William Jerome(1864-1932)
- Soundtrack
Songwriter ("And the Green Grass Grew All Around"), singer, actor and
author, a charter member of ASCAP (1914) and one of its directors
(1914-1925). He appeared in minstrel shows and later became a music
publisher. His wife was Maude Nugent Jerome. His Broadway stage scores
include "Piff! Paff! Pouf!", "Lifting the Lid", "The Ham Tree" and "Up
and Down Broadway". His chief musical collaborators included "Walter
Donaldson', Louis Hirsch, Jean Schwartz, Harry Tierney, and 'Harry Von Tilzer', and his
other popular-song compositions include "Chinatown My Chinatown", "Get
Out and Get Under the Moon", "Bedelia", "Row Row Row", "Mr. Dooley",
"My Pearl Is a Bowery Girl", "Picture Me Down in Tennessee", "On the
Old Fall River Line", "Old King Tut", and "That Old Irish Mother of
Mine".
