William Jerome

He collaborated with numerous well-known composers and performers of the era but is best remembered for his decade-long association with Jean Schwartz with whom he created many popular songs and musical shows in the 1900s and early 1910s.

He wrote "My Pearl is a Bowery Girl" (1894) with Andrew Mack which became a number one record for Dan W.

[7] Jerome is sometimes credited with suggesting the bicycle lyric of "Daisy Bell" (1892) to Harry Dacre.

Interpolated into The Jersey Lily and sung by Blanche Ring, it sold over three million copies.

[14] Jerome and Schwartz became two of the best-recognized songwriters of the first decade of the 20th century[15] with numerous popular songs to their credit such as "My Irish Molly-O" (1905), "Handle Me With Care" (1907), "Over the Hills and Far Away" and "Meet Me in Rose Time, Rosie" (1908).

After he and Schwartz went their separate ways, Jerome continued to collaborate on songs with some of the best-known composers in the business.

[8] On the strength of his Broadway comedy writing credentials, he was recruited by Mack Sennett as a writer for the Keystone Film Company.

[23] William Jerome was struck by a car in the spring of 1932 and died June 25 in Newburgh, New York.