Joe Burke

Who was Joe Burke?

Joseph A. Burke was an American composer and pianist. He was born in Philadelphia and died in Upper Darby, Pennsylvania. He graduated from the Philadelphia Conservatory of Music and started as a pianist accompanying silent movies and an arranger in a music publishing firm. It was during this time that he started writing songs for publication. After he had a few hits he started composing full-time. He partnered with some great lyricists; Benny Davis and Walter Donaldson and Joseph McCarthy. However, the partners he had the most successes with were, Al Dubin and Edgar Leslie He spent most of his professional career on the East Coast but, for a short time in the late 1920s and early 1930s, he lived in Los Angeles where he composed film scores and several songs for movies. These include:

⁕Gold Diggers of Broadway

⁕Hearts in Exile

⁕Little Johnny Jones

⁕She Couldn't Say No

⁕Hold Everything

⁕Dancing Sweeties