang | Guitar |
| Sammy Lewis | Trombone |
| Miff Mole | Trombone |
| Lee Morse | Vocals, Guitar, Kazoo |
| Phil Napoleon | Trumpet |
| Red Nichols | Cornet, Trumpet |
| Earl Oliver | Trumpet |
| Harry Reser | Banjo |
| Adrian Rollini | Bass Saxophone, Harmonium |
| John Ryan | Vocals |
| Frank Signorelli | Piano |
| Tom Stacks | Drums |
| Max Terr | Piano |
| Bill Wirges ? | Piano |
| unknown | Banjo |
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