In this show, the hit song “I’m Always Chasing Rainbows” appeared. In 1918, in addition to composing four of the songs, Carroll was a producer of Oh, Look!, a musical adaptation of the then popular play, “Ready Money” which ran at the Vanderbilt Theater on Broadway from Mato May 04, 1918, in the midst of World War I. In 1914, Carroll was a charter member of the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP) as well as one of its first directors (1914-1917). The latter song was composed as a one-step for dancers Irene and Vernon Castle, who performed it throughout their careers. In 1914, with Harold Atteridge contributing the lyrics, Carroll also composed one of his biggest hits, “By the Beautiful Sea”, the ASCAP Song of the Year. In 1914, Carroll composed “There’s a Girl in the Heart of Maryland” (performed by Sophie Tucker) and “It Takes A Little Rain with the Sunshine” (introduced by Ethel Green, with Carroll accompanying, at the The Palace Theater in New York, as the act following Sarah Bernhardt, during the actress’ legendary run on the opening bill). The publisher, Shapiro Bernstein, sold three million copies in three months (The Billboard 27 Sept 1913, “highest mark in sold copies known in music history.”). In 1913, he composed “The Trail of The Lonesome Pine,” also with Ballard MacDonald. His first million selling hit was “On the Mississippi,” performed by Harry Cooper in “Hanky Panky” at the Broadway Theater. ![]() “Nix on the Glow Worm, Lena” (lyrics, Ballard MacDonald) was sold to Florence Ziegfeld, and performed in the Follies of 1910.īetween 1910-12, Carroll toured the BF Keith vaudeville circuit, and in New York Theaters as Weston, Fields, and Carroll, and later as Fields and Carroll, as “snappy singers of snappy tunes.”Ĭarroll published five million selling songs between 1912-15 (before turning 23), and composed three of the top 40 hits of 1913 alone. Lew Fields (of Weber & Fields) bought “I Never Know How to Behave When I’m With Girls” (lyrics, Ballard MacDonald) to be performed by Vernon Castle in Fields’ production of the musical “The Summer Widowers” in 1910. He sold his first two songs to Jos W Stern publishers. At night, he entertained at the Beaux Art, and other night clubs. Harry Carroll, the composer of such enduring standards as “I’m Always Chasing Rainbows,” “Trail of the Lonesome Pine” and “By the Beautiful Sea,” was born in Rosenhayn, New Jersey on November 28, 1892.Ĭlassically trained on piano and violin as a child, Carroll began his career playing piano in movie houses on the boardwalk in Atlantic City and in Pittsburgh, while still in his teensAt 16, he moved to New York City where he found work as a rehearsal pianist at Jos W Stern music publishing.
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