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Shelton Brooks

Shelton Brooks

Musician · Canada · 1886–1975

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Record label
OKeh Records

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Country

CA

Born

1886-05-04

Died

1975-09-06

Instruments

piano, voice

Identifiers & aliases

Also known as: Shelton Leroy Brooks

ISNI

0000000108622769

Description

Canadian-born African American composer of popular music and jazz

Extract from Wikipedia

Shelton Brooks was a Canadian-born American composer and performer of popular music and jazz. He was known for his ragtime and vaudeville style, and wrote some of the biggest hits of the first third of the 20th century; including "Some of These Days" and "At the Darktown Strutters' Ball". He composed "Some of These Days" at the Pekin Theatre.

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