Name Shelton Brooks | Role Composer | |
Born May 4, 1886
Amherstburg, Dominion of Canada ( 1886-05-04 ) Occupation Popular music and jazz composer Died September 6, 1975, Los Angeles, California, United States Movies Double Deal, Adventures of Kitty O'Day, Professor Creeps Music director The Singing Fool, Scarface, Lights of New York Similar People Gus Kahn, Alfred Bryan, Tiny Bradshaw, Louis Silvers, Lloyd Bacon | ||
Shelton brooks hole in the wall
Shelton Brooks (May 4, 1886 – September 6, 1975) was an African American, Canadian born composer of popular music and jazz, who wrote some of the biggest hits of the first third of the 20th century.
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- Shelton brooks hole in the wall
- Legendary composers shelton brooks irving caesar sammy fain 1972 tv
- Early life and education
- Career
- Discography
- Partial list of songs
- References
Legendary composers shelton brooks irving caesar sammy fain 1972 tv
Early life and education
Brooks was born in Amherstburg, Canada. His family moved to Detroit, Michigan, in 1901.
Career
Brooks sang, played piano, and performed on the vaudeville circuit (notably, as a Bert Williams imitator), as well as having a successful songwriting career. His first hit song was "Some of These Days", which he was able to get to headliner Sophie Tucker in 1909. Tucker adopted it as her theme song, and performed it regularly for the next 55 years.
He starred in several 1920s musical comedies. He appeared in the cast of Lew Leslie's Plantation Revue, which was opened in 1922. After the sudden death of his partner Florence Mills in 1927, he stopped appearing in stage shows and pursued a nightclub act. He also had a radio show on the CBS network in the 1930s. In the 1940s he became a regular in Ken Murray's "Blackouts", a long-running salute to burlesque that played in both New York and Los Angeles, California.
Brooks sang and provided piano accompaniments on records with vocalists Ethel Waters and Sara Martin.
Discography
Brooks' works include Some of These Days, At the Darktown Strutters' Ball, I Wonder Where My Easy Rider's Gone, Every Day, Somewhere in France, Swing That Thing, That Man of Mine and There'll Come A Time.
He also composed "Honey Gal, You Aint Talkin' to Me" and "If I Were A Bee and You Were a Red, Red Rose".