Walter Donaldson

Through the Roaring ’20s, songwriter Walter Donaldson saluted the original, down-home areas of American life, not merely with tracks like “My Mammy,” “My Blue Heaven,” “Isn’t She the Sweetest Thing,” “My Baby Just Cares for me personally,” and “Appreciate Me or Keep Me,” but additionally along with his parade of state-themed (usually Southern) tracks: “BACK in Tennessee,” “Blue Kentucky Moon,” “Carolina each day,” “Georgia,” “Lazy Lou’siana Moon,” “ALLOW IT Rain, ALLOW IT Pour (I’M GOING TO BE in Virginia each day),” “My Ohio House,” “Nevada,” and “Sweet Indiana House.” Delivered decidedly taken off Dixie in Brooklyn, Donaldson was raised within a musical family members but never researched music himself. Around 1910, he started working being a demonstrator in a music publisher, but was terminated for composing his own tracks on work period. Before American participation in World Battle I, he published his first main hits, “BACK in Tennessee” (lyrics by William Jerome), “The Child of Rosie O’Grady” (lyrics by Monty C. Brice), and “You’re a Mil Kilometers From Nowhere” (lyrics by Sam M. Lewis and Joe Small). While enjoyable American soldiers at one military base, he fulfilled Irving Berlin; following the battle, he settled right into a work with Berlin’s music-publishing organization and began composing the biggest strikes of his profession. Through the 1920s, Donaldson was probably the busiest songwriter in the country; he wrote a huge selection of tunes, and earned strikes with “My Mammy,” “Yes Sir, That’s My Baby,” “Isn’t She the Sweetest Thing,” “My Sweetie Converted Me Down,” “For My Sweetheart,” “At Sundown,” “My Blue Heaven,” “Makin’ Whoopee,” “My Baby Simply Cares for me personally,” “Like Me or Keep Me,” “In the center of the night time,” and “You Didn’t Need to Inform Me.” Donaldson created his own posting organization in 1928, and even though his hits started to dry out in the first ’30s, he added to many movies during the 10 years. He continued composing until 1943, and presided over his posting company until his loss of life in 1947.