Chinatown, My Chinatown

"Chinatown, My Chinatown"
Sheet music cover, 1910
Song
Published1910
Composer(s)Jean Schwartz
Lyricist(s)William Jerome
Audio sample
Recording of Chinatown, My Chinatown, performed by the American Quartet (1914).

"Chinatown, My Chinatown" is a popular song written by William Jerome (words) and Jean Schwartz (music) in 1906 and later interpolated into the musical Up and Down Broadway (1910).[1][2] The song has been recorded by numerous artists and is considered an early jazz standard.

  1. ^ Ruhlmann, Breaking Records, p. 31.
  2. ^ Garrett, Struggling to Define a Nation, p. 245.