Edward Laska

Songwriter ("How'd You Like to Spoon With Me?"), composer, author and publisher, a musical colleague of Jerome Kern, educated at the City College of New York and the New York Conservatory. He was a charter member of ASCAP (1914), and was a music publisher between 1908 and 1910. He also served as director of the Dramatists Guild. His other songs include "The Alcoholic Blues", "I Would Like to Marry You", "What We Want and What We Get", "Do Something", "Oh! You Don't Know What You're Missin'", "Sweet Little Caraboo", "Find Me a Lass Like Me Mother', and "Mary Wants a Little Sun".