Dave Dreyer is a composer

Composer

A composer is a person who creates music, either by musical notation or oral tradition, for interpretation and performance, or through direct manipulation of sonic material through electronic media...

 and pianist

Piano

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 born on September 22, 1894 in Brooklyn, New York. He died on March 2, 1967 in New York City

New York City

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. He started off as a pianist with vaudeville greats such as Al Jolson

Al Jolson

Al Jolson was an American singer, comedian and actor. In his heyday, he was dubbed "The World's Greatest Entertainer"....

, Sophie Tucker

Sophie Tucker

Sophie Tucker was a Russian/Ukrainian-born American singer and actress. Known for her stentorian delivery of comical and risqué songs, she was one of the most popular entertainers in America during the first half of the 20th century...

, Belle Baker

Belle Baker

Belle Baker was an American singer and actress. Popular throughout the 1910s and 1920s, Baker introduced a number of ragtime and torch songs including Irving Berlin's "Blue Skies" and "My Yiddishe Mama". She performed in the Ziegfeld Follies and introduced a number of Irving Berlin's songs...

, and Frank Fay

Frank Fay (American actor)

Frank Fay was an American film and stage actor, emcee, comedian, best known as an actor for having played "Elwood P. Dowd" in the play Harvey by the American playwright Mary Coyle Chase on Broadway...

. In 1923 he worked for the Irving Berlin Music Company. While there, he worked numerous film scores. He later became the head of the music department of RKO Radio. He left the Music Company in 1949.

He began to produce hits by collaborating with other artists. Some of these are:

• "Me and My Shadow
  Me and My Shadow
  "Me and My Shadow" is a 1927 popular song. Officially the credits show it as written by Al Jolson, Billy Rose, and Dave Dreyer; in fact, Billy Rose was exclusively a lyricist, Dreyer a composer, and Al Jolson a performer who was often given credits so he could earn some more money, so the actual...
  
  " (with Billy Rose
  Billy Rose
  William "Billy" Rose was an American impresario, theatrical showman and lyricist. He is credited with many famous songs, notably "Me and My Shadow" , "It Happened in Monterey" and "It's Only a Paper Moon"...
  
  , Al Jolson
  Al Jolson
  Al Jolson was an American singer, comedian and actor. In his heyday, he was dubbed "The World's Greatest Entertainer"....
  
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• "There's a Rainbow 'Round My Shoulder"
• "Back in Your Own Back Yard" (with Billy Rose, Al Jolson)
• "Cecilia"
• "Four Walls" (with Billy Rose, Al Jolson)
• "Golden Gate"
• "In Little Second Hand Store"
• "Wabash Moon"
• "I’m Following You"
• "I Wanna Sing About You"
• "I’m Keeping Company"
• "The Wall
  The Wall (1957 song)
  "The Wall" is a popular song, written by Oramay Diamond, Clyde Otis, and Dave Dreyer.It was most successfully popularized by Patti Page in 1957....
  
  " (with Oramay Diamond, Clyde Otis
  Clyde Otis
  Clyde Otis, born in Prentiss, Mississippi, , was an American songwriter and producer best known for his collaboration with singer Brook Benton, and for being one of the first African American A&R executive for a major label.According to the music licensing organization Broadcast Music Inc., Otis is...
  
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• "Next Stop Paradise"
• "Hold My Hand
  Hold My Hand
  -Music:* "Hold My Hand" , by Jack Lawrence and Richard Myers* "Hold My Hand" , from the musical Me and My Girl* "Hold My Hand" , featuring Keri Hilson* "Hold My Hand" , featuring Akon...
  
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• "What Am I Supposed to Do?"
• "Honey Babe"
• "Eternal Love" (with Ballard MacDonald
  Ballard MacDonald
  Ballard MacDonald was a Tin Pan Alley lyricist.Born in Portland, Oregon, among his credits are:Beautiful Ohio, Rose of Washington Square, Second Hand Rose, Parade of the Wooden Soldiers, Back Home Again in Indiana, The Trail of the Lonesome Pine, Play That Barbershop Chord, Clap Hands, Here Comes...
  
  , Peter DeRose
  Peter DeRose
  Peter DeRose was an American Hall of Fame composer of jazz and pop music during the Tin Pan Alley era.-Biography:DeRose was born in New York City and as a boy exhibited a gift for things musical...
  
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• "Find the Girl" (with Ballard MacDonald)

He was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame

Songwriters Hall of Fame

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 in 1970.

You Can’t Be True, Dear

"You Can’t Be True, Dear" is sometimes listed under Dreyer's credits. In fact the song was written by composer Hans Otten and lyricist Gerhard Ebeler, and the English

English language

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 words were written by Hal Cotten at Dreyer's request so that a vocal could be dubbed into the Ken Griffin recording.