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Name
  
Al Piantadosi

Role
  
Composer

Died
  
1955, Encino, Los Angeles, California, United States

Cow Bells (1922)


Albert Joseph "Al" Piantadosi (18 August 1882 New York, New York – 8 April 1955 Encino, California) was an American composer, pianist and music publisher.

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Career

Songs composed by him include "I'm Awfully Glad I'm Irish" (1910), "That's How I Need You" (1912), "The Curse of an Aching Heart" (1913), "I Didn't Raise My Boy to Be a Soldier" (1915), "Mississippi Days" (1916) and "If You Had All the World and Its Gold".

In his early career, he worked as a pianist in Callahan's Dance Hall on Manhattan's Doyers Street, where he wrote the briefly popular "My Mariucci Take a Steamboat". A charter member of the American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers (ASCAP), he accompanied Anna Chandler for her vaudeville performances. He worked with several collaborators in his career, including Alfred Bryan, Joe Goodwin, Edgar Leslie and Joseph McCarthy. Ted Fiorito worked for him as a demonstrator, playing piano. Piantadosi retired from music in 1930. He died in Encino, California in 1955.

Selected Works

  • Piantadosi, Al, Addison Burkhart, and Jack Glogau. All Aboard for Home Sweet Home. New York: Al. Piantadosi & Co, 1918. OCLC 20119198
  • Piantadosi, Al, Arthur Freed, and Sachs. Belgium Dry Your Tears. New York: Al Piantadosi & Co, 1918. OCLC 18776251
  • Piantadosi, Al, Henry Fink, and Rose Starmer. The Curse of an Aching Heart. New York: Leo. Feist Inc, 1913. OCLC 10459931
  • Piantadosi, Al, and Alfred Bryan. I Didn't Raise My Boy to Be a Soldier. New York: Leo Feist, 1915. OCLC 50942651
  • Piantadosi, Al, and Marshall Montgomery. Pal of My Cradle Days: A Beautiful, Mother Waltz Ballad with Ukulele Accompaniment. New York: Leo. Feist, 1925. OCLC 18697981
  • Piantadosi, Al. Send Me Away with a Smile. New York: A. Piantadosi, 1917. OCLC 20120219
  • Piantadosi, Al. Someone Is Waiting for You: The Greater Mother Love Song. New York: Al. Piantadosi, 1917. OCLC 20120289
  • Piantadosi, Al, and Joseph McCarthy. That Dreamy Italian Waltz. New York: Leo. Feist, 1910.
  • Piantadosi, Al. That's How I Need You. New York: Leo Feist, 1912. OCLC 19405145
  • Piantadosi, Al, and Sigmund Romberg. The Wild, Wild Women: Are Making a Wild Man of Me. New York: Al. Piantadosi & Co, 1917. OCLC 20120239

    • References

    Al Piantadosi Wikipedia
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