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Songwriter ("Runnin' Wild"), composer, conductor and pianist, educated in high school in Atlantic City, New Jersey. In 1913 he came to New York where he was a pianist in dance orchestras. During World War I he served in the Allied Expeditionary Force, and by 1923 he was leading his own orchestra, eventually touring Europe in 1929 and 1930. Later he was half of a two-piano team in night clubs. Joining ASCAP in 1937, his other popular-song compositions include "Rocky Road", "How Can You Tell", "You Bet" and "I Got the Fever".- Music Department
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Aaron Copland is an Academy Award-winning composer (The Heiress (1949)), author, conductor, lecturer and educator. He was educated at public schools and was a music student of his sister and later Leopold Wolfson, Victor Wittgenstein, Clarence Adler, Rubin Goldmark and Nadia Boulanger. In 1925, he received the first Guggenheim fellowship awarded to a composer. He was a lecturer for ten years at the New School for Social Research, a guest lecturer at Harvard University between 1935 and 1944, and Dean of the Berkshire Music Center at Tanglewood from 1946. With Roger Sessions, he organized the Copland-Sessions concert series for young American composers, and he founded the American Festival of Contemporary Music, Yaddo, Saratoga Springs, New York. He was a conductor in the United States and abroad. As a guest conductor for the Boston Symphony, he toured with Charles Münch throughout the Far East in 1960. His memberships included the National Institute of Arts and Letters and the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He was awarded the Edward MacDowell Medal, and the US Medal of Freedom.- Actor
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Composer, songwriter ("Tropicana"), conductor, arranger, pianist and engineer, educated at USC and the Colleges of Music and Engineering. He conduced his own orchestra at the Beverly Hiils (California) Hotel for twelve years, and also conducted other orchestras in various hotels and night clubs. In addition, he was a design engineer for North American Aviation. Joining ASCAP in 1952, his other popular-song compositions include "Muchachita", "Memories Set to Music", "Two Shadows in the Moonlight", and "El Marranito".- Producer
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Songwriter, composer, writer, panelist, director, singer and pianist, educated at City College of New York and New York University. He began his writing career as a script writer for "Duffy's Taven" on radio, and later, the Rudy Vallee program. He sang in his own radio shows , in night clubs, and on television. He wrote the Broadway librettos for "Guys and Dolls" and received a Tony award and a New York Drama Critics award in 1951), and also directed "Happy Hunting", "Silk Stockings", "First Impressions", "Can-Can", "Say, Darling", and "How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying" (earning a Pulizer Prize and a Tony and New York Drama Critics awards). He directed "Two on the Aisle", "Reclining Figure", "The Golden Fleecing", and "What Makes Sammy Run?". He was also the playwright and director of "Cactus Flower". Joining ASCAP in 1952, he composed the popular songs "The Girl With the Three Blue Eyes" and "Leave Us Face It, We're in Love", and authored "The Abe Burrows Song Book".- Composer
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Composer, conductor and pianist, educated at the Third Street Settlement, the Manhattan School of Music, and Juilliard (on scholarship); a student of Frederic Jacobi, Rubin Goldmark, and Albert Stoessel. He was a member of the Metropolitan Opera's Children's Chorus between 1916 and 1920 and sang in the John Barrymore production "Richard III". He toured the world as accompanist to cantor Joseph Rosenblatt, and composed operettas for the Yiddish Theater. He also composed the Broadway stage score for "Great To Be Alive" and worked in radio as music director for WMGM in New York and program host over WEVD in New York between 1951 and 1963. He also was the music director for the Advertisers Broadcasting Company. Joining ASCAP in 1958, his chief musical collaborators included Walter Bullock, Molly Picon, Jacob Jacobs, and Samuel Rosenbaum.- Soundtrack
Composer, educated at the New York Conservatory. He was a staff arranger, composer, and manager for the orchestra department of music-publishing firms, and advertising manager for the 'International Musician'. Joining ASCAP in 1923, his song and instrumental compositions include "Smoky Mokes Cake Walk", "The Whip", "Loveland Waltzes", "First Love Waltz", "Symphia Waltz", "Blaze Away", "The Spirit of Independence", and "Old Faithful".- Music Department
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Composer, songwriter ("There Are Such Things", "My Mother's Eyes"), pianist and author, educated at the College of Physicians and Surgeons, giving up dentistry to join a NY music publisher in 1920. He accompanied Nora Bayes, and came to Hollywood in 1929 to write songs for sound films. In 1955 he managed a show sponsored by ASCAP (which he had joined in 1929) and the USO, touring Germany for the Armed Forces. He wrote the Broadway stage score for "Lady Do". His chief musical collaborators were L. Wolfe Gilbert, Stanley Adams, Cliff Friend, Sam Lewis, and Mabel Wayne. His other popular-song compositions include: "June Night"; "Gee, But You're Swell"; "I Miss My Swiss"; "Don't Wait 'Til the Night Before Christmas"; "Lucky Lindy"; "It's the Girl"; "Am I To Blame?'; "Mama Loves Papa"; "Blue Hoosier Blues"; "Garden in Granada"; "When the One You Love, Loves You"; "Don't Wake Me Up, Let Me Dream"; "The Night When Love Was Born"; "Chapel of the Roses"; "Harriet"; and "I'm Sitting Pretty".- Actor
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Editor and theatrical trade reporter ('Variety'), songwriter, composer, editor, author and producer. He organized theatrical news coverage of European and South American capitols, and edited Variey since 1933. He co-authored and produced the Philco-Variety Hall of Fame. Joining ASCAP in 1952, his chief musical collaborators were Jesse Greer, Pat Ballard, Fletcher Henderson and Al Stillman. His popular-song compositions include "Variety Stomp", "Variey Is the Spice of Life", "Who's Who Are You?", "Encore", "Humming Waters" and "Blue Baby".- Music Department
Composer, author, pianist, teacher and radio executive, educated at the Ethical Culture School and Columbia University, and scholarships to Juilliard and the Curtis Institute. He studied music with Hutcheson, Godowsky, Hofmann, and Goldmark. He was a concert pianist from 1927 to 1947, appearing in recitals and as a soloist with orchestras in the USA and Europe, and making records. He was a music consultant for the University of Pennsylvania in 1934 and 1935, lectured at universities, and had his own radio series between 1932-1939. He was on the faculties on the Curtis Institute (1926-1935) and the Berkshire Music Center (1940-41). He was the music director at WQXR (NY) between 1943 and 1965.- Composer, pianist and arranger, educated at the Warsaw Conservatory and the Royal Prussian Academy in Berlin. He also studied music under Michalowski. He concerized throughout Europe, and founded the First Piano Quartet in the United States in 1941. Joining ASCAP in 1964, he composed the popular instrumental, "The Wrong Note Polka".
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Composer, songwriter ("Sleep"), conductor, organist, teacher and publisher. Adam Geibel came to the United States and was educated at the Pennsylvania Institute for the Blind in Philadelphia (where he later would teach piano, violin, harmony and composition over a seventeen-year career). He studied music with David Wood and earned an honorary Music Degree from Temple University. Between 1885 and 1925 he was chief organist for the John Stetson Mission Sunday School, and he founded a publishing company. Joining ASCAP, his chief musical collaborators included Earl Burtnett and Richard Buck, and his other popular-song and sacred compositions include "Kentucky Babe", "Evening Bells", "The Nativity", "The Incarnation", "Light Out of Darkness", "Stand Up, Stand Up for Jesus", "Some Day He'll Make It Plain", and "Let the Gospel Light Shine Out".- Writer
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Songwriter ("New York, New York", "The Party's Over", "Just in Time", "Make Someone Happy"), author and actor, educated at City College of New York. While he was a student, he acted with the Washington Square Players and had a part in the road company of "Having a Wonderful Time". A member of The Revuers with Betty Comden (with whom he also appeared on stage in "A Party" and on TV") and Judy Holliday, he appeared with the troupe in night clubs. His Broadway stage score for "Wonderful Town" won Drama Critics and Tony awards in 1953. His other stage scores included "Peter Pan" and "Do Re Mi", and he was the co-librettist for "On the Town", "Billion Dollar Baby", "Two on the Aisle", "Bells Are Ringing", "Subways Are For Sleeping", and "Fade Out - Fade In". His chief collaborator in lyrics, libretto and screenplay work was Betty Comden, and his chief musical collaborators included Leonard Bernstein, Jule Styne, André Previn and Morton Gould. His popular-song compositions also included "I Get Carried Away", "I Can Cook, Too", "Some Other Time", "Lonely Town", "Lucky to Be Me", "Bad Timing", "Ohio", "A Little Bit in Love", "It's Love", "A Quiet Girl", "The French Lesson", "If You Hadn't But You Did", "Give a Little, Get a Little", "There Never Was a Baby Like My Baby", "Long Before I Knew You", "Never-Never Land", "Something's Always Happening on the River", "Dance Only With Me", "Adventure", "Fireworks", "Ride Through the Night", "Comes Once in a Lifetime", "I'm Just Taking My Time", "Now", "Fade Out - Fade In", and "Get Acquainted".- Music Department
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Songwriter ("Peg O' My Heart", "Come Josephine in My Flying Machine"< "I Didn't Raise My Boy to Be a Soldier") and author, educated in parochial schools. He joined the staff of several New York publishing firms, and wrote the Broadway stage scores for "The Shubert Gaieties of 1919", "The Midnight Rounders" (1920, 1921), "The Century Revue", and "A Night in Spain". Joining ASCAP in 1914 as a charter member, his chief musical collaborators included Fred Fisher, George Meyer, Larry Stock, Alfred Gumble, Al Piantadosi, Joe McCarthy, and John Klenner.- Soundtrack
Composer, songwriter, director, producer, pianist, advertising executive and author, he was educated at DePauw University. He was a master of ceremonies on KDKA radio in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in 1921, and had his own radio show on WCX. He was a pianist, accompanist and singer for the B.F. Keith, Keith Orpheum and Loew's circuits, then a writer, producer and director for advertisers on radio and television, and an account executive for Lennon and Newell of San Francisco, California. Joining ASCAP in 1957, he collaborated musically with Milton Ager and Ted Weems, and his popular song compositions include "The Martins and the Coys", "Sweet Muchacha", and "It's a Girl".- Music Department
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Composer and saxophonist, educated in private music study, and a saxophonoist with the orchestras of Alvino Rey, Joe Marsala, Buddy Rich, and Woody herman. He performed on the radio version of "Your Hit Parade", and arranged for RCA Victor in 1955-1956, also performing as saxophonist on many records. In 1957 he formed his own quintet, and appeared in night clubs and in jazz festivals.- Composer
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Songwriter ("Mr. Custer"), composer, conductor, pianist and arranger who after college, conducted and arranged for the USAF Band. He went on to be a night club pianist, and has made many records. Joining ASCAP in 1956, his other popular-song compositions include "Johnny Willow" and "Battle of Gettysburg".- Music Department
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Prolific Academy Award-winning songwriter Al Dubin ("Lullaby of Broadway" [1935]) came to the US in 1893 and was educated at the Perkiomen Seminary in Pennsylvania. He joined the staff of several New York music publishing companies. He enlisted in the US Army in World War I and served in the 77th Infantry Division. After the war he returned to the music business, composing the scores for the Broadway hits "The Streets of Paris" and "Keep Off the Grass". Coming to Hollywood under contract to Warner Brothers, his chief musical collaborator was Harry Warren, but he also worked with Joseph A. Burke, J. Fred Coots, Jimmy McHugh, Sammy Fain, Victor Herbert, James V. Monaco, Mabel Wayne, Joseph Meyer, J. Russel Robinson and Burton Lane. His other popular song compositions include "Tiptoe Through the Tulips", "Twas Only an Irishman's Dream", "Just a Girl that Men Forget", "A Cup of Coffee, a Sandwich and You", "My Dream of the Big Parade", "Painting the Clouds With Sunshine", "The Kiss Waltz", "Dancing With Tears in My Eyes", "For You", "42nd Street", "Shuffle Off to Buffalo", "You're Getting to Be a Habit With Me", "Young and Healthy", "Shadow Waltz", "We're In the Money", "Pettin' in the Park", "Remember My Forgotten Man", "I've Got to Sing a Torch Song", "Keep Young and Beautiful", "Honeymoon Hotel", "Shanghai Lil", "Boulevard of Broken Dreams", "Fair and Warmer", "I'll String Along With You", "Why Do I Dream Those Dreams?", "I Only Have Eyes for You", "Sweet Music", "The Words Are in My Heart", "I'm Going Shopping With You", "About a Quarter to Nine", "She's a Latin from Manhattan", "Go Into Your Dance", "The Little Things You Used to Do", "Lulu's Back in Town", "The Rose in Her Hair", "Where Am I? (Am I in Heaven?)", "Don't Give Up the Ship", "I'd Love to Take Orders from You", "Page Miss Glory", "I'll Sing You a Thousand Love Songs", "With Plenty of Money and You", "All's Fair in Love and War", "Summer Night", "September in the Rain", "Remember Me", "Am I in Love?", "'Cause My Baby Says It's So", "I Know Now", "You Can't Run Away from Love Tonight", "Song of the Marines", "The Latin Quarter", "Day Dreaming", "Garden of the Moon", "Love Is Where You Find It", "The Girl Friend of the Whirling Dervish", "Feudin' and Fightin'", "Indian Summer", "My Dream of the Big Parade", and "Anniversary Waltz".- Music Department
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Songwriter ("I Apologize", "Serenade of the Bells"), composer, pianist and agent, educated at DeWitt Clinton High School and then a radio announcer, vaudeville pianist, and writer of special material. He performed on radio as part of a two-member piano eam, and also owned a theatrical agency. While in England between 1934 and 1937, he wrote the London stage scores for "This'll Make You Whistle", "Going Greek", and "Hide and Seek". Joining ASCAP in 1932, his chief musical collaborators included Mann Curtis, Maurice Sigler, Ed Nelson, Kay Twomey, Allan Roberts, Sammy Lerner and Al Hoffman. His other popular-song compositions include "Auf Wiedersehn, My Dear", "Fit as a Fiddle", "Black-Eyed Susan Brown", "Jimmy Had a Nickel", "Who Walks In When I Walk Out?", "I Saw Stars", "Why Don't You Practise What You Preach?", "Roll Up the Carpet", "I'm In a Dancing Mood", "Without Rhythm", "There Isn't Any Limit to My Love", "Everything Stops for ea", "From One Minute to Another", "I Can Wiggle My Ears", "Say the Word", "Everything's In Rhythm With My Heart", "Let's Put Some People to Work", "Gangway", "Lord and Lady Whoozis", "She Shall Have Music", "Romance Runs in the Family", "I Must Have One More Kiss Kiss Kiss", "I Ups to Her and She Ups to Me", and "Johnny Doughboy Found a Rose in Ireland".- Music Department
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Composer, songwriter, conductor, pianist and arranger, educated at the Peabody Conservatory (on scholarship). He was a pianist in early film theatres, and later a choral director and music director for the Aborne Opera Company. He conducted and arranged for Al Jolson, and conducted the Broadway musicals "Blossom Time", "My Dream Girl", "Good News", "The Band Wagon", "The New Moon", "Ziegfeld Follies", and "George White's Scandals". His Broadway stage scores include "Linger Longer Lettie", "Cinderella on Broadway", "The Whirl of New York", "The Passing Show of 1922", "The Lady in Ermine", "Dew Drop Inn", "Artists and Models of 1925", and "Gay Paree". He became a radio conductor in 1932, and conducted for television beginning in 1949, and made many records. Joining ASCAP in 1922, his chief musical collaborators included Edgar Smith, Cyrus Wood, and Clifford Grey. His popular-song compositions include "When Hearts Are Young", "Love Has Found My Heart", "I Came, I Saw, I Fell", "Call of Love", "Twilight", "The Lady in Ermine", and "Who Knows Why".- Music Department
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Prolific songwriter ("Heartaches", "Allegheny Moon"), composer, author and drummer. He came to the USA in 1908 and was educated at Franklyn High School in Seattle, Washington. He led his own band in Seattle, then came to New York in 1928 where he was a drummer in night club orchestras. Journeying to England in 1934, he wrote the London stage scores for "This'll Make You Whistle", "Going Greek", and "Hide and Seek". Joining ASCAP in 1930, his chief musical collaborators included Al Goodhart, Maurice Sigler, Ed Nelson, Sammy Lerner, Dick Manning, Jerry Livingston, Milton Drake, Mack David, Mann Curtis, Leo Corday, Leon Carr, Bob Merrill, and Walter Kent. His other popular-song compositions include "I Apologize", "Auf Wiedersehen, My Dear", "Fit as a Fiddle", "Black-Eyed Susan Brown", "Jimmy Had a Nickel", "Who Walks in When I Walk Out?", "I Saw Stars", "Why Don't You Practise What You Preach?", "Little Man You've Had a Busy Day", "Roll Up the Carpet", "I'm in a Dancing Mood", "Without Rhythm", "There Isn't Any Limit to My Love", "Everything Stops For Tea", "From One Minute to Another", "I Can Wiggle My Ears", "Say the Word", "Everything's in Rhythm With My Heart", "Let's Put Some People to Work", "Gangway", "Lord and Lady Whoozis", "She Shall Have Music", "Romance Runs in the Family", "Apple Blossoms and Chapel Bells", "Goodnight, Wherever You Are", "The Story of a Starry Night", "Close to You", "O Dio Mio", "What's the Good Word, Mr. Bluebird?", "I Must Have One More Kiss, Kiss, Kiss", "I Ups to Her and She Ups to Me", "Mairzy Doats", "Fuzzy Wuzzy", "I'm a Big Girl Now", "I Had Too Much to dream Last Night", "Chi-Baba, Chi-Baba", "There's No Tomorrow", "I'm Gonna Live Till I Die", "Bibbidi-Bobbidi-Boo", "A Dream is a Wish Your Heart Makes", "If I Knew You were Comin' I'd Have Baked a Cake", "Takes Two to Tango", "Gilly Gilly Ossenfeffer Katzenellenbogen by the Sea", "Papa Loves Mambo", "Don't Stay Away Too Long", "Hot Diggity", "Mama, Teach Me to Dance", "Ivy Rose", "Are You Really Mine?", "Oh, Oh, I'm Falling in Love Again", "Secretly", "Hawaiian Wedding Song", "You're Cheatin' Yourself", and "If You Smile at the Sun".- Composer
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Songwriter ("This Is My Country", "I Need You Now", "If I Give My Heart to You"), composer, conductor, pianist, author and singer. He was a piano salesman after college and taught piano, then became the general manager of the Sherman Clay & Company and the business manager at the Miller Music Company. Later he became a professional manager at the Crawford Music, Melrose Music, and Stasny Music companies, then was assistant music director at Al Pearce radio, and manager at the Wurlitzer Music School in San Francisco. He joined KGO radio as staff pianist, and was a singer and pianist for KJBS radio. Joining ASCAP in 1936, his chief musical collaborators included Jimmie Crane and Joseph Meyer, and his other popular-song compositions included "Hurt", "Ev'ry Day of My Life", "Just One More Time", "Please Believe Me", "'Taint No Good", "But I Did", "All I Want Is a Chance", "Anybody's Love Song", "The Last Polka", "I'm Just an Ordinary Human Being", "When the Roses Bloom Again", "Honolulu", "There'll Never Be Another You", "Make a Wish", "Scalawag", "I'm Glad I Waited for You", "Will o' the Wisp", "Fortune for a Penny", "My Believing Heart", "I'm a Lucky Devil", "Time Stands Still", "I've Got a Heart Filled With Love", "Twilight Interlude", "No More Rivers to Cross", "Kon Tiki", "Crime and Punishment", "Rosie the Redskin", "Surprise", and "My Sailor Boy".- Actor
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Actor, songwriter ("Make Believe Ballroom"), author and disc jockey, educated at the University of Southern California and a member of the Pasadena Community Playhouse. He joined ASCAP in 1954, and his chief musical collaborators included Johnny Mercer and Leo Diamond. His other popular-song compositions included "Shtiggy Boom".- Music Department
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Singer, songwriter ("Make Love to Me"), composer, arranger, conductor, and author who joined The Modernaires vocal group after high school and later arranged and conducted for records and musical commercials. He formed The Alan Copeland Singers, and also recorded as a soloist. Joining ASCAP in 1954, his chief musical collaborators included Eddie Pola, Jack Lloyd, and Mort Greene. His other popular-song compositions include "This Must Be the Place", "Into the Shadows", "Darling, Darling, Darling", "Back Where I Belong", "While the Vesper Bells Were Ringing", "High Society" and "Too Young to Know".- Songwriter, composer, singer, author and manager, educated in high school and then a singer on radio, burlesque, night clubs and films, with bands. He worked in a defense plant during World War II, and went on to write special material for radio and television commercials, and also managed talent. Joining ASCAP in 1955, his chief musical collaborators included Gene de Paul, Richard Loring, and Alan Copeland, and his popular-song compositions include "Summertime Lies", "Love Me Now", "That's the Way I Feel", "Try My Arms", "Stranger", "Joanie", "Go Back to Him", "I Know She's Mine", and "Happy Birthday, My Love".
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One of the most prolific B-movie composers, Albert Glasser started off as a copyist in the music department at Warner Brothers in the late 1930s, learning the art of film scoring from scratch while working under such big guns as Max Steiner and Erich Wolfgang Korngold. He graduated to orchestrating, and by the mid-'40s was composing and directing his own scores. A hard, fast worker, Glasser found his musical skills put to the test in the frantic, down-to-the-wire world of B-picture making. He scored a staggering 135 movies between 1944 and 1962, not counting at least 35 features for which he received no credit. In addition to scoring 300 television shows and 450 radio programs, he arranged and conducted for noted American operetta composer Rudolf Friml and orchestrated for Ferde Grofé Sr. (with whom he first collaborated on the sci-fi classic Rocketship X-M (1950)).- Songwriter ("Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm"), composer and pianist, educated at the Auditorium School of Music with Herman Froehlich and also a student of Clarence Adler. He was a staff pianist with the Remick Company, and on staff with Donaldson, Douglas and Gumble (his brother), and he wrote special material for McIntyre and Heath. During World War I, he entertained at debarkation centers. Joining ASCAP as a charter member in 1914, his chief musical collaborators included Jack Yellen, B.G. De Sylva, and Al Bryan, and his other popular-song compositions include "Are You Sincere?", "How's Every Little Thing in Dixie?" and "You'll Do the Same Thing Over Again".
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He was born into a Jewish family in Berlin but he was raised as a Lutheran to protect him from Nazi persecution. He fled Germany to Italy in 1937 as he was about to be inducted into the Hitler youth movement. After attending a music conservatory in Rome, he obtained a scholarship to the University of Cincinnati and immigrated to the United States in 1939 penniless to avoid being conscripted by German military authorities. Arriving at age of 18 and unable to speak a word of English, he took the last name of his adopted father, Elliott B. Hague, an eye surgeon with close ties to the university. He graduated in 1942 and served in the U.S. military for more than two years before embarking on a career as a composer. (1955) He celebrated his first Broadway success with the opening of the hit 1955 musical 'Plain and Fancy,' an Amish-themed show that featured Barbara Cook and the popular song `Young and Foolish.'- Music Department
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Prolific but often-uncredited film/TV composer, conductor, author, orchestrator and arranger, educated at the Leipzig Conservatory and the Trinity College of Music in London. He also studied with John Barbirolli, Albert Coates, Henry Geehl, and his father, Alfred Sendrey (the Hungarian-born opera singer and composer). Albert Sendrey grew up surrounded by music. His mother, Eugenie, had been a soprano for the Vienna Opera under Gustav Mahler. During his lengthy career, he contributed to over 170 films and television shows, signing with MGM in the 1940s and, from 1956 to 1964, working as pianist and conductor for Tony Martin's live performances, including those in Las Vegas, where in 1953 he began writing production numbers for the Riviera and Sands. (Tony Martin said of Albert "I liked his piano style ... because he felt for singers. He just seemed to have that inner sense of when to play an artistic run and when to just play soft and play low. He set tempos great.") He arranged the Broadway musicals "Peter Pan" (1954) and "New Faces of 1956" and wrote special material for night clubs.- Music Department
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Composer, songwriter ("Down Hearted Blues"), author and singer who was a singer on early recordings after high school, later appearing in the London production of 'Showboat' and at the Palladium and throughout Europe and Egypt. She had a radio program over NBC, and toured Europe and the Pacific entertaining troops during World War II, and later, Korea and Japan. On Broadway she appeared in the stage productions of 'Mamba's Daughters' and 'Mrs. Patterson'. She was also a practical nurse, working at New York's Goldwater Memorial Hospital. Joining ASCAP in 1952, her other popular-song compositions include "Down South Blues", "Chirping the Blues", "My Castle's Rocking", "I Want to Thank You, Lord", "You Got to Reap Just Reap What You Sow", "Will the Day Ever Come When I Can Rest", "Kind Treatment", and "What's the Matter, Baby?".- Music Department
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Songwriter ("Oh, Say Can You Swing?"), composer, author and conductor. He came to the USA in 1898 and was educated in New York public schools as well as in private music study with Sascha Coleman and Michael Svedrofsky, earning an honorary Mus. D. During World War I he was a US Navy bandmaster, and thereafter a conductor at theatres and cafes in New York and Europe. During World War II, he served in the United States Army Air Force as a composer and bandleader, later scoring films and serving as a consultant to Miklós Rózsa. Joining ASCAP in 1937, his other popular-song compositions include "Poor Robinson Crusoe", "With Thee I Swing", "My Heart Is in a Violin", "Picture Me in a Picture With You", and "I Love You From Coast to Coast".- Soundtrack
Composer, songwriter ("No Man Is an Island", "High on a Windy Hill"), author, conductor pianist and publisher educated at McGill Conservatory with Gardner and Hungerford. He began his musical career as a film-theatre pianist in Montreal, and then joined the Meyer Davis orchestra, eventually leading his own orchestra on Montreal radio programs. Coming to New York in 1938, he was a vaudeville and night club accompanist and also a vocal coach. By 1940 he was a staff writer and music publisher, co-founding the Kramer-Whitney, Inc. publishing firm in 1947. He was a council member on AGAC and founded the Bedside Network at the Veterans Hospital Radio & Television Guild, and served as its president. Joining ASCAP in 1942 (he was an ASCAP director between 1955 and 1959), his other popular-song compositions include "It All Comes Back To Me Now", "It's Love Love Love", "Candy", "Comme-ci, Comme-ca", "That's the Beginning of the End", "Ain't Nobody Here But Us Chickens", "Money Is the Root of All Evil", "Love Somebody", "Dangerous Dan McGrew", "You'll Never Get Away", "Far Away Places", "My Sister and I", "Summer Rain", "I Only Saw Him Once", "Story of My Life", and "No Other Arms, No Other Lips".- Music Department
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Conductor, songwriter ("In the Blue of Evening"), conductor, arranger and pianist who came to the USA in 1918. He was educated at Strassburger Conservatory and studied with Boris Levenson. He conducted orchestras for network radio, theatres, films, records and concerts, and originated the "pops" concerts at Carnegie Hall. He conducted the Buffalo Philharmonic, Stadium Symphony, Miami Symphony, Symphony of the Air, St. Louis Symphony, and New London Symphony. He also conducted for Radio-Television Itala in Milan and Rome, and composed/arranged/conducted for Television. He was a recipient of the Medaillie d'Or. Joining ASCAP in 1946, his other popular-song compositions include "The NBC Chimes Theme", "Ask Your Heart" and "Fiesta en Granada".- Music Department
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Composer, conductor, music director for CBS-TV, educated at the Royal Conservatory in Milan. He came to the USA in 1929, and became an American citizen in 1938. He was an accompanist for Ferrari Fontana. He conducted the orchestra for WOR, New York, and was the music director for the Tampa (Florida) Philharmonic since 1957. Also, he was guest conductor for the New York (NY) Philharmonic, and the symphony orchestras of Chicago, Illinois and Milwaukee, Wisconsin, also in Norway, Italy, Chile, and Canada. He served as chairman of the St. John's University music department. In 1955 he conducted the Oslo Philharmonic in the first of a series of American Exchange Programs. He joined ASCAP in 1948, and his compositions include: "The Great City"; "Sarabande"; "Sicilian Rhapsody"; "Suite for Cello, Orchestra"; "Preludes for Organ"; "Suite for Strings"; "The United States of America, Circa 1790", and "Mambo Tropical".- Soundtrack
Composer, songwriter and author, educated at Fordham University. He worked at Biograph Studios in The Bronx and then worked in England from 1935, writing for revues and films. Joining ASCAP in 1935, his chief musical collaborators were John Egan and Frank Madden. His popular-song compositions include "Moonspun Dreams", "Rags", "Maybe", Be Still, My Heart", "Somewhere Beyond the Sunset", and "They Called Him 'Johnny Appleseed'".- Composer
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Composer, author, conductor, violinist and arranger, educated at Juilliard (on a fellowship) with Rubin Goldmark. He composed and arranged for films, radio, television, recordings, theater, ballet and publishers, and was on the CBS staff. Also, a NY Fellow, International Institute of Arts and Letters in 1962. He was a member of the NAACC, and joined ASCAP in 1952.- Composer, songwriter, author and pianist, educated at the Moscow Conservatory and Columbia University (architecture degree). He wrote his Broadway special material for the 'Passing Show' revues, was a vaudeville pianist, and had his own night club, Club Anatole. His Broadway stage scores include "The Wife Hunters" and "Broadway to Paris". Joining ASCAP in 1923, his chief musical collaborators included L. Wolfe Gilbert and Harold Atteridge. His popular-song compositions include "Are You From Heaven?", "My Little Dream Girl", "Lily of the Valley", "My Own Iona", "Singapore", "I Love You, That's One Thing I Know", "My Sweet Adair", "Riga Rose", "My Little Persian Rose" and "Shades of Night".
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Composer, songwriter ("The Huckle Buck", "Geechy Joe"), musician and arranger, educated in local public schools and then a member of dance bands and later an arranger for Duke Ellington, Charlie Barnet, Harry James and Count Basie. He served in the US Army overseas during World War II. Joining ASCAP in 1949, his chief musical collaborators included Billy Hays, Morty Berk, Cab Calloway, James Rushing, Roy Alfred, Count Basie and Harry James. His other popular-song and instrumental compositions include "The Great Lie", "I Left My Baby", "From the Bottom of My Heart", and "Shorty George".- Actor
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Composer, songwriter and conductor, educated at Kamehameha School for Boys and Henri Berger's Private School of Music in Honolulu, and also the Arthur Lange Method (of arranging). He was a member of the KHS staff orchestra and formed his own group (Andy Iona and His Islanders) which appeared in films, hotels and theatres and on records. He toured with Sonja Henie for twelve years. Joining ASCAP in 1940, his popular-song compositions include "Blue Mist", "How'd Ya Do?", "At Night by the Ocean", "South Sea Island Magic", "Aloha Beloved", "Maui Moon", "South Sea Lullabies", "Kuu Ipo", "At Night By the Ocean", "Million Moons Over Hawaii", "Polynesian Hula Love Song", "Naughty Hula Eyes", "Saronga", "Hula Rockabye", "Mahalo I Thank You", "March On Hawaii", "The Palm Trees Sing Aloha", and "Andy Iona's Songs of Hawaii".- Music Department
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Composer, conductor and author, educated in high school and then conductor of his own orchestra, the Clouds Of Joy, since 1929. He made many recordings. Joining ASCAP in 1963, his chief musical collaborator was Arthur Terker, and his popular-song and instrumental compositions include "Cloudy", "Wednesday Night Hop", and "Mind If I Remind You".- Composer and pianist, educated in schools in the Near East, and a piano student of Alberto Jonas under a Guggenheim fellowship. He made his debut as a concert pianist in New York's Aeolian Hall in 1919, then toured the Near East for three years. He was a radio composer, pianist and conductor, and he joined a publisher's staff in 1932, lasting into 1939. He joined ASCAP in 1943.
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Actress, songwriter ("I Know That You Know"), singer, librettist and author, educated in public schools. She began her career as a singer with the Juvenile Opera Company, and later wrote the Broadway stage scores for "The Canary" and "The City Chap"; and she was librettist for "Pom-Pom", "She's a Good Fellow", "The Night Boat", "The Sweetheart Shop", and "Good Morning Dearie", and the co-librettist for "Chin Chin", "Jack o' Lantern", "Tip Top", "Hitchy Koo of 1921", "The Bunch and Judy", "Stepping Stones", "Criss Cross", "Oh, Please!", and "Three Cheers". She was also the librettist for "Take The Air", and the co-librettist for "Top o' the World" and "The Lady of the Slipper". Joining ASCAP as a charter member in 1914, she collaborated musically with Jerome Kern, Vincent Youmans, Hugo Felix, and Raymond Hubbell. Her popular song compositions also include "Temple Bells", "In the Dark", "Wait Till the Cows Come Home", "Come and Have a Swing With Me", "The Bullfrog Patrol", "Whose Baby Are You?", "Left All Alone Again Blues", "Didn't You Believe?", "Blue Danube Blues", "Easy Pickin's", "Ka-lu-a", "Once in a Blue Moon", "Raggedy Ann", "Cinderella Girl", and "Like She Loves Me".- Composer
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Composer, songwriter ("The Big Beat"), pianist, dance teacher and author who joined ASCAP in 1949 and wrote television themes with her husband Milton Delugg and with Sammy Gallop. She also wrote songs for albums of children's songs. Her other popular-song compositions include "Gee I'm Glad I Married You", "The Little White Horse", and "Honolulu".- Writer
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Songwriter ("Washington Square") and author, educated at Randolph-Macon Women's College (with a Bachelor of Arts degree). She was a copywriter for the J. Walter Thompson and Leo Burnett advertising agencies, and a television production assistant. She wrote the Broadway stage score for "Tovarich", and also for "Ernest In Love" (off-Broadway). For television, she wrote the scores for "Who's Earnest?" and "Huck Finn". Joining ASCAP in 1956, her chief musical collaborators include Lee Pockriss, Victor Ziskin, and Ed Scott. Her other popular-song compositions include "The Plymouth Rock", "A Handbag Is Not a Proper Mother", "A Wicked Man", "My Very First Impression", "The Only One", "I Know the Feeling", "All for You", "The Bells of Christmas" and "Believe In Stevenson" (the National Democratic campaign song, 1956).- Writer
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Composer and director, educated at City College of New York and Long Island Business College. He composed the Broadway stage score for "Broadway Brevities", and wrote songs for the Ziegfeld Follies, Winter Garden revues, and English films and musicals. During World War II he worked in the Signal Corps Film Training Program, as a consultant to the Special Services. He joined ASCAP in 1917, and his chief musical collaborators included Sidney Mitchell, Edgar Leslie, Con Conrad, Johnny Lange, George Meyer, and his son Jerome Gottler.- Actor
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Composer ("Similau"), conductor, pianist and violinist, educated at the Wilson Teachers College and Catholic University (BM, MM). He was pianist and violinist at the Shoreham Hotel in Miami, Florida and a member of its four-piano team. Later he became the music director for Harry Richman. He conducted his own orchestra and was pianist at the Town House in Greenwich, Connecticut. Joining ASCAP in 1959, his chief musical collaborator was Richard Hayman. His other popular-song and instrumental compositions include "Jade", "Voodoo Album", and "Port of Spain".- Actress
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Arlene Francis, the witty actress and popular television personality, was born Arlene Francis Kazanjian on Oct. 20, 1907, in Boston. Her father was an Armenian immigrant, later painter and portrait photographer; her mother was the daughter of actor Alfred Davis. Even at an early age, Arlene said, "I started out with one goal: I wanted to be a serious actress." She studied at the Theatre Guild and then went to Hollywood. Her movie debut was in Murders in the Rue Morgue (1932), in which Bela Lugosi (often cast as a villain or mad scientist in many of his over 40 horror movies) tied her to an X-cross to extract her blood (trivia: Arlene and Bela were both born on Oct. 20). The live theater, however, was her first love, and she appeared in many plays. In 1935, she married movie executive Neil Agnew; they'd stay together for 10 years. Arlene made her Broadway debut in 1936 and had her first major role in "All That Glitters" two years later. She appeared with Orson Welles in the Mercury Theatre production of "Danton's Death" in 1938, and in "Journey to Jerusalem" in 1940. Her big hit was "The Doughgirls" in 1942; it ran for 1-1/2 years. Arlene had auditioned for her first radio part at the same time she was getting started in the theater; she later recalled, "Radio came easily." In the 1940s, she played in as many as five radio serials a day. Arlene married actor Martin Gabel in 1946 (he died in 1986), and they had a son, Peter. She also was host of a radio dating show called "Blind Date," which was adapted to a TV series in 1949 (Your Big Moment (1949)), and she was the host (1949-1952). It was television that brought Arlene fame, and she became one of the highest-paid women in TV. Arlene was a permanent panelist on CBS' What's My Line? (1950) (a Mark Goodson-Bill Todman production) from 1950 through 1967 and continued as a panelist in a syndicated version that ran until 1975, thus being with the show for its entire 25-year run. She was warm, witty and had a cute laugh--and was always fashionably dressed. She wore a diamond heart-shaped necklace, which started a fad. She was still doing radio while on TV, and in 1960, she was the star of "The Arlene Francis Show," a daily interview show in New York, on WOR; it ran for 23 years. Arlene retired from show business after that and lived comfortably. She was still giving interviews in 1991. Arlene spent her last years living in San Francisco. Arlene died of cancer on Thursday, May 31, 2001, in a San Francisco hospital, at age 93. Her many fans will miss her, Arlene was truly one of the greats.- Writer
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Author, lyricist ("Young and Foolish"), and screenwriter, educated at New York University (Bachelor of Arts) and at the Columbia School of Journalism (Master of Science). He wrote the Broadway stage scores for "Plain and Fancy", "The Girls Against the Boys", "Are You With It?", and "Make Mine Manhattan". While serving in the military during World War Two, he wrote soldier shows. In addition, he wrote sketches for "Call Me Mister" and "Inside USA". Joining ASCAP in 1946, his other popular-song compositions include "Saturday Night in Central Park", "Here I Go Again", "I Fell in Love With You", "Gentleman Friend", "This Is My Beloved", "This Is All Very New to Me", "Plenty of Pennsylvania", "Old Fashioned Girl", "Follow Your Heart", "Lolita", and "I Gotta Have You".- Soundtrack
Pianist ("Ferrante & Teicher"), composer and arranger, educated at Juilliard and a student of Carl Friedbert. He taught at Juilliard between 1944 and 1947. He made many records, and toured the United States and Canada in numerous concert performances in addition to his radio and television apeearances. He composed the background score for the film "Undersea Conquest". Joining ASCAP in 1956, his chief musical collaborator was Louis Teicher. His popular-song and instrumental compositions include "You're Too Much", "What More Can I Say?", "American Fantasy", "Dream of Love", "Possessed" and "A Rage to Live" (the title theme for the film).- Composer, songwriter ("Everywhere I Go"), bassist, conductor and author, educated at the Metropolitan Music School in New York (where he was a music student of Wallingford Riegger, Johnny Mehegan, and Teddy Wilson), at Fisk University (studying with John W. Work) where he earned a Bachelor of Music degree, at Juilliard (where he studied with Peter Wilhousky, Peter Mennin, Norman Lloyd, Henry Brant, and Margaret Hillis), and at Columbia Teachers College (studying with Murphy Church), earning a Master of Arts degree. He served in the US Army Special Services, played double bass in the Suburban Symphony in Rockland County, and was music director in summer theaters, and music director and advisor for the Rockland County Playhouse in 1964. He wrote the stage scores for "The Beauty Part" and "Violetta" (adaptation of "Le Mal Coeur"). Hhis other popular-song compositions include "This Love is True Love".
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Composer, songwriter ("Aba Daba Honeymoon", "And the Angels Sing"), actor and publisher who began his career in minstrel shows, vaudeville, and later on radio. He made many records. Joining ASCAP in 1937, his chief collaborators included Walter Donovan, Theodore Morse, Fred Hall, and George Graff. His other popular-song compositions include "On the Mississippi", "Auntie Skinner's Chicken Dinner", "There's a Blue Sky Way Out Yonder", "Eleven More Months and Ten More Days", "I Got a Code Id By Dose", "Our Hometown Mountain Band", "Who Else But God", and "There Shall Be No More Tears".