Egbert Van Alstyne

Egbert Van Alstyne

songwriter

BIRTHDAY March 4, 1878
BIRTH SIGN Pisces
BIRTHPLACE Illinois
AGE ? years old
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ABOUT EGBERT VAN ALSTYNE

Wrote I'm Afraid to Come Home in the Dark and Won't You Come Over to My House? He specialized in pop and ragtime.

He started out as a song-plugger for Tin Pan Alley.

He was posthumously inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1970.

He was the son of Charles Van Alstyne and Emma M. Van Alstyne.

He collaborated on Pretty Baby with Tony Jackson .