Meyer, Joseph

Joseph Meyer Composer Modesto, California, March 12, 1894; New York City, June 22, 1987. Meyer was a classically trained violinist who studied in Paris in the first decade of the twentieth century, returning to the United States in 1908. He served in World War I and then briefly worked in a nonmusical job before taking up songwriting in the early 1920s. Meyer entered the Alley in 1922 with an enormous hit, “My Honey’s Lovin’ Arms,” with lyrics by Herman Ruby (1891–1959). It was a favorite of…