Nat Vincent
Musician · 1889–1979 · Kansas City, Missouri
Best known for
Songwriter
Nat Vincent was a Kansas City-born Tin Pan Alley and Western-themed songwriter, vaudevillian, and radio performer who, with Fred Howard, wrote the cowboy standard “When the Bloom Is on the Sage” (1930). He was also one third of the trio — with James Kendis and James Brockman — that placed the 1919 standard “I’m Forever Blowing Bubbles” under the joint pen name Jaan Kenbrovin.
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- Born November 6, 1889, in Kansas City, Missouri; attended Betts Military Academy in Stamford, Connecticut.
- Worked as a sheet-music demonstrator in New York department stores before joining the staff of several Tin Pan Alley publishers.
- Performed in vaudeville with the teams Tracey & Vincent and Franklyn & Vincent, and later in the radio and recording duo the Happy Chappies with Howard Wright.
- Wrote songs for Healy’s Ice Follies, the Palais Royal Revue, London’s Cochran Revue, and the Broadway revues Show of Wonders, Passing Shows, and Ziegfeld’s Midnight Frolics.
- Joined ASCAP in 1922.
- Co-wrote “I’m Forever Blowing Bubbles” (1919) with James Kendis and James Brockman under the joint pen name Jaan Kenbrovin.
- Wrote “When the Bloom Is on the Sage” with Fred Howard; the Happy Chappies first recorded it in 1930, and it became a Western standard later cut by Tex Ritter, Sons of the Pioneers, and many others.
- Died June 1979 in La Crescenta, California.
