Songwriters Hall of Fame

Nathaniel Hawthorne Vincent (a.k.a. Jann Kenbrovin, F.N. Vinard) was born in Kansas City, Missouri on November 6, 1889.

After graduating from Betts Military Academy in Stamford Connecticut, Vincent was a sheet music demonstrator in New York department stores before becoming a professional manager of music for various publishing companies on Tin Pan Alley. As a performer, Vincent was a member of the vaudeville teams Franklyn & Vincent and Tracey & Vincent, appearing in the act “A Trip to Hitland.” Later, Vincent appeared on radio as a member of the recording team The Happy Chappies with Fred Howard.

Throughout his career, Vincent was a prolific songwriter collaborating with Fred Howard, Herman Paley, Maceo Pinkard, James Kendis, James Brockman and Russ Morgan. He contributed songs to the revues Ice Follies, Palais Royal Revue, Cochran Revue (London), Show of Wonders, Passing Shows and Ziegfeld’s Midnight Frolics.

The Nat Vincent catalog boasts such enduring standards as “I’m Forever Blowing Bubbles”, “When the Bloom is on the Sage”, “La Veeda”, “When Old Bill Bailey Plays the Ukulele”, “The Strawberry Roan”, “I Know What it Means to be Lonesome”, “Give a Little Credit to Your Dad”, “Mellow Mountain Moon”, “Little Girl Dressed in Blue”, “Pucker Up and Whistle”, “That Railroad Rag”, “Down South Everbody’s Happy”, “Pretty Little Cinderella”, “At the End of the Lane”, “Liza”, “My Old Man”, “I Know Why I Cry”, “Sitting on the Bank by the River”, “It’s Great to Love Someone Who Loves You Too”, “My Pretty Quadroom”, “Me and My Burro”, “Old Black Mountain Trail” and “It’s Time to Say Aloha.”