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American composer (1869–1948)
Kerry Mills
Born Frederick Allen Mills
1 February 1869Died 5 December 1948 (aged 79) Other names F.A. Mills (publishing as) Occupation(s) Composer, Music Publishing Executive Known for F.A. Mills Music Publisher
Kerry Mills (né Frederick Allen Mills ; 1 February 1869 in
Philadelphia – 5 December 1948 in
Hawthorne, California ), publishing also as F.A. Mills , was an American
ragtime composer and music publishing executive of popular music during the
Tin Pan Alley era.
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[5] His stylistically diverse music ranged from ragtime through
cakewalk to
marches . He was most prolific between
1895 and
1918 .
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Career
Red Wing 1907
sheet music
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.
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Selected works
"Impecunious Davis"
"In The City Of Sighs And Tears"
"Just For The Sake Of Society"
"Let's All Go Up To Maud's"
"The Longest Way 'Round Is The Sweetest Way Home"
"
Meet Me in St. Louis, Louis " (words by
Andrew B. Sterling )
1895 : Rastus on Parade - Characteristic Two Step March for Piano
1895 : Shandon Bells - Two Step March
1896 : Happy Days in Dixie - Characteristic March
1897 : At A Georgia Camp Meeting - A Characteristic March listen to:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lLR2ZI0evgs
1899 : Whistling Rufus - Characteristic Two Step March, Polka & Cakewalk
1899 : Impecunious Davis - A Characteristic March
1900 or before: Cake-Walk
1900 : Kerry Mills Medley - Themes from Previous Cake Walk and Songs
1902 : Harmony Moze - Characteristic Two Step
1902 : A Brand Plucked from the Burning (words by
Alfred Bryan )
1902 : I Know She Waits for Me (words by
Alfred Bryan )
1903 : Valse Hèléne
1903 : Petite Causerie - A Quiet Chat
1903 : Valse Primrose - Les Primevères
1903 : 'Leven Forty-Five From The Hotel - Two Step March
1903 : Me and Me Banjo - Characteristic Piece
1903 : Petite Causerie (A Quiet Chat)
1903 : Valse Helene
1903 : L'amour Aux Bois (Cupid's Bower)
1903 : Valse Primrose (Les Primeveres)
1903 : Like A Star That Falls From Heaven (words by
Alfred Bryan )
1904 : We'll Be Together When the Clouds Roll By (words by
Alfred Bryan )
1906 : Old Heidelberg: - Characteristic Two Step March
1906 : While The Old Mill Wheel Is Turning (words by
Will D. Cobb )
1907 :
Red Wing " - An Indian Intermezzo (words by
Thurland Chattaway ). Mills adapted the melody from
Schumann 's "The Happy Farmer"
1908 : Kerry Mills Barn Dance
1908 : Sun Bird - Intermezzo
1908 : Hallie (A Little Romance)
1908 : Sweet Sixteens - March
1908 :
Any Old Port in a Storm (words by
Arthur J. Lamb )
1908 : If You Were Mine (words by
Arthur J. Lamb )
1909 : Comical Eyes (words by Bartley C. Costello)
1909 : Kerry Mills Rag Time Dance
1909 : A Georgia Barn Dance
1909 : The Scarf Dancer - A Novelty Two Step
1909 : Lily of the Prairie - Two Step Intermezzo
1909 : Sicilian Chimes - Reverie
1909 : Kerry Mills Potpourri
1909 : Don't Be an Old Maid, Molly
1909 : Where Were You Last Night? (words by
Alfred Bryan )
1910 : That Fascinating Ragtime Glide
1910 : Valley Flower - Intermezzo
1910 : Kerry Mills Palmetto Slide
1910 : The Wyoming Prance - A Rag Time Two Step
1910 : I've Lost My Nannie
1911 : You've Got the Wrong Number, But You've Got the Right Girl (words by
Arthur J. Lamb )
1914 : Kerry Mills Turkey Trot
1914 : Kerry Mills Fox Trot
1918 : Snooky Hollow - Intermezzo
1919 : Tokio - Fox Trot on Chorus from Geisha Girl
See also
External links
References
^
Biography Index ,
H.W. Wilson Co. ;
ISSN
0006-3053
Vol. 1: Jan. 1946–Jul. 1949 (1949)
Vol. 6: Jan. 1961–Jul. 1974 (1965)
^
Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Musicians (Mills is in Vol. 4 of 6),
Macmillan ;
Schirmer
6th ed.,
Slonimsky (ed.) (1978);
OCLC
4426869
8th ed.,
Slonimsky (ed.) (1992);
OCLC
24246972
9th ed., Laura Kuhn (ed.) (born 1953) (2001);
OCLC
44972043
^ Biographical Dictionary of Twentieth-Century Classical Musicians, Nicolas Slonimsky (ed),
Schirmer (1997);
OCLC
36111932
^ The New Grove Dictionary of American Music, (Mills is in Vol. 3 of 4),
H. Wiley Hitchcock &
Stanley Sadie (eds.),
Macmillan Publishers (1986); (see
Oxford Music Online );
OCLC
13184437 ,
OCLC
230202868
^ The Heritage Encyclopedia of Band Music: Composers and Their Music — Supplement, William H. Rehrig (ed.),
Westerville, OH : Integrity Press (1996);
OCLC
45209483
^ American Popular Songs, From the Revolutionary War to the present, edited by David Ewen, New York:
Random House (1966);
OCLC
598027
^ Popular American Composers, From Revolutionary times to the present — A Biographical and Critical Guide, 1st ed., compiled & edited by David Ewen, New York:
H.W. Wilson Co. (1962);
OCLC
63081753
^ Notable Names in the American Theatre, Walter Rigdon (born 1930) (ed.),
Clifton, NJ :
James T. White & Co. (1976);
OCLC
2372945 Alphabetized by titles of address, e.g.: Dr., Mrs., and Sir
^ The Oxford Companion to Popular Music, by Peter Gammond,
Oxford, England :
Oxford University Press (1991);
OCLC
22382241
^ Sweet and Lowdown: America's Popular Song Writers, by Warren Craig,
Metuchen, NJ :
Scarecrow Press (1978);
OCLC
3380132
^ The Complete Encyclopedia of Popular Music and Jazz, 1900-1950, by Roger D. Kinkle (1916–2000) (Mills is Vol 3 of 4),
Arlington House Publishers ,
New Rochelle, NY (1974)
OCLC
897890
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