Grant Clarke

b. 14 Might 1891, Akron, Ohio, USA, d. 16 Might 1931, California, USA. In his relatively brief career, Offer Clarke added the lyrics for some of the very most interesting and singable tracks of his period. He was an professional, and also proved helpful in music submitting, before writing particular material for superstar names such as for example Al Jolson, Nora Bayes, Fanny Brice, and Bert Williams. One of is own first tracks, ‘Ragtime Cowboy Joe’ (1912, with Lewis Muir- Maurice Abrahams), became well-known for Bob Roberts at that time, and was afterwards revived by Pinky Tomlin, Eddy Howard, Jo Stafford – as well as David Seville’s Chipmunks in 1959. Clarke’s string of hugely likeable hit tracks to the past due 20s, a lot of which were created for displays, included ‘He’d NEED TO GET Under – Obtain Out And Obtain Under – TO REPAIR Up His Car’ (Edgar Leslie -Abrahams), ‘Goodbye Virginia’ (Jean Schwartz), ‘There’s A SMALL AMOUNT OF Bad ATLANTA DIVORCE ATTORNEYS Good Little Lady’ (Fred Fisher), ‘Everything Is usually Peaches Down In Georgia’ (Milton Ager – George W. Meyer), ‘In The Property Of Beginning Once again’ (Meyer), ‘Rosie (Help to make It Rosy for me personally)’ (J.L. Merkur), ‘Second Hands Rose’ (Wayne Hanley, introduced by Fanny Brice in the 1921 Ziegfeld Follies), ‘Blue (And Damaged Hearted)’ (Leslie-Lou Handman), ‘Dirty Hands, Dirty Encounter’ (Leslie- Jimmy Monaco), ‘(House In) Pasadena’ (Leslie- Harry Warren, revived in the united kingdom from the Temperance 7 in 1961), ‘Mandy, CONSTITUTE Your Brain’ and ‘I’m JUST A LITTLE Blackbird BUYING Bluebird’ (both Meyer- Roy Turk -Arthur Johnston, from your 1924 display Dixie To Broadway), ‘Avalon City’ (Nacio Plant Brownish), and ‘Am I Blue?’ (1929). The second option quantity, along with others such as for example ‘In The Property Of Allow’s Pretend’, ‘Allow Me Possess My Desire’, ‘Welcome House’, and ‘Don’t It Mean SOMETHING FOR YOU?’, was written with Harry Akst for the first speaking picture On USING THE Display, which starred Ethel Waters. Clarke caused the same composer once again on other film tunes such as for example ‘I’m The Medication Guy For The Blues’, ‘Jig Jigaloo’, Is usually Everybody Content?’, ‘While Long As We’m Right here With You’, ‘Come BACK AGAIN TO Me personally’, ‘1 Little Beverage’ (with Ed Ward), and ‘Wishing And LOOKING FORWARD TO Love (1930). Additional past due Clarke tunes included ‘Weary River’ (with Louis Silvers) and ‘Sugars Cane’ (Charles Tobias). His additional collaborators included Milton Ager, Al Piantadosi, and Archie Gottler.