Andrew B. Sterling
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United States
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lyricist
Lyricist
A lyricist is a songwriter who specializes in lyrics. A singer who writes the lyrics to songs is a singer-lyricist. This differentiates from a singer-composer, who composes the song's melody.-Collaboration:...
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Born in New York City
New York City
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, after he graduated from high school, he began writing songs and vaudeville
Vaudeville
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s. An important event was his meeting with the composer Harry Von Tilzer
Harry Von Tilzer
Harry Von Tilzer was a very popular United States songwriter.-Biography:Von Tilzer was born in Goshen, Indiana under the name Aaron Gumbinsky which he shortened to Harry Gumm. He ran away and joined a traveling circus at age 14, where he took his new name by adding 'Von' to his mother's maiden...
in 1898. The two began a songwriting partnership that lasted almost 30 years.
Others that Sterling collaborated with include Bernie Grossman, M. K. Jerome, William Jerome
William Jerome
William Jerome was an American songwriter, born in Cornwall-on-Hudson, New York of Irish immigrant parents, Mary Donnellan and Patrick Flannery...
, Frederick Allen Mills
Kerry Mills
Kerry Mills was an American composer of popular music during the Tin Pan Alley era. His stylistically diverse music ranged from ragtime to cakewalk to marches. He was most prolific between 1895 and 1918....
, brother Raymond Sterling, Ray Henderson
Ray Henderson
Ray Henderson , was an American songwriter.Born Raymond Brost in Buffalo, New York, Henderson moved to New York City and became a popular composer in Tin Pan Alley...
, Edward Moran
Edward Moran
Edward Moran was an American artist.He emigrated with his family to America at the age of 15, and subsequently settled in Philadelphia, where after having followed his fathers trade of weaver, he became a pupil of James Hamilton and Paul Weber...
and Bartley Costello. James A. Sterlin] has been collecting most of his works.
He wrote the song "Wait 'till the Sun Shines, Nellie
Wait 'Till the Sun Shines, Nellie
Wait 'Till the Sun Shines, Nellie is a popular song.-History:The music was written by Harry Von Tilzer, the lyrics by Andrew B. Sterling. The song was published in 1905. The song has been recorded many times and is now considered a pop standard...
" in 1905, and the song "America Here's My Boy" for the Peerless Quartet in 1917, in the aftermath of U.S. entry into World War I
World War I
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in April 1917. Wrote On the Old Fall River Line
On the Old Fall River Line
On the Old Fall River Line is a song composed in 1913 by William Jerome , Andrew B. Sterling and Harry Von Tilzer set on a steamship of the Fall River Line of steamships between New York and Newport, Rhode Island, which connected with trains from Newport to Boston...
with Von Tilzer
Harry Von Tilzer
Harry Von Tilzer was a very popular United States songwriter.-Biography:Von Tilzer was born in Goshen, Indiana under the name Aaron Gumbinsky which he shortened to Harry Gumm. He ran away and joined a traveling circus at age 14, where he took his new name by adding 'Von' to his mother's maiden...
and W. Jerome
William Jerome
William Jerome was an American songwriter, born in Cornwall-on-Hudson, New York of Irish immigrant parents, Mary Donnellan and Patrick Flannery...
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Sterling died in Stamford, Connecticut
Stamford, Connecticut
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on August 11, 1955.
External links
- Sheet music for his song "Under the Anheuser Bush" from the collection of the San Francisco Public Library