Charlie Fry

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Aliases: Fry's Million Dollar Pier Orchestra
Country: United States
Comments: Charlie Fry is best known as the musical director at Young's Million Dollar Pier in Atlantic City, New Jersey. Newspaper articles in the late 1920s reported that he played to more than twelve million people over the previous years.

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Originals

		Title	Performer	Release date	Covered by
	i	Mad ('Cause You Treat Me This Way)	Fry's Million Dollar Pier Orchestra	1923	(11 artists)
	i	Shanghai Shuffle	Fry's Million Dollar Pier Orchestra	1924	(24 artists)

Covers by Charlie Fry

		Title	Performer	Release date	Originally by
	i	Bambalina	Fry's Million Dollar Pier Orchestra	1923	Edith Day
	i	Born And Bred In Brooklyn	Fry's Million Dollar Pier Orchestra	1923	Unverified
		Happy Days and Lonely Nights	Charlie Fry and His Million Dollar Pier Orchestra - Vocal Refrain by Lewis James	1928	Unverified
	i	I'm Drifting Back to Dreamland	Fry's Million Dollar Pier Orchestra	1923	Kaplan's Melodists
	i	I'm Gonna Charleston Back to Charleston	Fry's Million Dollar Pier Orchestra	1925	Coon-Sanders Original Nighthawk Orchestra - Vocal Refrain by C. A. Coon and J. L. Sanders REL, California Ramblers REC
	i	I'm Knee Deep in Daisies (And Head over Heels in Love)	Fry's Million Dollar Pier Orchestra	December 1925	"Piggy" Jones & His Orch. - Vocal Chorus, Arthur Fields
	i	Indiana Moon	Fry's Million Dollar Pier Orchestra	December 1923	(unknown)
	i	Just a Girl That Men Forget	Fry's Million Dollar Pier Orchestra	October 1923	(unknown)
	i	Louisville Lou	Fry's Million Dollar Pier Orchestra	1923	Original Indiana Syncopators (Original Indiana Five)
	i	Old Fashioned Love	Fry's Million Dollar Pier Orchestra	1923	Frank Crumit REC, Ina Duncan, Adelaide Hall and Arthur Porter PRF
	i	Seven or Eleven (My Dixie Pair o' Dice)	Fry's Million Dollar Pier Orchestra	1923	Majestic Dance Orchestra [Joseph Samuels]
		Sincerely I Do	Charlie Fry and His Million Dollar Pier Orchestra - Vocal Refrain by Lewis James	March 1929	Tom Gerunovich and His Roof Garden Orchestra - Vocal Chorus by Steve Bowers
	i	There's Yes! Yes! In Your Eyes	Fry's Million Dollar Pier Orchestra	1924	Oriole Orchestra
	i	When It's Night-Time in Italy, It's Wednesday over Here	Fry's Million Dollar Pier Orchestra	1923	(unknown)
	i	Why Don't My Dreams Come True?	Fry's Million Dollar Pier Orchestra	October 1923	Esther Nelson and Charles Hart

Releases

Singles

	Title	Performer	Release date	Label
	Avalon Town – Sincerely I Do	Charlie Fry and His Million Dollar Pier Orchestra - Johnny Hamp's Kentucky Serenaders	March 1929	Victor
	Bambalina	Fry's Million Dollar Pier Orchestra	1923	Perfect [US1]
	Deep Elm (You Tell 'Em I'm Blue)	Fry's Million Dollar Pier Orchestra	1925	Edison
	Gone-But Still in My Heart	Fry's Million Dollar Pier Orchestra	1923	Pathé Actuelle
	Honolou	Fry's Million Dollar Pier Orchestra	1924	Edison
	I'm Drifting Back to Dreamland	Fry's Million Dollar Pier Orchestra	1923	Pathé Actuelle
	I'm Knee Deep in Daisies (And Head over Heels in Love)	Fry's Million Dollar Pier Orchestra	December 1925	Edison
	Just a Girl That Men Forget	Fry's Million Dollar Pier Orchestra	October 1923	Pathé Actuelle
	Louisville Lou	Fry's Million Dollar Pier Orchestra	1923	Pathé Actuelle
	Mad ('Cause You Treat Me This Way) – Rose Time and You	Fry's Million Dollar Pier Orchestra – Al. Burt's Orchestra	1923	Perfect [US1]
	Mississippi Ripples – Steal a Little Kiss While Dancing	Casino Dance Orchestra [Charlie Fry] – Casino Dance Orchestra [Nathan Glantz]	December 1923	Pathé Actuelle
	There's Yes! Yes! In Your Eyes	Fry's Million Dollar Pier Orchestra	1924	Perfect [US1]
	The Waltz of Long Ago	Fry's Million Dollar Pier Orchestra	December 1923	Perfect [US1]
	When It's Night-Time in Italy, It's Wednesday Over Here	Fry's Million Dollar Pier Orchestra	1923	Perfect [US1]