Raymond Blanning Egan was a songwriter. He moved to the United States in 1892 and settled in Michigan

Michigan

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 where he attended the University of Michigan

University of Michigan

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. His first job was a bank clerk, but he soon moved onto be a staff writer for Ginnells Music Co. in Detroit.

He wrote songs for Broadway acts such as Robinson Crusoe, Jr., Silks and Satins, Holka Polka and Earl Carroll’s Sketch Book of 1935. He also wrote a number of songs for films such as Paramount on Parade

Paramount on Parade

Paramount on Parade is a all-star revue released by Paramount Pictures, directed by several directors including Edmund Goulding, Dorothy Arzner, Ernst Lubitsch, Rowland V. Lee, A. Edward Sutherland, Victor Heerman, Lothar Mendes, Otto Brower, Edwin H...

, Red-Headed Woman

Red-Headed Woman

Red-Headed Woman is a 1932 Pre-Code comedy film, produced by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, based on a novel by Katherine Brush, and with a screenplay by Anita Loos. It was directed by Jack Conway, and stars Jean Harlow as a woman who uses sex to advance her social position...

, and The Prizefighter and the Lady

The Prizefighter and the Lady

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. He later went on to writing songs with Walter Donaldson

Walter Donaldson

Walter Donaldson was a prolific United States popular songwriter, composing many hit songs of the 1910s and 1920s.-History:...

, Ted Fiorito

Ted Fiorito

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, Harry Tierney

Harry Tierney

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, Richard A. Whiting

Richard A. Whiting

Richard Armstrong Whiting was a composer of popular songs including the standards, "Hooray for Hollywood", "Ain't We Got Fun?" & "On the Good Ship Lollipop"....

. and Gus Kahn

Gus Kahn

Gustav Gerson Kahn was a musician, songwriter and lyricist.-Biography:Kahn was born in Koblenz, Germany in 1886. The family emigrated from there to the United States and moved to Chicago, Illinois in 1890...

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Some of his songs are:

• "They Called it Dixieland"
• "Mammy’s Little Coal Black Rose"
• "Till We Meet Again"
• "Where the Morning Glories Grow"
• "Ain't We Got Fun?
  Ain't We Got Fun?
  "Ain't We Got Fun?" is a popular foxtrot published in 1921 with music by Richard A. Whiting, lyrics by Raymond B. Egan and Gus Kahn.It was first performed in 1920 in the revue Satires of 1920, then moved into vaudeville and recordings...
  
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• "The Japanese Sandman
  The Japanese Sandman
  The Japanese Sandman is a song from 1920, composed by Richard A. Whiting and with lyrics by Raymond B. Egan.-Content:The song is about a sandman from Japan, who exchanges yesterdays for tomorrows...
  
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• "In a Little While"
• "Tea Leaves"
• "Sleepy Time Gal"
• "You’re Still an Old Sweetheart of Mine"
• "Some Sunday Morning"
• "Three on a Match"
• "Somebody’s Wrong"
• "Tell Me Why You Smile, Mona Lisa"
• "Dear Old Gal, Who’s Your Pal Tonight?"
• "There Ain’t No Maybe in My Baby’s Eyes"
• "I Never Knew I Could Love Anybody"
• "Downstream Drifter"
• "Red Headed Woman”

Egan was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame

Songwriters Hall of Fame

The Songwriters Hall of Fame is an arm of the National Academy of Popular Music. It was founded in 1969 by songwriter Johnny Mercer and music publishers Abe Olman and Howie Richmond. The goal is to create a museum but as of April, 2008, the means do not yet exist and so instead it is an online...

in 1970.

External Link

• Sheet music for "Till We Meet Again", Jerome H. Remick & Co., 1918.