Harry P. Guy

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Harry P. Guy
Born1870
DiedSeptember 16, 1950
EraRagtime

Harry P. Guy (1870—September 16, 1950) was an American ragtime composer.

Guy was born in Zanesville, Ohio, where he wrote his first compositions.[1] He then moved to New York, where he studied under Victor Herbert and started his career writing musical arrangements.[2] He later moved to Detroit in 1895, where he worked first for Whitney-Warner and then , writing songs for many famous artists of the era.[3] [4] He also composed arrangements for the University of Michigan and University of Detroit.[2] His 1898 song, Echos from the Snowball Club, has become a ragtime classic.[3] Later in life, he fell into obscurity, living alone in poverty until he died on September 16, 1950.[2] He was buried at Elmwood Cemetery in Detroit, in an unmarked grave until a group of local enthusiasts and citizens held a ceremony and placed a marker in 2003.[3]

List of compositions[]

Echoes from the Snowball Club (1898)
Pearl of the Harem (1901)
  • The Floweret (1887)
  • My Wooing (1888)
  • When the Dew Begems the Lea (1889)
  • Echoes from the Snowball Club (1898)
  • Now For a Stranger Don't Cast Me Aside (1898)
  • Cleanin' Up in Georgia (1899)
  • Belle of the Creoles (1899)
  • Pearl of the Harem (1901)
  • Pepper Pot Rag (1901)
  • Daughters of Dahomey (1902)
  • Song of the Western Hunter (1902)
  • Down in Mobile (1904)
  • Walkin' and Talkin' (1906)
  • Sixty-Six (1907)
  • As Long As There Is Love (I Will Love You) (with Eddie McGrath) (1914)
  • Love's Eternity (1915)
  • We'll Stand Our Flag and the United States (1917)
  • Yankee's Doodle In the Flight To Stay (1918)
  • You and I (1921)
  • That Home In Paradise (Love and Home Forever) (1921)
  • Big Hearted Baby (with Raymond B. Egan) (1928)

References[]

  1. ^ David Meyers; Candice Watkins; Arnett Howard & James Loeffler. Ohio Jazz. Retrieved 2013-12-27.
  2. ^ Jump up to: a b c "Arranger of Hit Tunes Dies Here in Obscurity". Detroit Free Press. September 19, 1950. p. 12 – via Newspapers.com.
  3. ^ Jump up to: a b c Jon Milan (2009). Detroit: Ragtime and the Jazz Age. pp. 19–21. Retrieved 2013-12-27.
  4. ^ Lars Olof Björn (2001). Before Motown: A History of Jazz in Detroit, 1920-60. University of Michigan Press. p. 14. Retrieved 2013-12-27.

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