Our local digitization effort is loading J.A. Parks Music Company songs on to FLICKR. A “clickable Link” in the 8vo. # column leads to a digitized example we’ve located in another digitized music collection; a multi-colored “swirl” links to a catalog entry in WorldCat.
Kilgore Memorial Library owns an original or photocopy of the pieces marked with “ ♦ .” A “ ♥ ” indicates the same piece’s availability in a book in the library’s collection. A separate page provides a checklist of holdings at the York County Historical Association as of October 2010.
Please use our “link box” and related searching tips to navigate within the J.A. PARKS songs lists.
(Oct., 2006: Mr. Parks called the large format “showy” pieces “sheet music” — in addition to the note at the end of “Songs of the South No. 1,” some later Octavo numbers have notes about alternate arrangements and the term appears in those notes.)
| 8vo.# ?? | TITLE | date | LYRICIST / COMPOSER / ARRANGER | BOOK / PAGE | |
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| sheet music | Honey Town (Song for Medium Voice ) | ©1919 | Words by VICTOR HERMAN / Music by J.A. PARKS | ||
| sheet music | I Could Not Do Without Thee (Song for Medium Voice ) | ~ | |||
| sheet music | If I Were The Wind (Song for Soprano or Tenor) | ©1913 | Words by MAY FRANK / Music by J.A. PARKS | ||
| ~ | If You Were Here | PARKS | |||
| sheet music | In Rotary “Service Not Self” (Song for medium voice or two tenors) (To the York Rotary Club, York, Neb.) | ©1919 | Words by GERALD GREY* / Music by J.A. PARKS Rotary Club of York, Neb. | ||
| sheet music | Invocation (Song for Low, Medium, High voices - Violin Obbligato) | Words and Music by MARION MOORE | |||
 ;Lg. 8vo* | Just Let the Band Play “Dixie” | [©1898] | Words by Frank L. Stanton / music by J.A. PARKS | ||
| *Lester S. Levy Sheet Music Collection, Johns Hopkins University | |||||
| sheet music | Little Gold Star (To Mr. John McCormack) | ©1918 | Words by Will M. Maupin / Music by J. A. Parks | ||
| No. ??? (2 pgs.) | Nebraska (Dedicated to the Nebraska State Federation of Women’s Clubs) | A.L. BIXBY - J.A. PARKS | |||
| sheet music | The Old Home Town (medium voice) | ©1919 | Lyric by Gerald Grey / Music by J. A. Parks | ||
| sheet music | Pal O’ Mine (low voice) (To my friend “Bill” Hay, Hastings, Nebr.) | ©1925 | Words by EDWARD EVERETT DALE / Music by J. A. Parks | ||
| sheet music | Sea fever : Concert song for medium voice | 1930 | [Words by John Masefield / Music by Flora Bullock ] | ||
| No number | Six Friendly Songs (For Community Singing) (Unison) | PARKS | |||
| sheet music | Still, Still With Thee (solo, with Violin Obbligato ) | Words by Harriet Beecher Stowe / Music by J.A. PARKS | |||
| 8vo. #?? | The Sweet Old Story | PARKS | |||
| sheet music | Take Off Your Hats to Company A! | ©1899 | Words and Music by J.A. PARKS | ||
| sheet music | Together (medium voice) | ©1909 | Words by Gerald Massey / Music by J. A. Parks | ||
| 8vo.#?? | Tunes of Yesterday: Quartet or Chorus for Mixed Voices. | (1929) | Words by Vera J. Rolander / Music by Anna E. Nelson - Arr. for Mixed Voices by Marion Moore | ||
| 8vo.#?? | Two Little Songs | PARKS | |||
| sheet music | When Pershing Gets “Hello!” From Kittie Reilly (medium voice) | ©1918 | Words by John O’Keefe / Music by J. A. Parks | ||
| sheet music | The White Gifts (medium voice) (To Mr. Arthur Middleton) | ©1921 | Text adapted from WEATHERALD / Music by J. A. Parks | ||
| sheet music | Your Lad and My Lad (medium voice) | ©1918 | Words by Gerald Grey / Music by J. A. Parks | ||
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This “1896 Octavos” list is based on catalogs in early Parks’ publications. Many of the pieces appear in the main sequence with different numbers. Most of them also appear in Imperial Anthems for the Choir (1896), as noted below.
| 1896 8vo. # | TITLE | LYRICIST / COMPOSER / ARRANGER | CROSS- REFERENCES | |||
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| No. 1 | Come Unto Me | PARKS | 8vo. 12 | see also IA1, pg. 3 | ||
| No. 2 | Just As I Am | PARKS | 8vo. 115? | see also IA1, pg. 7 | ||
| No. 3 | Father, Bend Thine Ear | GOUNOD | 8vo. 36 | see also IA1, pg. 14 | ||
| No. 4 | Seek Ye The Lord | ROBERTS | 8vo. 8 | see also IA1, pg. 16 | ||
| No. 5 | Softly Now the Light of Day (Quartet) | PINSUTI - PARKS | 8vo. 37 | see also IA1, pg. 21 | ||
| No. 6 | Farewell (Funeral) | SCHUBERT - PARKS | 8vo. 38 | see also IA1, pg. 24 | ||
| No. 7 | Hope Thou In God | PARKS | 8vo. 10 | see also IA1, pg. 28 | ||
| No. 8 | Now the Day is Over (Male Voices) | BARNBY | 8vo. 39? | see also IA1, pg. 35 | ||
| No. 9 | I Will Arise | PARKS | 8vo. 40 | see also IA1, pg. 36 | ||
| No. 10 | Abide With Me | PIERCE | 8vo. 41 | see also IA1, pg. 40 | ||
| No. 12 | He Is Risen (Easter) | SIMPER | 8vo. 152 | see also IA1, pg. 50 | ||
| No. 13 | They That Sow in Tears | PARKS | 8vo. 13 | see also IA1, pg. 56 | ||
| No. 14 | We Praise Thee, O God (National) | ROSSINI - PARKS | 8vo. 11 | see also IA1, pg. 61 | ||
| No. 15 | There’s A Beautiful Country | PARKS | 8vo. 106 | see also IA1, pg. 70 | ||
| No. 16 | What Shall I Render? (Thanksgiving) | SIMPER | 8vo. 6 | see also IA1, pg. 74 | ||
| No. 17 | Praise Ye The Lord | PARKS | 8vo. ??? | |||
| No. 18 | Hear Me, O Lord | WATSON - PARKS | 8vo. 147 | see also IA1, pg. 88 | ||
| No. 19 | Just For To-Day (Solo for Soprano or Tenor) | PARKS | 8vo. 125? | see also IA1, pg. 95 | ||
| No. 20 | The Evening Hour | PARKS | 8vo. 148 | see also IA1, pg. 98 | ||
| No. 22 | Outside the Door | PARKS | 8vo. 150 | see also IA1, pg. 104 | ||
| No. 23 | Your Friend (Mezzo-Soprano Solo) | GODARD - PARKS | 8vo. ?? | see also IA1, pg. 106 | ||
| No. 24 | The Nine Short Responses | PARKS | 8vo. 151 | see also IA1, pg. 107-109 for responses #1-6 | ||
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