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Word: tilzer (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Gershwin left school to plug songs for Jerome Remick & Sons. He made $15 a week. Harry Von Tilzer brought out Gershwin's first song, a complaint entitled When You Want 'em, You Can't Get 'em; When You Got 'em, You Don't Want 'em. He went into vaudeville accompanying Louise Dresser, and later, Nora Bayes. Vivienne Segal plugged his You-oo Just You and There's More to a Kiss Than...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Death of Gershwin | 7/19/1937 | See Source »

...American Society of Composers, Authors & Publishers was having its annual dinner. No music was played but present among the 350 songwriters were erect, square-cut old Theodore Metz, 86, who wrote "There'll Be a Hot Time in the Old Town Tonight''; thin, bald Harry Von Tilzer who wrote "Down Where the Wuertzburger Flows'' and "The Old Fall River Line''; pink, froggy Harry Armstrong who wrote "Sweet Adeline...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Corny | 4/10/1933 | See Source »

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