Biography

Songwriter ("Ragtime Cowboy Joe", "Second Hand Rose", "Am I Blue?"), author and publisher, educated in Akron (OH) High School, then an actor in stock companies, and later a staff writer for New York music publishing firms. He wrote special material for Bert Williams, Fanny Brice, Eva Tanguay, Nora Bayes, and Al Jolson, and also the Broadway stage score for "Dixie to Broadway" and songs for "Ziegfeld Follies of 1921" and "Bombo". Joining ASCAP in 1914 as a charter member, he collaborated musically with George Meyer, Harry Akst, James Monaco, Fred Fisher, Harry Warren, Al Piantadosi, Milton Ager, Archie Gottler, Arthur Johnston, James Hanley, and Lewis Muir. His other popular-song compositions include "Dat's Harmony", "He'd Have to Get Under", "When You're in Love With Someone", "Beatrice Fairfax", "There's a Little Bit of Baid in Every Good little Girl", "You Can't Get Along With 'Em or Without 'Em", "In the Land of Beginning Again", "Everything is Peaches Down in Georgia", "I Hate to Lose You", "Oogie Oogie Wa Wa", "Dirty Hands, Dirty Face", "Home in Pasadena", "Mandy, Make Up Your Mind", "Dixie Dreams", "I'm a Little Blackbird Looking For a Bluebird", "Birmingham Bertha", "I'm the Medicine Man for the Blues", and "Weary River".
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