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Cecil Mack
Cecil Mack (November 6, 1873, Portsmouth, Virginia〔()〕 – August 1, 1944, New York, New York) was an American composer, lyricist and music publisher.
==Biography==
Born as Richard Cecil McPherson in Portsmouth, Virginia, (his birthdate is also given as 1880〔http://search.ancestry.com/iexec?htx=View&r=an&dbid=1002&iid=NY-2368313-0418&fn=Richard+C&ln=McPherson&st=r&ssrc=&pid=493292〕 and 1883,〔http://www.allmusic.com〕 and an 1876 date is shown by his World War I Draft Registration card, as referenced above, and the 1900 Federal Census, but an 1891 Navy Enlistment Record and the 1880 Federal census both point to an 1873 birth year) Richard attended the Norfolk Mission School and Lincoln University in Pennsylvania (class of 1897) before leaving to go to New York City where the 1900 Federal Census lists his occupation as a stenographer.〔http://search.ancestry.com/iexec?htx=View&r=an&dbid=7602&iid=004114593_00438&fn=Richard+C&ln=Mc+Pherson&st=r&ssrc=&pid=21578623〕 Mack started writing song lyrics, starting with ''Good Morning, Carrie'' in 1901. He co-founded the Gotham-Attucks Music Publishing Company in May 1905, in New York City; it was likely the first black owned music publishing company.〔http://jass.com/gattuck.html〕 In July 1906, an article in the New York Age refers to Mack as the company's "secretary and treasurer and general business director."〔"Manhattan and Bronx," ''New York Age'', July 26, 1906, p. 6, c. 1〕 In 1907 he wrote the lyrics for the musical ''The Black Politician''. In 1925 he co-wrote the book for the musical ''Mooching Along''. Mack also formed a choir, the Southland Singers, that year.〔http://digital.lib.uiowa.edu/cdm/compoundobject/collection/tc/id/37743/rec/20〕 In 1931 he co-wrote the music for the musical ''Rhapsody in Black''.
His obituary〔"He Wrote Dad's Favorites," ''New York Age'', August 19, 1944, p. 12, c. 1〕 observed that "Not even Irving Berlin exceeded the output of this talented New York Negro. His songs were as American as Stephen Foster's --one or two of them may be remembered as long--and were typically representative of the pre-radio era when fortunes were made over the 10-cent-store counters. Cecil Mack's songs were pure fun and never had an off-color line." He was married to Gertrude Curtis, a pioneering African-American dentist who had an office in Harlem. They had no children.
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