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Gus Edwards Biography
Edwards was a songwriter and vaudevillian, but he also organized his own theater companies and was a music publisher. Gus Edwards was born Gus Simon in Hohensalza, Germany. When he was seven, his family moved to the United States, ending up in the Williamsburg neighborhood of Brooklyn. During the day, he worked in the family cigar store, and in the evenings, he wandered looking for any sort of show business job. He found work as a singer at various lodge halls, on ferry boat lounges, in saloons, and even between bouts at the athletic clubs. There is a story that in the early 1890s Gus met up with famed prizefighter John L. Sullivan, by then was working in vaudeville, who was so impresssed by the youngster that he decided to him in his act. As a very young boy, Gus worked as a song plugger at Koster and Bial's, at Tony Pastor's theatre, and at the Bowery Theatre. In those old vaudeville days, song publishers would often hire a very young boy to sit in the theatre, and immediately after a vaudeville star had sung one of the publisher's songs, the youngster would stand up in the audience, and pretending to be completely overcome by the song, break out in an "extemporaneous" solo of the same tune. In this way, the young Gus Edwards would often sit in a balcony seat, and then stand and repeat a song that vaudeville stars such as Maggie Cline, Lottie Gilson or Emma Carus had just sung. In 1896, Gus was just 17 years old and appearing at Johnny Palmer's Gaiety Saloon in Brooklyn, when James Hyde, a vaudeville agent, saw him performing. He booked a tour for Gus and four other boys as The Newsboys Quintet act. In 1898, while performing in this act, Gus wrote his first song, to a lyric by Tom Daly, "All I Want is My Black Baby Back". Gus couldn't write music at that time, so he hired Charles Previn to write down the notes. May Irwin sang the song in her act, and helped to popularize it. While entertaining soldiers at Camp Black, during the Spanish-American War, Gus met lyricist Will Cobb, and they formed their "Words and Music", a partnership (nicknamed "Words and Music") that lasted for many years. He was a vaudeville singer, and later had his own vaudeville company. He discovered Walter Winchell, Elsie Janis, Eddie Cantor, Georgie Price, Lila Lee, Eleanor Powell, Ray Bolger, the Duncan Sisters, Sally Rand, Jack Pearl, the Lane Sisters, Paul Haakon, and Ina Ray Hutton. He wrote the Broadway stage scores for "When We Were Forty-One", "Hip Hip Hooray", "The Merry-Go-Round", "School Days", "Ziegfeld Follies of 1910", "Sunbonnet Sue", and "Show Window". He founded the Gus Edwards Music Hall in New York, and also his own publishing company, then produced special subjects for films, and returned to vaudeville between 1930 and 1937, finally retiring in 1939. His chief musical collaborators included Edward Madden, Will Cobb, and Robert B. Smith. His other popular-song compositions include "Meet Me Under the Wisteria", "By the Light of the Silvery Moon", "I Can't Tell You Why I Love You but I Do", "Goodbye, Little Girl, Goodbye", "I Just Can't Make My Eyes Behave", "I'll Be With You When the Roses Bloom Again", "He's My Pal", "Way Down Yonder in the Cornfield", "In Zanzibar", "If a Girl Like You Loved a Boy Like Me", "Jimmy Valentine", "If I Were a Millionaire", and "Laddie Boy". |
Gus Edwards NewsTV: CBS (Gus Johnson, Steve Tasker) FOXSports.com Fitzpatrick doesn't check down as often as Edwards and got WR Lee Evans more involved last Sunday. Carolina's offense is up to 131.2 rushing yards per game, ... and more » Success stories intersect with Pingree-Brooks clash Boston Globe Kimball Union is loaded on the defensive line and will rely on Robert King and Gus Cruz to generate the pass rush and shut down Lawrence's running game. ... 'Twilight' Fans: Do You Really Want to See 'Breaking Dawn'? Cinematical (blog) I would be quite surprised if elements like Bella's bruised body and Edward's predilection for ripping through bed posts makes it way in. ... and more » CR Anderson posts first-quarter honor roll for 2009-10 Helena Independent Record ... Keith Bonde, Mary Buckley, Kylie Campbell, Olivia Campbell, Gus Chancy, Bret Charlton, Arynn Collins, Samuel Conrady, Corymarie Cooper, Aidan Cormier, ... Port Edwards high school graduation time to stay put despite conflicts Wisconsin Rapids Tribune Port Edwards School Board members received a report from High School Principal Gus Mancuso on Monday about the School District's graduation ceremony. ...... ESPN MacMahon-Watkins on Romo-Williams ESPN Last season, Bernard Berrian joined the Vikings and had 48 catches for 964 yards and seven touchdowns with quarterbacks Gus Frerotte and Tarvaris Jackson. ... and more » Lovell Chronicle May takes the reins of the Lovell Bulldogs Lovell Chronicle The son of Jay and Evon May of Lovell, Brian May learned basketball from the likes of Ralph Winland and Gus Gerhardt, among others, and always had a desire ... Centre Daily Times C. Dauphin knocks off Little Lions Centre Daily Times He also clutched State College's final-second effort when Gus Sommer's boot from near midfield landed right in Lutz's stomach. ?That letdown cost us our ... Hall won't lag in fitness: Eade ABC Online (ABC News: Gus Goswell) Western Bulldogs coach Rodney Eade is confident recruit Barry Hall will quickly be up to speed on his fitness, despite recently ... and more » Plain Dealer Sorting through the world of television's random facts: Norman Chad Plain Dealer Sound-a-likes: The mating of the wildebeest and Gus Johnson's play-by-play. 23. Frankly, I believe field position is more important in the game of life than... | |||||
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