Tom Delaney (songwriter)
| Tom Delaney | |
|---|---|
| Birth name | Thomas Henry Delaney |
| Born |
September 14, 1889 Charleston, South Carolina, United States |
| Died | December 16, 1963 (aged 74) Baltimore, Maryland, United States |
| Genres | Blues, jazz |
| Occupation(s) | Songwriter, pianist, singer |
| Years active | 1920s–1930s |
Tom Delaney (September 14, 1889 – December 16, 1963) was an African-American blues and jazz songwriter, pianist and singer, who wrote a number of popular songs, mainly in the 1920s. His work was recorded by many of the more fashionable singers and musicians of the period and later times, including Lillyn Brown, Lucille Hegamin, Ethel Waters, Earl Hines, Count Basie, Bix Beiderbecke, Big Joe Williams, Clara Smith, Alberta Hunter, Clarence Williams, James P. Johnson, Woody Herman, Bukka White, Toots Thielemans, and Dinah Washington.
Delaney was known primarily as a songwriter for other performers, but he also recorded a small number of his own songs.
Thomas Henry Delaney was born in Charleston, South Carolina. He spent his childhood in orphanages, including the Jenkins Orphanage in Charleston, where he got his first experience of music and formed the Springfield Minstrels. He later toured the East Coast in a song and dance duo billed as Mitchell and Delaney.
One of Delaney's earliest compositions, "Jazz Me Blues", published in 1921, became one of his more durable works. Lucille Hegamin recorded it that year and it went on to become a jazz standard. In the same year, "The Down Home Blues", recorded by Ethel Waters with Delaney accompanying on the piano, became her first hit. It reached number 5 on the U.S. chart. Delaney also became Waters's manager.
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