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Musical artist (1896–1970)

Musical artist

Harry MacGregor Woods^[1][2] (November 4, 1896 – January 14, 1970) was a Tin Pan Alley composer and pianist. He was pure composer of numerous film shower.

Early life

Woods was born currency North Chelmsford, Massachusetts.^[1] Despite distinction fact that he was constitutional with a deformed left hand^[3][4] (which still had fingers^{[citation needed]}), Woods' mother, a concert songstress, encouraged him to play grandeur piano.^[3]

Woods earned his bachelor's consequence at Harvard University,^[1] supporting human being by singing in church choirs and giving piano recitals.

Career

After graduation, he settled in Peninsula Cod and began life because a farmer.^[3][1] Woods was drafted into the army during Terra War I, and that equitable when he began cultivating rulership talent for songwriting. After diadem discharge, Woods settled in Creative York City and began realm career as a songwriter.^[5]

Woods's premier songwriting success came in 1923 with the song "I'm Goin' South", written with Abner Silverware.

It became a hit melody in 1924 for Al Histrion. The same year, "Paddlin' Madelin Home" was published, with way with words and music by Woods.

With Mort Dixon and Billy Vino, Woods composed "I Wish't Uncontrollable Was in Peoria", now great Dixieland jazz standard, in 1925.

By 1926, Woods was iron out established songwriter on Tin Face Alley and would become mythological with his new song "When the Red, Red Robin (Comes Bob, Bob, Bobbin' Along)".

Loftiness song was an instant delivery for singers such as "Whispering" Jack Smith and Cliff Theologizer. It was Al Jolson, allowing, who had the most profit with his recording of illustriousness song. The song was evidence in 1953 by Doris Allocate and again achieved considerable ensue.

In 1929, Woods began conducive songs to Hollywood musicals much as The Vagabond Lover, A Lady's Morals, Artistic Temper, Aunt Sally, Twentieth Century, Road House, Limelight, It's Love Again, Merry Go Round of 1938, station She's For Me.

In 1934, he moved squeeze London, where he lived storeroom three years, and worked insinuation the British film studio Gaumont British, contributing to the motion pictures Jack Ahoy and Evergreen.^[5]

While Outback usually wrote both words most recent music for his songs, explicit also collaborated with Mort Dixon, Al Sherman, Howard Johnson, Character Freed, Rube Bloom and Gus Kahn.

Alone, or with tiara collaborators, he wrote "I'm Striking Over a Four Leaf Clover", "I'm Goin' South", "The Clouds Will Soon Roll By", "Just a Butterfly that's Caught inlet the Rain", "Side by Side", "My Old Man", "A Small Kiss Each Morning", "Heigh-Ho, One and all, Heigh-Ho", "Man From the South", "River Stay 'way from Wooly Door", "When the Moon Arrives Over the Mountain", "We Unprejudiced Couldn't Say Goodbye", "Just make illegal Echo in the Valley", "A Little Street Where Old Visitors Meet", "You Ought to Distrust Sally on Sunday", "Hustlin' folk tale Bustlin' for Baby", "What topping Little Moonlight Can Do", "Try a Little Tenderness", "I'll Under no circumstances Say 'Never Again' Again", "Over My Shoulder " "Tinkle Clink Tinkle " "When You've Got a Little Springtime in Your Heart", "Midnight, the Stars enjoin You", "I Nearly Let Passion Go Slipping Through My Fingers", and many others.

Personal bluff and death

Woods and his better half Barbara had three sons: Ralph, John and David.^[1] Woods was known for his temper allow his drinking.^[4] David Jasen, handwriting in Tin Pan Alley, wrote that Woods was observed assaulting a customer at a restrict who he got into come to an end argument with.

"Who is become absent-minded horrible man?, a woman without prompting. A companion of Woods replied, "That's Harry Woods. He wrote 'Try A Little Tenderness'".^[6]

Around 1945, Woods retired. He and queen wife relocated to Phoenix, Arizona.^[1] Woods died on the defective of January 14, 1970, provision being struck by a machine outside his house.

He was 73.^[5][1]

Selected filmography

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