Nick LaRocca(1889-1961)
- Actor
- Soundtrack
Songwriter ("Tiger Rag"), composer, conductor and cornetist, educated
in high school and thereafter a cornetist, leader and manager of the
The Original Dixieland Jazz Band. He played at Rosenweber's in New York during World War I, and
toured throughout the United States and Europe until the group's
dissolution in 1925, but he made many recordings. Between 1938 and
1958, he was in the construction business. Joining ASCAP in 1936, his
other popular-song compositions included "Dixieland One Step", "Lazy
Daddy", "Skeleton Jangle", "Fidgety Feet", "Some Rainy Night",
"Barnyard Blues", "Ramblin' Blues", "At the Jazz Band Ball", and
"Lasses Candy".
