Poor Butterfly
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Product ID: KA1 NO A9006
By Raymond Hubbell
published: 1916
Publisher:
Kalmus
Arranger:
Ryden
Series:
Nostalgia
Line Up:
Symphony Orchestra
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Composer
Raymond Hubbell (1879-1954)
John Raymond Hubbell (June 1, 1879 - December 13, 1954), also known as Raymond Hubbell, was an American writer, composer and lyricist. Today he is most remembered for the popular song, "Poor Butterfly".
Hubbell was born in Urbana, Illinois. He attended schools in Urbana and studied music in Chicago, where he formed a dance band. He worked for Charles K. Harris Publishers as a staff arranger and pianist. His first composition for stage musicals was in 1902 for a show called Chow Chow, which opened in 1903 in New York as The Runaways. He began composing music for the Ziegfeld Follies in 1911 and eventually scored seven editions.
In 1915 he was hired as musical director for the Hippodrome after the previous music director, Manuel Klein, left abruptly after a disagreement with Lee Shubert and Jacob J. Shubert. He continued composing for the theater until 1923. The song he is most remembered for, "Poor Butterfly", was written for one of the first shows he wrote for the Hippodrome, The Big Show. According to his obituary, he thought his best song was "The Ladder of Rose", written for the 1915 Hippodrome hit, Hip-Hip-Hooray.
His last Broadway work was the score for the 1928 musical Three Cheers, starring Will Rogers. In reviewing the show, Brooks Atkinson wrote "Most of the music is unpretentiously melodious." Soon after he retired to Miami, Florida.
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