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Clifford Grey
Clifford Grey (5 January 1887 – 25 September 1941) was an English songwriter, librettist and screenwriter. His birth name was Percival Davis, and he was also known as Clifford Gray. Grey contributed prolifically to dozens of West End theatre, West End and Broadway theatre, Broadway shows, for the period from the First World War to the Second World War, as librettist and lyricist for composers including Ivor Novello, Jerome Kern, Howard Talbot, Ivan Caryll and George Gershwin. Among his best-remembered songs are two from early in his career, in 1916: "If You Were the Only Girl (In the World)" and "Another Little Drink Wouldn't Do Us Any Harm". His later hits include "Got a Date with an Angel" and "Spread a Little Happiness". He also wrote lyrics and screenplays for dozens of films released from 1929 to 1941, and they were used in films released posthumously. For 35 years after 1979 it was widely believed that Grey secretly competed as an American bobsleigher, under the na ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nat Ayer
Nathaniel Davis Ayer (August 5, 1887 – September 19, 1952) was an American composer, pianist, singer and actor. He made most of his career composing and performing in England in Edwardian musical comedy and revue. He also contributed songs to Broadway shows, including some of the ''Ziegfeld Follies''. Ayer's most successful shows were the World War I hits ''The Bing Boys Are Here'' (1916) and '' Yes, Uncle'' (1917). His best-known Broadway song was " Oh, You Beautiful Doll" (1911). Of his many songs composed for London shows, his most famous is probably " If You Were the Only Girl In the World" (1916). After the war, he had less success and was declared bankrupt in 1938. Life and career Early years Ayer was born Nathaniel Davis in Boston, Massachusetts.Larkin, Colin (ed.)"Ayer, Nat D." ''Encyclopedia of Popular Music'', Muze Inc and Oxford University Press, 2009, accessed 31 January 2012 His first big hit was the song "Oh, You Beautiful Doll" (1911), with words by A. Seymou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Melville Gideon
Melville J. Gideon (May 21, 1884 – November 11, 1933) was an American composer, lyricist and performer of ragtime music, composing many themes for hit Broadway musicals including ''The Co-Optimists'' and '' The Beauty Spot''. He was also a director, producer and performer. He was born in New York City, and died in London, aged 49. Among the songs he composed were "Arizona" (1916, lyrics by James Heard), "Washington Square" (1920, lyrics by Cole Porter Cole Albert Porter (June 9, 1891 – October 15, 1964) was an American composer and songwriter. Many of his songs became Standard (music), standards noted for their witty, urbane lyrics, and many of his scores found success on Broadway the ... and Ray E. Goetz), "I Never Realized" (1921, lyrics by Porter) and "Crinoline Gown" (1924, lyrics by Clifford Seyler). References External links * 1884 births 1933 deaths American musical theatre composers American male musical theatre composers Songwriters from New Yor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sigmund Romberg
Sigmund Romberg (July 29, 1887 – November 9, 1951) was a Hungarian-born American composer. He is best known for his Musical theatre, musicals and operettas, particularly ''The Student Prince'' (1924), ''The Desert Song'' (1926) and ''The New Moon'' (1928). Early in his career, Romberg was employed by the Shubert brothers to write music for their musicals and revues, including several vehicles for Al Jolson. For the Shuberts, he also adapted several European operettas for American audiences, including the successful ''Maytime (musical), Maytime'' (1917) and ''Das Dreimäderlhaus, Blossom Time'' (1921). His three hit operettas of the mid-1920s, named above, are in the style of Viennese operetta, but his other works from that time mostly employ the style of American musicals of their eras. He also composed film scores. Biography Early life Romberg was born in Hungary as Siegmund Rosenberg to a Jewish [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henri Christiné
Henri Marius Christiné (27 December 1867 – 25 November 1941) was a French composer of Swiss birth. The son of a French Savoyard watchmaker, Christiné was born in Geneva, Switzerland. He began by teaching at the lycée in Geneva, while pursuing his interest in music and playing organ in a local church. He married a cafe singer whose troupe was passing through Geneva, and went with her to Nice where they were married. He made his home in France, writing songs firstly for his wife and then for popular singers such as Mayol, Dranem, and Fragson. He also conducted for the music hall at the Place Clichy. Although Christiné wrote some operettas for the Scala theatre in Paris before the First World War, his career took off when he had his operetta '' Phi-Phi'' staged the day of the Armistice An armistice is a formal agreement of warring parties to stop fighting. It is not necessarily the end of a war, as it may constitute only a cessation of hostilities while an atte ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Phi-Phi
''Phi-Phi'' is an opérette légère in three acts with music by Henri Christiné and a French libretto by Albert Willemetz and Fabien Solar. The piece was one which founded the new style of French comédie musicale, the first to really use the latest rhythms of jazz (one-step, fox trot) along with a plot which emphasised comedy – with risqué dialogue of puns and anachronisms – more than the romantic style, which had predominated before. The story concerns a sculptor, his wife, and their attractions to, respectively, a model and a prince, as well as a disastrous gambling loss by the sculptor's secretary. The piece opened in 1918, running for three years. Its success of the piece prompted imitators in Paris such as ''Le petit Phi-Phi'' (3 March 1922) and ''Les amants de Phi-Phi'' (13 March 1923). It also led to a spate of similarly titled stage works: ''Clo-Clo'', '' Dédé'', ''You-You'' and ''Pan Pan''. A 1922 London production, in English, was also successful. Performance ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
