Nathaniel D. Mann

Who is Nathaniel D. Mann?

Nathaniel D. Mann was an American composer best known for his work with L. Frank Baum. He composed at least two songs with Baum, "Different Ways of Making Love" and "It Happens Ev'ry Day," and another with John Slavin, "She Didn't Really Mind the Thing at All," for The Wizard of Oz stage musical in 1902, and in 1908, composed the first original film score for The Fairylogue and Radio-Plays, one of the earliest feature-length fiction films, which debuted September 24, 1908. With Baum, he also composed the musical The King of Gee-Whiz, which went through various titles such as Montezuma, King Jonah XIII, and The Son of the Sun. This was collaboration with and based on a novel by Emerson Hough, which was never completed and the extant scenario published in 1969.

His other works include The Sultan of Sulu with George Ade and Alfred George Whathall, "Moon, Moon," sung by Christie MacDonald in The Toreador, The Mayor of Tokio with William Frederick Peters, The Alaskan with R. F. Carroll, Imam : A Mohammedan Serenade, and the one-act ballet, La Naissance de la Rose. Much of his work consisted of coon songs.