Today is the birthday of one of the great Tin Pan Alley songwriters, Irving Caesar (Isidore Caesar, 1895-1996). Raised on the Lower East Side, his father was a socialist lawyer who ran a bookshop. Caesar received musical training as a youth, attended a Quaker boarding school and had a year at City College before getting […]
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 06:00AM on July 4, 2013