Composition (Music) Popular music--Writing and publishing Piano--Performance Lyric writing (Popular music)
Occupations:
Composer Songwriter Pianist Lyricist
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Schwarts, Jean, 1878-1956
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His If it wasn't for the Irish and the Jews [SR] 1912 label (Schwartz)
AmerGrove (Schwartz, Jean; 1878-1956; composer; collaborated with lyricist William Jerome)
Handle me with care, c1917 t.p. (Jean Schwartz) caption (Jean Schwarts)
Wikipedia, October 10, 2013 (Jean Schwartz (November 4, 1878 - November 30, 1956) was a Hungarian-born American songwriter. Schwartz was born in Budapest, Hungary. His family moved to New York City when he was 13 years old. He took various music-related jobs including demonstrating and selling sheet music in department stores before being hired as a staff pianist and song-plugger by the Shapiro-Bernstein Publishing House of Tin Pan Alley. He became known as an accomplished lyricist, although he also continued to write music. He died in Los Angeles, California.)