Henry Creamer

Lyricist Henry Creamer wrote many main traditional pop music including “AFTER YOU HAVE Gone” (1918) and “Method Straight down Yonder in New Orleans” (1922). Delivered in 1879 in Richmond, VA, Creamer proved helpful within a music firm in NY before executing vaudeville over the U.S. and European countries, as a vocalist and dancer. During this time period, Creamer was generally teamed with pianist Turner Layton, with whom he composed their vaudeville materials. Creamer continued to write for a couple minor Broadway displays through the 1920s, including Strut Miss Lizzie (1922). His main hit songs consist of “That is clearly a Lots” (1909), “Dear Aged Southland” (1921), “Alabama Stomp” (1926), and “EASILY Could Be ALONG WITH YOU” (1930), a music which Ruth Etting effectively documented and which later on became the theme for McKinney’s Natural cotton Pickers. Creamer collaborated with additional composers during the period of his profession, including J.C. Johnson, Jimmy Johnson, and vaudevillian Bert Williams. Creamer also co-founded Golf club Clef, a dark entertainers group.