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Songwriter ("There's a Long Long Trail A-Winding" [Joseph Vernon Prize]), composer and author, educated at St. Paul's School, Philip's Academy, Yale University (BA), Trinity College (Cambridge, England), Columbia Law School, the American Conservatory (Fontainebleau, France) and in private music study with Nadia Boulanger, Leonard Bernstein, Robert Zeller, Willy de Sadler, and Harry Wittemore. While at Yale, he wrote musicals. Joining ASCAP in 1940, his chief musical collaborator was Stoddard King, and his other popular-song and instrumental compositions include "Tulips", "British Eighth" (John Masefield lyric), Captain of the Crew", "Wait for Me", "There's a Wee Cottage on a Hillside", "The World Was Made for You and Me", "In the Heart of Paradise", "Enchanted River", "Bluebird", and "Oh! Oh! Abdullah".- Actor
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Famed trumpeter, composer ("And the Angels Sing"), and conductor, a member of the orchestras of Benny Goodman and Tommy Dorsey between 1936 and 1943. He served in the US Army Air Corps during World War II, then rejoined the Dorsey orchestra in 1945 (to 1947). Later he formed his own orchestra, and appeared in films and made many records. Joining ASCAP in 1961, his chief musical collaborator was Johnny Mercer, and his other popular-song compositions include "Forgive My Heart" and "Zaggin With Zig".- Actor
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Songwriter ("Kitten On the Keys", "Stumbling", "Dizzy Fingers"), pianist, composer and author, educated at Chicago Musical College. He served in the US Navy during World War I, and went on to make many piano rolls. He led his own orchestra in vaudeville, night clubs, theatres and on radio. Joining ASCAP in 1922, his other popular-song and instrumental compositions include "Valse Mirage", "Three Little Oddities", "Buffoon", "Grandfather's Clock", and "Sittin' On a Log".- Actor
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Legendary clarinetist, composer ("At the Woodchoppers' Ball"), singer and bandleader (the Thundering Herd(s) ), educated at Marquette University. He was a clarinetist in the orchestras of Joey Lichter, Harry Sosnik, Gus Arnheim, and Indiana Jones, then formed his own orchestra, appearing in hotels, theatres and ballrooms. He toured Europe in 1954, Europe, and Latin America in 1958 (under the auspices of the US State Department), and made many records. Joining ASCAP in 1945, his chief musical collaborators included Chubby Jackson and Ralph Burns, and his other popular-song and instrumental compositions include "Apple Honey", "Goosey Gander", "Northwest Passage", "River Bed Blues", "Blues on Parade", "Blowin' Up a Storm", "Music by the Moon", "Early Autumn", "A Kiss Goodnight", "Your Father's Moustache", "Wild Root", "I Remember Duke", and "Misty Morning".- Writer
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Songwriter ("A Boy Is a Curious Thing"), auhor, director, producer and actor, educated at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts. Between 1928 and 1938 he was a Broadway stage actor and appeared in several films, and from 1938 to 1942 he was a writer for radio, films and stage productions, and later television. Joining ASCAP in 1954, his chief musical collaborators included William Lava, Walter Schumann, Paul Smith, Gill George, Ted Sears, Ralph Wright, and Oliver Wallace. His other popular-song compositions include "I'll Remember", "I Wonder", "Following the Leader", "Stingaree", "Now to Sleep", "Together Time", "Break of Day", and "We'll Smoke the Blighter Out".- Writer
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Songwriter ("I Wonder Who's Kissing Her Now") and author, educaed at the University of Chicago. He wrote special material for vaudeville acts, and for Broadway and Chicago stage shows including "The Land of Nod", "The Time, the Place and The Girl", "The Girl Question", "A Stubborn Cinderella", "The Goddess of Liberty", "The Prince of Tonight", and "A Modern Eve". Joining ASCAP in 1937, his chief musical collaborators included Joe Howard, Frank Adams and Harold Orlob, and his other popular-song compositions include "Blow the Smoke Away", "I Don't Like Your Family", "What's the Use of Dreaming?", "When You First Kiss the Last Girl You Love", "Be Sweet to Me, Kid", "Tonight Will Never Come Again", "Honeymoon", and "Cross Your Heart".- Music Department
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Composer, conductor, noted percussionist and teacher, educated at Columbia University (Bachelor/Master of Arts, Seidl Fellowship), and a student of Otto Luening, Vladimir Ussachevsky, Jack Beeson and Henry Cowell, and also with Boris Orr at Cambridge University in England. He organized and directed the Los Angeles Percussion Ensemble, and he was timpani soloist for the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra and on the faculty of USC as well as a member of the International Society of Contemporary Music and, since 1962, a member of ASCAP.- Writer
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Composer, songwriter and pianist, educated in high school and a music student of Samuel Jospe, Milan Blanchet and Edward Kilenyi. Hewas a pianist for music publishers, then served with the French Ambulance Service during World War I. He wrote the Broadway stage scores for "Elsie Janis and Her Gang" and "Hello". Joining ASCAP in 1921, his chief musical collaborator was Dorothy Donnelly, and his popular-song compositions include "Smile, Legionnaire", "The Latin Quarter", "Sally of My Dreams", "A Pair of Blue Eyes", "The Village Belle", "Steppin' Along", "Beware of Love", and "Can't Get Along Without You".- Author, lyricist and composer. He served in the US Army during World War II, and wrote and produced operas for children for Classic Records. He was a librettist for children's records, and wrote songs for Golden Records productions of 'Huckleberry Hound' and 'Popeye the Sailor Man'. Joining ASCAP in 1955, his chief collaborator was Irving Schlein, and his popular-song compositions included "Hawaiian Sunset" and "Gotta See a Dream About a Girl".
- Songwriter ("And the Green Grass Grew All Around"), singer, actor and author, a charter member of ASCAP (1914) and one of its directors (1914-1925). He appeared in minstrel shows and later became a music publisher. His wife was Maude Nugent Jerome. His Broadway stage scores include "Piff! Paff! Pouf!", "Lifting the Lid", "The Ham Tree" and "Up and Down Broadway". His chief musical collaborators included "Walter Donaldson', Louis Hirsch, Jean Schwartz, Harry Tierney, and 'Harry Von Tilzer', and his other popular-song compositions include "Chinatown My Chinatown", "Get Out and Get Under the Moon", "Bedelia", "Row Row Row", "Mr. Dooley", "My Pearl Is a Bowery Girl", "Picture Me Down in Tennessee", "On the Old Fall River Line", "Old King Tut", and "That Old Irish Mother of Mine".
- William Dixon, an attorney for the Attorney General's Antitrust Division in the US Department of Justice, was the last living member of the government's prosecution in the National City Lines scandal of the late 1940s. Dixon was chief assistant in the trial section of the antitrust division in 1945, chief of the West Coast offices in 1946, and chief of the Los Angeles office in 1948. He was admitted to practice before the United States Supreme Court, and returned to private practice in 1954 in Los Angeles, later to become assistant Attorney General for antitrust enforcement in California from 1959 to 1963.
- Singer, composer, guitarist, arranger and author, educated at Ohio Wesleyan University. He was a guitarist and arranger with The Stuarts, played in a band during World War II, and in 1960 he joined the Four Freshmen, and ASCAP. His popular-song compositions include "Lonely for My Love", "I'm in the Middle", "Oh Lonely Winter", and "Chelsea Bridge".
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Composer and conductor, educated at DeWitt Clinton High School, and in private music study in Berlin. He was the assistant conductor at the Hammerstein Grand Opera Company in New York, and conducted for Emma Trentini between 1914-1918. He was musical director at the Capitol Theatre in New York, and later headed the music department at MGM. He joined ASCAP in 1924.- Director
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Entering the film industry at age 13, Will Jason performed a variety of jobs, including scoring several films, before turning to directing. His output was mostly routine, consisting of low-budget horror movies, light comedies and an "Arabian Nights" adventure or two. Unlike many B directors, though, Jason often produced his own films. He was the brother of director Leigh Jason.- Soundtrack
Songwriter, composer and conductor, educated at Juilliard and in private music study. He was a dance-band arranger, and led a band with Eddie DeLange between 1936 and 1938, later conducting his own band in 1939 and 1940. Later, he arranged scores for music publishers. During World War II, he served in the United States Army Air Force. Joining ASCAP in 1935, his popular-music compositions include "Moonglow", "Tormented", "Sophisticated Swing", "Organ Grinder's Swing", "Mr. Ghost Goes to Town", "White Heat", "Jazznochracy", "Hocus Pocus", "Devil's Kitchen", "You're Not the Kind", and "Witch Doctor".- Music Department
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Songwriter ("Lemon Tree", "Those Were the Days", "One of Those Songs"), composer, singer, guitarist, director and producer, educated at Phillips Exeter Academy, Williams College and the Richard Dyer Bennett School of Minstrelsy. He was a singer and guitarist in nightclubs, toured for Columbia Concerts and, eventually, co-founded St. Louis' Crystal Palace. He wrote, produced and appeared in the off-Broadway revue "Signs Along the Cynic Route", directed and appeared in "The World of Kurt Weill in Song", and he directed "Leonard Bernstein's Theatre Songs". Joining ASCAP in 1959, his other popular-song compositions include "Sinner Man", "Raspberries, Strawberries", "Daddy, Roll 'Em", "The Pergola", "Till the Birds Sing in the Morning", "Watching the World Go By", "Adieu, Madras", "Days of the Waltz", "Luv" and "Marieke".- Songwriter ("Holding Hands"), composer and publisher, educated in high school and in private music study. He was a staff member and later an executive of a Detriot, Michigan publishing company. Joining ASCAP in 1946, his other popular-song compositions include "When It's Night Time in Nevada", "Faded Love Letters", "On the Highway to Galilee", "Golden City", and "Tenderly Think of Me".
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Songwriter ("Sunbonnet Sue", "School Days", "Waltz Me Around Again Willie"), and author, educated at Girard College. He was a department-store salesman before becoming a songwriter. Joining ASCAP in 1927, his chief musical collaborator was Gus Edwards. His other popular-song compositions include "Yip-I-Addy-I-Ay", "The Little Red School House", "I Can't Tell Why I Love You But I Do", "Goodbye Little Girl, Goodbye", "I Just Can't Make My Eyes Behave", "Goodbye Dolly Gray", "I'll Be With You When the Roses Bloom Again", "Way Down Yonder in the Cornfield", "In Zanzibar", "If a Girl Like You Loved a Boy Like Me", and "Laddie Boy".- Composer
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Conductor, composer and songwriter, a music student of Frederick Converse and holder of an honorary Mus. D. from Dartmouth College and a Prix de Rome from The American Academy in Rome. He was associate conductor (with Arturo Toscanini) of the New York Philharmonic in 1934, and conducted symphony orchestras throughout the world. In 1940, he founded the Janssen Symphony in Los Angeles, which he conducted. He also conducted the Baltimore Symphony between 1937 and 1939, the Utah Symphony between 1946-1947, the Portland Symphony between 1947 and 1949, the San Diego Philharmonic between 1952 and 1954, the Symphony of the Air Orchestra in 1956, the Toronto Symphony in 1956 and 1957, and the Belgrade Philharmonic and Vienna State Opera Orchestra between 1959 and 1961. He was a Fellow of the American Academy in Rome, and a Knight First Class of the Order White Rose in Finland. He also made many records. Joining ASCAP in 1922, his popular-song compositions include "Wisdom Tooth", "Without the One You Love", "At the Fireplace", and "Falling Leaves".- Soundtrack
Songwriter ("It Ain't Gonna Rain No Mo'"), composer, singer, ukelele player and author, educated at the Chicago Preparatory School. He served in the military during World war I, then sang and played ukulele on radio from 1922, known as the "Red-Headed Music Maker". He made a worldwide radio tour between 1924 and 1927, became broadcasting director for the CBS "Majestic Theatre of the Air" in 1929, and was a featured performer on the NBC "Fitch Band Wagon" between 1932 and 1935. Thereafter he was the song leader on the "Original Community Sing" over CBS in 1936 and 1937. From 1941 through 1948 he was an advertising executive with Adsongs. Joining ASCAP in 1934, his chief musical collaborators included Haven Gillespie, Carson Robison, Harry Woods, and Peter De Rose; his other popular-song compositions include "Will You Forget Me While I'm Away?", "Underneath the Mellow Moon", "Land of My Sunset Dreams", "My Carolina Rose", "Whispering Trees", "Your Shining Eyes", "My Dream Sweetheart", and "Miss American Legion". (He also wrote children's tunes.)- Actor
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Conductor, composer and clarinetist, educated at Valparaiso University. He played professional football and was an insurance salesman and an auto and railroad mechanic. His musical career began when he played clarinet for the Del Lampe Orchestra, eventually leading his own orchestra for nine years at Chicago's Aragon Ballroom. Later, his orchestra toured. Joining ASCAP in 1933, his popular-song compositions include "Josephine", "Annabelle", "That Little Boy of Mine", "Baby Shoes", "Blue Hours", "With You Beside Me", "So Close to Me", "I'd Give My Kingdom for a Smile", "Beautiful Love", and his theme "The Waltz You Saved for Me".- Music Department
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Composer, songwriter ("I'll be Home for Christmas", "The White Cliffs of Dover", "I'm Gonna Live Till I Die") and architect, educated at Townsend Harris Hall, Juilliard (on scholarship), at City College of New York, and in private music study with Leopold Auer and Samuel Gardner. He was a practising architect and conducted his own orchestra on radio and in theatres. Coming to Hollywood in 1943 as a freelance architect, he also wrote the stage score for "Seventeen". Joining ASCAP in 1934, his other popular-song compositions include "Puleeze, Mr. Hemingway", "I Never Mention Your Name", "Too Much in Love", "Apple Blossoms and Chapel Bells", "I Cross My Fingers", "After All It's Spring", and "Never a Dream Goes By".- Music Department
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Songwriter ("'Deed I Do", "Marie", "Save the Last Dance for Me"). He joined ASCAO in 1921, and his chief musical collaborators were Spencer Williams, Al Goering, Frank Magine and Fred Rose. His other popular-song compositions include "Holding My Honey's Hand", "If It's Good (Then I Want It)", "That Little Boy of Mine", "Who's Your Little Whoosis", "Carolina Sunshine", and "Lullaby in Rhythm".- Music Department
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Songwriter ("Tenderly"), composer, pianist, conductor, author and publisher, educated in high school and in private music study. At age ten, he gave his first piano recital, and later he was a pianist with the orchestras of Paul Whiteman, Andre Kostelanetz and Tommy Dorsey in concert and on radio. He served in the US Army during World War II and conducted radio programs for the ATC. Later he became the music director for CBS and Musicraft records, and for Gordon MacRae, Sarah Vaughn, Mel Torme, Frank Sinatra and Buddy Clark, and was president of Interlude Music. Joining ASCAP in 1943, his chief musical collaborators were Jack Lawrence, Carl Sigman, Ned Washington, Raymond Klages and Bobby Troup. His other popular-song and instrumental compositions include "Your Love", "To Be Worthy of You", "I'm In a Fog About You", "Just a Moon Ago", "Improvisation in Several Keys", "Creepy Weepy", "A Slight Case of Ivory", "Please Remember", "How Will I Remember You?", and "Mexican Moon".- Music Department
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Conductor, author, and music director for the Voice of America (1940-1947), educated at the University of Munich (Ph.D), and holder of a conducting diploma from the Academy of Vienna. He came to the USA in 1939, and conducted the Charles Wagner Opera Company between 1940 and 1947. During World War II, he served in the US Army, and was awarded a Bronze Star and five Battle Stars. In 1953 he began conducting the Opera Theatre at the University of Southern California, and conducted the University Symphony since 1958. He moved to Austin, Texas with his wife Gina in the fall of 1968 and headed up the Opera Theatre at The University of Texas.- Soundtrack
Songwriter ("Aba Daba Honeymoon", "Then You'll Come Back to Me", "One Dozen Roses"), composer and pianist, educated in public schools and then a member of a vaudeville piano and vocal act. He was a professional manager of music publishing firms, and joined ASCAP in 1942, collaborating musically with Dick Jergens, Don Bestor, Roger Lewis, and Country Washburne. His other popular-song compositions include "I Thank You", "Say With Your Lips", "Down by the Winegar Woiks", "Gila Galah Galoo", "Deeply in Love", "Sad", "Somebody Sweet Is Sweet on Me", "Arizona Mary", "Perfume of Roses", and "Angel".- Music Department
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Composer, songwriter ("Yes, Sir, That's My Baby", "My Buddy", "My Mammy", "My Blue Heaven", "Makin' Whoopie"), author, pianist and publisher, educated in public schools and then a worker in a Wall Street brokerage firm, becoming a pianist for a music publishing firm. During World War I, he entertained at Camp Upton in New York, and then joined the staff of Irving Berlin Music Company, later co-founding Donaldson, Douglas & Gumble in 1928. He wrote the Broadway stage scores for "Sweetheart Time" and "Whoopee", then came to Hollywood in 1929. Joining ASCAP in 1921, his chief musical collaborators included Sam Lewis, Edgar Leslie, Joe Young, Gus Kahn, Harold Adamson and Johnny Mercer. His other popular-song compositions include "The Daughter of Rosie O'Grady", "Back Home in Tennessee", "Don't Cry, Frenchy, Don't Cry", "On the Gin Gin Ginny Shore", "How Ya Gonna Keep 'Em Down on the Farm?", "You're a Million Miles from Nowhere", "Carolina in the Morning", "Beside a Babbling Brook", "Down by the Winegar Woiks", "That Certain Party", "I Wonder Where My Baby Is Tonight", "Let's Talk About My Sweetie", "At Sundown", "Sam, the Old Accodion Man", "Just Like a Melody Out of the Sky", "I'm Bringing a Red, Red Rose", "Makin' Whoopie", "My Blackbirds Are Bluebirds Now", "Love Me or Leave Me", "Kansas City Kitty", "Changes", "My Baby Just Cares for Me", "'Taint No Sin", "Little White Lies", "You're Driving Me Crazy", "Lazy Lou'siana Moon", "Hello, Beautiful", "My Mom", "An Earful of Music", "Did I Remember?", "Could Be", "It's Been So Long", "You", "You Never Looked So Beautiful Before", "Cuckoo in the Clock" and "Mister Meadowlark".- Actor
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Legendary conductor, composer, author, producer, pianist and educator who arrived in the USA in 1871. He was educated in New York public schools and studied music with his father Leopold Damrosch, Rischbeiter, Urspruch, and Von Bulow. He was awarded honorary degrees from New York University, Princeton University, Columbia University, the University of Pennsylvania, Brown University, New York State University, and Washington & Jefferson College. He was accompanist to August Wilhelmj on his US tour, and permanent conductor of the Newark Harmonic Society. Succeeding his father as Wagnerian director for the Metropolitan Opera (1885-1891), he also conducted the New York Symphony and the Oratorio Society of New York, and produced a series of Wagner operas at Carnegie Hall in 1893-1894. In 1895 he organized the damrosch Grand opera Company, became staff conductor of the Metropolitan Opera in 1900, and reorganized the New York Symphony in 1903, which he continued to direct until 1927. During that year, he became a music counsel for NBC, and conducted a series of broadcasts. Also in 1927 (until 1929) he became president of the National Institute of Arts and Letters, and from 1940-1948 he was president of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. During World War II, he founded a school for bandmasters at Fontainebleau, France.- Writer
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Songwriter ("Someday You'll Find Your Bluebird"), composer and author, educated at DePauw University (BA). He joined ASCAP in 1936, and his chief musical collaborators included Harold Spina, Alfred Newman, Richard Whiting, and Abraham Ellstein. His song compositions include "I Still Love to Kiss You Goodnight", "I'd Like to See Samoa of Samoa", "This Is Where I Came In", "This Is a Happy Little Ditty", "I Love to Walk in the Rain", "Song of the Musketeers", "The You and Me that Used to Be", and "When Did You Leave Heaven?".- Producer
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Producer and author, educated at the University of Pittsburgh. He managed the Warner Brothers theatre chain, organized the Pittsburgh Playhouse, did disc-jockey and radio-announcing duties (including working as a commentator), and created and produced a number of television and radio shows. Also, he was an American program consultant for ABC-TV in England between 1959 and 1961 and joined ASCAP in 1954.- Producer
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Composer, songwriter ("Look Homeward Angel", "Good Luck Charm", "Sweet Bird of Youth"), author and saxophonist, educated at Boston University (Bachelor of Science degree). He was a saxophonist in dance orchestras, and a member of the US Navy Band during World War II. Later he formed The Four Esquires vocal quartet, singing in night clubs and on records and television. He was a manager for Arch Music and vice-president of Aaron Schroeder Music Company. Joining ASCAP in 959, his chief musical collaborator was Aaron Schroeder. His other popular-song compositions include "It's Now or Never", "In Your Arms", "Lucky Devil", "Twixt Twelve and Twenty", "Time and the River", "Because They're Young", "Utopia", "Hither and Thither and Yon", "She Can't Find Her Keys", "Half Heaven - Half Heartache", "It's My Party", and "Fools Hall of Fame".- Composer
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Composer ("The Maxwell House Coffee Pot"), trumpeter and arranger, educated at the University of North Carolina, and a trumpeter and arranger for bands including those of Charlie Barnet, Les Elgart, and George Olsen. He also composed songs and jingles for advertising agencies, such as the well-known instrumental tune above. He joined ASCAP in 1956, and his chief musical collaborators included Kay Lande and Lloyd Marx.- Actor
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Composer, author, pianist and songwriter, educated at Mount Union College and the Philadelphia Music School, also in private music study. In 1937 he announced at WHBC in Canton, Ohio, then became production manager. In 1939 he announced at WTAM in Cleveland, Ohio. From 1943 to 1962 he was the sales manager for RCA Recorded Program Services and General Teleradio Film Division, and vice-president of sales for Bonded TV Film Services. Between 1962-1964 he was a consultant to the Ringling Brothers Circus. He composed the scores and was assistant film producer for the National Science Foundation exhibit at the 1964 New York World's Fair. He directed special projects for the National Association for Retarded Children, and he composed the TV score for "Quillow and the Giant". Joining ASCAP in 1963, his chief musical collaborator was Ralph Blane. His popular-song compositions include "How Many Stars?"; "I Believe in Me"; "No Such Word as Can't"; "I Believe in Something"; and "Nothing Is the Hardest Thing In the World to Do".- Writer
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Author, poet and composer, educated at Oxford University, and a US citizen in 1946. He co-authored the verse plays: "The Dog Beneath the Skin", "The Ascent of F6", and "On the Frontier". His poetry volumes include: "Double Man". "The Shield of Achilles" (National Book Award), "For the Time Being"' "Collected Shorter Poems", and "The Age of Anxiety" (Pulitzer Prize, 1948). He authored "Spain", and co-authored "Education, Today and Tomorrow", plus he co-edited "Poet's Tongue". His awards include Bollingen, Alexander Droutsky, and Guinness. He joined ASCAP in 1958, and collaborated musically with Igor Stravinsky. His musical works include "On This Island" (poems set to music), and the opera "The Rakes Progress".- Music Department
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Songwriter ("Beyond the Blue Horizon", "Sing You Sinners"), composer and conductor, educated at the Grace Church Choir School in New York and the London Academy of Music. He was also a music student of Theodore Ysaye. His career included being chief organist at the Church of the Resurrecion in Brussels (1907-1908). For the stage, he wrote incidental music for the plays "Machinal", "Deep River", "Paris Bound", "Outward Bound", "In Love With Love", and "The Outsider". Joining ASCAP in 1926, his chief musical collaborators were Leo Robin, Richard Whiting, and Sam Coslow. His other popular-song compositions include "West Point Forever" (the official march), "The Corps" (the West Point hymn), "Where Was I?", "Always in All Ways", and Give Me a Moment, Please".- Songwriter ("Heart of Stone"), composer, conductor, pianist, arranger and author. After college, he led his own orchestra, and also conducted orchestras in silent-film theatres. Later he played piano in jazz bands, also on recordings. He also arranged for the orchesras of Benny Goodman, Cab Calloway, and Duke Ellington. Joining ASCAP in 1934, his chief musical collaborators included Fats Waller, 'Irving Mills", 'Clarence Williams', and others. His other popular-song compositions include "I'm Crazy 'Bout My Baby", "Dixie Lee", "Delta Bound", "Armful o' Sweetness", "Let's Have a Jubilee", "Shout, Sister, Shout", "Long About Midnight", "Draggin' My Poor Heart Around", "Our Love Was Meant to Be", "When Hannah Plays Piano", "A Song", "Devil in the Moon", and "He Wouldn't Stop Doin' It".
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Composer, conductor, pianist and arranger. He came to the USA in 1921 and joined ASCAP in 1962. He was educated at the St. Petersburg Conservatory, and accompanied Feodor Chaliapin Sr. on a tour of Russia. In the USA, he conducted the orchestra at the Schenley Theatre in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and arranged for The Don Cossack Chorus, eventually forming and conducting the Heifetz Singers, which appeared on radio during a US tour in 1935 and at an Israeli festival in 1952, ten years before joining ASCAP in 1962. Heifetz also accompanied Cantor's Concert Ensemble, and arranged for films, radio and television.- Actress
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Composer, songwriter ("Rememb'ring") and entertainer, one of The Duncan Sisters. She played Eva in the Broadway musical "Topsy and Eva", for which she and her sister Rosetta wrote songs. With her sister, she also appeared in "Doing Our Bit", "She's a Good Fellow", and "Tip Top", and also in vaudeville. Joining ASCAP in 1942, her other popular-song compositions include "Do Re Mi", "I Never Had a Mammy", "The Moon Am Shinin'", "Someday Soon", "Los Angeles", "Hollywood Belongs to the World", and "United We Stand".- Actress
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Singer, composer and author, educated in public schools and a singer with the orchestras of Charlie Barnet, Tony Pastor and Ziggy Elman, and with the Modernaires. She appeared on television, in night clubs and on records. Joining ASCAP in 1964, her chief musical collaborator was her husband, Matt Dennis, and her popular-song compositions include "We've Reached the Point of No Return", "Snuggle Up, Baby", and "You Can Believe Me".- Actress
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Actress, soprano, composer and author who appeared in films in 1939 and 1940. She sang with the American Musical Theatre in Pasadena, California, and formed her own opera company in New York in 1950, touring the United States and Canada. She sang with the New Opera Company and the NBC Opera Company on television, and also in Broadway musicals, operettas, music circuses, and the Chicago "Theatre of the Air".- Writer
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Composer, songwriter ("I Love Coffee I Love Tea", author, publisher and advertising executive, educated at Cleveland Prep. He originated the "March of Dimes" and "Command Performance" (Armed Forces Radio Service) radio series, and in World War II served as a sergeant in the US Army and a lieutenant in Germany. He was the president of an advertising agency and a member of the OBE (military division), the Screen Writers' Guild, and the British-American Fellowship. Joining ASCAP in 1940, his chief musical collaborators included Henry Russell, Walter Schumann, Johnny Lange and Lew Porter, and his other popular-song compositions include "Junior Miss", "Halls of Ivy", "Drink, Drink, Drink", "Tom, Tom, the Piper's Son", "Are You Listenin', Joe?", "Melancholy Mood", "I Walk Alone", "The Only Thing I Want for Christmas", "A Moment in Sorrento", "Send Me", and "Vict'ry Train".- Music Department
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Composer and guitarist, educated at the University of Madrid. He came to the United States in 1937 and became a US citizen in 1943. Since he was thirteen, he performed in concerts throughout Spain, North Africa, Europe, Cuba, Mexico, and Venezuela. Joining ASCAP in 1945, his popular instrumental compositions include "Granada Arabe", "Cancion de la Primavera", "Lamento Gitano", "Melody of Spain", "El Albaicin", "Carnival in Spain", "La Farruca", and "Alegrias".- Music Department
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Composer, songwriter ("April in Paris", "Autumn in New York", "I Can't Get Started"), author and pianist, educated at the Kiev Conservatory (which he entered at age thirteen) and a music student of Reinhold Gliere and Marian Dombrovsky. He had composed ballets for Diaghilev's Ballet Russe, but he fled Russia after the revolution. He composed the London stage scoes for "Yvonne" and "The Yellow Mask" and, after coming to New York in 1929, the Broadway stage scores for "Walk a Little Faster, "Ziegfeld Follies" (1934, 1936), "Cabin in the Sky", "Banjo Eyes", "Sadie Thompson", "Two's Company", "It Happens on Ice", "The Littlest Revue" (off-Broadway), the stage background score for "Time Remembered", and also "Zenda", in Los Angeles. He wrote songs for Broadway revues, including "Garrick Gaieties" (1930), "Thumbs Up!", and "The Show Is On", and he completed the score for "The Goldwyn Follies" after George Gershwin's death. During World War II, he was a Lieutenant Commander in the US Coast Guard which helped to inspire themes for his work on "Tars and Spars". He founded the Society for Forgotten Music, and served as its president. His autobiography is "Listen Here!". Joining ASCAP in 1934, his chief musical collaborators included E.Y. Harburg, Ira Gershwin, Ogden Nash, Howard Dietz, and John Latouche. His other popular-song compositions include "I Am Only Human After All", "Too Too Divine", "That's Life", "Speaking of Love", "So Nonchalant", "Water Under the Bridge", "I Like the Likes of You", "Suddenly", "What Is There to Say?", "Island in the West Indies", "Words Without Music", "Now", "Taking a Chance on Love", "Do What You Wanna Do", "Love Turned the Light Out", "Honey in the Honeycomb", "Cabin in the Sky", "We're Having a Baby", "Not a Care in the World", "Summer Is A-Comin' In", "The Love I Long For", "The Sea-Gull and the Ea-Gull", "Spring Again", "Roundabout", "Out of the Clear Blue Sky", "Just Like a Man", "That's What Makes Paris Paree", "London in July", "Good Little Girls", "You're Far from Wonderful", and "Madly in Love".- Songwriter ("Mockin' Bird Hill", "Choo Choo Ch'Boogie"), composer, singer and author, educated at Pennsylvania State College. He was a country-and-western entertainer, and made many radio appearances, later producing and directing records. Joining ASCAP in 1945, his other popular-song compositions include "I Think I'm Gonna Cry Again", "I Wish I Hadn't Told a Lie", "Address Unknown", "Tear Drops in My Heart", "Just a Few Little Miles from Home", "Juke Joint Mama", "Hoe Cake, Hominy and Sassafras Tea", "Sierra Serenade", "Toolie Oolie Doolie", "Come What May", "Sugar Foot Rag", "Charlie Was a Boxer", "Hillbilly Fever", "Barroom Polka", "Till the End of the World", "Air the Sunshine and the Roses", "An Old Christmas Card", and "Metro Polka".
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Composer, bandleader, conductor, and author Van Alexander was educated at Columbia University, then formed his own orchestra playing in theatres and on radio, later arranging and conducting for radio. He was the chief conductor and arranger for Gordon MacRae and Sheila MacRae. His chief musical collaborator was Ella Fitzgerald, and he made many records. He joined ASCAP in 1941 and his popular song works include "I'll Close My Eyes", 'A-Tisket, A-Tasket", "Where, O Where Has My Little Dog Gone?", "Got A Pebble In My Shoe", "Bouillya Baise", and "There's A Ship Comin' In".- Writer
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Songwriter ("Penthouse Serenade [When We're Alone], "Josephine")", composer, producer, screenwriter and author, educated at the Oundie School. He produced the Royal Air Force concert party "The Stunters" during World War I, and wrote musical revues for C.B. Cochran. He wrote the popular "Henry Aldrich" radio scripts. Joining ASCAP in 1921, he collaborated musically with Will Jason, and his other popular song compositions include "The Big Bad Wolf Is Dead", "Waiting for the Springtime", "You Alone", "The Day I Met You", "If It Isn't Love", "Some Day Soon", and "Singing a Vagabond Song".- Music Department
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Prolific trombonist, conductor, songwriter and composer. He was a trombonist in the orchestras of Benny Goodman, Bob Strong, Gene Krupa, Tommy Reynolds, Jan Savitt, Frankie Carle, and Woody Herman, and led his own band in which he also soloed. Urbie Green has made many records with his orchestra as well. Joining ASCAP in 1963, his instrumental compositions include "Sentimental Blues" and "The Poor Soul".- Tyrone DeNittis ran the Tyrones, a popular Philadelphia group that recorded a number of hit songs including "Blast Off" and "I'm Shook." Sponsored in part by Bill Haley, the Tyrones recorded a number of Haley/Comets-written songs. It is also believed that several Comets including Franny Beecher took part in the recording sessions, which were later "cleaned up" by Comets Johnny Grande and Billy Williamson. DeNittis' brother, Al Dean, later joined the Comets briefly as sax player in 1960. Several Tyrones classics were used a few years ago on the soundtrack of the animated film The Iron Giant (1999).
Tyrone DeNittis later became the owner of a South Philadelphia talent agency which booked acts at various clubs and bars in Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Delaware. Harry Riccobene, a powerful, old-time Mafia member, was using the talent agency business as a front for his gambling and loan-sharking business. DeNittis also acted as Atlantic City mobster Nicodemo "Little Nicky" Scarfo's front man in a video jukebox business in New Jersey in the early '80s. - Actress
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Composer and pianist who has made many records, she was educated at the Music Academy of Dairen and the Berklee School of Music (the latter on scholarship). She studied with Margaret Chaloff. She was piano soloist with the Japan Philharmonic, and a pianist in dance bands from 1948, forming the Toshiko-Mariano Quartet with her husband Charles Mariano. Her compositions include "A Jazz Suite for Strings, Woodwinds" (which received the Mademoiselle Award); "My Elegy"; and "Silhouette". Her popular songs include "Long Yellow Road" and "Between Me and Myself".- Camera and Electrical Department
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Composer, singer, songwriter and author, educated in high school and then a singer in night clubs and on radio. During World War II he worked in a shipyard, and then owned and operated a restaurant, and he also worked as a sales manager and real estate broker. Joining ASCAP in 1963, his popular-song compositions include "Mine Is the Broken Heart" and "Mariuch".