Harold Weeks (musician)
{{short description|American jazz musician and composer}}
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Harold Taylor Weeks (March 28, 1893 – January 7, 1967) was an American jazz musician and composer from Seattle, Washington.
Biography
Weeks was born in Iowa,[https://www.ancestry.com/1940-census/usa/Washington/Harold-T-Weeks_27f1j9 Harold T Weeks in the 1940 Census]. ancestry.com but is usually associated with Seattle, Washington where he grew up and attended Queen Anne High School, where he became a nationally recognized ragtime composer by his junior year performing under the name H. Taylor Weeks.Safronoff, Cindy Peyser. Dedication: Building the Seattle Branches of Mary Baker Eddy's Church, A Centennial Story - Part 1: 1889 to 1929. (p. 263). this one thing. Kindle Edition. He then attended the University of Washington.
He is best known for his 1918 song "Hindustan", written with Oliver Wallace, which sold over one million copies and was widely played by dance orchestras and is today considered a jazz standard.Smith, Merle Irene. (1989) [https://archive.org/details/seattlehastinpan0000unse/ Seattle had a Tin Pan Alley, too!]. p. 51. M.I. Smith. The most notable version of the song was performed by the Joseph C. Smith orchestra.[https://adp.library.ucsb.edu/index.php/mastertalent/detail/105804/Weeks_Harold Harold Weeks]. Discography of American Historical Recordings. Other notable compositions included "Seattle Town", "No Fair Falling in Love", "My Honolulu Bride", "Ada" (with Victor Aloysius Meyers and Danny Cann), and "Isle of Dreams" (with Meyers and Wallace).Don Duncan, [https://archive.seattletimes.com/archive/19900409/1065610/musical-tribute-to-vic-meyers-public-servant-and-funny-guy Musical Tribute To Vic Meyers: Public Servant And Funny Guy], Seattle Times, April 9, 1990. He composed more than forty popular songs and was considered one of Seattle's most prolific composers.
Weeks was a member of the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers and the National Temperance League. He was a Christian and was actively involved with the Christian Science movement, including serving as a trustee for his church: Fourth Church of Christ, Scientist, Seattle. The church building later became Town Hall Seattle.Jonathan Shipley (November 15, 2018) "[https://townhallseattle.org/celebrating-harold-weeks-with-some-ragtime-ditties/ Celebrating Harold Weeks with Some Ragtime Ditties]". Town Hall Seattle.
Weeks died in 1967. His correspondence, writings, sheet music, scrapbook, and phonograph records can be found at the University of Washington’s Special Collections library.[http://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:/80444/xv06530 Harold Weeks papers, 1910-1966]. Archives West: Orbis Cascade.
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Category:People from Eagle Grove, Iowa
Category:American jazz composers
Category:American jazz musicians
Category:Musicians from Seattle
Category:American Christian Scientists