Will A. Heelan

William A. Heelan was an American lyricist during the early 20th century. He collaborated with a number of composers and lyricists including E. P. Moran, Seymour Furth, J. Fred Helf and Harry Von Tilzer.

Credits

"Ha-le ha-lo" or "That's what the Germans sang"

• 1898: "I Want A Coon To Match My Own Complexion" ^[1]

• 1899: "I'd Leave My Happy Home for You", "Rauss mit ihm" ^[2]
• 1900: "Every Race Has a Flag but the Coon", "In The House Of Too Much Trouble", "There Are Two Sides To A Story".
• 1901: "Ha-le ha-lo" or "That's what the Germans sang", ^[3] "Maizy, my dusky daisy" ^[4]
• 1902: "The Message Of The Rose".
• 1903: "The Message Of The Rose".
• 1904: "When the Coons have a Dreamland of their Own" ^[5]
• 1906: "Alice, Where Art Thou Going?", "Nothing Like That In Our Family"
• 1907: "No Wedding Bells For Me".
• 1908: "A Singer Sang A Song".

References

1. "I want a coon to match my own complexion". NYPL Digital Collections. Retrieved 2025-07-05.
2. Heelan, Will A.; Von Tilzer, Harry (1899). Rauss mit ihm. New York: Shapiro, Bernstein and Von Tilzer. Retrieved 21 September 2014.
3. Heelan, Will A. (1901). Ha-le ha-lo. New York: Jos. W. Stern and Co. Retrieved 7 September 2014.
4. Heelan, Will A. (1901). Maizy, my dusky daisy. New York: Jos. W. Stern and Co. Retrieved 20 September 2014.
5. "Verification required". repository.library.brown.edu. Retrieved 2025-07-05.

External links

• Tin Pan Alley Composer and lyricist Biographies Archived 2007-05-25 at the Wayback Machine