Monroe Rosenfeld

Monroe H. “Rosey” Rosenfeld (died December 13, 1918) was an American songwriter and journalist. In 1895, he was described by Ernest Jarrold in Munsey’s Magazine as being in the “front rank” of successful popular song writers, with a reputation as a “graceful, prolific, and versatile composer”. Biography Rosenfeld was born in Richmond, Virginia, the son of Jewish German immigrants. By the early 1880s, he was working in New York City as a songwriter, often using pseudonyms such as E. Heiser and F. Belasco. He started having success around 1884 with such songs as “Climbing Up the Golden Stairs”, and “Her Golden Hair Was Hanging Down Her Back”, written with Scottish-born composer Felix McGlennon and recorded by Dan Quinn. His other successes as a songwriter included “Johnny Get Your Gun” (1886, credited as F. Belasco), and his most famous work, “With All Her Faults I Love Her Still” (1888), which sold more than 100,000 copies in piano sheet music. The latter song was based on an earlier tune by Theodore Metz, but Rosenfeld was notorious for making use of lax copyright laws to claim publishing rights in his own name, and sometimes bragged that he stole some of his best tunes. Rosenfeld