T. B. Harms Company/Harms, Inc.

T. B. Harms Company/Harms, Inc. An old-line music publisher founded in 1875, Harms was a rather sleepy firm run by brothers Tom and Alex Harms until 1892, when they published the song hit “Daisy Bell” by William Jerome and Harry Dacre —better-known today as “A Bicycle Built for Two.” That same year, the firm published the score for the landmark Broadway show A Trip to Chinatown , producing hits with “The Bowery” and “Push Them Clouds Away.” In 1901, the firm really took off when Max Dreyfus…