Cannon, Hughie

Hughie Cannon Composer and pianist Detroit, Michigan, 1877; Toledo, Ohio, 1912. Cannon is best remembered as the composer of the jazz standard “Bill Bailey, Won’t You Please Come Home?” (1902). Cannon worked as a pianist for a number of vaudeville singers, and apparently also sang himself. He first worked as a composer in collaboration with lyricist John Queen, producing “Just Because She Made Dem Goo-Goo Eyes” in 1900, followed by “I Hates to Get Up Early in the Morning” a year later. “Bill…