Herman Hupfeld(1894-1951)
- Composer
- Music Department
- Soundtrack
Songwriter ("As Time Goes By"), composer, singer, author and pianist
who followed his high school education with United States Navy military
service in World War I. He sang his own songs in the Broadway revue
"Ziegfeld's Midnight Frolic" (1912) and wrote songs for the musicals "A
la Carte", "The Little Show", "Second Little Show", "Everybody's
Welcome", and "Murder at the Vanities". He was later a singer and
pianist throughout the United States and Europe, and during World War
II, he entertained in military camps and hospitals. Joining ASCAP in
1931, his other popular-song compositions include "Sing Something
Simple", "When Yuba Plays the Rhumba on the Tuba", "Let's Put Out the
Lights and Go to Sleep", "Are You Making Any Money?", "Savage
Serenade", "Down the Old Back Road", "A Hut in Hoboken", "Night Owl",
"Honey Ma Love", "Baby's Blue", and "The Calinda".
