Max Friedman

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Career

He composed songs about World War I including "Like a Baby Needs its Mother That's How Uncle Sam Needs You" (1917); "Our Own American Boy" (1917); "Before I Grew Up to Love You" (1918);[1] and the post-war "Give the Job to the Gob and the Doughboy" (1919), a plea for employers to hire veterans, featuring lyrics by Lew Porter and Alex Sullivan.[2]

He founded with P. and H. R. Shapiro the Max Friedman Music Publishing Co., which operated out of Buffalo, New York.[3]

He also composed the 1928 Gene Austin hit "I Wish I Had Died In My Cradle (Before I Grew Up To Love You)", for which Lew Brown wrote the lyrics.[4]

Selected works

References

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  3. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."NEW MUSIC PUBLISHING CHARTERS" (PDF). Music Trade Review: 62. 1923. Retrieved 5 January 2016.
  4. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Victor Discography: Max Friedman (composer)". Victor.library.ucsb.edu. Retrieved 2013-04-01.

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