Their version of W. C. Handy's "Saint Louis Blues" in 1915 is the first known recording of the song.

[5] Other standards introduced by the band are Porter Steele's "High Society" (1911)[6] and Lew Pollack and Ray Gilbert's "That's a Plenty" (1914).

[7] His band also played the popular instrumental "Too Much Mustard" released by Columbia and Sears's Oxford Records.

[8] At Columbia, Prince also showed initiative in expanding the company's "classical" orchestral catalogue and in experimenting with the size of ensembles that acoustic recording equipment could capture.

In October 1910 he conducted an abbreviated version of Franz Schubert's Symphony No.