Re: Alice Hawthorne AKA Septimus Winner

Such pseudonyms aren't uncommon in music.  See this post:

pseudonames, pop, guitar tops, BG Album Band 6

Sometimes it was to avoid conflicts with a publisher.

Bill


Brad Sondahl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
> This person wrote Listen to the Mockingbird and How much is that Doggie
> in the window (Der Deutsher's Dog on the webpage).  I learned about him
> at pdmusic.org,   http://www.pdmusic.org/winner.html which has a lot of
> good lyrics and info from the 19th C. American composers.   Anyway, it
> just seemed funny that he used a female pseudonym, when women composers
> were likely to use a male name to get published.  Of course Mockingbird
> is a staple of Old time music, whereas the Doggie is relegated to Patti
> Page and Homer and Jethro (Hound dog in the window).  So does anyone
> know why he was a musical cross dresser?