Kerry Mills
Kerry Mills '', publishing also as F.A. Mills was an American ragtime composer and music publishing executive of popular music during the Tin Pan Alley era. His stylistically diverse music ranged from ragtime through cakewalk to marches. He was most prolific between 1895 and 1918.Career
Mills trained as a violinist and was head of the Violin Department of the University of Michigan School of Music when he began composing. He moved to New York City in 1895 and started a music publishing firm,, publishing his own work and that of others.Selected works
- "Any Old Port in a Storm"
- "At A Georgia Camp-meeting" listen to:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lLR2ZI0evgs
- "Impecunious Davis"
- "In The City Of Sighs And Tears"
- "Just For The Sake Of Society"
- "Kerry Mills' Barn Dance"
- "Let's All Go Up To Maud's"
- "Like A Star That Falls From Heaven"
- "The Longest Way 'Round Is The Sweetest Way Home"
- "Meet Me in St. Louis, Louis"
- "Red Wing". Mills adapted the melody from Schumann's "The Happy Farmer"
- "We'll Be Together When the Clouds Roll By"
- "While The Old Mill Wheel Is Turning"
- "Whistling Rufus"
