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1913 song by Irving Berlin

Daddy, Come Home is a song written by Irving Berlin and first published in 1913. The humorous song begins "Hello Central, dear Central, listen here: please connect me with my father" and tells the story from the point of view of a young boy calling his father on the telephone to ask him to leave work and deal with an assortment of family problems at home.

The song was recorded on December 13, 1913, by Billy Murray for The Victor Talking Machine Company (No. 14167).

References

"Daddy Come Home". Special Collections — Levy Sheet Music Collection. Johns Hopkins University. Retrieved 2011-05-14.
"The Online Discographical Project". 78discography.com. Retrieved March 28, 2020.

Irving Berlin

Musicals

Theatre	Annie Get Your Gun As Thousands Cheer Call Me Madam The Canary The Century Girl The Cocoanuts The Cohan Revue of 1918 Face the Music Holiday Inn Louisiana Purchase Miss Liberty Mr. President Music Box Revue Stop! Look! Listen! This Is The Army Top Hat Watch Your Step White Christmas Wise Guy Yip Yip Yaphank Ziegfeld Follies
Film	Alexander's Ragtime Band Annie Get Your Gun Blue Skies Call Me Madam Carefree The Cocoanuts Easter Parade Follow the Fleet Hallelujah Holiday Inn On the Avenue Second Fiddle There's No Business Like Show Business This Is the Army Top Hat White Christmas

Songs

1910s	"Alexander's Ragtime Band" "At the Devil's Ball" "Daddy, Come Home" "Follow the Crowd" "For Your Country and My Country" "God Bless America" "Goodbye, France" "I Want to Go Back to Michigan" "I'm Gonna Pin My Medal on the Girl I Left Behind" "I've Got My Captain Working for Me Now" "Let's All Be Americans Now" "Mandy" "The Near Future" "Oh! How I Hate to Get Up in the Morning" "Play a Simple Melody" "A Pretty Girl Is Like a Melody" "San Francisco Bound" "Someone Else May Be There While I'm Gone" "Stay Down Here Where You Belong" "That International Rag" "That Mysterious Rag" "They Were All Out of Step But Jim" "When I Lost You" "You'd Be Surprised"
1920s	"All Alone" "All by Myself" "Always" "Blue Skies" "How About Me?" "I Love a Piano" "Lazy" "Puttin' On the Ritz" "Remember" "Say It with Music" "The Song Is Ended (but the Melody Lingers On)" "What'll I Do" "With You"
1930s	"Change Partners" "Cheek to Cheek" "Easter Parade" "Get Thee Behind Me Satan" "Heat Wave" "How Deep Is the Ocean?" "How's Chances?" "I Never Had a Chance" "I Used to Be Color Blind" "I'm Putting All My Eggs in One Basket" "I've Got My Love to Keep Me Warm" "Isn't This a Lovely Day?" "It's a Lovely Day Tomorrow" "Let Yourself Go" "Let's Face the Music and Dance" "Let's Have Another Cup of Coffee" "No Strings (I'm Fancy Free)" "Now It Can Be Told" "Reaching for the Moon" "Say It Isn't So" "Slumming on Park Avenue" "Supper Time" "This Year's Kisses" "Top Hat, White Tie and Tails" "You're Laughing at Me"
1940s	"All of My Life" "Any Bonds Today?" "Anything You Can Do" "A Couple of Swells" "Doin' What Comes Natur'lly" "The Girl That I Marry" "Happy Holiday" "Heaven Watch the Philippines" "I Got Lost in His Arms" "I Got the Sun in the Mornin' (and the Moon at Night)" "I'm an Indian Too" "Let's Take an Old-Fashioned Walk" "Moonshine Lullaby" "My Defenses Are Down" "Steppin' Out with My Baby" "There's No Business Like Show Business" "They Say It's Wonderful" "White Christmas" "Who Do You Love, I Hope?" "You Can Have Him" "You Can't Get a Man with a Gun" "You Keep Coming Back Like a Song"
1950s	"The Best Thing for You (Would Be Me)" "Count Your Blessings" "It's a Lovely Day Today" "Sisters" "You're Just in Love"

Ellin Berlin (wife)
Mary Ellin Barrett (daughter)

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Songs	"Ain't It Funny What a Difference Just a Few Hours Make" "Alexander's Ragtime Band" "Always Leave Them Laughing When You Say Goodbye" "Any Little Girl, That's a Nice Little Girl, Is the Right Little Girl for Me" "At the Moving Picture Ball" "Be My Little Baby Bumble Bee" "Because I'm Married Now" "Blue Feather" "Bon Bon Buddy" "Charley, My Boy" "Cheyenne" "Clap Hands! Here Comes Charley!" "College Life" "Come Josephine in My Flying Machine" "Cordelia Malone" "Cuddle up a Little Closer, Lovey Mine" "Daddy, Come Home" "Dear Sing Sing" "Dixie" "Don't Bring Lulu" "Everybody Works but Father" "Forty-five Minutes from Broadway" "Gasoline Gus" "Give My Regards to Broadway" "Harrigan" "He'd Have to Get Under – Get Out and Get Under (to Fix Up His Automobile)" "He Goes to Church on Sunday" "He May Be Old, But He's Got Young Ideas" "Hello, Hawaii, How Are You?" "I'm Afraid to Come Home in the Dark" "In My Merry Oldsmobile" "In the Good Old Summer Time" "In the Land of the Buffalo" "In the Shade of the Old Apple Tree" "It's a Long Way to Tipperary" "It's the Same Old Shillelagh" "It Takes the Irish to Beat the Dutch" "I've Been Floating Down the Old Green River" "I've Got My Captain Working for Me Now" "I've Got Rings On My Fingers" "I Want to Go Back to Michigan" "I Wonder Who's Kissing Her Now" "K-K-K-Katy" "Moonlight Bay" "Oh! By Jingo" "Oh, You Beautiful Doll" "On the 5:15" "On the Old Fall River Line" "Over There" "Play a Simple Melody "Pretty Baby" "Pride of the Prairie" "School Days" "Shine On, Harvest Moon" "Some Sunday Morning" "Tipperary" "Under the Anheuser Bush" "The Worst Is Yet to Come" "The Yankee Doodle Boy" "You'd Be Surprised" "You're a Grand Old Flag"

Billy Murray

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