Bert Grant (composer)
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Bert Grant (12 July 1878 – 9 May 1951) was an American composer, pianist, and charter member of the
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Biography

He was born in New York in 1878. He worked for both
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music publishers and Broadway theater companies. He performed the first musical broadcast from
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Selected works

*"Along the Rocky Road to Dublin" *"Arrah Go On, I'm Gonna Go Back To Oregon" *"Blue Bird" *"If I Knock the 'L' out of Kelly" *"In the Light of the Same Old Moon" *"The Trolley Car Swing" *" The Worst Is Yet to Come" *"When the Angelus is Ringing" *" When The Sun Goes Down In Romany: My Heart Goes Roaming Back To You" *"When You're Away"


Selected Broadway credits

*''Cinderella on Broadway''


Awards

Seventeen of his songs are in the National Jukebox at the
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References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Grant, Bert 1878 births 1951 deaths American male pianists American musical theatre composers American male musical theatre composers 20th-century American composers 19th-century American composers 19th-century American male musicians 20th-century American male musicians Musicians from New York (state)