Shelton Brooks

Shelton Brooks
Born(1886-05-04)May 4, 1886
Amherstburg, Ontario, Canada
DiedSeptember 6, 1975(1975-09-06) (aged 89)
Los Angeles County, California, U.S.
OccupationPopular music and jazz composer

Shelton Brooks (May 4, 1886 – September 6, 1975) was a Canadian-born American composer and performer of popular music and jazz.[1][2] He was known for his ragtime and vaudeville style, and wrote some of the biggest hits of the first third of the 20th century; including "Some of These Days" and "At the Darktown Strutters' Ball".[3] He composed "Some of These Days" at the Pekin Theatre.[4]

  1. ^ "Jazz Roots: Shelton Brooks Discography". Jass.com. 1975-09-06. Retrieved 2014-08-22.
  2. ^ "Shelton Brooks". Internet Broadway Database, IBDB. Retrieved November 28, 2023.
  3. ^ "Brooks, Shelton: standards and selected hits, 1909 to 1918 | Songbook". Songbook1.wordpress.com. 3 May 2010. Retrieved 2020-03-09.
  4. ^ https://www.lib.uchicago.edu/media/documents/exfds-text.pdf page 7