American Songbook Blogs

January 1, 1884: Songwriter George W. Meyer was born on this date in 1884! Meyer collaborated with the greatest lyricists of his day including Sam Lewis, Joe Young, Grant Clarke, Roy Turk, Arthur Johnston, Al Bryan, Edgar Leslie, E. Ray Goetz, Pete Wendling, Abel Baer and Stanley Adams. Highlights from the Meyer catalog include such hits as “Lonesome”, “When You’re a Long, Long Way from Home”, “My Mother’s Rosary”, “Come on and Baby Me”, “Since Maggie Dooley Learned the Hooley Hooley”, “There’s a Little Lane Without a Turning”, “Where Did Robinson Crusoe Go with Friday on Saturday Night?”, “For Me and My Gal”, “Everything is Peaces Down in Georgia”, “Bring Back My Daddy to Me”, “In the Land of Beginning Again”, “Beautiful Annabelle Lee”, “Now I Lay Me Down to Sleep”, “Tuck Me to Sleep in My Old “Tucky Home”, “Sittin’ in a Corner”, “Way Down in Iowa”, “Brown Eyes Why Are You Blue?”, “I’ve a Little Blackbird Looking for a Bluebird”, “Mandy, Make Up Your Mind”, “Dixie Dreams”, “I Believe in Miracles”, “There Are Such Things”, “If I Only Had a Match”, “In a Little Book Shop” and “The Story of Annie Laurie.”