Henry Creamer, songwriter: reference sources (web and print); selected songs; recordings, videos; miscellany
Overview and Commentary Henry Creamer
"The story of the six year collaboration [c. 1916-1922] of Henry Creamer and Turner Layton is that of a team out of sync. Creamer was serious about theatre, and his long apprenticeship in the profession made him the most likely of his contemporaries to succeed at it; Layton was a gifted pianist and composer who saw the theatre as a place to promote pop songs. When the going got tough, Layton got out. They had their chances, their shows, their hits--but there was always something that kept it from coming together for them. At various times they needed smarter producers, bigger publishers, or better first recordings of their songs. Yet, for all of their near-misses in the theatre, theirs is not a hard-luck story. They had big songs and a few of these became standards. They simply never made the parlay of hit songs from hit shows" (p. 360 hardcover Ed.).
Research Resources: Henry Creamer
- Answers.com (Creamer entry)
- DBOPM (Database Of Popular Music: song list; awards; hit songs; co-writers)
- Discogs.com (songwriting and arranging credits)
- Indiana University Sheet Music Collection (In Harmony): Henry Creamer
- Internet Broadway Database (Broadway productions and song credits)
- Internet Movie Database (brief biography, filmography, movie song credits)
- Locust St. (blog on song "After You've Gone" (contains material on Creamer)
- New York Public Library (catalog entries for books, recordings, sheet music, etc.)
- Wikipedia (Creamer article)
- ASCAP Biographical Dictionary of Composers, Authors and Publishers, New York: American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (dates, career, shows/movies, songs; 3rd edition, 1966, entry p. 144)
- Arnold Shaw, The Jazz Age: Popular Music in the 1920's, New York: Oxford University Press, 1987 (multiple references to Creamer).
- David A. Jasen and Gene Jones
Spreadin' Rhythm Around: Black Popular Songwriters, 1880-1930, New York: Schirmer Books, 1998 (paperback edition, Routledge, 2005) -- (sub-chapter, pp. 360-372, hardcover Ed., on Creamer and Turner Layton. - "Everybody is Crazy 'Bout the Doggone Blues": oldtimecharlie
- "Way Down Yonder In New Orleans Layton and Johnstone 1927": BASICT01
Notes
- From the Chapter on Henry Creamer and Turner Layton
- Jasen and Jones go on to give a detailed account of Creamer's and Turner's lives and careers.
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"The story of the six year collaboration [c. 1916-1922] of Henry Creamer and Turner Layton is that of a team out of sync. Creamer was serious about theatre, and his long apprenticeship in the profession made him the most likely of his contemporaries to succeed at it; Layton was a
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