Jerome H. Remick
| Jerome Hosmer Remick | |
|---|---|
| Born | November 15, 1867 Detroit, Michigan, United States |
| Died | July 15, 1931 |
| Spouse(s) | Adelaide McCreery |
| Children | Katherine Remick Jerome Hosmer Remick, Jr. James Albert Remick II |
| Parent(s) | James Albert Remick Mary Amelia Hosmer |
Jerome Hosmer Remick (15 November 1867 – 15 July 1931), was a Detroit music publisher, philanthropist and businessman from the late 19th century to the early 20th century.
Jerome Remick was born in Detroit, Michigan. He was the son of James Albert Remick and Mary Amelia Hosmer. He graduated from the Detroit Business University in 1887, before joining the Whitney-Remick lumber firm, a family business started by his grandfather, Royal C. Remick. Jerome married Adelaide McCreery in Flint, Michigan on June 26, 1895.
Remick's interests, however, did not lie in lumber, but in the developing popular sheet music industry, and in 1898 he bought out the small, struggling firm of Whitney-Warner Publishing Company in Detroit. He turned the company into an extraordinarily successful sheet music publishing house.
In 1902, Remick and Maurice Shapiro founded Shapiro-Remick & Company, selling several million copies in 1905 of the enormously successful "In the Shade of the Old Apple Tree", written by Harry Williams and Egbert van Alstyne. The partnership was dissolved in 1906, and Remick started his own firm Jerome H. Remick & Co. Van Alstyne continued with Remick and a string of hits followed including "Pretty Baby" and "Your Eyes have Told Me So."
Remick's published songs influenced popular music trends, and included hundreds of hits such as "Baby Face", "I'm Looking Over a Four Leaf Clover," "Oh, You Beautiful Doll" and "Bye Bye Blackbird," all of which contributed greatly to American heritage and culture.
In 1909, the company published three ballads that sold more than a million copies – "Put on Your Old Grey Bonnet", "Moonlight Bay" in 1912 and "When You Wore a Tulip" in 1914. The firm also published ragtime music such as "Dill Pickles Rag" and "Black and White Rag".
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