MORRISON, ALICE NADINE

The Seattle Star, January 10, 1941
Homebase: Anacortes, WA. / Bellingham, WA. / Seattle, WA
Stats: 1892-1978
Misc Notes: Alice Nadine Morrison was a Silent Movie Era theater pianist who composed many original songs - including, on occasion, with either her husband H.O. "Morrie" Morrison, or her sister-in-law Nellie Morrison.
SEE ALSO:
1.) ECKLOFF and ALICE MORRISON, ELMER
MORRISON COMPOSITIONS:
- "My Love Is All For You" [Morrison Music Co., Bellingham 1920]
- "Say You'll Be Mine" [Forster Music Co., Chicago 1920] (National reissue of "My Love Is All For You")
- "Love's Ship" (Words: Nellie Morrison - Music: Alice Morrison) [Morrison Music Co., Bellingham 1920]
- "Love's Ship" (Words: Nellie Morrison - Music: Alice Morrison) [Forster Music Co., Chicago, 1920]
- "Nadine" [1920]
- "Land Of Love And Happiness" [1920]
- "Lovin' Dad"
- "Sweet Anabel" [1922]
- "Kisses Of Love" (Alice Nadine Morrison & Nellie Morrison) [Morrison Music Co., S.F., 1921]
- "Times" (Alice Nadine Morrison & Nellie Morrison) [Morrison Music Co., S.F., 1921]
- "King Tut" [Morrison Music Co., S.F., 1923]
- "I'll Keep On Waiting For You [1923]
- "By The Black Sea" (Alice Nadine Morrison & H.O. Morrison)
- "The White Rose" (Alice Nadine Morrison & H.O. Morrison)
- "My Pretty Pauline" (Alice Nadine Morrison & H.O. Morrison)
- "Sailor Boy" [Morrison Music Co., Seattle, 1936]
- "Goodbye, Little Girl, Goodbye" [Morrison Music Co., Seattle, 1944]
- "Please Don't Sing That Song Again [Morrison Music Co., Seattle, 1944]
- "When I Dance With The One I Love" [Morrison Music Co., Seattle,1946]
- "Sailing Thru The Sunny San Juan Islands" (Mary M. Parker & Alice N. Morrison) [Morrison Music Co.,1949]
- "Newmo" [1955]
- Orinoco"
- "Pan-American"
- "Under The Moon Of Tahiti" [Alice Nadine Morrison & Abe Brashen]
- "Send Your Love A Moonbeam" [Alice Nadine Morrison & Effie May Lauritsen]
- "I'll Not Forget You"
- "It's Th Gypsy In Me"
- "Grand International"
- "Always You
- "In The Golden Days"
- "Chinese Toddle"
- "My Little Darling"
- "Down and Up Hambone"
- "I Like To Dance The Swedish Waltz"
- "Senorita"
- "Swing and Sway"
- "I Want To Get Acquainted"
EARLIEST RECORDINGS OF MORRISON COMPOSITIONS:
1.) CLUB De VINGT ORCHESTRA - ["Love's Ship" Edison 50803] (1921)
2.) GREEN BROTHERS NOVELTY ORCHESTRA - ["Say You'll Be Mine (My Love Is All For You)" Emerson 10373]
3.) NEWPORT SOCIETY ORCHESTRA, The - ["Love's Ship" Banner 1028]
4.) NEWPORT SOCIETY ORCHESTRA, The ["Love's Ship" Puritan 965]
5.) NEWPORT SOCIETY ORCHESTRA, The ["Love's Ship" Triangle 11095-A] (1922)*
6.) HARRISON, CHARLES - ["Love's Ship" Victor 18829-B] (October 1921)
7.) O'HARA, JOSEPH - ["Love's Ship" Brunswick] (September 1921)*
8.) ELLIOT, VERN [piano roll of "My Love Is All For You"]
9.) GARDNER - LESTER MCFARLAND, ROBERT A. - ["Love's Ship" Brunswick E33155] (September 1930)*
10.) GARDNER - LESTER MCFARLAND, ROBERT A. - ["Love's Ship" Brunswick ATL6619] (November 1930)*
"Morrie and Alice Morrison— Northwest Music Industry Pioneers"
by Peter Blecha
Copyright (c) 2005 HistoryLink.org & Author
"At the dawn of the Roaring Twenties, a Pacific Northwest couple -- Howell Oakdeane 'Morrie' Morrison (1888-1984) and his wife, Alice Nadine Morrison -- launched what became the region's first successful local commercial pop music empire. Fueled by a fortune made off royalties earned from a string of original hit song compositions, the Morrisons' pioneering web of interrelated mom-and-pop businesses would grow to include a dance school, a sheet music publishing company, a vaudeville orchestra, a dancehall chain, a record label, a Seattle-based recording studio (with a record-pressing plant), and even a film production endeavor." [READ MORE...]
MISC NOTES: The packaging on this unit incorrectly notes Alice Nadine Morrison as "Alice Nading" Morrison, and Nellie Morrison as "Millie" Morrison. As the pianist who created this roll is uncredited, we have opted to list it here under Alice Nadine Morrison's name.
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FORMAT: piano roll
NOTES: Piano roll is encased in its original black cardboard box.
COMPOSER: Words by: Alice Nadine Morrison - Music by: Millie Morrison
A-SIDE PUBLISHER: Forster Music Pub. Co. Inc.
MISC NOTES: Artist credit on this label: ALICE MORRISON. Song developed in conjunction with Morrie Morrison's "new motion" style of dancing.
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FORMAT: disc
SIZE: 7"
SPEED: 45 rpm
DISC NOTES: "Special Dance"
B-SIDE MATRIX: NO. X 1
B-SIDE STAMPER CODE: X - 1 (etched)
B-SIDE COMPOSER: Alice Morrison
B-SIDE PUBLISHER: (BMI)
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