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Roger A. Graham

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Roger A. Graham (12 June 1885 Providence, Rhode Island – 25 October 1938 Chicago) was an American lyricist, composer, singer, and music publisher who flourished from 1906 to 1920 — a period that included World War I, the golden age of Tin Pan Alley (from about 1915 to 1920), the dawn of the Jazz Age (circa 1914), and the silent film era. [1]

84 relations: A-side and B-side, Al Jolson, Alcide Nunez, Associated Press, Blues, Bronxville, New York, Brooklyn, Burial, Burlesque, Chicago, Chicago Tribune, Cinderella Man, Circa, Clarence E. Brandon Sr., Cook County Health and Hospital System, Coon-Sanders Original Nighthawk Orchestra, Dave Peyton, Drake Hotel (Chicago), Eddie Cantor, Etymology, Evanston, Illinois, Extant literature, Fox (TV series), G. Schirmer, Inc., George Albert Carpenter, George M. Cohan, Given name, Great Depression, I Ain't Got Nobody, IMDb, International News Service, Jacques Cattell, James G. Ellis (composer), James Terry White, Jazbo Brown, Jazz Age, Joe Sanders, Leo Feist, List of Latin phrases (E), Little, Brown and Company, Livery Stable Blues, Los Angeles, M. Witmark & Sons, Maceo Pinkard, Marion Harris, New Orleans, New York Call, New York City, New York Clipper, New York Dramatic Mirror, ..., Nick LaRocca, Nick Tosches, North Canton, Ohio, Ohio State University, Original Dixieland Jass Band, Potter's field, Prohibition in the United States, Providence, Rhode Island, R.R. Bowker, Rhode Island, Routledge, San Francisco, Shimmy, Silent film, Song plugger, Sophie Tucker, Spencer Williams, Standard (music), The Jazz Discography, The Music Trades (magazine), The San Diego Union-Tribune, The Seattle Times, Theodore F. Morse, Tin Pan Alley, Tuba, United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, Variety (magazine), Vaudeville, Victor Talking Machine Company, Wall Street Crash of 1929, West Nyack, New York, WGN (AM), Wickford, Rhode Island, World War I. Expand index (34 more) »

A-side and B-side

The terms A-side and B-side refer to the two sides of 78, 45, and 33 1/3 rpm phonograph records, or cassettes, whether singles, extended plays (EPs), or long-playing (LP) records.

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Al Jolson

Al or Albert Jolson (born Asa Yoelson; May 26, c.1886 – October 23, 1950) was an American singer, comedian, and stage and film actor.

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Alcide Nunez

Alcide Patrick Nunez (March 17, 1884 – September 2, 1934), also known as Yellow Nunez and Al Nunez, was an early American jazz clarinetist.

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Associated Press

The Associated Press (AP) is a U.S.-based not-for-profit news agency headquartered in New York City.

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Blues

Blues is a music genre and musical form originated by African Americans in the Deep South of the United States around the end of the 19th century.

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Bronxville, New York

Bronxville is a village in Westchester County, New York, located about north of midtown Manhattan.

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Brooklyn

Brooklyn is the most populous borough of New York City, with a census-estimated 2,648,771 residents in 2017.

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Burial

Burial or interment is the ritual act of placing a dead person or animal, sometimes with objects, into the ground.

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Burlesque

A burlesque is a literary, dramatic or musical work intended to cause laughter by caricaturing the manner or spirit of serious works, or by ludicrous treatment of their subjects.

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Chicago

Chicago, officially the City of Chicago, is the third most populous city in the United States, after New York City and Los Angeles.

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Chicago Tribune

The Chicago Tribune is a daily newspaper based in Chicago, Illinois, United States, owned by Tronc, Inc., formerly Tribune Publishing.

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Cinderella Man

Cinderella Man is a 2005 American biographical sports drama film by Ron Howard, titled after the nickname of world heavyweight boxing champion James J. Braddock and inspired by his life story.

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Circa

Circa, usually abbreviated c., ca. or ca (also circ. or cca.), means "approximately" in several European languages (and as a loanword in English), usually in reference to a date.

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Clarence E. Brandon Sr.

Clarence E. Brandon Sr. (1887–1962) was a writer, composer, and performer of ragtime music in the early twentieth century.

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Cook County Health and Hospital System

The Cook County Health and Hospitals System, includes John H. Stroger Jr.

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Coon-Sanders Original Nighthawk Orchestra

Coon-Sanders Original Nighthawk Orchestra was the first Kansas City jazz band to achieve national recognition, which it acquired through national radio broadcasts.

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Dave Peyton

Dave Peyton (19 August 1889 – 30 April 1955) was an American songwriter, pianist, arranger, orchestra leader, and music critic columnist for the Chicago Defender.

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Drake Hotel (Chicago)

The Drake, a Hilton Hotel, 140 East Walton Place, Chicago, Illinois, is a luxury, full-service hotel, located downtown on the lake side of Michigan Avenue two blocks north of the John Hancock Center and a block south of Oak Street Beach at the top of the Magnificent Mile.

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Eddie Cantor

Eddie Cantor (born Edward Israel Itzkowitz, January 31, 1892 – October 10, 1964) was an American "illustrated song" performer, comedian, dancer, singer, actor, and songwriter.

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Etymology

EtymologyThe New Oxford Dictionary of English (1998) – p. 633 "Etymology /ˌɛtɪˈmɒlədʒi/ the study of the class in words and the way their meanings have changed throughout time".

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Evanston, Illinois

Evanston is a city in Cook County, Illinois, United States, north of downtown Chicago, bordered by Chicago to the south, Skokie to the west, and Wilmette to the north.

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Extant literature

Extant literature and extant music refers to texts or music that has survived from the past to the present time, as opposed to lost work.

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Fox (TV series)

Fox is a British television drama series produced by Euston Films and Thames Television for the ITV network in 1980.

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G. Schirmer, Inc.

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George Albert Carpenter

George Albert Carpenter (October 2, 1867 – September 13, 1944) was a United States federal judge.

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George M. Cohan

George Michael Cohan (July 3, 1878November 5, 1942), known professionally as George M. Cohan, was an American entertainer, playwright, composer, lyricist, actor, singer, dancer and producer.

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Given name

A given name (also known as a first name, forename or Christian name) is a part of a person's personal name.

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Great Depression

The Great Depression was a severe worldwide economic depression that took place mostly during the 1930s, beginning in the United States.

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I Ain't Got Nobody

"I Ain't Got Nobody" (sometimes referred to as "I'm So Sad and Lonely") is a popular song copyrighted in 1915.

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IMDb

IMDb, also known as Internet Movie Database, is an online database of information related to world films, television programs, home videos and video games, and internet streams, including cast, production crew and personnel biographies, plot summaries, trivia, and fan reviews and ratings.

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International News Service

The International News Service (INS) was a U.S.-based news agency (newswire) founded by newspaper publisher William Randolph Hearst in 1909.

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Jacques Cattell

Jacques (Jack) Cattell (2 June 1904 in Garrison, New York – 19 December 1961 in Scottsdale, Arizona) was an American publisher and founder of a company bearing his name, "Jacques Cattell Press, Inc.," based in Lancaster, Pennsylvania.

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James G. Ellis (composer)

James Garfield Ellis (February 12, 1880 Dayton, Ohio – April 1, 1966 Los Angeles) was an American violinist, silent film theater pioneer, composer, lyricist, and music publisher.

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James Terry White

James Terry White (3 July 1845 in Newburyport, Massachusetts – 3 April 1920 in Manhattan, New York) was an American publisher and poet.

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Jazbo Brown

Jazbo Brown was, according to legend, a black delta blues musician from around the turn of the 20th century.

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Jazz Age

The Jazz Age was a period in the 1920s and 1930s in which jazz music and dance styles rapidly gained nationwide popularity.

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Joe Sanders

Joseph L. "Joe" Sanders (October 15, 1896, Thayer, Kansas - May 14, 1965, Kansas City, Missouri) was an American jazz pianist, singer, and bandleader associated with Kansas City jazz for most of his career.

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Leo Feist

Leopold Feist (1 March 1869 New York City – 21 June 1930 Mount Vernon, New York) founded and ran a music publishing firm bearing his name that — in the 1920s, at the height of the golden age of popular music — was among the seven largest publishers of popular music in the World.

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List of Latin phrases (E)

Additional sources.

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Little, Brown and Company

Little, Brown and Company is an American publisher founded in 1837 by Charles Coffin Little and his partner, James Brown, and for close to two centuries has published fiction and nonfiction by American authors.

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Livery Stable Blues

"Livery Stable Blues" is a jazz composition copyrighted by Ray Lopez (né Raymond Edward Lopez; 1889–1979) and Alcide Nunez in 1917.

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Los Angeles

Los Angeles (Spanish for "The Angels";; officially: the City of Los Angeles; colloquially: by its initials L.A.) is the second-most populous city in the United States, after New York City.

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M. Witmark & Sons

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Maceo Pinkard

Maceo Pinkard (June 27, 1897 – July 21, 1962) was an American composer, lyricist, and music publisher.

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Marion Harris

Marion Harris (April 4, 1896 – April 23, 1944) was an American popular singer who was most successful in the 1920s.

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New Orleans

New Orleans (. Merriam-Webster.; La Nouvelle-Orléans) is a major United States port and the largest city and metropolitan area in the state of Louisiana.

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New York Call

The New York Call was a socialist daily newspaper published in New York City from 1908 through 1923.

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New York City

The City of New York, often called New York City (NYC) or simply New York, is the most populous city in the United States.

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New York Clipper

The New York Clipper, also known as The Clipper, was a weekly entertainment newspaper published in New York City from 1853 to 1924.

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New York Dramatic Mirror

The New York Dramatic Mirror (1879-1922) was a prominent theatrical trade newspaper.

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Nick LaRocca

Dominic James "Nick" LaRocca (April 11, 1889 – February 22, 1961), was an early jazz cornetist and trumpeter and the leader of the Original Dixieland Jass Band.

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Nick Tosches

Nick Tosches (born October 17 or 23, 1949) is an American journalist, novelist, biographer, and poet.

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North Canton, Ohio

North Canton is a city in Stark County in the U.S. state of Ohio.

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Ohio State University

The Ohio State University, commonly referred to as Ohio State or OSU, is a large, primarily residential, public university in Columbus, Ohio.

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Original Dixieland Jass Band

The Original Dixieland Jass Band (ODJB) was a Dixieland jazz band that made the first jazz recordings in early 1917.

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Potter's field

A potter's field, paupers' grave or common grave is an American expression for a place for the burial of unknown or indigent people.

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Prohibition in the United States

Prohibition in the United States was a nationwide constitutional ban on the production, importation, transportation, and sale of alcoholic beverages from 1920 to 1933.

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Providence, Rhode Island

Providence is the capital and most populous city of the U.S. state of Rhode Island and is one of the oldest cities in the United States.

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R.R. Bowker

R.R. Bowker LLC ("Bowker") is an American limited liability company based in New Providence, New Jersey, and incorporated in Delaware.

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Rhode Island

Rhode Island, officially the State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, is a state in the New England region of the United States.

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Routledge

Routledge is a British multinational publisher.

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San Francisco

San Francisco (initials SF;, Spanish for 'Saint Francis'), officially the City and County of San Francisco, is the cultural, commercial, and financial center of Northern California.

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Shimmy

A shimmy is a dance move in which the body is held still, except for the shoulders, which are quickly alternated back and forth.

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Silent film

A silent film is a film with no synchronized recorded sound (and in particular, no spoken dialogue).

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Song plugger

A song plugger or song demonstrator was a vocalist or piano player employed by department and music stores and song publishers in the early 20th century to promote and help sell new sheet music, which is how hits were advertised before quality recordings were widely available.

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Sophie Tucker

Sophie Tuck (January 13, 1887 – February 9, 1966), known professionally as Sophie Tucker, was a Ukrainian-born American singer, comedian, actress, and radio personality.

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Spencer Williams

Spencer Williams (October 14, 1889 – July 14, 1969) was an African-American jazz and popular music composer, pianist, and singer.

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Standard (music)

In music, a standard is a musical composition of established popularity, considered part of the "standard repertoire" of one or several genres.

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The Jazz Discography

The Jazz Discography is a print, CD-ROM, and online discography and sessionography of all categories of recorded jazz — and directly relevant precursors of recorded jazz from 1896.

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The Music Trades (magazine)

The Music Trades is a -year-old American trade magazine that covers a broad spectrum of music and music commerce, domestically and abroad.

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The San Diego Union-Tribune

The San Diego Union-Tribune is an American metropolitan daily newspaper, published in San Diego, California. Its name derives from a 1992 merger between the two major daily newspapers at the time, The San Diego Union and the San Diego Evening Tribune. The name changed to U-T San Diego in 2012 but was changed again to The San Diego Union-Tribune in 2015. In 2015, it was acquired by Tribune Publishing, later renamed tronc. In February 2018 it was announced to be sold, along with the Los Angeles Times, to Patrick Soon-Shiong's investment firm Nant Capital LLC for $500 million plus $90m in pension liabilities. The sale closed on June 18, 2018.

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The Seattle Times

The Seattle Times is a daily newspaper serving Seattle, Washington, United States.

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Theodore F. Morse

Theodore F. Morse (April 13, 1873 - May 25, 1924) was an American composer of popular songs.

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Tin Pan Alley

Tin Pan Alley is the name given to the collection of New York City music publishers and songwriters who dominated the popular music of the United States in the late 19th century and early 20th century.

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Tuba

The tuba is the largest and lowest-pitched musical instrument in the brass family.

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United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois

The United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois (in case citations, N.D. Ill.) is the trial-level court with jurisdiction over the northern counties of Illinois.

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Variety (magazine)

Variety is a weekly American entertainment trade magazine and website owned by Penske Media Corporation.

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Vaudeville

Vaudeville is a theatrical genre of variety entertainment.

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Victor Talking Machine Company

The Victor Talking Machine Company was an American record company and phonograph manufacturer headquartered in Camden, New Jersey.

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Wall Street Crash of 1929

The Wall Street Crash of 1929, also known as Black Tuesday (October 29), the Great Crash, or the Stock Market Crash of 1929, began on October 24, 1929 ("Black Thursday"), and was the most devastating stock market crash in the history of the United States, when taking into consideration the full extent and duration of its after effects.

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West Nyack, New York

West Nyack is a hamlet and census-designated place in the town of Clarkstown, Rockland County, New York, United States.

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WGN (AM)

WGN, 720 kHz, is a commercial AM radio station in Chicago, Illinois, United States.

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Wickford, Rhode Island

Wickford is a small village in the town of North Kingstown, Rhode Island, United States, which is named after Wickford in Essex, England.

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World War I

World War I (often abbreviated as WWI or WW1), also known as the First World War, the Great War, or the War to End All Wars, was a global war originating in Europe that lasted from 28 July 1914 to 11 November 1918.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_A._Graham

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