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Abe Olman (December 20, 1887 – January 4, 1984), born Abraham Olshewitz, was an American songwriter and music publisher. He composed a number of successful ragtime and popular songs including Red Onion Rag (1912), Down Among the Sheltering Palms (1915), Oh Johnny, Oh Johnny, Oh! (1917), and Down By the O-Hi-O (1920). He was later director of ASCAP, and a founder of the Songwriters Hall of Fame which, in 1983, named the annual Abe Olman Publisher Award in his honor.