Shelton Brooks

Shelton Brooks
Born(1886-05-04)May 4, 1886
Amherstburg, Ontario, Canada
DiedSeptember 6, 1975(1975-09-06) (aged 89)
Los Angeles County, California, U.S.
OccupationPopular music and jazz composer

Shelton Brooks (May 4, 1886 – September 6, 1975) was a Canadian-born American composer and performer of popular music and jazz. He was known for his ragtime and vaudeville style, and wrote some of the biggest hits of the first third of the 20th century; including "Some of These Days" and "At the Darktown Strutters' Ball". He composed "Some of These Days" at the Pekin Theatre.

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