Fred Fisher(1875-1942)

Composer, songwriter ("Chicago", "Peg O' My Heart", "And the Band Played On"), author and publisher, educated in Germany. He later served in the German Navy and the French Foreign Legion, and came to the USA in 1900, beginning his songwriting career in Chicago, then moving in New York. He became the manager of publishing firms Harms & Company and Leo Feist & Company, and later founded his own publishing firm. He began writing background scores for silent films and then film songs after talkies were introduced, and also special material for vaudeville and night clubs. His film biography is "Oh, You Beautiful Doll". Joining ASCAP in 1921, his oher popular-song compositions include "Dardanella", "Daddy, You've Been a Mother to Me", "Come Josephine in My Flying Machine", "Ireland Must be Heaven", "Every Little Bit Helps", "My Brudda Sylvest", "That Red Head Gal", "If the Man in the Moon Were a Loon", "Make Me Love You Like I Never Loved Before", "I Don't Want Your Kisses If I Can't Have Your Love", "I'm All Dressed Up with a Broken Heart", "They Go Wild, Simply Wild, Over Me", "There's a Little Bit of Bad in Every Good Little Girl", "Oui, Oui, Marie", "There's a Broken Heart for Every Light on Broadway", "Gee, but It's Great o Meet a Fried from Your Home own", "Lorraine, My Beautiful Alsace Lorraine", "Fifty Million Frenchmen Can't Be Wrong", "Happy Days and Lonely Nights", "Blue Is the Night", "Your Feet's Too Big", "Whispering Grass", "You Can't Get Along With 'Em or Without 'Em", "I Found a Rose in the Devil's Garden", "There Ain't No Sweet Man that's Worth the Salt of My Tears", "I Want You to Want Me to Want You", "Who Paid the Rent for Mrs. Rip Van Winkle?", "When I Get You Alone Tonight", "Any Little Girl that's a Nice Little Girl", "There's a Little Spark of Love Still Burning", "I'm on My Way to Mandalay", and "Siam".