Hanging on the walls in the movie room is our collection of E.T. Paull sheet music. We have (I've lost count) different ones, plus a bunch of variations which is not a complete set by any means. I hear from the "King" of E.T. Paull collectors, Wayland Bunnell, that there are around 210 different titles. With the variations in these titles, i.e., size 11x14 or 8 1/2 x 11, different arrangements with different prices, reissues, and even different lithograph houses. Some of them with a single title will be printed in black and white then you'll see it in full color then maybe again in two tone all with the same title, and maybe other variations as well. There's somewhere around 600 and maybe as many as 800 possibilities, I keep finding more and more of them, maybe their right. At any rate, this is what the ones I have look like. If you like, you can click on the lavender Midi button to hear what some of them sound like, assuming you have a midi player in your computer. For most of the files, I have taken the music and put them in the midi format, one note at a time, using a wonderful program called "NoteWorthy Composer", http://www.ntworthy.com . As I have time, I'll do more of them.
For the Foreword to these E.T. Paull pages by Wayland Bunnell Click Here
For more go to Page Two
For even further updates go to Page Three
For some of the variation mentioned above go to Variations
More Paull Covers go to Page Four
And for a more or less complete list go to Paull List
I Have now added a page Five Page Five
The Midnight Fire Alarm 1907 Midi
Battle of Nations 1915 1916 Edison recording Midi
Paul Revere's Ride 1905 Midi
Chariot Race March (Ben Hur Chariot Race March) 1896 Joe Belmont- Whistling solo, 1903 cylinder record New York Military Band 1916 Edison 2810 Midi
General Lew Wallace the author of Ben Hur a work mostly
of fiction, was a Civil War General, Governor of the New Mexico Territory,
one of the judges at the trail of the Lincoln assassination conspirators,
Ambassador to Turkey, artist, inventor, author, and he also fought in the
Spanish American War. Indiana
Grave Site. There's more information on Page
Five
I recently found some more information about our friend
General Lew Wallace. It seems that in the presidential election of
1876 " the greatest fraud of the century" between Rutherford B. Hayes,
Republican and Samuel Tilden, Democrat, Tilden who clearly had won the
popular vote by a heavy margin of 260,000 votes and should have won the
majority of electoral votes as well, didn't. There were three southern
states that felt that the vote was too close to call (Florida, South Carolina,
and Louisiana), also Oregon, but for a different reason. All of these
states were in Tilden's column, and Tilden should have been declared the
winner, but the states said they were too close too call. Except
for Louisiana, they were. Louisiana had 6000 more votes for Tilden
and still said it was too close to call. Now Hayes needed all four
of these states to get enough electoral votes to win, and Tilden only needed
one. Well the Federal Government under control of the Republicans
sent a committee down South, which by the way was still under reconstruction
after the Civil War, to count the votes and declare who would be the winner
in each state. In Louisiana alone, the committee threw out 8000 Democratic
votes as "illegal" making Hayes the winner. The other states were
closer so it was easier to throw out the "illegal" votes. Lew Wallace
was one of the Republicans on this Committee and as a reward for his services
he was given the Governor ship of the Territory of New Mexico. There's
a great deal more to this story that I won't go into, if you're interested
read " Fraud of the Century" by Roy Morris, Jr.
Chariot Race March Four Hand Arrangement Midi
Burning of Rome 1903 Midi
America Forever 1898 Midi
Silver Sleigh Bells 1906 Midi
The Hurricane 1906 Midi
Napoleon's Last Charge Four Hand Arrangement Midi
Napoleon's Last Charge 1910 New York Military Band 1911 recording Midi
Women Forever 1916 Midi
Champagne 1900
The Midnight Flyer 1903 Midi
A Signal from Mars 1901 Indestructible #3080 John Lacalle's Band 1910 Midi
Battle of Gettysburg 1917 Midi
American Wedding March 1919 Midi
Paull's Hesitation Waltz 1914 Midi
Herald of Peace March 1914 Midi
Tipperary Guards March 1915 Midi
Photo from Waylands collection
Legion of Victory 1921 Midi
Drifting Along to the Island of Love 1920 Midi
Enticement 1901
The Dashing Cavaliers 1911 Midi
The Dashing Cavaliers four hand Midi
The strangers Story 1894 Midi
The Dawn of the Century 1900 Midi
The Home Coming March 1908 Midi
Another bit of trivia about
these pieces, I don't really know if it's true or not but it makes a good
story. Because most of these pieces run about 5 to 6 minutes in length,
longer than the standard phonograph record of the time which was between
3 and 4 minutes, and Mr. Paull would not let them edit his songs, not many
of them appear on records. On the other hand maybe they just weren't good
enough. (As a comparison Thunder
and Blazes Not a Paull Piece) However, you do see them on piano
rolls from time to time.
I would love to hear a comment or two about this page. Please E-mail me at jfeenstra@earthlink.net
