Edgar Leslie
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Edgar Leslie was an American songwriter
. His first song Lonesome in 1909 was an immediate success, recorded by the Haydn Quartet and again by Byron G. Harlan
. Other notable artists he worked with are:
Leslie's hit songs include:
He was a founding member of the American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers
(ASCAP) in 1914 and its director from 1931 to 1941 and from 1947 to 1953.
He was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame
in 1972.
Songwriter
A songwriter is an individual who writes both the lyrics and music to a song. Someone who solely writes lyrics may be called a lyricist, and someone who only writes music may be called a composer...
. His first song Lonesome in 1909 was an immediate success, recorded by the Haydn Quartet and again by Byron G. Harlan
Byron G. Harlan
Byron G. Harlan was an American singer from Kansas, a comic minstrel singer and balladeer who often recorded with Arthur Collins. The two together were often billed as "Collins & Harlan".-Solo recordings:1899...
. Other notable artists he worked with are:
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- James Barton
- Joe Welch
Leslie's hit songs include:
- Moon Over Miami
- On Treasure Island
- For Me and My GalFor Me and My Gal (song)For Me And My Gal is a 1917 popular standard song by George W. Meyer, Edgar Leslie, and E. Ray Goetz.This song was used in the 1942 film of the same name, where it is the first song that Jo Hayden and Harry Palmer perform together....
- That Italian Rag
- When Ragtime Rosie Ragged the Rosary
- Lord, Have Mercy on the Married Man
- Where Was Moses When the Lights Went Out?
- He’d Have to Get Under
- Put It On, Take it Off
- When the Grown Up Ladies Act Like Babies
- America, I Love You
- Hello, Hawaii, How Are You?Hello, Hawaii, How Are You?Hello, Hawaii, How Are You? is a song written in 1915, by Jean Schwartz, Bert Kalmar and Edgar Leslie.The song refers to one of Marconi's then-new radio-oriented inventions, the Wireless Telephone, which became publicly available that year...
- In the Gold Fields of Nevada
- All the Quakers Are Shoulder Shakers
- Take Your Girlie to the Movies
- Take me to the Land of Jazz
- On the Gin Gin Ginny Shore
- Oogie Oogie Wa Wa
- Rose of the Rio Grande
- Home in Pasadena
- I’ll Take Her Back If She Wants to Come Back
- Mistakes
- Kansas Kitty
- Tain’t No Sin (to Take Off Your Skin, and Dance Around in Your Bones)
- Romance
- I Remember You from Somewhere
- By the River Saine Marie
- You’ve Got Me in the Palm of Your Hand
- Crazy People
- I Wake Up Smiling
- The Moon Was Yellow
- In a Little Gypsy Tearoom
- Cling to Me
- A Little Bit Independent
- Midnight Blue
- Robins and Roses
- It Looks Like Rain in Cherry Blossom Lane
- At a Perfume Counter
- We Must Be Vigilant
- You’re Over the Hill
- Oky Doky Tokyo
He was a founding member of the American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers
American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers
The American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers is an American not-for-profit performance-rights organization that protects its members' musical copyrights by monitoring public performances of their music, whether via a broadcast or live performance, and compensating them...
(ASCAP) in 1914 and its director from 1931 to 1941 and from 1947 to 1953.
He was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame
Songwriters Hall of Fame
The Songwriters Hall of Fame is an arm of the National Academy of Popular Music. It was founded in 1969 by songwriter Johnny Mercer and music publishers Abe Olman and Howie Richmond. The goal is to create a museum but as of April, 2008, the means do not yet exist and so instead it is an online...
in 1972.