Songwriter ("After The Ball", "Hello Central, Give Me Heaven", "Break the News to Mother"), composer, author and publisher who began his career as a songwriter and banjo player for vaudeville acts. He became a music publisher in Chicago, Illinois and also wrote silent film scripts and plays. Joining ASCAP in 1914 as a charter member, his other popular-song compositions include "I'm Trying So Hard to Forget You", "There'll Come a Time", "Better than Gold", "Just Behind the Times", "I've Just Come to Say Goodbye", "Mid the Green Fields of Virginia", "For Old Time's Sake", "I've a Longing in My Heart for You, Louise", "Always in the Way", "Would You Care?", "The Best Things in Life", "Nobody Knows, Nobody Cares", "Songs of Yesterday", and several more.

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Charles Harris

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