Biography

Songwriter ("I'm Forever Blowing Bubbles," "Honolulu Bundle"), singer, composer, and author, educated at Betts Military Academy in Stamford, Connecticut. He was a sheet-music demonstrator at several New York department stores and a professional music manager for several publishing companies, later joining the vaudeville teams Tracey & Vincent and Franklyn & Vincent, and the radio/recording team The Happy Chappies with Howard Wright. He appeared in the stage act "A Trip to Hitland," and wrote songs for Healy's "Ice Follies," the "Palais Royal Revue," and London's "Cochran Revue," as well as the Broadway revues "Show of Wonders," "Passing Shows," and "Ziegfeld's Midnight Frolics." Joining ASCAP in 1922, his other popular-song compositions included "When the Bloom Is on the Sage," "La Veeda," "When Old Bill Bailey Plays the Ukulele," "The Strawberry Roan," "I Know What It Means to Be Lonesome," "Give A Little Credit to Your Dad," "Mellow Mountain Moon," "Little Girl Dressed in Blue," "Pucker Up and Whistle," "That Railroad Rag," "Down South Everybody's Happy," "Pretty Little Cinderella," "At the End of the Lane," "Liza," "My Old Man," "I Know Why I Cry," "Sitting on the Bank by the River," "Nevada Nevada Nevada," "It's Great to Love Someone Who Loves You Too," "My Pretty Quadroon," "Me and My Burro," "Old Black Mountain Trail," "My Dear Old Arizona Home," and "It's Time to Say Aloha."
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