Harry Akst

Person

Born

1894-08-15

Died

1963-03-31

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Harry Akst (August 15, 1894 – March 31, 1963) was an American songwriter who started out his career as a pianist in vaudeville accompanying singers such as Nora Bayes, Frank Fay and Al Jolson. For four years, he worked for Bayes. Then in 1916, he enlisted in the army and was at Camp Upton when he met Irving Berlin (in 1921 they would write "Home Again Blues"). His most notable success came with the song he wrote in 1925 with Sam M. Lewis and Joe Young: "Dinah". <a href="https://www.last.fm/musi

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5 total works indexed

1. Observation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Black Hole Merger

   · 2016 · cited 11,425x

2. Minimal information for studies of extracellular vesicles 2018 (MISEV2018): a position statement of the International Society for Extracellular Vesicles and update of the MISEV2014 guidelines

   · 2018 · cited 9,369x

3. The mutational constraint spectrum quantified from variation in 141,456 humans

   · 2020 · cited 8,895x

4. The International Scientific Association for Probiotics and Prebiotics consensus statement on the scope and appropriate use of the term probiotic

   · 2014 · cited 8,343x

5. Random effects structure for confirmatory hypothesis testing: Keep it maximal

   · 2013 · cited 8,160x

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Key dates

Born

15 August 1894

Died

31 March 1963

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Wikidata facts

Instance of

human

Given name

Harry

Gender

male

Citizenship

United States

Place of birth

New York City

Place of death

Hollywood

Occupation

film score composer

Languages spoken

English language

Instrument

piano

Military branch

United States Army