Harry Pease

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John Henry "Harry" Pease (born September 6, 1886 in Mount Vernon (New York) , † November 8, 1945 in New York City ) was an American singer, songwriter and songwriter of the Tin Pan Alley era.

Live and act

Pease performed with his later songwriting colleague Edward G. Nelson for twelve years in vaudeville ; he was known as "The Boy with the Golden Voice". The song "I Don't Want to Get Well" was a hit in 1917 for the duo Van and Schenck. Harry Rose introduced "Frankfurter Sandwiches" in a 1929 talkie. Beginning with “That Satisfying Rag” (1910, with Albert Lurch), he wrote a number of rags and jazz- influenced songs for vaudeville artists; he worked with other songwriters such as Al Dubin ("Frankfurter Sandwiches", 1927), Vincent Rose ("I Kissed You in a Dream Last Night (Do You Mind?)", 1938), Dave Dreyer ("In a Little Second Hand Store "), also with Harry Edelheit, Howard Johnson (" That's What I Call a Pal "), Robert Duke Leonard (" Josephine, Please No Lean On Da Bell ", 1945), Charles O'Flynn, Larry Stock, William Haid ("Silvery Moon and Golden Sands"), Harry Tobias ("For All the Love of Mike"), Gilbert Dodge, Johnny White ("Deeze, Doze and Dem", 1923), Larry Vincent and especially with Edward G. Nelson ("The Song of the Sea", "Ia a Shady Nook (By a Bsbbling Brook)", "You Ought to See Her Now", 1917 and " Peggy O'Neil " 1921). "When the Sun Says Goodnight to the Mountains" was in a German version ( When the sun awakens in the mountains ) and a. Loved by Adam & Eve and Rex Gildo .

Pease also wrote songs for the Broadway revues The Grab Bag (1924/25) and George White's Scandals (1928). Songs that Pease was involved in were sometimes released. a. by Charlie Barnet , Count Basie ("Now Will You Be Good"), the California Ramblers ("When I Wore My Daddy's Brown Derby (And You Wore Your Mother's Blue Gown)"), Cab Calloway , Frankie Carle , Eddie Cantor (" Josephine, Please No Lean on the Bell ”), the Dutch Swing College Band (“ When the Sun Says Goodnight to the Mountains ”), Judy Garland (“ Where the Butterflies Kiss the Buttercups Goodnight ”), Irving Kaufman (“ Thats My Mammy ! "), Mitch Miller , Billy Murray (" Ten Little Fingers and Ten Little Toes "), Willie Nelson (" Take My Word "), Louis Prima , Leon Redbone (" At the Chocolate Bon Bon Ball "), Frank Sinatra , Lucille Starr ("Quand le soleil dit bonjour aux montagnes"), Fats Waller ("Just Made Up with That Old Girl of Mine") and Slim Whitman covered.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Worldcat to Harry Pease
  2. ↑ Harry Pease in the Internet Movie Database (English)Template: IMDb / Maintenance / "imported from" is missing
  3. ↑ a b Stars of Vaudeville # 798: Harry Pease
  4. ↑ PEASE-L Archives at Ancestry.com
  5. ^ Anthony Slide: The Encyclopedia of Vaudeville , p. 111
  6. ↑ a b c d the database of popular music
  7. ↑ http://cdm16688.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/search/searchterm/Harry South Georgian University
  8. ^ York Space Institutional repository
  9. ^ Billboard - July 8, 1950, p. 37
  10. ^ You Ought to See Her Now in the Library of Congress
  11. ^ Harry Pease in the Internet Broadway Database
  12. ↑ See credits in the Allmusic entry
personal data
SURNAME Pease, Harry
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Pease, John Henry
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American songwriter and songwriter
DATE OF BIRTH September 6, 1886
PLACE OF BIRTH Mount Vernon (New York)
DATE OF DEATH November 8, 1945
Place of death New York City