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Welcome"; "Silhouette in Smoke"; "Fight for America"; "You Can't Put a Tax on Love"; "There'll Be Other Summers." Home: New York, N.Y. Address: c/o ASCAP.
Adams, Leonard F. (Chick), composer, author; b. Boones Mills, Va., Feb. 8, 1904. ASCAP 1942. Educ: Polytechnic Inst, and Peabody Cons., Baltimore, Md. Radio program director and musical arranger. Toured vaudeville, principally in act Banjoland. Wrote and produced vaudeville acts. Formed dance orch.; played Stockholm World Fair, and for Crown Prince of Sweden; disbanded in 1931; joined Abe Lyman's orchestra as arranger. Has been co-producer on many radio shows including Hammerstein Music Hall; Manhattan-Merry-Go-Round; Waltz Time. Conducted monthly feature for Metronome Magazine. Wrote book titled Song Success. Songs: "The Bells of the Old Village Church"; "Corny Joe"; "Bom Lucky"; "Have a Little Sympathy"; "Sassin' the Boss"; "In My Palace of Beautiful Dreams"; "More than Ever"; "Somewhere This Side of Heaven"; "I Haven't the Heart"; "Glad"; "Riffin with the Riff-RafF'; "Stars in Out Windows." Home: Chestertown, Md. Address: c/o ASCAP.
Adams, Stanley, author; b. New York, N.Y., Aug. 14, 1907. ASCAP 1934, Board of Directors, since 1944. Educ.: public schools, New York; New York Univ., Bachelor of Science 1928; New York Univ. Law School, 1930. Wrote several college shows; while still in Law School, wrote popular songs. On graduation made songwriting rather than law his profession, writing for stage and screen. Songs: "There Are Such Things"; "Little Old Lady"; "Rolling Down the River"; "Extra! All About That Gal of Mine"; "My Shawl"; "Dust on the Moon"; "What a Difference a Day Made"; "Spellbound"; "Yesterthoughts"; "Stranger in the Dark"; "On the Village Green"; "La |
Cucaracha"; "You Stole My Heart." Home: New York, N.Y. Address: c/o ASCAP.
Adamson, Harold, author; b. Greenville, N.J., Dec. 10, 1906. ASCAP 1932. Educ.: New York public schools; Hackley; Univ. of Kan., Harvard Univ. Wrote poetry for prep school paper; also dramatic sketches. Wrote prize-winning songs in Univ. of Kan.; played with professional group in summer vacations. At Harvard wrote fraternity shows, also Hasty Pudding productions. Left Harvard for songwriting career. Wrote many songs for stage and screen. To Hollywood 1933, writing for films. Songs: "Tony's Wife"; "Everything I Have Is Yours"; "Your Head on My Shoulder"; "Turn on the Moon"; "You Took the Words Right Out of My Mouth"; "It's Been So Long"; "Did I Remember?"; "There's Something in the Air"; "You're a Sweetheart"; "Comin' in on a Wing and a Prayer"; "Candlelight and Wine"; "I Couldn't Sleep a Wink Last Night"; "Lovely Way to Spend an Evening"; "My Own"; "This Never Happened Before"; "The Woodpecker Song"; "The Ferryboat Serenade"; "We're Having a Baby"; "Time on My Hands"; "Manhattan Serenade"; "You"; "As The Girls Go"; "Bim Bam Boom"; "I Got Lucky in the Rain"; "It's a Most Unusual Day"; "My How the Time Goes By." Home: Los Angeles, Calif. Address: c/o ASCAP.
Adlam, Basil George, composer, conductor, arranger; b. of musical parentage, Chelmsford, England, Dec. 31, 1905. To Canada as child. To U.S. 1923, Citizen 1930. ASCAP 1937. Educ.: public schools, Vancouver, B.C.; in San Francisco studied composition, harmony and musical theory, Prof. Herman Genss; conducting, Albert Coates. With orchestras San Francisco, Los Angeles and New York. Played saxophone with Phil Harris and Ozzie Nelson bands. Arranger and |
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