Arthur J. Lamb

Arthur J. Lamb
Birth name	Arthur J. Lamb
Born	12 August 1870 Somerset, England
Died	10 August 1928 (aged 57) Providence, Rhode Island, United States
Genres	Oldtime
Occupation(s)	Composer, lyricist

Arthur J. Lamb (12 August 1870 – 10 August 1928) was a British lyricist best known for the 1897 song "Asleep in the Deep" and the 1900 song "A Bird in a Gilded Cage". He collaborated with many song-writers, including Albert Von Tilzer, Harry Von Tilzer, Henry W. Petrie and Kerry Mills.^{[1][2][3][4][5][6]}

Selected works

• "Asleep in the Deep" (1897) m. Henry W. Petrie
• "Dreaming of Mother and Home" (1898)
• "At The Bottom of the Deep Blue Sea" (1899) m. Henry W. Petrie
• "A Bird in a Gilded Cage" (1900) m. Harry Von Tilzer
• "The Spider and the Fly" (1900) m. Harry Von Tilzer
• "When Wealth and Poverty Meet" (1900) m. Harry Von Tilzer
• "Out Where The Billows Roll High" (1901)
• "The Banquet in Misery Hall" (1902) m. Harry Von Tilzer
• "Jennie Lee" (1902) m. Harry Von Tilzer
• "The Mansion of Aching Hearts" (1902) m. Harry Von Tilzer
• "A Brand Plucked from the Burning" (1902) m. Kerry Mills
• "I Know She Waits for Me" (1902) m. Kerry Mills
• "Beneath the Palms of Paradise" (1903) m. Harry Von Tilzer
• "Like a Star That Falls From Heaven" (1903) m. Kerry Mills
• "When The Bell in the Lighthouse Rings Ding, Dong" (1905)
• "The Bird On Nellie's Hat" (1905)
• "All She Gets from the Iceman is Ice" (1907)
• "You Splash Me and I'll Splash You" (1907)
• "Any Old Port in a Storm" (1908) m. Kerry Mills
• "If You Were Mine" (1908) m. Kerry Mills
• "You've Got the Wrong Number But the Right Girl" (1911) m. Kerry Mills
• "My Keepsake is a Heartache" (1915) m. Clarence M. Jones
• "Good Luck To The USA" (1917)

References

1. American Popular Songs. From the Revolutionary War to the Present, David Ewen (ed.), New York: Random House (1966); OCLC 598027
2. ASCAP Biographical Dictionary, compiled by Jaques Cattell Press, New York: R.R. Bowker
       3rd ed. (1966); OCLC 598257, 604233677
       4th ed. (1980); OCLC 7065938, 10721505
3. Biographical Dictionary of American Music, by Charles Eugene Claghorn (1911–2005), West Nyack, NY: Parker Publishing Co. (1973); OCLC 609781
4. The Heritage Encyclopedia of Band Music: Composers and their music (Lamb is in Vol. 1 of 3 vols.), by William H. Rehrig, Westerville, Ohio: Integrity Press (1991) OCLC 24606813
5. The Oxford Companion to Popular Music, by Peter Gammond. Oxford, England: Oxford University Press (1991); OCLC 22382241
6. Sweet and Lowdown. America's Popular Song Writers, by Warren Craig, Metuchen, New Jersey: Scarecrow Press (1978); OCLC 3380132

External links

• parlor songs
• ingeb.org
• Works by or about Arthur J. Lamb at Internet Archive
• Works by Arthur J. Lamb at LibriVox (public domain audiobooks)