The Music of Percy Wenrich

This month we are featuring the work of one of American popular music's greatest song writer/composers of all time, Percy Wenrich. The array of talent displayed by all American popular music composers over the last century is awe inspiring. During the golden age of American popular song, thousands of composers emerged who wrote fantastic songs, many of which have remained popular to this day. Many of those composers established themselves as masters of certain song styles. Charles K. Harris gave us the "tear jerker", Scott Joplin refined the rag for us and Irving Berlin gave us ballads that will last forever. A few of the songwriters showed a versatility that went beyond any single style. Even fewer were successful in virtually any style. Percy Wenrich is among the fewest of the few. A composer of prodigious talent who was able to freely flow from genre to genre and write hit after hit in virtually every popular style, Wenrich deserves a special place in the history of American popular music.

We are featuring a number of Wenrich's greatest hits this month and in addition, have added an in-depth biography of Wenrich to our "In Search Of.." series of articles. After (or before) you have listened to his music this month, be sure to read our biography of Percy Wenrich, "The Joplin Kid."

IMPORTANT NOTICE: Sibelius have created an Active-X Scorch player that works with MSIE. In March we implemented the Active-X version and MSIE users who click on a scorch link or cover are automatically directed to a download and registration. Once done, you will not have to go through the download again and all MSIE users will have Scorch functionality. It will only take a minute and you'll be glad you did it! We hope you don't find it to be annoying.

Netscape and Opera users may continue to use the Scorch 2 plug-in player available from Sibelius at the Sibelius download site The Scorch player allows you to fully experience the music at our site. Scorch is a plug in for your browser (or an Active-x player) that will allow you to not only listen to our songs but to view the playing, real time on sheet music WITH LYRICS! Though we often find plug-ins to be annoying, this is one that we guarantee will be well worth the time to download and install. If you are not automatically directed to the Active-x version, download the Scorch player from Sibelius right now, then enjoy an astounding musical experience! The player is available for Mac and PC. Just click on the button below to go to the Sibelius site and get your free plug-in.

WEB-TV USERS! We know that the Scorch player will not work with WEB-TV and will continue to provide midi versions of our songs for you. For your added enjoyment we have now added viewable lyrics to our feature. Simply click the "Lyrics" link to see the full lyrics for the song you are listening to.

As with most of our features, this month's is covered on two separate pages to speed your downloads and to avoid a mile-long page. Be sure to see them BOTH to fully enjoy all of this month's music!