- Pictured on the 3¢ US postage stamp in the Famous Americans/Composers series, issued 13 May 1940.
- The first great figure in American musical theatre, Herbert is famous for his catchy, tuneful operettas, which are neither as Viennese as Sigmund Romberg's or Franz Lehár's nor as American as musicals were later to become in the hands of Jerome Kern, George Gershwin and Richard Rodgers. He wrote the music for such shows as "The Fortune Teller", "The Red Mill", "Naughty Marietta", "Eileen" and "Babes in Toyland". His shows have been neglected for quite a long time and seldom presented in their original forms, although currently (c.1999-) the Ohio Light Opera is reviving many of them and recording them complete for the very first time ever, with all their original orchestrations. None of Herbert's operettas have ever been filmed exactly as he wrote them, although "Naughty Marietta" became a famous Nelson Eddy-Jeanette MacDonald MGM film (Naughty Marietta (1935)), and "Babes in Toyland" was filmed at least twice, once with Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy (March of the Wooden Soldiers (1934)) and once with Ray Bolger and Annette Funicello (Babes in Toyland (1961)). Although Herbert came to seem dreadfully old-fashioned to many, his operetta "The Red Mill" was revived in 1945, and enjoyed an amazingly long run (nearly two years), though the show was then 39 years old and the dialogue was hopelessly outdated.
- Therese Förster, his wife, was a prima donna with the Metropolitan Opera Company.
- Among his most famous songs (music only) and instrumental compositions are "Ah! Sweet Mystery of Life", "Toyland", "March of the Toys", "I Can't Do the Sum", "Italian Street Song", "I'm Falling in Love with Someone", "Tramp, Tramp, Tramp", "'Neath the Southern Moon", and "In Old New York".
- Died of heart failure in his doctor's waiting room.
- A founder of the American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers (ASCAP) in 1914.
- Inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1970.
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