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- Birth nameCharles Kassel Harris
- Songwriter ("After The Ball", "Hello Central, Give Me Heaven", "Break the News to Mother"), composer, author and publisher who began his career as a songwriter and banjo player for vaudeville acts. He became a music publisher in Chicago, Illinois and also wrote silent film scripts and plays. Joining ASCAP in 1914 as a charter member, his other popular-song compositions include "I'm Trying So Hard to Forget You", "There'll Come a Time", "Better than Gold", "Just Behind the Times", "I've Just Come to Say Goodbye", "Mid the Green Fields of Virginia", "For Old Time's Sake", "I've a Longing in My Heart for You, Louise", "Always in the Way", "Would You Care?", "The Best Things in Life", "Nobody Knows, Nobody Cares", "Songs of Yesterday", and several more.
- IMDb mini biography by: Hup234!
- SpouseCora Lehrberg(November 12, 1893 - December 22, 1930) (his death, 2 children)
- His most famous musical composition is the song "After The Ball", written in 1892. The song was a flop at first, but became a huge hit when it was interpolated into the 1891 play, "A Trip To Chinatown", which was still running at the time. It has remained popular to this day as an example of the kind of popular music played in the 1890s. It was interpolated by Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein II into their classic 1927 musical, "Show Boat", to be sung at a climactic, poignant part in the story, and is always used in stage productions of the show. It was also used in the 1936 and 1951 film versions, but not in the 1929 part-talkie version.
- Inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1970.
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