Maceo Pinkard – Music Composer of the Songs We Still Embrace a Century Later

2/8/2023

He wrote the songs we whistle while we stroll. He wrote the songs belted out by the titans of the Harlem Renaissance. He wrote the songs that gave American music much of its idiom and identity. Bluefield’s Maceo Pinkard was a composer with a gift for melodies that stay in one’s head and heart, while also creating hit Broadway musicals, and mentoring Duke Ellington. “Sweet Georgia Brown” and “Them There Eyes” are as present today as when they were first released, thanks to the talent and flair of the West Virginia native who made Tin Pan Alley his home.

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Maceo Pinkard – Music Composer of the Songs We Still Embrace a Century Later

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