William F. Denny

William F. Denny (also known as Will F. Denny) was born in late 1859 or more likely in 1860 in Boston,[1][2] to James and Elizabeth Denny.[3] He gained fame performing on vaudeville stages,[1] specializing in comic numbers.[2] His first recordings were made in 1891 for the New England Phonograph Company.[4] Beginning in May 1898 his popularity was such that he signed an exclusive recording contract with Columbia that was in effect for one year.[2] He had a singular recording session for Victor Records on September 11, 1901.[2] His last records were made for the Zonophone company. He died in Seattle on October 2, 1908 of atherosclerosis,[5] while touring on the Pantages vaudeville circuit, and was buried in Philadelphia.[2]

Berliner Gramophone

• 1748 – “Czar of the Tenderloin” (recorded July 14, 1897)[6]
• 1749 – “I Didn’t Know”[6]
• 1750 – “Darling Mabel”[6]
• 1762 – “She Was There”[6]
• 0125-I – “How’d You Like to Be the Iceman” (recorded May 2, 1899)[7]
• 0126-I – “When a Woman Loves” (recorded May 3, 1899)[7]
• 0129-I – “And the Parrot Said” (recorded May 3, 1899)[7]

Columbia Records

cylinders

• 6325 – “A Pity to Waste It”[2]
• 6351 – “What Ze English Call Ze”[2]
• 6365 – “Miss Helen Hunt”
• 32919 – “Nothing Like That in Our Family”[2]

discs

• 53 – “When The Harvest Days Are Over”[8]
• 318 – “When Reuben Comes to Town” (Goodwin – Levi) [8]
• 319 – “I Want to Be a Military Man” (Hall – Stuart)[8]
• 0279 - "FOL DE IDDLEY IDO"
• 3368 – “Nothing Like That in Our Family”[2]
• A489 – “You’ll Have to Get Out and Walk” (recorded May 1907)[9]

Edison Records

• 7154 – “Naughty Banana Peel”[2]
• 7379 – “Parody on ‘Because’”[2]
• 7875 – “Ain’t Dat a Shame?”[2]
• 7980 – “My Ebony Belle”[2]
• 8015? – "Rip Van Winkle was a lucky man" c1902 from owned Edison Cylinder record
• 8167 – “I Couldn’t” [10]
• 8442 – “Just When I Needed You Most”[10]
• 8443 – “For Old Time’s Sake”[10]
• 8552 – “Trixie”[2]
• 9306 – “Nothing Like That in Our Family”[2][11]
• 9551 – “Ask Me Not” (Cobbs – Edwards)[2][12]
• 9568 – “You’ll Have to Get Off and Walk” (Dave Reed)[2][13]
• 9598 – “Tale of the Bucket” (Joe A. Budd)[2][14]
• 9620 – “My Word! What a Lot of It!” (Dave Reed)[2]

New England Phonograph Company

• (?) – “You Can’t Think of Everything” [15]

Victor Records

[16]

• 953, 3561 – “I Want Someone to Care for Me”
• 955, 3563 – “The Turkey and the Turk”
• 956, 3564 – “Any Old Place I Hang My Hat Is Home Sweet Home to Me”
• 957, 3565 – “I’m Looking at You, ‘Lize”
• 958, 3566 – “The Tick Tack Tocking of the Clocking on Her Stocking”
• 959, 3567 – “The Shadows on the Door”
• 960, 3568 – “Oh! Don’t it Tickle You?”
• 961, 3569 – “At the Pan-I-Merry-Can”
• 962, 3570 – “Sarah from Syracuse”

Zonophone Records

• 769 – “Rip Van Winckle Was a Lucky Man” [17]
• 787 – “Ain’t Dat a Shame”[17]
• 1545 – “Sadie Say You Won’t Be Sorry”[17]
• 1546 – “Just When I Needed You Most”[17]
• 1690 – “The Turkey and the Turk”[17]
• 1798 – “I’m Tired”[17]
• 9924 – “You Said a Plenty”[17]
• 5934 – “Meet Me in St. Louis, Louis”[2]
• 1048 – “All the Girls Look Good to Me”[2]
• 1081 – “Since My Mariutch Learned the Merry Widow Waltz” [18]