Alma Sanders Explained

Alma M. Sanders
Birth Date:1882
Birth Place:Chicago, Illinois, U.S.
Death Date:December 15,
Death Place:New York City, New York, U.S.
Nationality:American
Other Names:Alma M. Sanders, Alma M. S. Carlo
Occupation:pianist, composer
Years Active:1910s-1940s

Alma M. Sanders (1882 – December 15, 1956) was an American songwriter and composer of popular music, including several Broadway musicals, with her composer husband, Monte Carlo.

Early life

Sanders was born in Chicago, Illinois. She studied music there, and sang in concerts and as a church soloist.[1]

Music

On Broadway, Alma Sanders' compositions and songs were heard in the shows The Voice of McConnell (1918-1919), Tangerine (1921-1922),[2] Elsie (1923), The Chiffon Girl (1924), Princess April (1924), Oh! Oh! Nurse (1925-1926), Mystery Moon (1930), and Louisiana Lady (1947).[3] She also co-wrote the score of a film, Ireland Today.

Compositions by Sanders (with and without Monte Carlo as co-composer)[4] included "Two Lips are Roses", "Honeymoon Home", "Sweet Lady", "Every Tear is a Smile (in an Irishman's Heart)", "Goodbye Broadway, Hello France!",[5] "Sleepytime Rag: Pickaninny Lullaby" (1914, lyrics by Florence Cooke), "Some Pepp" (1915), "Along the Road to Singapore" (1915, lyrics by Richard Pascoe), "That Dear Old Mother of Mine" (1915, lyrics by Richard Pascoe),[6] "Dance of the Teenie-Weenies" (1916), "Ev'ry Sammy needs his smokin' over there" (1917, lyrics by Monte Carlo),[7] "Hong Kong" (1917, lyrics by Richard Pascoe),[8] "The Wild Irish Rose That God Gave Me" (1917, lyrics by Richard Pascoe), "That Tumble-down Shack in Athlone" (1918, lyrics by Richard Pascoe), "Keep a Steady Heart (Till the Boys Return" (1918),[9] "Every Tear is a Smile in an Irishman's Heart" (1919, lyrics by Dan Sullivan), "Sweet Lavender and Lace" (1919, lyrics by Richard Pascoe), " Ten Baby Fingers" (1920, lyrics by Harry Edelheit), "In Old Madeira" (1920, lyrics by George Wehner), "Little Town in the Ould County Down" (1920, lyrics by Richard Pascoe), "Fragrance of Spring" (1921),[10] "Too Many Kisses Mean Too Many Tears" (1924),[11]

Notes and References

  1. News: ALMA M.S. CARLO, SONG WRITER, DIES: Collaborator With Husband on Scores for Musicals of Twenties Was 74. December 16, 1956. The New York Times. 86. ProQuest.
  2. News: New York's Musical Hits Written by Women. November 22, 1921. The Sheboygan Press. July 29, 2019. 9. Newspapers.com.
  3. News: New Orleans is Just About as Gay as a Hangover in 'Louisiana Lady'. Chapman. John. June 4, 1947. Daily News. July 29, 2019. 57. Newspapers.com.
  4. Web site: Alma M. Sanders (songwriter). Discography of American Historical Recordings, UC Santa Barbara.. 2019-07-29.
  5. Web site: Alma M. Sanders (composer). Discography of American Historical Recordings, UC Santa Barbara. 2019-07-28.
  6. Von Holstein, Hans; Sanders, Alma M.; and Pascoe, Richard W., "That Dear Old Mother Of Mine" (1915). Vocal Popular Sheet Music Collection. Score 5587, Digital Collection, University of Maine.
  7. Web site: Alma Sanders and Monte Carlo, "Ev'ry Sammy needs his smokin' over there". Northern Illinois University Digital Library. 2019-07-29.
  8. Book: Sanders, Alma M.. Hong Kong :jazz one-step /. 1917. 2027/mdp.39015080946372.
  9. Web site: Just a lock of baby's hair. Library of Congress. 2019-07-29.
  10. Web site: Fragrance of Spring (Sanders, Alma M.). IMSLP/Petrucci Music Library: Free Public Domain Sheet Music. 2019-07-29.
  11. News: Women Add to Din in Tin Pan Alley. Schneider. Ben. February 11, 1948. St. Louis Globe-Democrat. July 29, 2019. 11. Newspapers.com.
  12. Web site: Alma M. Sanders. The National Jukebox, Library of Congress. 2019-07-28.
  13. June 24, 1920. With the Publishers. Musical Courier. 80. 45.
  14. News: Music Hath Charms, But Not For Him. March 11, 1921. The Buffalo Enquirer. July 29, 2019. 2. Newspapers.com.
  15. News: Times Square: Alma Sanders' Daughter Lum Cafe's Fire Victim. February 19, 1936. Variety. 75. ProQuest.
  16. News: $4,000 More Awarded for Victims of Fire. May 4, 1938. The New York Times. 13. ProQuest.
  17. News: Mrs. Alma Sanders Carlo. December 16, 1956. The South Bend Tribune. July 29, 2019. 62. Newspapers.com.
  18. Web site: Cake Walks, Two Steps and Rags by Women Composers (1999). Ragtime.nu. 2019-07-29.
  19. Monte. Carlo [composer|last2=Sanders|first2=Alma M. [composer|date=1924|title=Too many kisses mean too many tears.|url=https://yorkspace.library.yorku.ca/xmlui/handle/10315/27450|journal=YorkSpace|language=en}}</ref> "My Heaven" (1928, lyrics by Monte Carlo), and "The House-Boat on the Styx" (1928, lyrics by Monte Carlo).<ref>Tjaden, Ted. ''[http://www.ragtimepiano.ca/rags/women4.htm Women Composers of Ragtime].

    Sanders became a member of ASCAP in 1923.[11] Many of her works were recorded, by various ensembles and performers, before 1926.[12] In 1920, Carlo and Sanders signed an exclusive contract with music publisher Jerome H. Remick. "It was inevitable that sooner or later someone would demand the exclusive rights to their very interesting songs," commented a music publication on that occasion.[13] Her last project was a musical adaptation of a children's book, Heaven is a Circus by John Bernard Kelly, for the Catholic Writers Guild.

    Personal life

    Alma Sanders married Ernest Benjamin. They had two children, Edward C. Benjamin and Arlene Benjamin, before they divorced in 1921.[14] Her daughter died in the 1936 fire at Lum's Chinese Restaurant in New York.[15] [16] Sanders' second husband was Danish composer Hans von Holstein, better known as Monte Carlo. She died in 1956, aged 74 years, in New York.[17]

    Her "Some Pepp" was included on the CD Cake Walks, Two Steps and Rags by Women Composers (1999) by Nora Hulse.[18]

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