Uploaded October 2023 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
Written by Mohr, Goodwin and McDonald
An Early Powered Wheelchair
The first “wheel-chair” patent (as opposed to a patent for an invalid chair or rolling chairs) was in 1915, and it was distinctly different from the others as it had a small battery-powered motor. The chair could be controlled by hand or by knee and was for people who hadn’t the strength to self-propel the earlier models. However, this song seems to imply that two people could ride in a rolling chair or wheelchair, and I could not find any information on a two person wheelchair.
Halsey K. Mohr (1883 – 1942) was an American composer and lyricist.
Described as a "songwriter and vaudeville song and dance man" Mohr had a successful career as a composer and sometimes lyricist of usually comic songs in the vaudeville and tin pan alley tradition. Some of his more noted songs were "Piney Ridge", "They're Wearing 'Em Higher In Hawaii", "Liberty Belle", "Jane Dear", and "I'm A Yiddish Cowboy".Going against antiwar sentiment during the early years of World War I, he wrote pro-war patriotic music.
Joe Goodwin(1889-1943)
Song lyricist ("When You're Smiling", "Everywhere You Go") and a charter ASCAP member (1914), educated in public schools and a songwriter since World War I when he wrote songs for the 81st Wildcats. Thereafter he was a monologist in vaudeville and a professional manager for music publishers. Besides his film-music work he wrote songs and musical material for London revues. His chief musical collaborators included Nat Ayer, Louis Alter, Gus Edwards, George Meyer, Al Piantadosi, Mark Fisher, and Larry Shay, and his other popular-song compositions include "That's How I Need You", "Billy", "When I Get You Alone Tonight", "When You Play in the Game of Love", "Baby Shoes", "Liberty Bell It's Time to Ring Again", "Gee, But I Hate to Go Home Again", "I'm Knee Deep in Daisies", "They're Wearing 'Em Higher in Hawaii" and "Breeze".
BornJune 6, 1889
DiedJuly 31, 1943(54)
Lyricist Ballard Macdonald was born in Portland, Oregon on October 15, 1882.
After graduating from Princeton University he began writing lyrics for traveling vaudeville acts. His work on vaudeville eventually led to Broadway where he worked as a lyricist and librettist on several scores, including Ziegfeld’s 9 O’clock Frolic, Love Birds, The Battling Butler, Sweetheart Time, Ziegfeld’s Midnight Frolic (1919), George White’s Scandals of 1923 and Thumbs Up!.
Perhaps best known as the lyricist of Ohio’s official state song, “Beautiful Ohio”, Macdonald also collaborated with the great composers of his day to produce “Rose of Washington Square”, “Second Hand Rose”, “Parade of the Wooden Soldiers”, “Back Home in Indiana”, “The Trail of the Lonesome Pine”, “Play That Barbershop Chord”, “Clap Hands, Here Comes Charlie!”, “Somebody Loves Me”, “Bend Down, Sister”, “Down in Bom Bombay”, “On the Mississippi” and “She is the Sunshine of Virginia”.
Among the composers he worked with include Harry Carroll, Con Conrad, Joe Meyer, Sigmund Romberg, Albert Von Tilzer, George Gershwin, Jesse Greer, James Hanley, Victor Herbert, Lewis Muir and Walter Donaldson.
Written by Mohr, Goodwin and McDonald
An Early Powered Wheelchair
The first “wheel-chair” patent (as opposed to a patent for an invalid chair or rolling chairs) was in 1915, and it was distinctly different from the others as it had a small battery-powered motor. The chair could be controlled by hand or by knee and was for people who hadn’t the strength to self-propel the earlier models. However, this song seems to imply that two people could ride in a rolling chair or wheelchair, and I could not find any information on a two person wheelchair.
Halsey K. Mohr (1883 – 1942) was an American composer and lyricist.
Described as a "songwriter and vaudeville song and dance man" Mohr had a successful career as a composer and sometimes lyricist of usually comic songs in the vaudeville and tin pan alley tradition. Some of his more noted songs were "Piney Ridge", "They're Wearing 'Em Higher In Hawaii", "Liberty Belle", "Jane Dear", and "I'm A Yiddish Cowboy".Going against antiwar sentiment during the early years of World War I, he wrote pro-war patriotic music.
Joe Goodwin(1889-1943)
Song lyricist ("When You're Smiling", "Everywhere You Go") and a charter ASCAP member (1914), educated in public schools and a songwriter since World War I when he wrote songs for the 81st Wildcats. Thereafter he was a monologist in vaudeville and a professional manager for music publishers. Besides his film-music work he wrote songs and musical material for London revues. His chief musical collaborators included Nat Ayer, Louis Alter, Gus Edwards, George Meyer, Al Piantadosi, Mark Fisher, and Larry Shay, and his other popular-song compositions include "That's How I Need You", "Billy", "When I Get You Alone Tonight", "When You Play in the Game of Love", "Baby Shoes", "Liberty Bell It's Time to Ring Again", "Gee, But I Hate to Go Home Again", "I'm Knee Deep in Daisies", "They're Wearing 'Em Higher in Hawaii" and "Breeze".
BornJune 6, 1889
DiedJuly 31, 1943(54)
Lyricist Ballard Macdonald was born in Portland, Oregon on October 15, 1882.
After graduating from Princeton University he began writing lyrics for traveling vaudeville acts. His work on vaudeville eventually led to Broadway where he worked as a lyricist and librettist on several scores, including Ziegfeld’s 9 O’clock Frolic, Love Birds, The Battling Butler, Sweetheart Time, Ziegfeld’s Midnight Frolic (1919), George White’s Scandals of 1923 and Thumbs Up!.
Perhaps best known as the lyricist of Ohio’s official state song, “Beautiful Ohio”, Macdonald also collaborated with the great composers of his day to produce “Rose of Washington Square”, “Second Hand Rose”, “Parade of the Wooden Soldiers”, “Back Home in Indiana”, “The Trail of the Lonesome Pine”, “Play That Barbershop Chord”, “Clap Hands, Here Comes Charlie!”, “Somebody Loves Me”, “Bend Down, Sister”, “Down in Bom Bombay”, “On the Mississippi” and “She is the Sunshine of Virginia”.
Among the composers he worked with include Harry Carroll, Con Conrad, Joe Meyer, Sigmund Romberg, Albert Von Tilzer, George Gershwin, Jesse Greer, James Hanley, Victor Herbert, Lewis Muir and Walter Donaldson.
