Raymond B. Egan

Egan was born in Windsor, Ontario. He moved with his family to the United States in 1892 and settled in Michigan, where he attended the University of Michigan.{{cite book|author=Don Tyler|title=Hit Songs, 1900-1955: American Popular Music of the Pre-rock Era|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=yycKAQAAMAAJ|date=1 January 2007|publisher=McFarland|isbn=978-0-7864-2946-2|page=385}}

Egan's first job was a bank clerk, but he soon moved on to be a staff writer for Grinnell’s Music Co. in Detroit.

Beginning in the 1910s, he and Whiting wrote many popular songs, including "Till We Meet Again", "The Japanese Sandman"{{cite book|author1=Marvin E. Paymer|author2=Don E. Post|title=Sentimental Journey: Intimate Portraits of America's Great Popular Songs, 1920-1945|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_MNtkSqYzpoC&pg=PA11|year=1999|publisher=Noble House Publishers|isbn=978-1-881907-09-1|page=11}} and "Ain't We Got Fun".{{cite book|title=Michigan History Magazine|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=EBIUAAAAYAAJ|volume=85|year=2001|publisher=Michigan Department of State|page=53}}

Egan wrote songs for Vaudeville and for Broadway acts, including Robinson Crusoe, Jr., Silks and Satins, Holka Polka and Earl Carroll’s Sketch Book of 1935. He also wrote a number of songs for the films Paramount on Parade, Red-Headed Woman, The Prizefighter and the Lady and MGM's 1932 Lord Byron of Broadway.{{cite book|author=Edwin M. Bradley|title=The First Hollywood Musicals: A Critical Filmography of 171 Features, 1927 through 1932|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Rg-UBJaPD-sC&pg=PA225|date=1 January 2004|publisher=McFarland|isbn=978-0-7864-2029-2|page=225}} As well as Whiting, he later went on to write songs with Walter Donaldson, Ted Fiorito, Harry Tierney, and Gus Kahn.

His song "I Never Knew" was included on Judy Garland's 1950 Second Souvenir Album.[https://www.allmusic.com/album/judy-garland-second-souvenir-album-mw0000977538 "Judy Garland Second Souvenir Album"]. AllMusic Review by William Ruhlmann.

Egan died in Westport, Connecticut, aged 61. He was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1970.[http://www.cshf.ca/songwriter/raymond-egan/ "Raymond Egan"]. Canadian Songwriters' Hall of Fame website One of his works (co-written with Richard A. Whiting) named Hands In Hand Again was remixed and covered by the dark ambient band Midnight Syndicate in their 2005 album The 13th Hour.

• "Coaling Up in Colon Town" (1916). m: Richard A. Whiting{{Cite book|title=World War I Sheet Music - Volume 1|last=Parker|first=Bernard S.|publisher=McFarland & Company|year=2007|isbn=978-0-7864-2798-7|location=Jefferson, North Carolina|pages=59, 77, 127, 209, 263, 277, 333}}
• "Bravest Heart of All" (1917). m: Richard A. Whiting
• "I Wonder Where My Buddies Are To-Night" (1917). m: Richard A. Whiting
• "So Long, Mother" (1917). m: Egbert Van Alstyne{{Cite book|title=World War I Sheet Music - Volume 2|last=Parker|first=Bernard S.|publisher=McFarland & Company|year=2007|isbn=978-0-7864-2799-4|location=Jefferson, North Carolina|pages=563, 588, 590, 698, 705, 805}}
• "Throw Me a Kiss from Over the Sea" (1917). m: Richard A. Whiting
• "I'll Love You More for Losing You a While" (1918). m: Richard A. Whiting
• "Kaiser Bill" (1918). m: Egbert Van Alstyne
• "Smile as You Kiss Me Good-Bye" (1918). m: Art Gillham
• "Till We Meet Again" (1918). m: Richard A. Whiting
• "You'll Be Welcome as Flowers in the Maytime" (1918). m: Richard A. Whiting
• "Eyes of the Army" (1919). m: Richard A. Whiting
• "Hand in Hand Again" (1919). m: Richard A. Whiting
• "Rose of Verdun" (1919). m: Richard A. Whiting
• "They Called it Dixieland"
• "Mammy’s Little Coal Black Rose"
• "Where the Morning Glories Grow"
• "Ain't We Got Fun?"
• "The Japanese Sandman"{{cite book|author=Irene Kahn Atkins|title=Source music in motion pictures|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=NeUIAQAAMAAJ|date=1 February 1983|publisher=Fairleigh Dickinson University Press|isbn=978-0-8386-3076-1|page=63}}{{cite book|author=Arnold Shaw|title=The Jazz Age: Popular Music in the 1920s|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=GcjQCwAAQBAJ&pg=PA109|date=30 November 1989|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=978-0-19-536298-5|page=109}}
• "In a Little While"
• "Tea Leaves"
• "Sleepy Time Gal"{{cite book|author=Dan Dietz|title=The Complete Book of 1980s Broadway Musicals|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ux5UCwAAQBAJ&pg=PA19|date=18 February 2016|publisher=Rowman & Littlefield Publishers|isbn=978-1-4422-6092-4|pages=19–20}}
• "You’re Still an Old Sweetheart of Mine"
• "Some Sunday Morning"
• "Three on a Match"
• "Somebody’s Wrong"
• "Tell Me Why You Smile, Mona Lisa"
• "Dear Old Gal, Who’s Your Pal Tonight?"
• "There Ain’t No Maybe in My Baby’s Eyes"
• "I Never Knew I Could Love Anybody"
• "Downstream Drifter"
• "Red Headed Woman”

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• [http://dmr.bsu.edu/cdm4/document.php?CISOROOT=/ShtMus&CISOPTR=634&REC=19 Sheet music for "Till We Meet Again"], Jerome H. Remick & Co., 1918.
• [https://adp.library.ucsb.edu/names/109941 Raymond B. Egan recordings] at the Discography of American Historical Recordings.

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