Pseudonyms

Pseudonyms Most often writer pseudonyms were used by publishing firms who didn’t want it known that they had only one or two songwriters on their staff. Harry Lincoln was the mainstay of Vandersloot Music (also as “Abe Losch” and “R. A. Fischler”), while Charles L. Johnson sometimes wrote under the names “Raymond Birch” and “Ethel Earnist.” Charles N. Daniels wrote hits under his own name as well as “Neil Moret,” and J. Russel Robinson used “Joe Hoover.” Some songwriters used pseudonyms as a…