Charles McCarron


Charles Russell McCarron was a United States Tin Pan Alley and vaudeville composer and lyricist.
He was born in Janesville, Wisconsin. His father John H. McCarron was a veteran vaudeville actor and manager. He moved to New York in 1912.
Some of his best known songs include I Am Glad I Can Make You Cry and When the Sun Goes Down in Dixie. McCarron also wrote WWI songs, including "Your Lips Are No Man's Land But Mine", "Our Country's in It Now! (We've Got to Win It Now)", and "The Russians Were Rushin', The Yanks Started Yankin'. He collaborated with other composers including Albert Von Tilzer, Carey Morgan, and Chris Smith.
He composed for many vaudeville acts, including Bessie Clayton, Corinne Tilton, Harry Cooper, Mabel McCain, Nevins and Gordon, and Jimmie and Minnie Allen. His biggest productions were for Lucille Cavanagh's "kaleidoscope of dance, color and song" vaudeville program that toured for several years, for Evelyn Nesbit's return to vaudeville "A Roseland Fantasy" in 1917.
He died of pneumonia at his home in New York on January 27, 1919 at age 27. He is interred at Woodlawn Cemetery.

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