Kerry Mills
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Kerry Mills (né Frederick Allen Mills; 1 February 1869 Philadelphia – 5 December 1948 Hawthorne, California) was an American composer of popular music during the Tin Pan Alley era.[1][2][3][4][5] His stylistically diverse music ranged from ragtime to cakewalk to marches. He was most prolific between 1895 and 1918.[6][7][8][9][10]
Career
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1907 sheet music
Mills trained as a violinist and was head of the Violin Department of the University of Michigan School of Music when he began composing. He moved to New York City in 1895 and started a music publishing firm, (F. A. Mills Music Publisher), publishing his own work and that of others.[11]
Selected works
- "Any Old Port in a Storm"
- "At A Georgia Camp-meeting" listen to:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lLR2ZI0evgs
- "Impecunious Davis"
- "In The City Of Sighs And Tears"
- "Just For The Sake Of Society"
- "Kerry Mills' Barn Dance"
- "Let's All Go Up To Maud's"
- "Like A Star That Falls From Heaven"
- "The Longest Way 'Round Is The Sweetest Way Home"
- "Meet Me in St. Louis, Louis" (words by Andrew B. Sterling)
- "Red Wing" (words by Thurland Chattaway). Mills adapted the melody from Schumann's "Merry Peasant"
- "We'll Be Together When the Clouds Roll By" (words by Alfred Bryan)
- "While The Old Mill Wheel Is Turning"
- "Whistling Rufus"
See also
External links
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- Sheet music for his song "We'll Be Together When the Clouds Roll By" from the collection at University of Oregon Libraries
- Free scores by Kerry Mills at the International Music Score Library Project
References
- ↑ Biography Index, H.W. Wilson Co.; ISSN 0006-3053
Vol. 1: Jan. 1946–Jul. 1949 (1949)
Vol. 6: Jan. 1961–Jul. 1974 (1965) - ↑ Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Musicians (Mills is in Vol. 4 of 6), Macmillan; Schirmer
6th ed., Slonimsky (ed.) (1978); OCLC 4426869
8th ed., Slonimsky (ed.) (1992); OCLC 24246972
9th ed., Laura Kuhn (ed.) (born 1953) (2001); OCLC 44972043 - ↑ Biographical Dictionary of Twentieth-Century Classical Musicians, Nicolas Slonimsky (ed), Schirmer (1997); OCLC 36111932
- ↑ The New Grove Dictionary of American Music, (Mills is in Vol. 3 of 4), H. Wiley Hitchcock & Stanley Sadie (eds.), Macmillan Publishers (1986); (see Oxford Music Online); OCLC 13184437, OCLC 230202868
- ↑ The Heritage Encyclopedia of Band Music: Composers and Their Music — Supplement, William H. Rehrig (ed.), Westerville, OH: Integrity Press (1996); OCLC 45209483
- ↑ American Popular Songs, From the Revolutionary War to the present, edited by David Ewen, New York: Random House (1966); OCLC 598027
- ↑ Popular American Composers, From Revolutionary times to the present — A Biographical and Critical Guide, 1st ed., compiled & edited by David Ewen, New York: H.W. Wilson Co. (1962); OCLC 63081753
- ↑ Notable Names in the American Theatre, Walter Rigdon (born 1930) (ed.), Clifton, NJ: James T. White & Co. (1976); OCLC 2372945
Alphabetized by titles of address, e.g.: Dr., Mrs., and Sir - ↑ The Oxford Companion to Popular Music, by Peter Gammond, Oxford, England: Oxford University Press (1991); OCLC 22382241
- ↑ Sweet and Lowdown: America's Popular Song Writers, by Warren Craig, Metuchen, NJ: Scarecrow Press (1978); OCLC 3380132
- ↑ The Complete Encyclopedia of Popular Music and Jazz, 1900-1950, by Roger D. Kinkle (1916–2000) (Mills is Vol 3 of 4), Arlington House Publishers, New Rochelle, NY (1974) OCLC 897890
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