The Sheik Of Araby
Ted Snyder
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Browse piano sheets by Ted Snyder on Zen Virtual Piano. Ted Snyder, a composer, was born in Freeport, Illinois, on August 15, 1881. Boscobel, Wisconsin, was his boyhood home, and he made his living posting theater bills as a very young man. Snyder learned to play the piano as a boy. Snyder was in his 20s when he moved to Chicago. He played piano in a café at first, then became a staff pianist and a song publisher at several music publishing firms. His first hit as a songwriter came in 1907 with "There's a Girl in This World for Every Boy," with a lyric by Will D. Cobb. His boyhood piano playing and his later work as a staff pianist may point to the piano as a thread in his early working life. Snyder relocated to New York in 1908. There he set up a publishing company of his own and wrote and published "If You Cared For Me," lyric by Ed Rose. Irving Berlin, then a newcomer on Tin Pan Alley, joined Snyder's staff as a writer in 1909. Snyder and Berlin eventually became publishing partners with Henry Waterson, as well as a hit songwriting team. The lyric by Will D. Cobb for "There's a Girl in This World for Every Boy" and the lyric by Ed Rose for "If You Cared For Me" may suggest a composer whose songs were set to words by more than one writer. Berlin was writing melodies for his own lyrics by 1913. The firm Snyder had founded in publishing was reorganized as Waterson, Berlin and Snyder. Among the charter members of the new Performing Right Society, American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers in 1914 was Snyder. Snyder composed the music for "The Sheik of Araby" in 1921. The words came from Harry B. Smith and Francis Wheeler, and the song answered the popularity of the Rudolph Valentino film The Sheik. In 1925 Snyder said the song's original title was "The Rose of Araby." The firm's reorganized name and Snyder's charter membership in that new society may point to involvement in the business side of music as well as in songwriting. Songs by Snyder appeared in many Broadway revues and productions, among them Make it Snappy, Sinbad and One Girl in a Million. In 1930 he retired from the songwriting business and moved to Hollywood, California, where he opened a nightclub. Snyder died in Woodland Hills, California, on July 16, 1965, and in 1970 he was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame. The Broadway revues that carried his songs and his 1970 induction into the Songwriters Hall of Fame may suggest that his songwriting kept a place in the music world after his death.
Browse piano sheets by Ted Snyder on Zen Virtual Piano.
Ted Snyder, a composer, was born in Freeport, Illinois, on August 15, 1881. Boscobel, Wisconsin, was his boyhood home, and he made his living posting theater bills as a very young man. Snyder learned to play the piano as a boy. Snyder was in his 20s when he moved to Chicago. He played piano in a café at first, then became a staff pianist and a song publisher at several music publishing firms. His first hit as a songwriter came in 1907 with "There's a Girl in This World for Every Boy," with a lyric by Will D. Cobb. His boyhood piano playing and his later work as a staff pianist may point to the piano as a thread in his early working life.
Snyder relocated to New York in 1908. There he set up a publishing company of his own and wrote and published "If You Cared For Me," lyric by Ed Rose. Irving Berlin, then a newcomer on Tin Pan Alley, joined Snyder's staff as a writer in 1909. Snyder and Berlin eventually became publishing partners with Henry Waterson, as well as a hit songwriting team. The lyric by Will D. Cobb for "There's a Girl in This World for Every Boy" and the lyric by Ed Rose for "If You Cared For Me" may suggest a composer whose songs were set to words by more than one writer.
Berlin was writing melodies for his own lyrics by 1913. The firm Snyder had founded in publishing was reorganized as Waterson, Berlin and Snyder. Among the charter members of the new Performing Right Society, American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers in 1914 was Snyder. Snyder composed the music for "The Sheik of Araby" in 1921. The words came from Harry B. Smith and Francis Wheeler, and the song answered the popularity of the Rudolph Valentino film The Sheik. In 1925 Snyder said the song's original title was "The Rose of Araby." The firm's reorganized name and Snyder's charter membership in that new society may point to involvement in the business side of music as well as in songwriting.
Songs by Snyder appeared in many Broadway revues and productions, among them Make it Snappy, Sinbad and One Girl in a Million. In 1930 he retired from the songwriting business and moved to Hollywood, California, where he opened a nightclub. Snyder died in Woodland Hills, California, on July 16, 1965, and in 1970 he was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame. The Broadway revues that carried his songs and his 1970 induction into the Songwriters Hall of Fame may suggest that his songwriting kept a place in the music world after his death.
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Snyder's birthplace was Freeport, Illinois, and his birth date was August 15, 1881. Boscobel, Wisconsin, was where he grew up, and he earned his living posting theater bills while still a very young man.
Snyder moved to Chicago in his 20s. He played piano in a café at first, then became a staff pianist and a song publisher at several music publishing firms.
Snyder took on Irving Berlin as a staff writer in 1909. Later the two men, together with Henry Waterson, became publishing partners, and Snyder and Berlin also formed a hit songwriting team.
Snyder wrote the music for "The Sheik of Araby," written in 1921 with words by Harry B. Smith and Francis Wheeler in response to the popularity of the film The Sheik.