Kerry Mills

Kerry Mills ( born 1 February 1869 in Philadelphia as Frederick Allen Mills; † 5 December 1948 in Hawthorne ( California)) was an American composer and music publishers of Tin Pan Alley, the popular music wrote.

Mills was a classical violinist and worked as Head of the String Department in 1892 at the University of Michigan School of Music, where he began composing. In 1895 he moved to New York City. He wrote both Cakewalk and Rags and Marches and worked mainly 1895-1918. He published his and others' compositions in its publisher, FA Mills Music Publisher. In the 1920s he moved to California. Popular was his especially Cakewalk At a Georgia Camp Meeting, which was also used in numerous films; his song Meet Me in St. Louis in 1944, the theme song of a movie by Vincente Minnelli.

Selected compositions

• Any Old Port in a Storm
• Impecunious Davis
• In the City of Sighs and Tears
• Just for the sake of Society
• Kerry Mills ' Barn Dance
• Let's All Go Up to Maud 's
• Like a Star That Falls From Heaven
• The Longest Way 'Round Is the Sweetest Way Home
• Meet Me in St. Louis, Louis (Text by Andrew B. Sterling)
• Red Wing (Text Thurland Chattaway ).
• We'll Be Together When the Clouds Roll by ( text by Alfred Bryan )
• While the Old Mill Wheel Is Turning
• Whistling Rufus