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4 unusual facts about Frank Lebby Stanton


Anna Case

In 1930, before retiring in the same year, she recorded "Just Awearyin' for You" by Frank Lebby Stanton and Carrie Jacobs-Bond.

Frank Stanton

Frank Lebby Stanton (1857-1927), songwriter and first poet laureate of Georgia

Parlour music

Note the sentimental lyrics by Frank Lebby Stanton, the plaintive but well matched tune by Carrie Jacobs-Bond, and the conscious artistry (including the operatic trilled "r"s) by singer Elizabeth Spencer.

The lyrics were by Frank Lebby Stanton although composer Carrie Jacobs-Bond thought they were anonymous and later provided royalties to him via D. Appleton and Company, which had copyrighted the words.



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