Max Friedman Explained

Max Friedman (died 1964) was an American songwriter and published music through his company, Max Friedman Music Publishing Co.

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); 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.^[1]

He founded with P. and H. R. Shapiro the Max Friedman Music Publishing Co., which operated out of Buffalo, New York.^[2]

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.^[3]

Selected works

• Friedman, Max. Before I Grew Up to Love You. New York: Shapiro, Bernstein & Co, 1918.
• Friedman, Max, Lew Porter, and Alex Sullivan. Give a Job to the Gob and the Doughboy: Song. Detroit: Jerome H. Remick & Co., 1919.
• Friedman, M. I Wish I Had Died in My Cradle: Before I Grew Up to Love You. New York: Shapiro, Bernstein & Co. Inc, 1926. and
• Friedman, Max. In the Heart of Kentucky: (Where You Gave Your Heart to Me). Pittsburgh, PA: Max Friedman Music Publishing Co., 1918.
• Friedman, Max, George F. Olcott, and Joseph Hiller. Like a Baby Needs Its Mother: That's How Uncle Sam Needs You. New York: M. Friedman Music Pub. Co, 1917.
• Friedman, Max. Lonesomeness. New York: Shapiro, Bernstein & Co, 1919.
• Friedman, Max, Frank Davis, and Louis Johnson. My Sweet Erin Rose. Pittsburgh: Max Friedman Music Publishing Co., 1916.
• Friedman, Max, Geo Olcott, and W. C. Wilbert. Our Own American Boy. Pittsburgh: Max Friedman Music Co., 1917.
• Friedman, Max, Walter C. Ness, Murray Sturm, and Kenn Sisson. Spread a little sunshine: where the sun never shines. New York: Max Friedman Music Publishing Co, Inc, 1924.

Notes and References

1. http://library.brown.edu/find/Author/Home?author=Friedman%2C%20Max%20%28composer%29
2. NEW MUSIC PUBLISHING CHARTERS. Music Trade Review. 1923. 62. 5 January 2016.
3. Web site: Victor Discography: Max Friedman (composer) . Victor.library.ucsb.edu . 2013-04-01.