According to the Internet source given below, Porter Grainger [born Granger] was an African-American pianist, author, songwriter, playwright, and music publisher.
He was born in Bowling Green, Kentucky and began his musical career in Chicago before moving to New York in 1920. As a pianist he accompanied many female artists such as Fannie May Goosby, Viola McCoy, Clara Smith, and Victoria Spivey. From 1924 to 1928, he worked with blues singer
Bessie Smith recording for Columbia Records. His 1928 production
Mississippi Days also featured Bessie Smith. Grainger wrote songs for included Gladys Bryant, Dolly Ross, Ada Brown, and his own wife, Ethel Finnie as well as being bandleader of his ensemble the
Get Happy Band.
Tain't Nobody's Business if I Do co-authored with Everett Robbins and
Dying Crapshooter's Blues (1927) have become blues standards.
He died in New York.
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