Lindsay McPhail

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Matthew Lindsay McPhail, Jr. (born November 9, 1895 in Park Ridge , Illinois , † March 3, 1965 in Tupper Lake , Franklin County, New York ) was an American songwriter and musician ( piano ) of ragtime and early jazz .

Life

McPhail, whose father Matthew Lindsay McPhail (1854-1931) came from Scotland and was active as a choir director and composer of hymns , began his career in the mid-1910s; In 1917 he received an award in a music competition. In 1921 he played the two piano solo numbers "Kitten on the Keys" and "San" in New York City for the record labels Pathé and Olympic. "San" became McPhail's best-known composition and was also covered by the Mound City Blue Blowers , Ben Selvin , Original Louisiana Five , The Georgia Melodians , Husk O'Hare , Ted Lewis , Alex Hyde and Julian Fuhs in the early 1920s , in later years also by Johnny Dodds , Abe Lyman , Jimmie Noone , Gene Kardos , Kid Ory , George Lewis , Papa Celestin , Turk Murphy , Don Redman , Art Hodes , Rex Stewart and numerous European and American Dixieland bands.

In the early 1920s, a quintet line-up ( McPhail's Jazz Orchestra Of Chicago ) created the title “Zowie!”. In 1923 he played in Chicago with Jack Chapman and His Drake Hotel Orchestra, with which he recorded the number "Tie Me to Your Apron Strings Again" for Victor Records .

In addition to “San”, Lindsay McPhail wrote titles such as “Some Little Bird” (both were recorded by the Paul Whiteman Orchestra at this time ), as well as “Some Stuff”, “Cheerio” (1923), “Radio Jazz” (1924, both with the songwriter) Jack Nelson), “Foolish Child” (with Nelson and Roy Bargy ), “The Swing Waltz (Don't Let It Throw You)” (with Ed East), “Amelia Earhart's Last Flight” (with Dave McEnery) and the Christmas carols "Who? Santa Claus! ”(1937, with W. Clark Harrington),“ I Want a Dog for Christmas ”and“ Santa Claus Is Mad at Me ”(both with Walt (er) Michaels).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Matthew Lindsay McPhail, Jr in the Find a Grave database . Accessed July 10, 2019.
  2. ↑ Matthew Lindsay McPhail at Hymntime.com
  3. ↑ Mentioned in The Musical Monitor , Volume 6, Mrs. David Allen Campbell, Publisher, 1916
  4. ↑ piano contest to Leo Depstein, Lindsay McPhail and Grace Welch ; quoted according to Musical America , Volume 26, Musical America Corporation, 1917, p. 26
  5. ↑ The number recorded by Lindsay McPhail (composed by Zez Confrey) was published under the pseudonym George Brown by Black Swan (# 2061-A).
  6. ↑ David A. Jasen. Tin Pan Alley : An Encyclopedia of the Golden Age of American Song . 2004, p. 196
  7. ↑ a b Tom Lord : The Jazz Discography (online, accessed May 12, 2018)
  8. ↑ Tantalizing Tingle: A Discography of Early ragtime, jazz, and Novelty , ed. by Ross Laird. 1995, p. 100
  9. ^ San at Library of Congress
  10. ^ McPhail at Library of Congress
  11. ^ Music Trades, Volume 65, Music Trades Corporation, 1923
  12. ^ Catalog of Copyright Entries: Third series, 1950, p. 94
  13. ^ Electronics World, Volume 5. Ziff-Davis Publishing Company, 1924
  14. ^ Catalog of Copyright Entries: Third series, 1967, p. 2017
  15. ↑ Lindsay McPhail at Discogs (English)
  16. ^ Catalog of Copyright Entries: Third series. 1954, p. 174
personal data
SURNAME McPhail, Lindsay
ALTERNATIVE NAMES McPhail Junior, Matthew Lindsay
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American songwriter and jazz musician
DATE OF BIRTH November 9, 1895
PLACE OF BIRTH Park Ridge, Illinois
DATE OF DEATH March 3, 1965
Place of death Tupper Lake (Village)