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A. Baldwin Sloane

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Composer 1872–1925

Alfred Baldwin Sloane, often given as A. Baldwin Sloane, (28 August 1872, Baltimore – 21 February 1925, Red Bank, New Jersey) was the most prolific songwriter for Broadway musical comedies in the United States at the beginning of the 20th century. Despite his output and success during his lifetime, none of his music has had enduring popularity. Two of his most popular songs were "When You Ain't Got No Money You Needn't Come Around" and "Coming Through the Rye". His most successful hit tune was “Heaven Will Protect the Working Girl" which was first performed by Marie Dressler in the 1910 show Tillie's Nightmare.

Also credited on2 works

The Wizard Of Oz
Greenwich Village Follies

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In the literature3 passages

  • Songs: “When My Baby Smiles at Me” (Billy Munro-Andrew Sterling); “I Want a Daddy who Will Rock Me to Sleep” (A. Baldwin Sloane-Arthur Swanstrom, John Murray Anderson); “(I’ll See You in) C-U-B-A” (Irving Berlin)ebooks/Green, Stanley/Broadway Musicals, Show By Show - Seventh Edition - Stanley Green & Cary Ginell.txt
  • 107 . Edgar Smith, lyrics, and A. Baldwin Sloane, music, “Heaven Will Protect the Working Girl (A Burlesque Ballad)” (New York: Charles K. Harris, 1909). Sheet Music Consortium, http://digital.library.ucla.edu/sheetmusic/ , accessed April 7, 2009. According to Gerald Bordman, this song, “the most famous song A. Baldwin Sloane ever compose…ebooks/Magee, Jeffrey/Irving Berlin's American Musical Theater (Broadway Legacies) - Jeffrey Magee.txt
  • A. Baldwin Sloane, whom we just met replacing Paul Tietjens on The Wizard of Oz , was no longhair. Yet when he and Sydney Rosenfeld built The Mocking Bird (1902) around the old number that opera sopranos favored when asked to sing something “popular,” it was “a romantic comic opera.” True, “Listen To the Mocking Bird” no longer holds any…ebooks/Mordden, Ethan/Anything Goes_ A History of American Musical Theatre - Ethan Mordden.txt

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