Edgar Leslie(1885-1976)

Prolific composer, songwriter, author and publisher Edgar Leslie was born in Stamford, Connecticut on New Year's Eve on 1885 and was educated at Cooper Union in New York. A charter member of ASCAP in 1914 and an ASCAP director 1931-1941 and again 1947-1953, he became a publisher and collaborated musically with Maurie Abrams, Fred Ahlert, Irving Berlin, Joe Burke, Walter Donaldson, E. Ray Goetz, Archie Gottler, George Meyer, Jimmy Monaco, Harry Warren, Pete Wendling, and Joe Young. He wrote special material for Belle Baker, James Barton, Lew Dockstader, Julian Rose, Joe Welch and Nat Wills, and many songs for films including "Moon Over Miami", "On Treasure Island", "For Me and My Gal", "That Italian Rag", "When Ragtime Rosie Ragged the Rosary", "Lord, Have Mercy on the Married Man", "Where Was Moses When the Lights Went Out?", "He'd Have to Get Under", "Put It On, Take it Off", "When the Grown Up Ladies Act Like Babies", "America, I Love You", "Hello Hawaii, How Are You", "In the Gold Fields of Nevada", "All the Quakers Are Shoulder Shakers", "Take Your Girlie to the Movies", "Take Me to the Land of Jazz", "On the Gin Gin Ginny Shore", "Oogie Oogie Wa Wa", "Rose of the Rio Grande", "Home in Pasadena", "I'll Take Her Back If She Wants to Come Back", "Mistakes", "Kansas Kitty", "Tain't No Sin", "Romance", "I Remember You from Somewhere", "By the River Saine Marie", "You've Got Me in the Palm of Your Hand", "Crazy People", "I Wake Up Smiling", "The Moon Was Yellow", "In a Little Gypsy Tearoom", "Cling to Me", "A Little Bit Independent", "Midnight Blue", "Robins and Roses", "It Looks Like Rain in Cherry Blossom Lane", "At a Perfume Counter", "We Must Be Vigilant", "You're Over the Hill", "Oky Doky Tokyo" and many others..