Maude Nugent Nugent, [Jerome], Maude (b Brooklyn, NY, 12 Jan 1873 or 1874; d New York, 3 June 1958). American singer and composer. She began her career in vaudeville, achieving tremendous success in 1896 with her song Sweet Rosie O’Grady, which became the archetypal waltz ballad of the 1890’s. Over the next few years Nugent’s songs included Mamie Reilly (1897), I can’t forget you, honey (1899) and Somebody wants you (1909), but none were more than minor successes. Nugent introduced many of her songs herself; but the lyrics were occasionally supplied by her husband, William Herome. At the age of 28 she retired from the stage to raise a family, although she made a vrief return seven years later. After several decades in relative obscurity Nugent began appearing in ‘Gay Nineties’ shows in the 1940s and, with her nostalgic appeal and lively presence, she enjoyed a brief vogue as a television personality in the 1950s.
-Source The Norton/Grove dictionary of women composers by Julie Anne Saide, Rhian Samuel
Her husband was the songwriter 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...

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