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A List of Songs Concerning John Dillinger
Publication Date: July 1970
Sheet Music and Copyright Lead Sheets
"The Death of John Dillinger." Words by Frank Carlisle. Music
by Al Arnstram. Copyrighted and published September 13, 1934,
by
Hillbilly Publications, Milwaukee. Copyright registration number:
E pub 43804. LC call number: M1659.5.D57A.
"Dillinger." Words and music by Joe Hoover. Copyright May
28, 1934, by Joe Davis, Inc. Copyright registration number: E unp
88140.
"Dillinger’s Doom." Words, music, and copyright
by Norwood Clayton Tew, Durham, N.C., August 11, 1934. Copyright
registration number: E unp 91545. LC call number: M1630.2.T.
"Dillinger’s Fate." Music by Jack Mahoney. Words
and copyright by Betty Boswell, Neola, W.Va., January 25, 1935.
Copyright registration number: E unp 98772.
"Dillinger’s Warning." Arranged by Paul Gray. Written
and copyrighted by Jimmie Walker, Indianapolis, August 11,
1934.
Copyright registration number: E unp 91533.
"The Fate of John Dillinger." Words, music, and copyright
by Valentine Mrozinski, Auburn, Mich., August 30, 1934. Copyright
registration number: E unp 92365.
"John Dillinger." Words by Cliff Grey, Lancaster,
Pa., and music by Rieley Lausch, Lititz, Pa. Copyright by Grey
and Lausch,
August
10, 1934. Copyright registration number: E unp 43221. LC call
number: M1659.5.D57D.
Published and copyrighted by M.M. Cole, Chicago, September
13, 1934. Copyright registration number: E pub 44126. LC call
number:
M1659.5D57D.
"John Dillinger." Words, music, and copyright by Forest Herbert,
Poland, Ind., August 16, 1934. Copyright registration number:
E unp 92273.
Published and copyrighted by Forest Herbert, December 31,
1934. Copyright registration number: E pub 45965. LC call number:
M1659.5.D57D.
"John Dillinger." Music by Dorothy Hardy. Words and
copyright by H. Robinson Vaughan, Victoria, Va., September 5,
1934. Copyright
registration number: E unp 92641. LC call number: M1659.5.D57H.
Published and copyrighted by H.R. Vaughan, December 28, 1934.
Copyright registration number: E pub 46203. LC call number:
M 1659.5.D57H.
"John Dillinger’s Fate." Words by Lawrence Pitzer,
music by H. Dobbins. Copyright by Pitzer and Dobbins, Portsmouth,
Ohio,
August 4, 1934. E unp 91375. LC Call Number: M 1659.5.D57D.
Published and copyrighted by Robbins Music Corp., November 16,
1934. E pub 44814. LC Call Number: M 1659.5.D57D.
"John Dillinger’s Fate." Written and copyrighted
by Chas. Joder and Jos. Runyan, Gary, Ind., March 1, 1935. E
unp 100386.
LC Call Number: M1630.2.R.
"Killer John Dillinger." Written and copyrighted by Bob
Miller, New York, July 24, 1934. E unp 91430. LC Call Number:
M1630.2.M.
"The Life and Fate of John Dillinger." Written and copyrighted
by Hershel K. Deckard. E unp 92170. LC Call Number: M1659.5.D57D.
Commercial Recordings
"John Dillinger." Sung by Joe Smith [Bob Miller?]. Recorded
May 28, 1934, New York City. Released on Bluebird 5522.
"Outlaw John Dillinger." Sung by the Frank Luther Trio.
Recorded July 26, 1934, New York City. Release October 1934 on
Oriole
8364, Romeo 5364, etc.
Field Recordings in the Archive of Folk Culture
AFS 5033A2: "John Dillinger." Sung with guitar by Frank
Lankas. Recorded June 16, 1941, in Gardenville, New York, by
Charles
Todd and Robert Sonkin. Fieldnotes describe this as an "original
song."
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