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LOUIS GILROD (1879 - 1930)
Louis Gilrod was born in the Poltava region of the Ukraine and was brought to New York at the age of twelve. As a budding tunesmith and penman of
appealing verse, by the turn of the century he was engaged to writefor
commercial publicationYiddish counterparts to American popular songs, and he
wrote many individual topical songs and parodies. Taking advantage, for
example, of the initial American Jewish elation sparked by news of the beginning
of the 1917 October Revolution in Russiaas did a number of songwriters and
comic performershe collaborated with Gus Goldstein on a satiric vaudeville
skit titled Tsar nikolay un tsharli tshaplin (Czar Nicholas and
Charlie Chaplin). Eventually Gilrod became a successful professional lyricist
for Second Avenue, teaming up with its leading composersmany of whose most
acclaimed songs contain his lyricsbut he composed a good number of melodies
for such songs himself, and he also appeared on the stage as an actor.
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Role: Classical Composer
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