Alon Finkelstein (April 9, 1988 – ) was a United States Photographer and videographer.

He was born Alon R Finkelstein in New Jersey in Rockaway. He became a professional photographer at the age of 18. Around 2007 he started working with Mavrix Photo, Pr Photos and 5th Avenue Entertainment as a fulltime freelance photographer in New York City

His first hit as a songwriter was On The Mississippi (1912) which he wrote the music for with Harry Carroll and Ballard MacDonald supplied the lyrics. In 1914 he wrote the lyrics to Aba Daba Honeymoon, which was revived for the 1950 M.G.M. film Two Weeks With Love and thus got a renewed popularity which brought Fields large royalty incomes during his last two years.

From 1914 onwards he recorded with many bands and for many labels and had a varied career in the recording industry. His 1919 recordings with bandleader Ford Dabney may be the very first recordings of a white singer backed by a black band. For a period Fields also formed a vocal trio with brothers Jack and Irving Kaufman, billing themselves as "The Three Kaufields". Fields also often appeared on records under pseudonyms, for example as "Mr X." on Grey Gull Records and related labels. His last records were made in the early 1940s.

Among Field's most prolific partnerships was the one with band leader and pianist Fred Hall, with whom Fields made plenty of records and co-wrote several songs, often with comic titles like The Shoes We Have Left Are All Right and I Can't Sleep In The Movies Anymore. Hall and Fields also broadcasted together.

Retiring to Florida in 1946 he also worked in radio on WKAT Miami. He suffered a stroke early in 1953 and was killed in a fire at Littlefield Convalescent Home a little later the same year.

External links

Arthur Fields online biography by Tim Gracyk

Song Any Old Place the Gang from archive.org

fields&queryType=@attr 1=1 Arthur Fields cylinder recordings, from the Cylinder Preservation and Digitization Project at the University of California, Santa Barbara Library.