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Michael Elder Rourke (14 July 1867 – 26 August 1933), who assumed the pen name Herbert Reynolds in 1913, was an Irish-American lyricist. Reynolds wrote the lyrics to Jerome Kern's first big hit, "They Didn't Believe Me", interpolated into the 1914 American version of The Girl from Utah, produced by Charles Frohman.
Herbert Reynolds (1867–1933) →. sister projects: Wikipedia article, Commons category, Wikidata item. Irish-American Broadway lyricist, born Michael Elder Rourke.
Michael Elder Rourke (14 July 1867 – 26 August 1933), who assumed the pen name Herbert Reynolds in 1913, was an Irish-American lyricist. Reynolds wrote the lyrics to Jerome Kern's first big hit, "They Didn't Believe Me", interpolated into the 1914 American version of The Girl from Utah, produced by Charles Frohman.
Biography for Herbert Reynolds the Lyricist including canon of works, monologues, songs, scenes and quizzes.
"They Didn't Believe Me" is a song with music by Jerome Kern and lyrics by Herbert Reynolds. First introduced in the 1914 musical The Girl from Utah it was one of five numbers added to the show by Kern and Reynolds for its Broadway debut at the Knickerbocker Theatre on August 14, 1914.
The Blue Paradise is a musical in a prologue and two acts, with music by Edmund Eysler, Sigmund Romberg and Leo Edwards, lyrics primarily by Herbert Reynolds, and a book by Edgar Smith, based on the operetta Ein Tag im Paradies ( A Day in Paradise, 1913) by Eysler with original text by Leo Stein and Bela Jenbach.
HERBERT REYNOLDS was the pen name of Irish-American lyricist Michael Elder Rourke (1867-1933). Reynolds began his career as a press agent before moving on to lyric writing. Reynolds’ first successful collaboration with Jerome Kern was the song “They Didn’t Believe Me,” which was interpolated into the 1914 American version of The Girl ...
