Harry Akst (15 Aug 1894 - 31 Mar 1963)

Male Person - United States

Credited as (4)

  1. Davis & Akst
  2. Muir, Gilbert / Donaldson / Van Alstyne, Jackson / Erdman, Fiorito, King / Henderson / Woods / Schwartz / Davis, Akst / Meyer, De Sylva, Jolson / Jolson, Rose, De Sylva
  3. Akst, Lewis, Young / Berlin
  4. Harry Akst, Sam M. Lewis

Works (32)

Wrote

  1. All My Life
  2. Medley: Is It True What They Say About Dixie? / Baby Face / California Here I Come
  3. What a Perfect Combination
  4. ベイビー・フェイス
  5. My Baby Knows How

Composed

  1. Baby Face (1926)
  2. Birmingham Bertha (29 Apr 1929)
  3. All My Love
  4. Way Down South
  5. Medley: Give It to the Girl Next Door / Too Fat Polka / Cinderella / Rolling Round the World / Good Ol’ Boys / Ask Old Brown to Tea / Chinese Laundry Blues / Margie / Big Fat Fly / Not Me / Hair Hair Hair / Little Bit of Cucumber / Where Did You Get That Hat? / The Ferry Boat Inn / The Beer Barrel Polka / Down the Road / Baby Face / Who Were You With Last Night? / Somebody Stole My Gal / Fall in and Follow Me / Swanee / Are You From Dixie? / Waiting for the Robert E Lee / Good Ol’ Boys / Hopping Down in Kent / Aunt Tilly / Two Ol’ Girls From Camden Town / When There Isn’t a Girl About / Give It to the Girl Next Door
  6. Guilty
  7. This Is Heaven
  8. There's Nothing Too Good For My Baby
  9. Only
  10. Dinah
  11. Shanghai Dream Man
  12. In My Bouquet of Memories
  13. Baby Face
  14. Nobody Cares If I'm Blue
  15. Are You Thinking of Me To-Night
  16. Once in a Lovetime
  17. Come on Home
  18. Suzannah
  19. Am I Blue?
  20. Dearest
  21. Georgianna
  22. Lonely Eyes
  23. A High Hat, a Piccolo and a Cane
  24. Dinah

Lyrics

  1. Way Down South
  2. There's Nothing Too Good For My Baby
  3. With All My Heart and Soul

Links (14)

Other Databases

  1. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n87847829
  2. https://www.worldcat.org/identities/lccn-n87847829/
  3. https://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb14828286j
  4. https://nla.gov.au/nla.party-1498695
  5. https://www.ibdb.com/person.php?id=11296
  6. http://snaccooperative.org/ark:/99166/w6bc4z9v
  7. https://d-nb.info/gnd/13312326X
  8. https://adp.library.ucsb.edu/names/105691

Discogs

  1. https://www.discogs.com/artist/718966

Imdb

  1. https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0005942/

VIAF ID

  1. http://viaf.org/viaf/12571523

Wikidata

  1. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q962316

Secondhandsongs

  1. https://secondhandsongs.com/artist/4443

Biographies

  1. http://www.songwritershalloffame.org/index.php/exhibits/bio/C35