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Arthur J. Lamb

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| birth_place = Somerset, England

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| death_place = Providence, Rhode Island, United States

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| genre = Oldtime

| occupation = Composer, lyricist

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Arthur J. Lamb (12 August 1870 – 10 August 1928) was a British lyricist best known for the 1897 song "Asleep in the Deep" and the 1900 song "A Bird in a Gilded Cage". He collaborated with many song-writers, including siblings Albert Von Tilzer and Harry Von Tilzer, Henry W. Petrie and Kerry Mills.

His fame faded and he died in poverty, his body saved from a Potters Field burial by ASCAP, who paid for a proper burial for him.

Selected works

  • "Asleep in the Deep" (1897) m. Henry W. Petrie
  • "Dreaming of Mother and Home" (1898)
  • "At The Bottom of the Deep Blue Sea" (1899) m. Henry W. Petrie
  • "A Bird in a Gilded Cage" (1900) m. Harry Von Tilzer
  • "The Spider and the Fly" (1900) m. Harry Von Tilzer
  • "When Wealth and Poverty Meet" (1900) m. Harry Von Tilzer
  • "Out Where The Billows Roll High" (1901)
  • "The Banquet in Misery Hall" (1902) m. Harry Von Tilzer
  • "Jennie Lee" (1902) m. Harry Von Tilzer
  • "The Mansion of Aching Hearts" (1902) m. Harry Von Tilzer
  • "A Brand Plucked from the Burning" (1902) m. Kerry Mills
  • "I Know She Waits for Me" (1902) m. Kerry Mills
  • "Beneath the Palms of Paradise" (1903) m. Harry Von Tilzer
  • "Like a Star That Falls From Heaven" (1903) m. Kerry Mills
  • "When The Bell in the Lighthouse Rings Ding, Dong" (1905)
  • "The Bird On Nellie's Hat" (1905)
  • "Sunny Sue: A Coon Ditty" (1907) m. Florence McPherranTjaden, Ted. [http://www.ragtimepiano.ca/rags/women3.htm Women Composers of Ragtime].
  • "All She Gets from the Iceman is Ice" (1907)
  • "You Splash Me and I'll Splash You" (1907)
  • "Any Old Port in a Storm" (1908) m. Kerry Mills
  • "If You Were Mine" (1908) m. Kerry Mills
  • "You've Got the Wrong Number But the Right Girl" (1911) m. Kerry Mills
  • "My Keepsake is a Heartache" (1915) m. Clarence M. Jones
  • "Good Luck To The USA" (1917)

References

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American Popular Songs. From the Revolutionary War to the Present, David Ewen (ed.), New York: Random House (1966); {{OCLC|598027}}

ASCAP Biographical Dictionary, compiled by Jaques Cattell Press, New York: R.R. Bowker

{{space|4}}3rd ed. (1966); {{OCLC|598257|604233677}}

{{space|4}}4th ed. (1980); {{OCLC|7065938|10721505}}

Biographical Dictionary of American Music, by Charles Eugene Claghorn (1911–2005), West Nyack, NY: Parker Publishing Co. (1973); {{OCLC|609781}}

The Heritage Encyclopedia of Band Music: Composers and their music (Lamb is in Vol. 1 of 3 vols.), by William H. Rehrig, Westerville, Ohio: Integrity Press (1991) {{OCLC|24606813}}

The Oxford Companion to Popular Music, by Peter Gammond. Oxford, England: Oxford University Press (1991); {{OCLC|22382241}}

Sweet and Lowdown. America's Popular Song Writers, by Warren Craig, Metuchen, New Jersey: Scarecrow Press (1978); {{OCLC|3380132}}

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External links

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  • [https://web.archive.org/web/20061106181333/http://www.parlorsongs.com/issues/2003-11/thismonth/feature.asp parlor songs]
  • [http://ingeb.org/songs/stormyth.html ingeb.org]
  • {{Internet Archive author |sname=Arthur J. Lamb |sopt=t}}
  • {{Librivox author |id=2419}}
  • [https://adp.library.ucsb.edu/names/106562 Arthur J. Lamb recordings] at the Discography of American Historical Recordings.

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Category:1870 births

Category:1928 deaths

Category:English male songwriters

Category:British emigrants to the United States

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