Sam Lewis(1885-1959)

Songwriter and author Samuel L. Lewis was a charter member of the American Society of Composers and Publishers (ASCAP) in 1914, and a charter member of The Friars. After a public-school education, he began singing in cafes. His chief lyrics-collaborator was Joe Young, and his main composer alliances were with Fred Ahlert, Walter Donaldson, Bert Grant, Harry Warren, Jean Schwartz, George Meyer, Ted Fiorito, J. Fred Coots, Ray Henderson, Victor Young, Peter DeRose, and Harry Akst. He wrote the Broadway stage score for "The Laugh Parade" and songs for films including "Spring Is Here". His popular-song compositions include "Rockabye Your Baby With a Dixie Melody", "My Mammy", "Five Foot Two, Eyes of Blue", "I'm Sitting on Top of The World", "Dinah", "In a Little Spanish Town", "Street of Dreams", "For All We Know", "I Kiss Your Hand, Madame", "Just Friends", "When You're a Long, Long Way From Home", "My Mother's Rosary", "Come On and Baby Me", "Arrah, Go On, I'm Gonna Go Back to Oregon", "If I Knock the 'L' Out of Kelly", "Where Did Robinson Crusoe Go with Friday on Saturday Night?", "I'm All Bound 'Round With the Mason-Dixon Line", "Why Do They All Take the Night Boat to Albany?", "Hello, Central, Give Me No Man's Land", "Just a Baby's Prayer at Twilight", "How Ya Gonna Keep 'Em Down On the Farm?", "Baby Blue", "Don't Cry, Frenchy, Don't Cry", "You're a Million Miles from Nowhere", "Who Played Poker with Pocahontas When John Smith Went Away?", "I'd Love to Fall Asleep and Wake Up in My Mammy's Arms", "Tuck Me to Sleep in My Old 'Tucky Home", "King for a Day", "Laugh, Clown, Laugh", "Then You've Never Been Blue", "Got Her Off My Hands but Can't Get Her Off My Mind", "Cryin' For the Carolines", "Telling It to the Daisies", ""Too Late", "Lawd, You Made the Night Too Long", "One Minute to One", "I Believe in Miracles", "A Beautiful Lady in Blue", "Put Your Heart in a Song", "Gloomy Sunday", "Gonna Hitch My Wagon to a Star", "I Heard a Forest Praying", "What's the Matter With Me?", and "Have a Little Faith in Me".