James Pierpont (musician) - Other Compositions

Other Compositions

James Pierpont's other compositions include:

• "The Returned Californian", 1852
• "Kitty Crow", Ballad, 1853
• "The Coquette, A Comic Song", 1853, with "Words by Miss C. B.". "The Coquet" was an arrangement for guitar by Pierpont of "The Coquette"
• "The Colored Coquette", a minstrel song, 1853
• "To the Loved Ones at Home", 1854
• "Ring the Bell, Fanny", 1854
• "Geraldine", 1854
• *Poor Elsie", Ballad, 1854
• "The Know Nothing Polka", 1854
• "The Starlight Serenade", 1855
• "To All I Love, 'Good Night'"
• "I Mourn For My Old Cottage Home"
• "Gentle Nettie Moore" or as "The Little White Cottage", 1857, Marshall S. Pike, lyrics, "Melody by G. S. P.", "Chorus and Piano Accompaniment by J. S. Pierpont"
• "Wait, Lady, Wait"
• "Quitman Town March"
• "Our Battle Flag"
• "We Conquer or Die", 1861
• "Strike for the South", 1863
• "Oh! Let Me Not Neglected Die!"

Bob Dylan based his song "Nettie Moore" on the Modern Times (2006) album on "Gentle Nettie Moore". The structure of the chorus and the first two lines ("Oh, I miss you Nettie Moore / And my happiness is o'er") of Bob Dylan's "Nettie Moore" are the same as those of "The Little White Cottage, or Gentle Nettie Moore", the ballad published in 1857 in Boston, by Marshall S. Pike (poetry), G.S.P. (melody) and James S. Pierpont (chorus and piano accompaniment).

The Sons of the Pioneers with Roy Rogers recorded "Gentle Nettie Moore" in August, 1934 for Standard Radio in Los Angeles and released it as a 33 RPM radio disc, EE Master 1720. The recording was reissued on the CD #4 of the 5 CD set Songs Of The Prairies - The Standard Transcriptions - Part. 1 - 1934-1935 on Bear Family, BCD 15710 EI, 1998, Germany. The songwriting credit on this collection is listed as: "Gentle Nettie Moore" (Marshall S. Pike/James Pierpont).

James Pierpont is buried at Laurel Grove Cemetery in Savannah, Georgia. He was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1970.