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credited with originating the idea of modern theater orchestras playing from memory with no music racks. Composed music for the Pearl Maiden, comic opera production in New York, 1912, starring Jefferson de Angehs. Won $500 prize from Ladies' Home Journal for an original melody for Russian ballet star, Pavlova. Other stage works: Love for Sale, musical comedy starring Kitty Gordon; Frivolities of 1920; Peek-a-Boo, starring Clark and McCullough, Paradise Alley, Afgar; Little Jessie James, My Girl; Merry-Merry; Ttvitikle-Ticinkle; Just a Minute; Shoot the Works; Lucky Break (a London production). Songs: "I Love You"; "White Sails"; "Paradise Alley"; "Suppose I Had Never Met You"; "You and 1", "On a Desert Isle"; "It Must Be Love"; "I Was Blue"; "Twinkle", "You Know J Know", "I'm Com' to Dance with the Guy What Brung Me", "Rainbow"; "Where Golden Daffodils Grow", "Alone in My Dreams", "The Sweetest Girl This Side of Heaven." Home: 148 E. 48 St., New York 17, N.Y.
Arlen, Harold, composer, b. Buffalo, N.Y., Feb. 15, 1905. ASCAP 1930. Choir boy in youth, at fifteen became professional pianist in clubs and on lake steamers. Pianist, singer, and arranger for popular orch., rehearsal accompanist for production Great Day. From 1930 wrote series of Cotton Club revue songs: "Stormy Weather"; "I Love a Parade", "I've Got the World on a String"; "Kickin' the Gong Around"; "I Gotta Right to Sing the Blues." Then musical shows: You Said It; several editions of Earl Carroll's Vanities; Americana, Life Begins at 8-40, Hooray for What?; Bloomer Girl; St Louis Woman. Scored, wrote origmal songs for pictures, including Strike Me Pink; Let's Fall in Love; Wizard of Oz; A Day at the Circus; Star-Spangled Bliythm; Love Affair; The Sky's the Limit; |
Here Come the Waves; Cabin in the Sky; Out of this World. Songs: "Ovei the Rainbow" (1939 Academy Award), "Hitting the Bottle", "Satan's Little Lamb", "It's Only a Paper Moon", "Happy as the Day is Long"; "Minnie Moocher's Wedding Day"; "Strike Me Pink", "Last Night When We Were Young", "Sing, My Heart"; "American Minuet", Americanegio Suite" (four spirituals); "Let's Fall in Love"; "You Said It"; "Blues in the Night", "Accentuate the Positive", "Let's Take the Long Way Home"; "My Shining Hour"; "That Old Black Magic", "Hit the Road to Dreamland", "Happiness Is Just A Thing Called Joe", "Calabash Pipe"; "The Eagle and Me", "Evahna"; "I've Got a Song"; "Come Rain, Come Shine", "L'il Augie is a Nachal Man"; "Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea", "Don't Rock the Boat Dear"; Home: Beverly Hills, Calif. Address. c/o ASCAP.
Arlen, Jeanne Burns, composer, author, b. New York, N.Y., Feb. 18, 1917. ASCAP 1948. Educ. Public School 57, Bronx, James Monroe High School, New York Univ. School of Commerce (majored in Journalism and Dramatic Criticism). Studied music Malikm Music Cons., harmony, composition, ear training and piano. At age of sixteen wrote her first Cotton Club Show. Songs: "To My Beloved", "I Gotta Go Places", "Got a Need for You", "Lady with the Fan", "Little Town Gal"; "Sad Eyes", "American Women's Marching Song" (Official song of N.Y. War Savings Staff, Women's Volunteers of the U.S. Treasury). Also, five piano instru-mentals, San Francisco Sketches. Home: New York, N.Y. Address. v/v ASCAP.
Armstrong, Harry, composer, b. Som-erville, Mass., July 22, 1879, d. Bronx, N.Y., Feb. 28, 1951. ASCAP 1929. Educ.: public schools. After |
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