John Walter Bratton

John Walter Bratton

John Walter Bratton (January 21 1867 - February 7 1947) was an American composer and theatrical producer.

Brought up by his Grandmother in New Castle, Delaware, near Wilmington, Bratton studied at the Philadelphia College before embarking on a career as a baritone singer. Bratton progressed into acting in and producing musical comedies, ultimately composing for the stage.

He wrote over 250 songs, teaming up, for many, with lyricists Walter H Ford and Paul West. He is best remembered for his 1907 composition "Teddy Bears' Picnic"Bratton family history, "Appendix ... American John Walter Bratton, The Composer of Teddy Bears' Picnic (TBP)"] the only one of his songs to be a lasting hit. Although most of his compositions had lyrics, he left Teddy Bears'Picnic as an instrumental. Perhaps because it sold so well as sheet music he never felt the need to do anything else with it, except feature it in some of silent movie hits of the twenties.

This explains why this American composition has British lyrics..note "Mummies and Daddies" not as is often misquoted "Mommies and Daddies"Fact|date=December 2007

Bratton died in Brooklyn, New York, aged 80.

Musical theater credits

*1900 "Hodge, Podge & Co."
*1904 "The Man From China"
*1905 "The Pearl and the Pumpkin"
*1909 "The Newlyweds and Their Baby"His songs were featured in many other musical comedies including The Rainmakers 1894, Star & Garter 1900, The Office Boy 1903, The Toreador 1904, The Rollicking Girl 1905, and The Merry-Go-Round 1908.

Notes

References

*cite web| url=http://www.39steps.com/| title=Bratton Family History |author=Jon Bratton| quote="APPENDIX John Walter Bratton (1867-1947)"| accessdate=2007-12-10


Wikimedia Foundation. 2010.

Игры ⚽ Поможем решить контрольную работу

Look at other dictionaries:

  • 1903 in music — Events*February 11 Anton Bruckner s 9th Symphony premieres in Vienna *Enrico Caruso joins cast of New York s Metropolitan Opera Company and makes first records for the Victor Talking Machine Company *Mississippi John Hurt begins performing… …   Wikipedia

  • 1896 in music — Events * February 1 Giacomo Puccini s La bohème debuts in Turin * March Leo Stern plays in the premiere of Dvořák s second cello concerto in London *Engelbert Humperdinck is created a professor of music by the Kaiser. Published popular music *… …   Wikipedia

  • 1907 in music — Events* February 21 Frederick Delius s opera A Village Romeo and Juliet is premiered in Berlin * General Porfirio Díaz legendarily orders a mariachi band to wear upper class clothing (a charro suit) when they played for the visiting United States …   Wikipedia

  • Circuito de Broadway — Para otros usos de este término, véase Broadway (desambiguación). El Rey León (musical) en el teatro New Amsterdam Theatre, 2003 Ciruito de Broadway, comúnmente llamado simplemente Broadway, se refiere a las representaciones presentadas en uno de …   Wikipedia Español

  • 1900 in music — Events*January 14 Giacomo Puccini s Tosca premieres in Rome. *February 2 Gustave Charpentier s opera Louise premieres in Paris; Mary Garden makes her public debut in the title role in April. *October 3 Edward Elgar s The Dream of Gerontius is… …   Wikipedia

  • 1895 in music — Events * August 10 The first ever Promenade Concert is held at the Queen s Hall in London. * December 13 The first complete performance of Gustav Mahler s Symphony No. 2 in Berlin Published popular music * America The Beautiful w. Katherine Lee… …   Wikipedia

  • 1901 in music — Events*October 27 First complete performance of Sergei Rachmaninoff s Piano Concerto No. 2 *November 25 Premiere of Gustav Mahler s Symphony No. 4 *The classical music publishing firm Universal Edition is founded in Vienna. *Enrique Granados… …   Wikipedia

  • Broadway theatre — Broadway theater,Although theater is the preferred spelling in the U.S.A. (see further at American and British English Spelling Differences), the majority of venues, performers, and trade groups for live dramatic presentations use the spelling… …   Wikipedia

  • Musical theatre — The Black Crook (1866), considered by some historians to be the first musical[1] Musical theatre is a form of theatre combining songs, spoken dialogue, acting, and dance. The emotional content of the piece – humor, pathos, love, anger – …   Wikipedia

  • List of musical theatre composers — This is a list of notable composers of musicals. See also NOTOC A*Ron Abel *Daniel Abtar *Richard Adler *Harry Akst *Lynn Ahrens *Jerome Alden *Benny Andersson *Rachel Apostol *Harold Arlen *Nat D. Ayer *K AlfordB*Burt Bacharach *Gary Barlow… …   Wikipedia

Share the article and excerpts

Direct link
Do a right-click on the link above
and select “Copy Link”