Alfred Bryan

Alfred Bryan (September 15, 1871 – April 1, 1958) was a Canadian lyricist.

For Alfred Bryan the illustrator, see Alfred Bryan (illustrator).
Alfred Bryan
BornSeptember 15, 1871
Brantford, Ontario, Canada
DiedApril 1, 1958(1958-04-01) (aged 86)
Gladstone, New Jersey
Occupationlyricist

Bryan was born in Brantford, Ontario. He worked as an arranger in New York and wrote lyrics for many Broadway shows in the late 1910s and early 1920s. In the 1920s he moved to Hollywood to write lyrics for screen musicals.[1]

Bryan worked with several composers during his career. Among his collaborators were Henriette Blanke-Belcher,[2] Fred Fischer, Al Sherman, Larry Stock and Joe McCarthy.[1] Perhaps his most successful song was "I Didn't Raise My Boy to Be a Soldier" (1915), with music by Al Piantadosi.[3] The song sold 650,000 copies during the first three months and became one of 1915's top-selling songs in the United States.[4] Although Bryan himself was not a committed pacifist, he described the American public's anti-war sentiments in his lyrics.[3]

He died in Gladstone, New Jersey, aged 86.

Songs

Notes
  • Van Wienen, Mark W. (2002). Rendezvous with Death: American poems of the Great War. University of Illinois Press. ISBN 978-0-252-07059-4.

References
  1. "Alfred Bryan". Songwriters Hall of Fame. Archived from the original on 2016-03-04. Retrieved 21 March 2012.
  2. "I'll do anything, but--". Historic Sheet Music Collection, Oregon Digital. Retrieved 2019-07-19.
  3. Van Wienen 2002, p. 289
  4. Van Wienen 2002, p. 80
  5. Parker, Bernard S. (2007). World War I Sheet Music - Volume 1. Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland & Company, Inc. pp. 52, 67, 74, 77, 80, 87, 109, 113, 115, 159, 175, 180, 250, 256, 263, 270, 280, 284, 319, 321, 383, 415, 446. ISBN 0-7864-2798-1.
  6. Parker, Bernard S. (2007). World War I Sheet Music - Volume 2. Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland & Company, Inc. pp. 479, 489, 519, 637, 673, 734, 742, 758, 773, 776, 778, 781, 785, 790. ISBN 0-7864-2799-X.
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