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Ager was born in Chicago, Illinois , the sixth of nine children. Leaving school with only three years of formal high-school education, he taught himself to play the Piano and embarked on a career as a musician. After spending time on the Vaudeville circuit, he moved to Chicago to write music for the growing movie industry. During World War I he served as a Morale officer.

Milton Ager also was a music publisher in partnership with his frequent musical collaborator, lyricist Jack Yellen . He moved to Hollywood where he made a good living writing songs for film. In 1979 , he was enrolled in the Songwriters' Hall Of Fame .

On his passing, Milton Ager was interred in the Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery in Los Angeles .

Among his best known works are:

  • ''Rockaway Hunt Fox Trot'' ( 1915 )

  • ''Erin Is Calling'' ( 1916 )

  • ''Tom, Dick and Harry and Jack'' ( 1917 )

  • ''Everything is Peaches Down in Georgia'' ( 1918 )

  • ''France We Have Not Forgotten You'' ( 1918 )

  • ''Anything is Nice'' ( 1919 )

  • ''Freckles'' ( 1919 )

  • ''There's a Lot of Blue-Eyed Marys Down in Maryland'' ( 1919 )

  • ''A Young Man's Fancy'' ( 1920 )

  • ''Nobody's Baby'' ( 1920 ), his first big hit

  • ''Lovin' Sam'' ( 1920 )

  • ''Who Cares?'' ( 1920 )

  • ''Stay Away From Louisville Lou'' ( 1923 )

  • ''Hard Hearted Hannah (The Vamp Of Savannah)'' ( 1924 )

  • ''I Wonder What's Become of Sally'' ( 1924 )

  • ''I Certainly Could'' ( 1926 )

  • ''Hard-To-Get Gertie'' ( 1926 )

  • ''Ain't She Sweet?'' ( 1927 )

  • ''Vo-Do-De-O'' ( 1927 )

  • ''I Still Love You'' ( 1928 )

  • ''If You Don't Love Me'' ( 1928 )

  • ''Oh Baby'' ( 1928 )

  • ''Happy Days Are Here Again'' ( 1929 )

  • ''I May Be Wrong'' ( 1929 )

  • ''Some Day We'll Meet Again'' ( 1932 )


Works for Broadway include: