| Intro | American musician |
| Was |
Musician Composer Pianist Choir director |
| From | United States of America |
| Type |
Religion Music |
| Gender | male |
| Birth | 17 July 1870, Zanesville |
| Death |
19 September 1950, Detroit (aged 80 years) |
Harry P. Guy (1870 in Zanesville, Ohio – 1950) was an African American ragtime composer who lived in Detroit after 1895. After writing his first compositions in Ohio, he became one of the greatest contributors to ragtime music in Detroit, and was called one of the city’s “unique and unusually gifted musicians.” He later fell into obscurity and died in poverty.
List of compositions
1887
- The Floweret – Waltz
1888
- My Wooing
1889
- When the Dew Begems the Lea
1898
- Echoes from the Snowball Club – Original Rag Time Waltz
- Now For a Stranger Don’t Cast Me Aside
1899
- Cleanin’ Up in Georgia – Cakewalk Patrol or Two Step
- Belle of the Creoles
1901
- Pearl of the Harem – Oriental Rag Two Step
- Pepper Pot Rag
1902
- Daughters of Dahomey – An Oriental Ragtime Waltz
- Song of the Western Hunter
1904
- Down in Mobile – March Characteristic
1906
- Walkin’ and Talkin’
1907
- Sixty-Six – Intermezzo
1914
- As Long As There Is Love (I Will Love You) (with Eddie McGrath)
1915
- Love’s Eternity
1917
- We’ll Stand Our Flag and the United States
1918
- Yankee’s Doodle In the Flight To Stay
1921
- You and I
- That Home In Paradise (Love and Home Forever)
1928
- Big Hearted Baby (with Raymond B. Egan)