Joseph Hooven(1904-1970)
- Composer
- Soundtrack
Songwriter, composer, trumpeter, author and arranger, educated in high
school and in private music study. He was a trumpeter and arranger for
the Ted Weems orchestra for ten years, and then a staff arranger for
ABC in Chicago and Los Angeles. He arranged for records and television,
joined ASCAP in 1954, and his chief musical collaborators included his
wife Marilyn Hooven, and 'By' Dunham and Jerry Winn. His popular-song
compositions included "Any Way the Wind Blows", "Oh What a Beautiful
Dream", "Baby, Baby, Wait For Me", "La-bou-laya", "Jesse James",
"Little Nathan", "George Washington", "Ben Franklin", "Jim Bowie",
"Billy Budd", and "Cannonball".
