Charles Tobias

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Charles Tobias (August 15, 1898 – July 7, 1970) was an American songwriter. He started his musical career in vaudeville. In 1923, he founded his own music publishing firm and worked on Tin Pan Alley. Tobias referred to himself as "the boy who writes the songs you sing".

His credits include "Merrily We Roll Along", "Rose O'Day", "Those Lazy-Hazy-Crazy Days of Summer", "Comes Love", and "Don't Sit Under the Apple Tree (With Anyone Else but Me)". With frequent collaborators Al Sherman and Howard Johnson he wrote "Dew-Dew-Dewey Day".