Max Friedman

Max Friedman ( -1964) was an American songwriter and published music through his company, Max Friedman Music Publishing Co.

Career

He composed songs about World War I including "Like a Baby Needs its Mother That's How Uncle Sam Needs You" (1917); "Our Own American Boy (1917); Before I Grew Up to Love You (1918);[1] and the post-war "Give the Job to the Gob and the Doughboy" (1919), a plea for employers to hire veterans, featuring lyrics by Lew Porter and Alex Sullivan.[2]

He founded with P. and H. R. Shapiro the Max Friedman Music Publishing Co., which operated out of Buffalo, New York.[3]

He also composed the 1928 Gene Austin hit I Wish I Had Died In My Cradle (Before I Grew Up To Love You), for which Lew Brown wrote the lyrics.[4]

Selected works

References

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