Harry S. Miller

Harry S. Miller

Harry S. Miller (born 1867cite book |last=Boyden |first=Frank L. |authorlink=Frank Boyden|title=Popular American Composers |origyear=1902 |year=1918 |publisher=Herbert H. Taylor |location=New York |isbn= |pages=91-92|chapter=Harry S. Miller] ) was a prolific American lyricist, composer, and sometimes playwright who lived in New York and Chicago in the 19th and early 20th centuries and is best known for his song "", published in 1893.

Life

Born in Philadelphia in 1867 to Isaac D. Miller and Amelia Straub, Miller was the second of four brothers. [http://dgmweb.net/genealogy/FGS/M/MillerIsaacD-AmeliaStraub.shtml Miller Parentage] ] He was raised in Bellefonte, Pennsylvania, and moved to New York City in 1896 to further his career as a lyricist.

Miller's songs were part of Tin Pan Alley, and were sold to various TPA entertainers (for example, vaudeville entertainer Tony Pastor popularized "The Cat Came Back" [ [http://www.ibiblio.org/fiddlers/AN_AP.htm The Fiddler's Companion: Harry S. Miller] ] and Edward M. Favor popularized "I'll Not Go Out with Reilly Any More" [ [http://www.phonozoic.net/p0019x.htm Edward M. Favor Sound Recordings] ] ). He specialized in quatrains and often wrote using a Georgian Black dialect. His contemporaries credited him with the popularization of the terms of endearment "honey" and "baby" in African-American English and the spread of coon songs, as well as the phrase, "Got troubles of my own".

In 1898, Miller wrote "", a two-man play.

Miller married his wife Levina and moved to Tyrone, Pennsylvania, where they gave birth to their daughter, Gladys Lucille, in 1905. [ [http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Hills/5807/PAGE63.html Miller Descendents] ]

Most of his music was published by Edward Taylor Paull (and the E.T. Paull Co.), a New England publisher at the time [ [http://www.perfessorbill.com/pbmidi4.shtml Covers and Pieces by E. T. Paull] ] , who also composed "He's Goin' to Hab a Hot Time Bye an' Bye" for Miller.

Works

ongs

*Barney's Parting (1883)
* (1893)
*If They'd Only Write and Ask Me to Come Home (1895)
*Down in Hogan's Alley (1896)
*He's Goin' to Hab a Hot Time Bye an' Bye (1898; music by Edward Taylor Paull)
*This Wedding Cannot Be (1898)
*Bring Your Money Home (1899)
*Down Old New England Way (1899; music by Emily Smith)
*I Loves Your Sadie, 'Deed I Do!: An Etheopian Love Song (1899; music by Charles Jerome Wilson)
*I'll Not Go Out with Reilly Any More (1900)
*Oh Joe, Dear Joe (1901)
*The Old Virginia Home (1908; music by Emily Smith)

Many of his songs have been lost, along with their date of publication, including:

*Can't Loose Me, Charlie
*A Cruel Hiss
*For Your Mother's Sake
*He's Got Feather's in His Hat
*I'm 17 To-day
*It's All Right Now
*Keep Your Eye on Duffy
*Let Her Come Home Again
*My Sister's Beau
*Not on Your Life, Says Dolan
*She's Still Your Wife
*The Telephone Girl
*The Waterbury Watch
*When You're Single

Other

*"" (1898)

ee also

*Coon song
*Tin Pan Alley

References


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