Robert A. King

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Robert Adolph Keizer King (born September 20, 1862 in New York City , † April 14, 1932 there ) was an American songwriter and composer of wind and orchestral music.

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Keizer worked under the names Robert AK King, Bob King, Robert Keizer King as a lyricist and songwriter for various music publishers, initially for Charles Ditson & Company. from 1897 to 1907 as composer and arranger for Leo Feist & Frankenthaler Publications Inc. , also for Shapiro, Bernstein & Company until his death .

In the late 1890s, King wrote the song Strolling (under the double pseudonym Ed Haley and Robert A. Keizer ). In the following years he wrote The Daisy and the Buttefly (recorded in 1902 by the vocal duet Harry Macdonough and HH Dudley), with Ballard MacDonald (1882-1935, music) the song Beatiful Ohio (1918, under the pseudonym Mary Earl ); he also used this name for My Sweetheart is Somewhere in France . With Billy Moll he wrote 'Moonlight on the Colorado' in the 1920s . King also worked with Ted Fiorito , Howard Johnson, and Gus Kahn ; well-known songs were Why Did I Kiss That Girl ?, Beyond the Gates of Paradise, Lafayette, We Hear You Calling, Anona, Apple Blossoms, I Ain't Nobody's Darling, Love Bird, Just Like a Rainbow and Dreamy Alabama . The best known song he was involved in was I Scream, You Scream, We All Scream for Ice Cream (1927, with Howard Johnson, and Billy Moll), which was to become a jazz standard under the short title Ice Cream . King also worked as a composer of orchestral and brass music .

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b William Emmett Studwell: The Americana Song Reader 1997, p. 122
  2. ^ The Sonneck Society Bulletin, Volume 15, 1989
  3. ↑ a b c Wolfgang Suppan, Armin Suppan : Das Neue Lexikon des Blasmusikwesens , 4th edition. Edition, Blasmusikverlag Schulz GmbH, Freiburg-Tiengen, 1994, ISBN 3-923058-07-1 , p. 373 (accessed April 4, 2014).
  4. ^ Robert A. Keizer [ie, Robert King at Library of Congress]
  5. ↑ Catalog of Copyright Entries: Musical compositions, Part 3, 1945
personal data
SURNAME King, Robert A.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES King, Robert Adolph Keizer (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American songwriter and composer of wind and orchestral music
DATE OF BIRTH September 20, 1862
PLACE OF BIRTH New York City
DATE OF DEATH April 14, 1932
Place of death New York City