Tell Taylor (aka Tellie Taylor also played the part of Bill Smith, a farm hand, in A Glimpse of Paradise, by Frank S. Pixley, a one-act play that often preceded the three-act By Wits Outwitted.

Music publishing and songwriting

: Before launching his Chicago publishing firm in 1907, Taylor had co-founded one of the original Tin Pan Alley publishing houses in New York City with fellow composer, Ernest R. Ball, and former New York City Mayor who then was a state senator, James J. Walker. In 1918, Earl Kelly Smith (1886–1954), who had been affiliated with Taylor's Chicago publishing house since 1908, opened a branch in New York City. assigned on to Forster Music Publisher, Inc.

  • "Rock Me To Sleep in an Old Rocking Chair" (©1926)
  • "Little Old Home in the Valley," lyrics & music by Taylor & Al Bishop (pub. date unknown)
  • "When the Southern Moon is Swinging Low," lyrics & music by Taylor and Fay (©1916)

Taylor Music Corp., Chicago

  • "When The Sun Goes Down in Rainbow Land," lyrics by Taylor, music by Fred Rose. Arrangement by Harry L. Alford. (©1919)

Musical theater (vaudeville)

  • Tiger Lillies
  • In New York Town (1905)

Marriages

thumb|right|400px|Tell Taylor's Marriage License — 1907. Note that [[Buda Godman did not use her legal name Helen Julia Godman.]]

On November 4, 1907, Taylor married Buda Godman (née Helen Julia Godman; 1888–1945),

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