WILLIAMS, SPENCER. Songwriter ( in New Orleans, Louisiana; in New York, New York). He obtained his musical education in the public schools of Birmingham, Alabama, where he lived as a child. He began his professional career playing piano in the Storyville district of New Orleans, Louisiana. In 1907 he went to Chicago, Illinois, where he first played piano in the Sans Souci Amusement Park. About 1915 he settled in New York and gave his attention more...