Irwin Louis Dash (December 1, 1892 – March 18, 1984) was an American songwriter, music publisher and pianist, who sometimes used the pseudonym Lewis Ilda.
He was born in Baltimore, Maryland, and published his first composition, "Blue Ribbon Rag", a ragtime piano piece, in Philadelphia in 1911.
[1] By the early 1920s, he formed a songwriting partnership in New York City with Al Dubin and Jimmy McHugh.
The same trio of writers, this time using the collective pseudonym Jack Spade, wrote "When Mother was Bathing the Baby", also known variously as "The Mother's Lament" (as recorded by rock band Cream), "The Drain Song", and "Your Baby 'as Gorn Dahn the Plug'ole".
[6][7] Dash died in 1984, aged 91, and was buried in the Mount Hebron Cemetery in Flushing, New York.