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1913

in 1913
. introduced by Jack Miller

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in 1913
. His employer was Jerome H. Remick and Company, a Detroit-based publishing firm with a branch office on New York City's Tin Pan Alley, and he earned $15 a week

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1916

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. named When You Want 'Em, You Can't Get 'Em, When You've Got 'Em, You Don't Want 'Em. It earned him 50 cents.

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. for Aeolian Company and Standard Music Rolls in New York

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1917

in 1917
. and it was a commercial success

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1919

in 1919
. his first big national hit.with words by Irving Caesar. Al Jolson, a famous Broadway singer of the day, heard Gershwin perform "Swanee" at a party and decided to sing it in one of his shows.

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1933

in 1933
" I frequently hear music in the heart of noise."
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1934

in 1934
" My people are American, my time is today…music must repeat the thought and aspirations of the times."
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