Mills Music, Inc.

Mills Music, Inc. The most productive publishing house of the 1920s. The emergence of Jack Mills (1891–1979) in July 1919, at 152 West Forty-fifth Street, was due to his days as a song plugger in the Alley. Most recently, he had been professional manager of McCarthy and Fisher Company. That experience spurred him to start his own firm. He established the genre of piano novelty Ragtime with his purchase of Zez Confrey’s masterpiece, “Kitten on the Keys, in July 1921” . This, along with nearly…