Burke, Joe

Joe Burke Composer Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, March 18, 1884; Upper Darby, Pennsylvania, June 9, 1950. Burke was a very successful composer who had major hits in the 1920s (“Tip Toe Through the Tulips”) and 1930s (“Moon over Miami”). Burke studied piano as a child, then played in his school orchestra and at the University of Pennsylvania. After college, he worked in his home town for local music publishers, and then moved to New York City in the mid-1910s. He began publishing songs…