Geoffrey O'Hara (February 2, 1882 - January 31, 1967) was a Canadian American composer, singer and music professor. 1882 was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). ... 1967 was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

O'Hara was born in Chatham, Ontario, Canada. He moved to the USA in 1904, the same year he began performing in Vaudeville. He began recording for Edison Records in 1905. In 1913 O'Hara undertook the recording of traditional indian songs on behalf of the American government. During World War I he was a singing instructor of patriotic songs for American troops. In 1919 he married Constance Dougherty from Massachusetts, and together they had two children. O'Hara lectured on music and songwriting, and held positions at Teachers' College of Columbia University (1936-37), Huron College and the University of South Dakota, where he later received and honorary Doctor of Music degree in 1947. He lectured for the remainder of his life. In 1920 O'Hara helped organize The Composers' and Lyric Writers' Protective League. He also was a board member of the American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers (ASCAP), was the president of the Composers-Authors Guild, and served in the United Service Organizations (USO). Categories: Stub | Cities in Ontario | Ontario counties and regions ... Vaudeville was a style of multi-act theater which flourished in North America from the 1880s through the 1920s. ... Edison Records was the first record label, pioneering recorded sound and an important player in the early record industry. ... Jump to: navigation, search World War I was primarily a European conflict with many facets: immense human sacrifice, stalemate trench warfare, and the use of new, devastating weapons - tanks, aircraft, machineguns, and poison gas. ... The American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers (ASCAP) is an organization known as a collecting society that protects intellectual property, ensuring that music which is broadcast, commercially recorded, or otherwise used for profit, pays a fee to compensate the creators of that music. ... The United Service Organization Troop The United Service Organizations (USO) is a volunteer organization that provides morale and recreation services to American servicemembers worldwide. ...

O'Hara composed over 500 popular and patriotic songs, and hymns. He had some moderate popular music hits in the 1910s with songs such as Your Eyes Have Told Me What I Did Not Know (1913) and Tennessee, I Hear You Calling Me (1914) and one huge hit with his song K-K-K-Katy (1918), one of the most popular tunes of the World War I era. Jump to: navigation, search Popular music is music belonging to any of a number of musical styles that are accessible to the general public and mostly distributed commercially. ... Jump to: navigation, search // Events and trends The 1910s represent the culmination of the growing militarism which had its beginings during the secind half of the XIX Century. ... This page is a candidate to be moved to Wikisource. ... Jump to: navigation, search World War I was primarily a European conflict with many facets: immense human sacrifice, stalemate trench warfare, and the use of new, devastating weapons - tanks, aircraft, machineguns, and poison gas. ...

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Popular American recording pioneers, 1895-1925 (2000)

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Geoffrey O'Hara, composer, singer and lecturer (1882-1967)