Bert Grant
Bert Grant (12 July 1878 – 9 May 1951) was an American composer, pianist, and charter member of the American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers.[1]
Biography[]
He was born in New York in 1878.[2]
He worked for both Tin Pan Alley music publishers and Broadway theater companies.[3]
He performed the first musical broadcast from Roselle Park, New Jersey.[4]
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[5]
Awards[]
Seventeen of his songs are in the National Jukebox at the Library of Congress.[6]
References[]
- ^ "Bert Grant". IMDb.com.
- ^ Tyler, Don (2016). Music of the First World War. Santa Barbara, California: Greenwood, an imprint of ABC-CLIO, LLC. p. 234. ISBN 9781440839962.
- ^ League, The Broadway. "Bert Grant – Broadway Cast & Staff - IBDB". IBDB.com.
- ^ Tyler, Don (2007). Hit Songs, 1900-1955: American Popular Music of the Pre-Rock Era. Jefferson, NC: McFarland. p. 400. ISBN 978-0786429462.
- ^ Bordman, Gerald Martin; Norton, Richard (2010). American musical theatre: a chronicle. New York: Oxford University Press. p. 401. ISBN 9780199729708.
- ^ https://www.loc.gov/jukebox/artists/detail/id/761/
Categories:
- 1878 births
- 1951 deaths
- American male pianists
- American musical theatre composers
- American male composers
- 20th-century composers
- 19th-century American composers
- 19th-century American male musicians
- 20th-century American male musicians