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
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