Max Friedman

He composed songs about World War I including "Like a Baby Needs its Mother That's How Uncle Sam Needs You" (1917); "Our Own American Boy" (1917); "Before I Grew Up to Love You" (1918);^[1] and the post-war "Give the Job to the Gob and the Doughboy" (1919), a plea for employers to hire veterans, featuring lyrics by Lew Porter and Alex Sullivan.^[2]

He founded with P. and H. R. Shapiro the Max Friedman Music Publishing Co., which operated out of Buffalo, New York.^[3]

He also composed the 1928 Gene Austin hit "I Wish I Had Died In My Cradle (Before I Grew Up To Love You)", for which Lew Brown wrote the lyrics.^[4]

• Friedman, Max. Before I Grew Up to Love You. New York: Shapiro, Bernstein & Co, 1918. OCLC 818014519
• Friedman, Max, Lew Porter, and Alex Sullivan. Give a Job to the Gob and the Doughboy: Song. Detroit: Jerome H. Remick & Co., 1919. OCLC 79959095
• Friedman, M. I Wish I Had Died in My Cradle: Before I Grew Up to Love You. New York: Shapiro, Bernstein & Co. Inc, 1926. OCLC 497780739 and OCLC 898532476
• Friedman, Max. In the Heart of Kentucky: (Where You Gave Your Heart to Me). Pittsburgh, PA: Max Friedman Music Publishing Co., 1918. OCLC 430956449
• Friedman, Max, George F. Olcott, and Joseph Hiller. Like a Baby Needs Its Mother: That's How Uncle Sam Needs You. New York: M. Friedman Music Pub. Co, 1917. OCLC 13464779
• Friedman, Max. Lonesomeness. New York: Shapiro, Bernstein & Co, 1919. OCLC 498661994
• Friedman, Max, Frank Davis, and Louis Johnson. My Sweet Erin Rose. Pittsburgh: Max Friedman Music Publishing Co., 1916. OCLC 879555533
• Friedman, Max, Geo Olcott, and W. C. Wilbert. Our Own American Boy. Pittsburgh: Max Friedman Music Co., 1917. OCLC 20119592
• Friedman, Max, Walter C. Ness, Murray Sturm, and Kenn Sisson. Spread a little sunshine: where the sun never shines. New York: Max Friedman Music Publishing Co, Inc, 1924. OCLC 878602914