Shelton Brooks

Date of Birth: 04 May 1886

Country: Canada

Biography: Composer of popular music and jazz, who wrote some of the biggest hits of the first third of the 20th century. Brooks starred in several 1920s musical comedies. After the sudden death of his partner Florence Mills in 1927, he stopped appearing in stage shows and pursued a nightclub act. He also had a radio show on the CBS network in the 1930s. In the 1940s he became a regular in Ken Murray's "Blackouts", a long-running salute to burlesque that played in both New York and Los Angeles, Californ

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