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"Peg o' My Heart" is a popular song written by Alfred Bryan (words) and Fred Fisher (music). It was published on March 15, 1913 and it featured in the 1913 musical Ziegfeld Follies . The song was first performed publicly by Irving Kaufman in 1912 at The College Inn in New York City after he had stumbled across a draft of sheet music on a shelf ...
Their 1947 recording of the song "Peg o' My Heart" (Mercury Records, originally on Bill Putnam's Universal Records and then reissued on Vitacoustic Records, catalog number 1) [4] brought them public attention and sold over one million copies by 1950, reaching No. 1 on the U.S. Billboard chart. [5]
His use of the building's bathroom as an echo chamber for the recording of Peg o' My Heart was the first artistic use of artificial reverb in a popular song. The song sold 1.4 million copies, inspiring Putnam to establish the Vitacoustic and Universal Records labels and attracted new clients to record with Putnam at Universal Recording. [6] [7]
Peg o' My Heart is a 1912 play written by J. Hartley Manners.It has three acts, a medium-sized cast, one setting, and moderate pacing. The story is set at the English mansion of the socially prominent Chichester family, whose lives are changed by the introduction of an Irish-American heiress into their midst.
Peg o' My Heart" is a popular song first published in 1913. The title may also refer to: Peg o' My Heart, a successful comedy written by J. Hartley Manners. It had three film adaptations: Peg o' My Heart, directed by William C. deMille starring Wanda Hawley (never released because of legal matters)
Vaughn Monroe had four songs on the top singles list, the most of any artist in 1947. Eddy Howard had three songs on the top singles list. This is a list of Billboard magazine's top popular songs of 1947 according to retail sales.
Peg o' My Heart, a comedy, played in New York City from December 20, 1912 to May 30, 1914. [2] Afterwards it had a long run in London. The play was the subject of a United States Supreme Court case decided in 1920, Manners v. Morosco. Manners' other plays include: As Once in May; The Crossways, in collaboration with Lillie Langtry; The Day of Dupes
Alfred Bryan (September 15, 1871 – April 1, 1958) was a Canadian lyricist.. 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; often collaborating with composer Jean Schwartz.