Nat D. Ayer

b. Nathaniel Davis, 30 September 1887, Boston, Massachusetts, USA, d. 19 September 1952, Bath, England. A composer, pianist, and performer, before moving to England where his career really took off, Ayer wrote one enduring standard, ‘Oh, You Beautiful Doll' (1911), with A. Seymour Brown (b. 1885, d. 1952), and collaborated with Brown on several other numbers such as ‘Moving Day In Jungle Town' (1909) (apparently a reference to Theodore Roosevelt's hunting trip to Africa) and ‘If You Talk In Your Sleep, Don't Mention My Name' (1911). He also contributed to Broadway musical come...