Harry S. Miller

Miller's songs were part of Tin Pan Alley, and were sold to various TPA entertainers (for example, vaudeville entertainer Tony Pastor popularized The Cat Came Back,[3] Dan W. Quinn recorded He's Got Feathers in his Hat for the North American Phonograph Company around 1895, and Edward M. Favor popularized I'll Not Go Out with Reilly Any More[4]).

He specialized in quatrains and often wrote using a Georgian Black dialect, though Miller was white.

[2] His contemporaries credited him with the popularization of the terms of endearment "honey" and "baby" in African-American English and the spread of coon songs, as well as the phrase, "Got troubles of my own".

[1] In 1898, Miller wrote The Insurance Agent: An Eccentric Character and Comedy Sketch, a two-man play.

In the mid-1880s Miller began publishing songs, verse and humorous sketches in his hometown Philadelphia paper, Taggarts’ Sunday Times.