Ida Emerson

Ida Emerson was a Broadway composer and lyricist. She was one of the few women admitted to the famed group of song writers of Tin Pan Alley, where she worked with her husband, composer, lyricist, arranger and librettist Joseph E. Howard as part of the song writing team of Howard and Emerson.[1]

Biography

Emerson met Howard when he was 17, and already married. He divorced his first wife, and the two were married. They worked the Midwestern vaudeville circuit, gaining notice in Chicago that landed them a gig in New York at Tony Pastor's Music Hall on 14th Street.[2]

Songs

References

  1. AMG – Joseph E. Howard
  2. Answers.com – Joseph E. Howard
  3. AMG – Joseph E. Howard


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