Word: wenrich
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Your Old Gray Bonnet" (1909) was written by Percy Wenrich whose father was postmaster in Joplin, Mo. Wenrich and his lyricist, the late Stanley Murphy, intended their song to be "Put On Your Old Sunbonnet," sang it for Publisher Jerome Remick who got the words twisted. Wenrich wrote other songs: "Moonlight Bay," "When You Wore A Tulip," "Where Do We Go From Here?" Today, revenue from the American Society of Composers, Authors & Publishers where he has a permanent Class A rating pays for Wenrich's rent, lunches, his bar bill at the Lamb's Club...
...Then the Alleymen took turns at the piano in the centre to play one of their best known songs while the eleven other Alleymen and an orchestra joined in. The dressy audience in the new Waldorf-Astoria Ballroom could not contain itself. It managed to listen quietly to Percy Wenrich play "Put on Your Old Gray Bonnet" and to Raymond Hubbell's "Poor Butterfly," Arthur Schwartz's "Dancing in the Dark." But when Gus Edwards started "School Days" it was too much for them. They all started singing. They sang "You're My Everything" with Harry Warren...