Mabel Wayne

Real name: Wimpfheimer, Mabel
Pianist, singer and composer
(16 July 1890 - 19 June 1978)
Place of birth:
Brooklyn (Nueva York) United States
By
Orlando del Greco

er musical pieces, quite beautiful indeed, brought her an enviable universal fame that many of her renowned American colleagues would have liked to equal.

Her waltzes and songs successfully spread worldwide: “In A Little Spanish Town” (“En un pueblito de España”), “Ramona”, “Chiquita [c]”, “Cheerie Berrie Be”, “My Angeline”, “When The Right One”, “Don’t Wake Me Up, Let Me Dream”, “Little Man, You’ve Had A Busy Day”, “It Happened In Monterey”.

With the Spanish versions of “In A Little Spanish Town” (“En un pueblito de España”) by Rogelio Ferreyra and of “Ramona [Cadícamo]” by Enrique Cadícamo she is included in the Carlos Gardel’s recorded songbook.

Mabel Wayne was born in Brooklyn (New York) on July 16, 1890 and passed away on June 19, 1978 at Glen Gove, Long Island (New York).