Ernest R. Ball

b. 22 July 1878, Cleveland, Ohio, USA, d. 3 Might 1927, Santa Ana, California, USA. A prolific author of well-known tracks from 1904-27, many of them with a definite Irish flavour, Ball researched in the Cleveland Conservatory before playing the piano in vaudeville homes. He later on spent plenty of years as an employee composer for a fresh York music posting company. One of is own earliest strikes was ‘Can YOU LIKE Me In Dec (As You Perform IN-MAY?)’ (created with Wayne J. Walker), that was effective in 1906 for the Haydn Quartet and Albert Campbell. This is followed by additional well-known items, many of them from stage displays, including ‘Like Me AS WELL AS THE World Can be Mine’ (1906, with David Reed Jnr.), ‘In YOUR GARDEN Of My Center’ (1908, Caro Roma), ‘Mom Machree’ (1910, Rida Johnson Youthful -Chauncey Olcott, from Barry Of Barrymore), ‘Right up until The Sands FROM THE Desert Grow Chilly’ (1911, George Graff), ‘When Irish Eye Are Smiling’ (1912, Chauncey Olcott-Graff, through the Isle O’ Dreams), ‘A LITTLE Heaven (Sure They Contact It Ireland)’ (1914, J. Keirn Brennan, through the Center Of Paddy Whack), ‘All THE ENTIRE WORLD IS GOING TO BE Jealous Of Me’ (1917, Al Dubin), ‘Dear Small Boy Of Mine’ (1918, Brennan), ‘Allow ALL OF THOSE OTHER World Move By’ (1919, Brennan), ‘I’ll Ignore You’ (1921, Annalu Uses up), and ‘Western world Of THE FANTASTIC Separate’ (1924, George Whiting). Many of the above had been presented or popularized by performers such as for example Chauncey Olcott, Bing Crosby, Charles Harrison, Elizabeth Spencer, Henry Burr and John McCormack. ‘Mom Machree’ was McCormack’s theme melody, and that as well as other Ball compositions had been featured over time in several movies, including SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA (1930), Let Independence Ring (1938), A SMALL AMOUNT OF Heaven (1940), Doughboys In Ireland (1943), My Crazy Irish Rose (1947), Best O’ The Morning hours (1949), BY Light FROM THE Silvery Moon (1953), The Eddie Cantor Tale (1953), and Beau Wayne (1957). Ball’s enjoyable but largely imaginary film biopic, Irish Eye Are Smiling (1944), which starred Dick Haymes because the composer, alongside Monty Woolley and June Havoc, also included a few of his top tracks.