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JOHN STROMBERG. Prominent in musical circles in New York, prominent as a composer and as a publisher of music, is
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John "Honey" Stromberg, whose career began formally in Tin Pan Alley, where he worked as an arranger for the
Witmark musical publishing house, was already the writer of a popular song hit ("My Girl's a Corker, She's a New Yorker") before becoming the principal composer and orchestra conductor (with
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Weber and Fields began as a two-man show in the genre of ethnic (German) humor. They were a funny man/straight man comedy duo, a precursor to such famous acts as Abbott & Costello and Laurel & Hardy. They later expanded their act into the genre of vaudeville based on
94:"Come Down Ma Evenin' Star" is the only song that Lillian Russell is known to have recorded. Stromberg also wrote "Ma Blushin' Rosie" (also sometimes called "Rosie You Are My Posie") which was part of the repertoire of the legendary
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