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Studied composition, harmony and theory with Federal Music Project; student, Schillinger composition, New York Univ. In armed forces, World War II. Works: "The Devil Sat Down and Cried j "Shh .... It's a Military Secret"; "Swing, Brother, Swing"; "There's Only One in Love"; "We Cant Go On This Way"; "Is It Love (Or Is It Conscription)"; "Dog House Polka"; "Feelin' Low"; "Penthouse in the Basement"; "The Quicker I Gets to Where I'm Coin'"; "You're Just the Sweetest Thing"; "Surprise Party"; "Bop Goes My Heart"; "Anthropology"; "Goin Back to Memphis"; also tone poem, Skyline. Home: New York, N.Y. Address: c/o ASCAP.
Bivens, Burke, composer; b. Kirby-ville, Texas, Aug. 15, 1903. ASCAP 1948. Educ: public schools, Texas. Studied violin, saxophone, clarinet, voice and harmony with private tutors, and in Army. Served in U.S. Army, 1920-21; World War II, 1942-43. Has been associated with various popular orchestras, playing clarinet, and saxophone; also arranger. Songs: "The Swamp Ghost"; "Josephine"; "Annabelle"; "Don't Let Julia Fool Ya." Home: Chicago, 111. Address: c/o ASCAP.
Black, Ben, composer, author, recording artist, producer of stage shows; b. Dudley, Eng., Dec. 11, 1889; d. San Francisco, Calif., Dec. 26, 1950. ASCAP 1926. Musical director, Paramount Theaters, N.Y., San Francisco, Los Angeles; Saenger Theater, New Orleans; Coliseum Theater, San Francisco; Alexandria Theater, San Francisco; California Theater, San Francisco. Also producer of stage shows New York, Hollywood, Los Angeles and San Francisco. Songs: "Moonlight and Roses"; "Hold Me"; "Tears"; "You and I"; "Don't Sing Aloha When I Go." Address: Estate, 7r ASCAP. |
Black, Frank J., composer, pianist, director, radio executive; b. Philadelphia, Pa., Nov. 28, 1896. ASCAP 1926. Musical from early childhood. Began piano at six, formal debut at ten. Officer with Palms of the French Acad.; Doctor of Music (honorary) Missouri Valley Coll. Studied piano with Rafael Joseffy. Forsook chemistry for music. Vaudeville pianist; piano recording artist; theater conductor; orchestra director of historic Century Theater, N.Y.; assistant to Erno Rapee at Fox Theater, Philadelphia; musical director phonograph company. Pioneer in development of arrangements for part singing in the instrumental manner; in radio in 1922 as director of weekly broadcast in Philadelphia. Said to have conducted first radio symphonic concert (1925) with twenty-one piece orchestra. General music director with the N.B.C. 1932 to 1948. Has amassed large collection of musical manuscripts of great masters. Credited with many thousands of arrangements. Works include many original scores for dramatic scripts: White Cliffs of Dover by Alice Duer Miller, Murder of Lidice by Edna St. Vincent Millay. Also Bells at Eventide and A Sea Tale. Home: 26 E. 63 St., New York 21, N.Y. |
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Black, Jennie Prince, composer; b. New York, N.Y., Oct. 10, 1868; d. New York, N.Y., Sept. 20, 1945. ASCAP 1942. Charter member Hudson River Music School, Dobbs Ferry; manager Tarrytown and Dobbs Ferry Hospitals for thirty years. Founder fund-raising committee for Washington Irving Memorial, N.Y. Author, / Remember, autobiography; also founder of Robin's Nest, home for crippled children. Songs: "Autumn Leaves"; "Lord's Prayer"; "When Arbutus Blooms"; "Old Dutch Nursery Rhyme"; "It is Night." Address: Estate, % ASipAP. |
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