Arthur Fields
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Arthur Fields (August 6, 1888 – March 29, 1953) was a United States singer and songwriter.
He was born Abe Finkelstein in Pennsylvania in Philadelphia. He became a professional singer as a youngster. Around 1908 he toured with Guy Brother's Minstrel Show, and helped form a vaudeville act "Weston, Fields and Carroll".
His first hit was On The Mississippi which he wrote the music for with Harry Carroll and Ballard MacDonald supplied the lyrics. In 1914 he wrote the lyrics to Aba Daba Honeymoon, which was revived for the 1950 M.G.M. film Two Weeks With Love. He recorded with many bands and had a varied career in the recording industry.
Retiring to Florida in 1946 he also worked in radio on WKAT Miami. He suffered a stroke early in 1953 and was killed in a fire at Littlefield Convalescent Home a little later the same year.
[edit] External links
- Arthur Fields at the Internet Movie Database
- Arthur Fields by Robert Morritt
- Song Any Old Place the Gang from archive.org
- Arthur Fields cylinder recordings, from the Cylinder Preservation and Digitization Project at the University of California, Santa Barbara Library.
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