Paul Stanley (composer)

Paul Stanley was a Germanborn American composer and vaudeville comedian who some credit with writing the music for the ditty Tarara Boomdeay for Henry F. Sayers 1891 musical entertainment, Tuxedo.

Paul Sonnenberg was born in Hamburg, Germany, and came to America at the age of 16, where he eventually began entertaining as a vaudeville and club comedian under a stage name, Paul Stanley. He became an American citizen in 1869 and resided in New York City for most of his life before relocating to San Francisco after the turn of the 20th century. He was married to Franziska, a native of St. Louis, Missouri, who was some six years his junior.

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