Abel Baer

American composer Born March 16, 1893 in Baltimore, Maryland, USA — died October 5, 1976 in New York, USA. He graduated from the College of Physicians and Surgeons and began a career in Dentistry, serving in World War I as a 2nd Lt for the USAAF. It wasn’t until 1920 that he gave up medicine and joined a music publisher as a staff writer. One of the most popular collaborators during the heyday of Tin Pan Alley, Baer collaborated with L. Wolfe Gilbert, Stanley Adams, Cliff Friend, Sam Lewis and Mabel Wayne, among others. His catalog includes such hits as “June Night”, “There Are Such Things”, “My Mother’s Eyes”, “Gee Buy You’re Swell”, “I Miss My Swiss”, “Don’t Wait ’Til the Night Before Christmas”, “Lucky Lindy”, “It’s the Girl”, “Am I To Blame?”, “Mama Loves Papa”, “Blue Hoosier Blues”, “Garden in Granada”, “When the One You Love, Loves You”, “Don’t Wake Me Up, Let Me Dream”, “The Night When Love Was Born”, “Chapel of the Roses”, “Harriet” and “I’m Sitting Pretty.” He also contributed songs to Hollywood movies and Broadway musicals.