- He wrote the popular 1904 song "Goodbye, My Lady Love", which is interpolated into the Trocadero nightclub scene in nearly all the American stage productions of Kern and Hammerstein's "Show Boat" (but not in the London stage versions). The song was used in the 1936 film version of the show, but not in the 1929 or 1951 film versions.
- Inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1970.
- Married 9 times.
- He died on stage May 19, 1961 in Chicago's Opera House. After he led the audience through a rendition of "Let Me Call You Sweetheart" and returned to the stage for a curtain call, he blew kisses to the audience and collapsed from a heart attack as the final curtain fell.
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