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Name
  
Kerry Mills


Role
  
Composer

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Died
  
December 5, 1948, Hawthorne, California, United States

Similar People
  
Andrew B Sterling, Robert Schumann, Alfred Bryan, Woody Guthrie

Kerry mills at a georgia camp meeting


Kerry Mills (né Frederick Allen Mills; 1 February 1869 Philadelphia – 5 December 1948 Hawthorne, California) was an American ragtime composer of popular music during the Tin Pan Alley era. His stylistically diverse music ranged from ragtime to cakewalk to marches. He was most prolific between 1895 and 1918.

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Kerry Mills' Ragtime Dance


Career

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.

Selected works

  • "Any Old Port in a Storm"
  • "At A Georgia Camp-meeting" listen to:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lLR2ZI0evgs
  • "Impecunious Davis"
  • "In The City Of Sighs And Tears"
  • "Just For The Sake Of Society"
  • "Kerry Mills' Barn Dance"
  • "Let's All Go Up To Maud's"
  • "Like A Star That Falls From Heaven"
  • "The Longest Way 'Round Is The Sweetest Way Home"
  • "Meet Me in St. Louis, Louis" (words by Andrew B. Sterling)
  • "Red Wing" (words by Thurland Chattaway). Mills adapted the melody from Schumann's "Merry Peasant"
  • "We'll Be Together When the Clouds Roll By" (words by Alfred Bryan)
  • "While The Old Mill Wheel Is Turning"
  • "Whistling Rufus"

    • References

    Kerry Mills Wikipedia
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