Bert Grant

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Bert Grant (12 July 1878 – 9 May 1951^{[n 1]}) was an American composer, pianist, and charter member of the American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers.^[2]

Biography

He was born in New York in 1878.^[3]

He worked for both Tin Pan Alley music publishers and Broadway theater companies.^[4]

He performed the first musical broadcast from Roselle Park, New Jersey.^[5]

Selected works

• "Along the Rocky Road to Dublin"
• "Arrah Go On, I'm Gonna Go Back To Oregon"
• "Blue Bird"
• "If I Knock the 'L' out of Kelly"
• "In the Light of the Same Old Moon"
• "The Trolley Car Swing"
• "The Worst Is Yet to Come"
• "When the Angelus is Ringing"
• "When The Sun Goes Down In Romany: My Heart Goes Roaming Back To You"
• "When You're Away"

Selected Broadway credits

• Cinderella on Broadway^[6]

Awards

Seventeen of his songs are in the National Jukebox at the Library of Congress.^[7]

Notes

1. 21st century source such as this^[1] refers to Bert Grant's death as 10 May 1951.