Hughie Cannon
Hughie Cannon (1877 - 1912)

Hughie Cannon was a composer and lyricist who was born in Detroit 1877 and died in 1912 in Toledo.
His best known composition was the popular song Won't You Come Home Bill Bailey. He wrote the song at the age of sixteen and this ragtime song was published in 1902. Many renditions of this song were done by Louis Armstrong, Ella Fitzgerald, Pearl Bailey, Marion Montgomery and Bobby Darin.

The first singer of this song was Blackface John Queen a contemporary of Hughie Cannon. The song was an i ... (Read all)
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