Joseph Meyer

Composer Joseph Meyer enjoyed an extended run of achievement through the heyday of Tin Skillet Alley up with the 1940s, composing the music for pop specifications like “California Right here I actually Come” and “IN THE EVENT THAT YOU Knew Susie (Like I UNDERSTAND Susie).” Meyer was created March 12, 1894, in Modesto, CA, with age group 13 spent annually in Paris learning violin. After senior high school, he worked well retail careers in SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA while moonlighting like a violinist at an area café. Meyer offered in World Battle I, and finally started to dabble in songwriting after his come back; in 1921, he relocated to NEW YORK to try his hands at composing expertly. His first strike came quickly with “My Honey’s Lovin’ Hands” (1922), a cooperation with lyricist Harry Ruby which was later on documented by Barbra Streisand. “California Right here I Arrive,” maybe his best-known structure, adopted in 1924; created with lyricist Friend DeSylva, it became among vocalist Al Jolson’s personal tunes along with a perennial regular. Another track originally created for Jolson, “IN THE EVENT THAT YOU Knew Susie (Like I Knew Susie),” didn’t capture on initially, but converted into a major strike when sung by Eddie Cantor in 1925. That season was a successful one for Meyer, who proved collaborations with Ballard MacDonald, Billy Rose (both these two helped on “Clap Hands, Right here Shows up Charley,” which became the theme for orchestra head Charlie Kunz), Al Dubin, E.Con. “Yip” Harburg, Eddie DeLange, Frank Loesser, and much more. In 1928, Meyer and Roger Wolfe Kahn co-composed the music for the strike “Crazy Tempo,” with lyrics by Irving Caesar. Through the ’30s, Meyer begun to branch out into film aswell, contributing tracks to 1930’s HANDY REMOTE CONTROL as well as the 1931 Joan Crawford/Clark Gable melodrama Possessed (“JUST HOW LONG DOES IT Last?”). The 1934 model from the Ziegfeld Follies highlighted many of his tracks, mainly performed by Sophie Tucker, and the next year he had written several tracks for the film musical George White’s Scandals of 1935. By enough time the ’30s finished, so got Meyer’s heyday, although he penned the casual composition occasionally (including 1945’s “Sergeant Housewife,” with Dorothy Areas). Meyer was inducted in to the Songwriters’ Hall of Popularity, and passed on on June 22, 1987, following a long amount of ill health.