Paul Dresser
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Paul Dresser was an American singer, songwriter, and comedic actor of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Dresser performed in traveling minstrel and medicine-wagon shows and as a vaudeville entertainer for decades, before transitioning to music publishing later in life.
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Paul Dresser Birthplace in Terre Haute, Indiana
Dresser's younger brother, the famous novelist Theodore Dreiser
The disputed sheet music cover of "The Letter That Never Came"
The sheet music cover for "Just Tell Them That You Saw Me", 1895
A c. 1902 recording of the song by Paul Dresser, sung by Harry MacDonough
Dresser's grave at St. Boniface Cemetery
Sheet music for one of Dresser's songs used in the biopic My Gal Sal (1942)In their orbit 1
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Paul Dresser was an American singer, songwriter, and comedic actor of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Dresser performed in traveling minstrel and medicine-wagon shows and as a vaudeville entertainer for decades, before transitioning to music publishing later in life. His biggest hit, "On the Banks of the Wabash, Far Away" (1897), was the best selling song of its time. Although Dresser had no formal training in music composition, he wrote ballads that had wide appeal, including some of the most popular songs of the era. During a career that spanned nearly two decades, from 1886 to 1906, Dresser composed and published more than 150 songs. Following the success of "Wabash", many newspapers compared Dresser to popular composer Stephen Foster. "On the Banks of the Wabash, Far Away" became the official song of Indiana in 1913. The Paul Dresser Birthplace in Terre Haute is designated as a state shrine and memorial. Dresser was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1970.
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