Ernest Ball(1878-1927)
- Composer
- Soundtrack
Composer of familiar Irish songs ("When Irish Eyes are Smiling",
"Mother Machree", "A Little Bit of Heaven") and pianist, educated at
the Cleveland Conservatory. He was a staff composer for a music
publishing company from 1907 to 1927, and a vaudeville pianist
throughout the USA. He joined ASCAP as a charter member in 1914, and
wrote the stage scores for Broadway musicals including "The Heart of
Paddy Whack", and "Macushla". His chief musical collaborators included
New York Mayor James J. Walker, Chauncey Olcott, George Graff, Darl
MacBoyle, J. Kiern Brennan, Annelu Burns, and Arthur Penn, and David
Reed. His other popular-song compositions include "Will You Love Me in
December As You Do In May?"; "Till the Sands of the Desert Grow Cold";
""Love Me and the World Is Mine"; "Saloon; "Dear Little Boy of Mine";
"I'll Forget You"; "Let the Rest of the World Go By"; "In the Garden of
My Heart"; "My Dear"; "Who Knows?"; "Goodbye, Good Luck, God Bless
You"; "Turn Back the Universe"; "I Love the Name of Mary"; "To the End
of the World With You"; "West of the Great Divide"; "Ireland is Ireland
to Me"; "She's the Daughter of Mother Machree"; "To Have, To Hold, To
Love"; "Mother of Pearl"; "For the Sake of Auld Lang Syne"; and "You
Planted a Rose".
