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Me Like You Do"; "When My Sugar Walks Down the Street"; "Ridin Around In the Rain." Home: New York, N.Y. Address: c/o ASCAP. |
Saddle Again." Home: Hollywood, Calif. Address: c/o ASCAP.
Axt, William, composer, b. New York, N.Y., April 19, 1888. ASCAP 1924. Educ.: DeWitt Clinton High School, then in Berlin three years with private tutors in music. Became assistant conductor Hammerstein Grand Opera Company, New York. Conductor 1914-18 for Emma Trentini, opera and concert star. Musical director Cajpitol Theater 1919. With advent of talking pictures, organized musical department for MGM Hollywood. Scored many pictures: Parnell; The Garden Murder Case; Reunion in Vienna; The Thin Man; Rendezvous; O'Shaughnessy's Boy, Pentliouse; and others. Home: The A-X-T Ranch, Laytonville, Calif.
Ayres, Warren Joyce, composer, author, advertising executive; b. Omaha, Neb., Feb. 6, 1908. ASCAP 1944. Served as Lieut, in U.S.N.R. in Pacific area. Educ.: Univ. of Neb., B.A. 1930. National music editor Alpha Tau Omega fraternity. Songs: "One Rose"; "Love Everlasting"; *fm Riding Back to Arizona"; "Hail Varsity"; "Fighting Amphibians" (which was adopted as an official song of the Atlantic Fleet). Home: 2647 Win-throp Rd., Lincoln 2, Neb. |
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Autry, Gene, composer, author, cowboy singer, actor, rodeo, radio, and recording star; b. Tioga, Texas, Sept. 29, 1907. ASCAP 1939. Educ.: Ravia, Okla., High School. Worked on father's ranch; later as telegrapher for Frisco Railroad. Began radio work in Tulsa, Okla., then in 1929 to Chicago for four years; became motion picture actor in 1934. Now produces and stars in own movies; also produces and stars in films for television. On radio, C.B.S., since 1940. Won National Parent Teachers Film award for 1941 for providing most wholesome entertainment for children. World War II, enlisted in Air Corps July 1942, Flight Officer (ATC); thirty-nine months service including twenty-seven months overseas. Works: many cowboy songs and mountain ballads; some arrangements of traditional airs; "That Silver Haired Daddy of Mine"; "You're the Only Star in My Blue Heaven"; "Be Honest With Me"; "Tears on My Pillow"; "Dixie Cannonball"; "Good Old-Fashioned Hoedown"; "I Wish I Had Never Met Sunshine"; "Here Comes Santa Claus"; "Back in the |
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Babin, Victor, composer, pianist, radio and recording artist; b Moscow, Russia, Dec. 13, 1908. ASCAP 1945. U.S. Citizen 1943. Educ.: Cons, of Riga; piano with Dombrovsky and composition with Wihtol and Hoch-schule fur Musik, Berlin; piano with Schnabel; composition with Schreker. Became established as concert pianist during tour of European countries. Then 1933, became member of two-piano team with Vitya Vronsky (Mrs. Babin). American debut Town Hall Feb. 1937. Continued tours with two- |
piano team until entry armed iorces 1943. For two years served at home and overseas. Then 1945, resumed two-piano concert work, with orchestras, on radio, in motion pictures, and records. Works: Concerto piece for Violin and Orchestra; Concerto for Two Pianos and Orchestra; Sonata-Fantasia for 'cello and piano; Variations on Theme by Purcell, for 'cello and piano; Variations on Theme by Hummel, for clarinet and piano; Six Etudes for two pianos; Three Fantasies on Old Themes, Suite on folk |
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