Kerry Mills

Image:RedWingMills1907.jpeg 1907 sheet music]]

Mills trained as a violinist and was head of the Violin Department of the University of Michigan School of Music when he began composing. He moved to New York City in 1895 and started a music publishing firm, F. A. Mills Music Publisher, publishing his own work and that of others.

• "Impecunious Davis"
• "In The City Of Sighs And Tears"
• "Just For The Sake Of Society"
• "Let's All Go Up To Maud's"
• "The Longest Way 'Round Is The Sweetest Way Home"
• "Meet Me in St. Louis, Louis" (words by Andrew B. Sterling)
• 1895 : Rastus on Parade - Characteristic Two Step March for Piano
• 1895 : Shandon Bells - Two Step March
• 1896 : Happy Days in Dixie - Characteristic March
• 1897 : At A Georgia Camp Meeting - A Characteristic March listen to:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lLR2ZI0evgs
• 1899 : Whistling Rufus - Characteristic Two Step March, Polka & Cakewalk
• 1899 : Impecunious Davis - A Characteristic March
• 1900 or before: Cake-Walk
• 1900 : Kerry Mills Medley - Themes from Previous Cake Walk and Songs
• 1902 : Harmony Moze - Characteristic Two Step
• 1902 : A Brand Plucked from the Burning (words by Alfred Bryan)
• 1902 : I Know She Waits for Me (words by Alfred Bryan)
• 1903 : Valse Hèléne
• 1903 : Petite Causerie - A Quiet Chat
• 1903 : Valse Primrose - Les Primevères
• 1903 : 'Leven Forty-Five From The Hotel - Two Step March
• 1903 : Me and Me Banjo - Characteristic Piece
• 1903 : Petite Causerie (A Quiet Chat)
• 1903 : Valse Helene
• 1903 : L'amour Aux Bois (Cupid's Bower)
• 1903 : Valse Primrose (Les Primeveres)
• 1903 : Like A Star That Falls From Heaven (words by Alfred Bryan)
• 1904 : We'll Be Together When the Clouds Roll By (words by Alfred Bryan)
• 1906 : Old Heidelberg: - Characteristic Two Step March
• 1906 : While The Old Mill Wheel Is Turning (words by Will D. Cobb)
• 1907 : Red Wing" - An Indian Intermezzo (words by Thurland Chattaway). Mills adapted the melody from Schumann's "The Happy Farmer"
• 1908 : Kerry Mills Barn Dance
• 1908 : Sun Bird - Intermezzo
• 1908 : Hallie (A Little Romance)
• 1908 : Sweet Sixteens - March
• 1908 : Any Old Port in a Storm (words by Arthur J. Lamb)
• 1908 : If You Were Mine (words by Arthur J. Lamb)
• 1909 : Comical Eyes (words by Bartley C. Costello)
• 1909 : Kerry Mills Rag Time Dance
• 1909 : A Georgia Barn Dance
• 1909 : The Scarf Dancer - A Novelty Two Step
• 1909 : Lily of the Prairie - Two Step Intermezzo
• 1909 : Sicilian Chimes - Reverie
• 1909 : Kerry Mills Potpourri
• 1909 : Don't Be an Old Maid, Molly
• 1909 : Where Were You Last Night? (words by Alfred Bryan)
• 1910 : That Fascinating Ragtime Glide
• 1910 : Valley Flower - Intermezzo
• 1910 : Kerry Mills Palmetto Slide
• 1910 : The Wyoming Prance - A Rag Time Two Step
• 1910 : I've Lost My Nannie
• 1911 : You've Got the Wrong Number, But You've Got the Right Girl (words by Arthur J. Lamb)
• 1914 : Kerry Mills Turkey Trot
• 1914 : Kerry Mills Fox Trot
• 1918 : Snooky Hollow - Intermezzo
• 1919 : Tokio - Fox Trot on Chorus from Geisha Girl

• List of ragtime composers

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• [https://archive.today/20121215194549/http://boundless.uoregon.edu/u?/sheetmusic,648 Sheet music for his song "We'll Be Together When the Clouds Roll By"] from the collection at University of Oregon Libraries
• {{IMSLP|id=Mills, Kerry}}
• [https://adp.library.ucsb.edu/names/109306 Kerry Mills recordings] at the Discography of American Historical Recordings.

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Biography Index, H.W. Wilson Co.; {{ISSN|0006-3053}}

{{Space|4}}Vol. 1: Jan. 1946–Jul. 1949 (1949)

{{Space|4}}Vol. 6: Jan. 1961–Jul. 1974 (1965)

Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Musicians (Mills is in Vol. 4 of 6), Macmillan; Schirmer

{{Space|3}}6th ed., Slonimsky (ed.) (1978); {{OCLC|4426869}}

{{Space|3}}8th ed., Slonimsky (ed.) (1992); {{OCLC|24246972}}

{{Space|3}}9th ed., Laura Kuhn (ed.) (born 1953) (2001); {{OCLC|44972043}}

Biographical Dictionary of Twentieth-Century Classical Musicians, Nicolas Slonimsky (ed), Schirmer (1997); {{OCLC|36111932}}

The New Grove Dictionary of American Music, (Mills is in Vol. 3 of 4), H. Wiley Hitchcock & Stanley Sadie (eds.), Macmillan Publishers (1986); (see Oxford Music Online); {{OCLC|13184437}}, {{OCLC|230202868}}

The Heritage Encyclopedia of Band Music: Composers and Their Music — Supplement, William H. Rehrig (ed.), Westerville, OH: Integrity Press (1996); {{OCLC|45209483}}

The Complete Encyclopedia of Popular Music and Jazz, 1900-1950, by Roger D. Kinkle (1916–2000) (Mills is Vol 3 of 4), Arlington House Publishers, New Rochelle, NY (1974) {{OCLC|897890}}

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

Popular American Composers, From Revolutionary times to the present — A Biographical and Critical Guide, 1st ed., compiled & edited by David Ewen, New York: H.W. Wilson Co. (1962); {{OCLC|63081753}}

Notable Names in the American Theatre, Walter Rigdon (born 1930) (ed.), Clifton, NJ: James T. White & Co. (1976); {{OCLC|2372945}}
{{Space|4}}Alphabetized by titles of address, e.g.: Dr., Mrs., and Sir

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, NJ: Scarecrow Press (1978); {{OCLC|3380132}}

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Category:1869 births

Category:1948 deaths

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Category:Musicians from Hawthorne, California

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