Charlotte Blake

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Cover picture of the music edition of The Wish Bone. A Ragtime Twoster (1909)

Charlotte M. Blake (born May 30, 1885 in Ohio , † August 21, 1979 in Santa Monica ) was an American composer of rags and other popular music .

Live and act

Blake began her career at the age of 18 when she started working as a writer, arranger and music demonstrator for the music publisher Jerome H. Remick in Detroit. Her first composition "King Cupid" was published in 1903, the last in 1919. A total of 35 of her compositions were published, waltzes , marches and rags. Until 1906, when her compositions were published, most of which were published by Remick, her full first name (which was abbreviated with a gender-neutral "C.") was missing.

She later lived in Hollywood and worked intermittently at Douglas Aircraft Company . Her works were rediscovered by Max Morath, who recorded some of her compositions on his album The Ragtime Women .

Compositions

Cover picture of the music edition of Poker Rag (1909)
Cover picture of the music edition of The Gravel Rag (1908)
  • King Cupid (1903)
  • The Missouri Mule March (1904)
  • Dainty Dames - A Novelette (1905)
  • The Mascot (March, 1905)
  • My Lady Laughter (Waltz, 1905)
  • Love Is King (Waltz, 1906)
  • Could You Read My Heart (Text: Arthur Gillespie, 1906)
  • A Night, A Girl, A Moon (1907)
  • Curly: March And Two Step (1907)
  • Orchids, Novelette Three Step (1907)
  • Hip Hip Hoorah (March, 1907)
  • The Last Kiss (Waltz, 1907)
  • I Wonder If It's You (Text: Vincent P. Bryan, 1907)
  • Bogie Man - A Creep-Mouse Tune (1907)
  • So Near and Yet So Far (with Arthur Gillespie, 1907)
  • Love Tree (1908)
  • The Gravel Rag (1908)
  • In Mem'ry of You, Sweetheart (text Arthur Gillespie, 1908)
  • It Makes a Lot of Difference When You're With the Girl You Love (Text: Arthur Gillespie and Harold Ward, 1909)
  • Poker Rag (1909)
  • Honey When It's Sunny (Text: Arthur Gillespie and Collin Davis, 1909)
  • The Wish Bone (Rag, 1909)
  • Lily Eyes: Valse Poetique (1909)
  • Yankee Kid (1909)
  • Honey Bug (Text: Earle Clinton Jones, 1910)
  • Spoonlight (Text: Earle Clinton Jones, 1910)
  • Tenderfoot (Text: Earle Clinton Jones, 1910)
  • Bridal Veil (Waltz, 1910)
  • You're a Classy Lassie (with Earle Clinton Jones, 1910)
  • Love Ain't Likin ', Likin' Ain't Love (with Earle Clinton Jones, 1910)
  • Meet Me Half Way (1910)
  • Miss Coquette (1910)
  • Love's Dream of You (with Earle Clinton Jones, 1910)
  • Roses Remind Me of You (with Earle Clinton Jones, 1910)
  • The Road to Loveland (with Earle Clinton Jones and Charles N. Daniels, 1911)
  • I Don't Need the Moonlight to Make Love to You (with Francis X. Conlan, 1911)
  • That Tired Rag (1911)
  • The Harbor of Love (Text: Earle Clinton Jones, 1911)
  • Queen of the Roses (1913)
  • Land of Beautiful Dreams (with Maurice E. Marke, 1913)
  • Rose of the World (with Richard W. Pascoe, 1915)
  • Honey When It's Money (1919)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Women composers in American popular song . The Parlor Songs Academy. Retrieved January 25, 2013.
  2. ^ Sheet music: Charlotte Blake . Geoff Grainger. Archived from the original on June 17, 2010. Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved January 25, 2013. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.grainger.de
  3. ^ Jon Milan Detroit: Ragtime and the Jazz Age Arcardia Publishing 2009, p. 38
personal data
SURNAME Blake, Charlotte
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Blake, Charlotte M.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American composer
DATE OF BIRTH May 30, 1885
PLACE OF BIRTH Ohio
DATE OF DEATH August 21, 1979
Place of death Santa Monica