Will E. Dulmage

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Will E. Dulmage (August 17, 1883 – February 11, 1953) was an American lyricist, composer, and music publisher. He was born in Holly, Michigan, and later lived in Detroit with his family. At 25, he began working in the music department at Grinnell Brothers in Detroit, starting as a song plugger and later becoming manager of the Band and Orchestral department. He stayed with Grinnell Brothers for 22 years before moving to the Wurlitzer Company, where he served as an executive in the sheet music department for 12 years; his wife Nina Tallman worked there in accounting. He also played with Geo. & Wm Finzel's Band and Orchestra.

Dulmage often collaborated with lyricist Richard W. Pascoe. Together they wrote songs such as "Tenderly Think of Me" and "When It's Night Time in Nevada," the latter featured in the Roy Rogers film Night Time in Nevada. He also wrote the soundtracks for The Gene Autry Show (1948) and The Black Rider (1950). He published three World War I songs: "Say—You Haven't Sacrificed at All!", "H-O-M-E Spells Where I Long to Be," and "A Laddie in France is Dreaming, Little Girlie, of You."

In the 1940s, Dulmage ran a music store, with his wife as treasurer and his son as a salesman. He joined the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP) in January 1947. He married Nina Bell Tallman, and they had one son. Will E. Dulmage died in Dearborn, Michigan, at age 69.