Forster Music Publisher, Inc. was a major American publisher of popular songs founded in 1916 in Chicago by Fred John Adam Forster (1878–1956).Obituary: Fred Forster, The New York Times, 11 May 1956 The company had an office in New York and its music was of the Tin Pan Alley genre. For most of its existence, the firm was located at 216 South Wabash, Chicago.
History Forster founded an earlier firm, F. J. A. Forster, in 1903 as a jobber in sheet music. In 1922, Forster merged F. J. A. Forster with Forster Music Publisher, Inc.Forster Concerns Merge, The Music Trades, pg. 5, Oct. 14, 1922
Selected publications Chasing the Fox, Percy Wenrich (1922) Oh, Johnny, Oh, Johnny, Oh! music by Abe Olman, lyrics by Ed Rose (1917) – recorded by Bonnie Baker with the Orrin Tucker Orchestra (Columbia Records: over 1 million records sold)Wee Bonnie Rides to Fame on "Oh, Johnny," Which Was Once a Flop, Lincoln Journal Star, Jan. 21, 1940 piano and vocal works by Louise Cooper Spindle Songs by Charles L. Johnson Butterflies: Caprice (1908) Teasing the Cat (1916) Monkey-Bizniz: Novelty for Piano (1928) Pink Poodle One Step (1914) Blue Goose Rag (Johnson uses the pseudonym Raymond Birch) (1916)
See also Charles L. Johnson, Fred Forster's closest business partner Raymond A. Sherwood, lyricist
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