Byron Gay

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Byron Sturges Gay (born August 28, 1886 in Chicago , † December 22, 1945 in Tucson ) was an American songwriter .

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Gay studied at the United States Naval Academy in Annapolis from 1907 to 1909 and then worked in the music industry in Los Angeles. In 1914 he wrote the comedy song The Little Ford Rambled Right Along , which was interpreted by many musicians on stage and on phonograms. Then he composed the music for The Uplifters' Minstrels (1916), L. Frank Baum's farce for The Uplifters . From 1917 he lived with his wife in New York, where he headed the Sunshine Publishing Company and wrote songs for the revues The Greenwich Village Follies of 1919 and 1921, including The Vamp , which became a hit in 1919. That same year he wrote another hit with Arnold Johnson, Oh!

From this time he wrote u. a. the songs Fate, Four or Five Times , Just a Little Drink, Sittin 'on a Log (Pettin' My Dog), Rose of Monterey, Toodle-oo So Long Good-Bye and The World Is Mine for I Have You , which u . a. by Count Basie , Sidney Bechet , California Ramblers , Ella Fitzgerald , Benny Goodman , Lionel Hampton , Pee Wee Hunt , Jimmie Noone , Schnuckenack Reinhardt , Rex Stewart , Anson Weeks or Bob Wills . His Shimmy Vamp got the more evocative title "Thousand and One Nights" in Germany through Eddy Beuth .

From 1923 Gay worked again from California. He cooperated u. a. with Richard A. Whiting ( Horses (1924) and Fire , 1926) and with Charles N. Daniels. He also wrote some theme songs for feature films and founded the Symphonic Dance Orchestra in Los Angeles. He also played in the studio orchestras.

Gay accompanied the polar explorer Richard E. Byrd , whom he had met at the military academy in Annapolis, on his second Antarctic expedition in 1933. He is buried in the Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Glendale, California.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Byron Gay | IBDB: The official source for Broadway Information . IBDB. Retrieved March 31, 2013.
  2. ↑ cf. worldcat.org
  3. ↑ http://trove.nla.gov.au/work/30391041?q&sort=holdings+desc&_=1367457896610&versionId=36882747
  4. ↑ http://trove.nla.gov.au/work/34816807?versionId=43166619
  5. ↑ Entry in Find a Grave
personal data
SURNAME Gay, Byron
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Gay, Byron Sturges
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American songwriter
DATE OF BIRTH August 28, 1886
PLACE OF BIRTH Chicago
DATE OF DEATH December 22, 1945
Place of death Tucson