Egbert Van Alstyne

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In the Shade of the Old Apple Tree Hold Up Rag A Broken Idol Who are You with Tonight?Honolulu Rag When I Was a Dreamer You Can't Make a Fool out of Me Memories Cavalier' Rustican' Rag I'm in Love with the Mother of My Best Girl Navajo Rag What's the Matter with Father?It Looks like a Big Night Tonight On the Road to Home Sweet Home Devil Rag That Old Girl of Mine On the Road to Mexico For Your Boy and My Boy So Long, Mother When I Was Twenty-One and You Were Sweet Sixteen Wrap Me in a Bundle Ypsilanti Don't Be Cross with Me I'm Just a Little Blue Alabama Moon Back, Back, Back to Indiana Because You're Irish I'm Going to Make You Love Me Oh! You Lovable Chile San Antonio I Want Somebody to Play With I'm Just Pinin' for You Water Never Did That I'm Afraid to Come Home in the Dark What are You Going to do to Help the Boys?Back, Back, Back to Baltimore Do it Now Dreaming of the Same Old Girl In Old Missouri He Got Right up on the Wagon I'm Looking for a Girl like Mother Kaiser Bill Cheyenne Down in the Old Meadow Lane Love, Honor and Obey Navajo Sweethearts I Want Someone to Call Me Dearie There Never Was a Girl like You Heinze The Tale the Church Bells Tolled In the Land of the Buffalo Is There Anything Else that I can do for You?My Rosy Rambler On an Old Fashioned Buggy Ride Way Down on Tampa Bay Camp Meeting Time I've Lost My Gal Mon bijou My Hat's in the Ring Rock-a-bye Land Sunshine and Roses What Makes the World Go 'Round Don't Forget to Drop a Line to Mother I Love My Mother-in-Law Love Light Now She's Anybody's Girlie Every Heart Must Have Its Sorrow My Choc'late Soldier Sammy Boy My Dreamy China Lady Neath the Old Cherry Tree, Sweet Marie Seminole Sweetie O' Mine Till the Shadows Have Flown Under the Pretzel Bough You're the Sweetest Rose that Grows in Old Killarney Blarney For the Boys Over There I Like it Better In Dear Old Georgia Sailin' Away on the Henry Clay Forget Me Not I Don't Think I Love You, I Know I Do Father's Allowed to See Us Twice a Year Why Don't You Try Dreams Dreamy Paradise Honey, Dat's All

Arrangements for: Voice

For Your Boy and My Boy

Egbert Anson Van Alstyne (March 4, 1878 – July 9, 1951) was an American songwriter and pianist. Van Alstyne was the composer of a number of popular and ragtime tunes of the early 20th century. He was Jewish.

Van Alstyne was born in Marengo, Illinois. After some time touring in Vaudeville he moved to New York City, initially working as a Tin Pan Alley song-plugger until he was able to make his living as a songwriter. He teamed with lyricist Harry H. Williams. Their first success was "Navajo" which was introduced in the Broadway musical Nancy Brown in 1903 and became one of the first records by Billy Murray early in 1904. Their best remembered song is In the Shade of the Old Apple Tree from 1905.

Other Van Alstyne hits included "Won't You Come Over to My House?", "I'm Afraid to Come Home in the Dark", and "Memories".

Van Alstyne shares credit with Tony Jackson on the hit "Pretty Baby". It was common for Tin Pan Alley publishers to add the name of one of their famous hit makers to tunes, and many have speculated this as being the main reason for Van Alstyne's name appearing on the piece, but Van Alstyne may have had a hand in writing or modifying the verse to Jackson's famous chorus.

He recorded a number of piano rolls.

Van Alstyne lived for many years in Chicago. He died there on July 9, 1951, and was buried in Memorial Park Cemetery in Evanston, Illinois.

He was inducted into Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1970.