Charlotte Blake

Charlotte M. Blake ( * May 30, 1885 in Ohio; † August 21, 1979 in Santa Monica ) was an American composer of Rags and other light music.

Life and work

Blake began her career at age 18 when she began to work in Detroit as a writer, arranger and Musikdemonstrator for the music publisher Jerome H. Remick. Her first composition " King Cupid " was released in 1903, the last 1919. A total of 35 of her compositions were published, waltzes, marches and rags. Until 1906, was absent from the publication of their compositions, most of which were published by Remick, her full first name ( was the abbreviated with a gender-neutral " C." ).

Later she lived in Holywood and also spent time working at Douglas Aircraft Company. Her works have been rediscovered by Max Morath, who recorded some of her compositions on his album The Ragtime Women.

Compositions

  • King Cupid (1903 )
  • The Missouri Mule March ( 1904)
  • Dainty Dames - A Novelette (1905 )
  • The Mascot ( March, 1905)
  • My Lady Laughter (Walzer, 1905)
  • Love Is King ( Waltz, 1906)
  • Could You Read My Heart (Text: Arthur Gillespie, 1906)
  • A Night, A Girl, A Moon (1907 )
  • Curly: March And Two Step (1907 )
  • Orchids, Novelette Three Step (1907 )
  • Hip Hip Hoorah ( March, 1907)
  • The Last Kiss ( Waltz, 1907)
  • I Wonder If It 's You (Text: Vincent P. Bryan, 1907)
  • Bogie Man - A Creep Mouse Tune ( 1907)
  • So Near and Yet So Far ( with Arthur Gillespie, 1907)
  • Love Tree (1908 )
  • The Gravel Rag ( 1908)
  • In mem'ry of You, Sweetheart ( text Arthur Gillespie, 1908)
  • It Makes a Lot of Difference When You're With the Girl You Love "(Text: Arthur Gillespie and Harold Ward, 1909)
  • Poker Rag ( 1909)
  • Honey When It 's Sunny (Text: Arthur Gillespie and Collin Davis, 1909)
  • The Wish Bone ( Rag, 1909)
  • Lily Eyes: Valse Poetique (1909 )
  • Yankee Kid ( 1909)
  • Honey Bug ( Text: Earle Clinton Jones, 1910)
  • Spoon Light ( Text: Earle Clinton Jones, 1910)
  • Tenderfoot (Text: Earle Clinton Jones, 1910)
  • Bridal Veil (Walzer, 1910)
  • You're a Classy Lassie ( with Earle Clinton Jones, 1910)
  • Love Is not Likin ' Likin ' Is not Love ( with Earle Clinton Jones, 1910)
  • Meet Me Half Way (1910 )
  • Miss Coquette (1910 )
  • Love's Dream of You ( with Earle Clinton Jones, 1910)
  • Roses Remind Me of You ( with Earle Clinton Jones, 1910)
  • The Road to Loveland ( with Earle Clinton Jones and Charles N. Daniels, 1911)
  • I Do not Need the Moonlight to Make Love to You ( with Francis X. Conlan, 1911)
  • That Tired Rag ( 1911)
  • The Harbor of Love ( Text: Earle Clinton Jones, 1911)
  • Queen of the Roses ( 1913)
  • Land of Beautiful Dreams ( with Maurice E. Brand, 1913)
  • Rose of the World ( with Richard W. Pascoe, 1915)
  • Honey When It's Money ( 1919)
Santa Monica, California Waltz (music)
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