![]() Hit songs for her included Till the Clouds Roll By, a duet with James Harrod, and the comic tune M-I-S-S-I-S-S-I-P-P-I which was also identified with Frances White. She also sang on a number of records, including a contract with Columbia. She was featured in no fewer than 11 Broadway shows between 19. He later teamed with Polly Baker and also composed music with her.Īnna Wheaton was a star in her own right in the 1910s, performing as a dancer, singer and musical star on Broadway and even at London’s Hippodrome. His long-time partnership with 1910s and 1920s singer Anna Wheaton (born 1896- died 1961) resulted in their producing a touring vaudeville act for many years and also he would often perform and tour himself playing the piano and singing or using guest singers to sing his great American songbook tunes. He had two children with Polly named Harriet (born 1932) and Polly (1934). Carroll had quite an eye for the ladies and first married a Radio City Rockette, Estelle Cooper, in Manhattan in 1921 but they had a bitter divorce and alimony legal proceeding in 1925 and the divorce did not become finalized until 1934 by which time he was living with his second wife Polly Baker whom he married in 1935 after they lived together in the early 1930s. Pfeiffer of New York or marketed with gorgeous cover photos of pretty girls. Still more massive hits followed in the 1910s including She is the Sunshine of Virginia and Down in Bom-Bom Bay. When issued as sheet music, these songs were usually given beautiful art covers by famous artists such as E. ![]() His work on Broadway continued to be strongly sought after and he did five more shows over the next few years including the 19 seasons of the Follies with Ziegfeld. It was another million selling song for a writer with seemingly a magic touch for hit-making. I’m Always Chasing Rainbows (with lyric by Joe McCarthy) had been composed for a highly s uccessful 1918 Broadway show called Oh, Look! which starred the glamorous Dolly Sisters and Harry Fox, supposed inventor of the fox trot dance form. I’ll Come Sailing Home to You (A Long Way From Broadway) (1917)- featuring 25 year old Harry Carroll on the cover and the lyrics are by Stanley Murphy with Carroll having composed the music. This tune was intended to duplicate the great success of the earlier By the Sea but failed to do so. The cover art by the noted sheet music artist Starmer features men and women swimming. The Stormy Sea of Love (1916) – Words again are by Ballard MacDonald. Harry Carroll, just 23 years old here, plays the piano as his vaudeville partner Anna Wheaton looks on. ![]() They are:ĭrip, Drip, Drip, Went the Waterfall (1915) – Words are by Harry Carroll’s long-time lyricist Ballard MacDonald. The University of Arizona Collection has three sheet musics of Harry Carroll’s salad days as a composer. These included such songs as By the Beautiful Sea (with Harold Atteridge), There’s a Girl in the Heart of Maryland, I’m Always Chasing Rainbows, Trail of the Lonesome Pine and others which sold uncountable amounts of sheet music, in some cases more than one million sheets. A number of his tunes, apart from becoming major hits, became classics and even emblems of their times. There soon followed, usually in collaboration with MacDonald, a series of mega-hits which brought Carroll into the ranks of the most famous composers of his time. Carroll had been part of a vaudeville act with Fields and Eddie Weston known as Weston, Fields and Carroll during 19. Shubert named him to be a staff composer for their New York Winter Garden unit and, working with Arthur Fields, he composed music for the hit show On the Mississippi. He continued composing and plugging his tunes, often with words by his friend Ballard MacDonald until one of his tunes was used in the Ziegfeld Follies of 1910. At night he performed at the Garden Café on 7th Avenue and 50th street and he also took jobs as a pianist for the frequent vaudeville shows in New York City. His dream was to move to the big city which he did at age 18, finding work in Tin Pan Alley, that early center for American popular music composition, as an arranger. ![]() He was another of those vaudevillians who didn’t finish school and who was already playing piano in a silent movie theater before he was out of grade school. Harry Carroll (Atlantic City, New Jersey Novem– Mount Carmel, Pennsylvania December 26, 1962) was a noted American songwriter and pianist.
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