Charles N. Daniels, best known under his pseudonym Neil Moret, was an American composer born on April 23, 1878, in Leavenworth, Kansas. He published under numerous pen names including Lamonte C. Jones, Sidney Carter, and Jules Lemare. Daniels began composing in the 1890s and achieved early commercial success with the two-step "Margery," which earned the endorsement of John Philip Sousa. His catalog spans popular songs, marches, and fox-trots across four decades of American popular music. His most enduring composition is "She's Funny That Way," featured on AllSolos, which became a widely recorded jazz standard. Other notable works include "You Tell Me Your Dream, I'll Tell You Mine" and "Hiawatha," the latter establishing a template for the Indian song genre in popular music. Daniels frequently collaborated with lyricists Earle C. Jones, Gus Kahn, and Richard Whiting. He also worked as a music publishing executive, contributing to the business side of the early twentieth-century song industry. He died on January 23, 1943, in Los Angeles, California.
