Anne Upton


Florine Anne Upton Baldwin was an American composer and radio writer, who published her works under the name Anne Upton.
Upton was born in Marble Falls, Newton, Arkansas, to Canzadia Ramsey and Albert Franklin Upton. Her son Rex Allen Head was born in Texas in 1916. She married Donald A. Baldwin around 1926. She lived in Los Angeles from at least 1930 until her death in 1970. Little is known about her musical education. She studied writing at the Frederick Palmer Institute of Authorship in Hollywood, California.
Upton belonged to the American [Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers|American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers], and worked as a radio writer and producer. During the early 1940s, she wrote the words for several choral works by composer William T. Wilkins, doing business as "Wilton House, Los Angeles." Her compositions include:

Opera

Orchestra

  • Cattle at Eventide

Theatre

  • Anne's Minstrels: an Old Time Show in Two Parts

Vocal

  • Children, Emancipate
  • Doves of Heavenly Peace
  • Father Lead Me
  • Gabriel a Singin'
  • I Wanna be Good Lak Jesus Lawd
  • Life of Jesus
  • Morninglight
  • Pistol - Totin' Pappy
  • Remember the Four
  • The Stars Wrote a Song About You
  • Toilin' by de Light oh Mah Lord