Henry W. Armstrong
{{Short description|American musician and boxer (1879–1951)}}
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| birth_date = {{Birth date|1879|07|22}}
|birth_place =Somerville, Massachusetts, US
| death_date = {{Death date and age|1951|02|22|1879|07|22}}
|death_place =New York, New York, US
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| instrument = Vocals, piano
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Henry W. Armstrong (July 22, 1879 – February 28, 1951) was an American boxer, booking agent, producer, singer, pianist, and Tin Pan Alley composer.[http://parlorsongs.com/issues/2003-9/thismonth/feature.php Songs About Kisses and Kissing.] ParlorSongs, September 2003. The Parlor Songs Association.
Background
His biggest hit was "Sweet Adeline", written in 1903 with Richard H. Gerard.{{cite magazine| url=https://books.google.com/books?id=90MEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA11 |last=Spaeth |first=Sigmund |authorlink=Sigmund Spaeth |date=December 1945 |title=Two Sweet Songs |magazine=The Rotarian}} His 1905 sentimental ballad "Nellie Dean" became the signature song of the British music hall singer Gertie Gitana,{{cite news|url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/stoke/content/articles/2009/05/18/gertie_gitana_feature.shtml|title=BBC - Stoke & Staffordshire - People - Gertie Gitana|last=Power|first=John C|date=26 May 2009|publisher=BBC|accessdate=2009-07-30}} and subsequently a popular British pub song.{{cite book|last=Harrowven|first=Jean|title=The origins of rhymes, songs and sayings|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=pp6AAAAAMAAJ&q=%22nellie+dean%22|publisher=Kaye & Ward|year=1977|isbn=978-0-7182-1267-4|page=306}}
Works
- Sweet Adeline (1903)
- Arabella
- Dew Drops (1904) instrumental
- Goodbye Eyes of Blue
- Follow the crowd on a Sunday (1904)
- I love my wife, but oh you kids
- Can't You See I'm Lonely (1905)
- I'd like a girl like you
- The Twilight (1905)
- In the golden autumn days sweet Jennie Ray
- You're my heart's desire, I love you Nellie Dean (1905)
- Just a line from Jennie
- When the Evening Twilight Bids the Day Good-Bye (1906)
- Miss Dinah
- Baby Doll (1908)
- Only a Flower by the Wayside
- I Could Learn To Love You (1908)
- Rianza Waltzes- instrumental
- The Frisco Rag (1909) instrumental
- A Rose of Plymouth Town
- Shaky Eyes (1909)
- Tales the moon could tell
- Slip your glad rags on and come with me (1910) *When you have time and money
- The Chimes (1912)
- When you've won the only girl you love
References
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External links
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- {{ChoralWiki}}
- {{IMSLP|id=Armstrong, Henry W.}}
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20041028123142/http://www.grainger.de/music/composers/wv_armstrongh.html List of works]
- {{IMDb name | 0035719| Harry Armstrong}}
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Category:American male composers
Category:People from Somerville, Massachusetts
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