Harry P. Guy

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
  Echoes from the Snowball Club, (1898)
  Pearl of the Harem, (1901)

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)