Vandersloot Music Publishing Company
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Vandersloot Music Publishing Company was an American
publisher of marches, waltzes, rags, religious music, and popular music of the Tin Pan Alley
genre. The firm was founded in 1899 by Frederick William Vandersloot, Jr. (1866–1931) and his brother, Caird Melvill Vandersloot (born 1869). F. W. Vandersloot was a gospel singer, composer, and choir director. In 1913, the firm was based at 233 West 3rd Street, Williamsport, Pennsylvania
with an office in New York at 41 W 18th Street, an area ten blocks directly south of what then became known as Tin Pan Alley
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For many years, Harry James Lincoln served as the composer and general manager of Vandersloot Music. Cora E. Vandersloot, Elwert (1869–1944), wife of F. W. Vandersloot, had also served as president and manager. In 1929, Harry J. Lincoln
acquired part of the Vandersloot Music Publishing Company and moved it to Philadelphia and operated it under the same name. When F. W. Vandersloot died in 1931, the firm dissolved, with much of the inventory being acquired by New York publisher Jack Mills.
Frank Hoyt Losey had been a composer and editor-in-chief for the Vandersloot Music Publishing Company.
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publisher of marches, waltzes, rags, religious music, and popular music of the Tin Pan Alley
Tin Pan Alley
Tin Pan Alley is the name given to the collection of New York City music publishers and songwriters who dominated the popular music of the United States in the late 19th century and early 20th century...
genre. The firm was founded in 1899 by Frederick William Vandersloot, Jr. (1866–1931) and his brother, Caird Melvill Vandersloot (born 1869). F. W. Vandersloot was a gospel singer, composer, and choir director. In 1913, the firm was based at 233 West 3rd Street, Williamsport, Pennsylvania
Williamsport, Pennsylvania
Williamsport is a city in and the county seat of Lycoming County, Pennsylvania in the United States. In 2009, the population was estimated at 29,304...
with an office in New York at 41 W 18th Street, an area ten blocks directly south of what then became known as Tin Pan Alley
Tin Pan Alley
Tin Pan Alley is the name given to the collection of New York City music publishers and songwriters who dominated the popular music of the United States in the late 19th century and early 20th century...
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For many years, Harry James Lincoln served as the composer and general manager of Vandersloot Music. Cora E. Vandersloot, Elwert (1869–1944), wife of F. W. Vandersloot, had also served as president and manager. In 1929, Harry J. Lincoln
Harry J. Lincoln
Harry James Lincoln was a music composer from Williamsport, Pennsylvania. Aside from running his own publication company, he wrote many marches and rags, such as the Bees Wax Rag , the Lincoln Highway two step march , and quite possibly the Repasz Band March...
acquired part of the Vandersloot Music Publishing Company and moved it to Philadelphia and operated it under the same name. When F. W. Vandersloot died in 1931, the firm dissolved, with much of the inventory being acquired by New York publisher Jack Mills.
Frank Hoyt Losey had been a composer and editor-in-chief for the Vandersloot Music Publishing Company.
Vandersloot composers & lyricists
- Robert Nathaniel DettRobert Nathaniel DettRobert Nathaniel Dett , often known as R. Nathaniel Dett, was a composer in the United States and Canada...
- Charles E. DubleCharles E. DubleCharles Edward Duble was an American band musician and composer. He played for 23 years in circus bands. His career started as trombonist with Sun Bros. Circus in 1909, and he played in others such as Gentry Bros. Dog & Pony Show, H. W...
, circus band composer - Raymond B. EganRaymond B. EganRaymond Blanning Egan was a songwriter. He moved to the United States in 1892 and settled in Michigan where he attended the University of Michigan. His first job was a bank clerk, but he soon moved onto be a staff writer for Ginnells Music Co...
, lyricist - Stephen FosterStephen FosterStephen Collins Foster , known as the "father of American music", was the pre-eminent songwriter in the United States of the 19th century...
- Joseph E. HowardJoseph E. HowardJoseph E. Howard was a Broadway composer, lyricist, and librettist. His Broadway credits include The District Leader, The Land of Nod and The Song Birds, The Time, the Place and the Girl, The Flower of the Ranch, The Girl Question, Stubborn Cinderella, The Goddess of Liberty, Maurice Chevalier in...
, lyricist - Harry J. LincolnHarry J. LincolnHarry James Lincoln was a music composer from Williamsport, Pennsylvania. Aside from running his own publication company, he wrote many marches and rags, such as the Bees Wax Rag , the Lincoln Highway two step march , and quite possibly the Repasz Band March...
(pseudonyms: Abe Losch, Carl Loveland, & Harry Jay) - Frank Hoyt Losey
- Raymond A. Sherwood, lyricist
- Andrew B. SterlingAndrew B. SterlingAndrew B. Sterling was an American lyricist.Born in New York City, after he graduated from high school, he began writing songs and vaudevilles. An important event was his meeting with the composer Harry Von Tilzer in 1898...
, lyricist - Charley StraightCharley StraightCharles Theodore Straight , better known as Charley Straight, was an American pianist, bandleader and composer. He started his career in 1909 accompanying singer Gene Greene in Vaudeville. In 1916 he began working at the Imperial Piano Roll Company in Chicago were he recorded dozens of piano rolls...
, jazz pianist
Family
Frederick William Vandersloot, Jr., married Cora E. Vandersloot ( Elwert) on January 20, 1898. They had two sons and two daughters. One son and one daughter — Carl Donaldson Vandersloot (1898–1963) and Ruth Person Vandersloot (1904–1889) — both composed for Vandersloot Music. In 1920, Ruth married Author Taylor Eaker and composed under the pseudonym Ruth V. Hoyt, her surname borrowed from Vandersloot's editor-in-chief Frank Hoyt Losey.External links
- Frederick W. Vandersloot history, researched by Susan Attalla (born 1948) with assistance by the Lycoming County Historical Society.