MACK, CECIL

MACK, CECIL (RICHARD McPHERSON). Songwriter (6 November 1883 in Norfolk, Virginia; 1 August 1944 in New York, New York). He attended Lincoln University in Pennsylvania and later studied music privately in New York with Melvin Charlton. During the first decade of the twentieth century he was active as a song-writer with George Walker/Bert Williams companies. He also founded the Gotham-Attucks music publishing company, which lasted about ten years and published, among other songs, Bert Williams's companies. He also founded the Gotham-Attucks music publishing company, which lasted about ten years and published, among other songs, Bert Williams's ...