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Operettas: Lucky Jade; Tune In; Hollywood Bound; Shooting Stars; Rio Rico; Puddin Head the First; English version Strauss's Waltz Dream. Songs: "The Pipes of Spring"; "March of the Guards"; "The Road to Romany." Author of short stories and articles. Home: New York, N.Y. Address: c/o ASCAP.
Brainen, Jerome, composer; b. New York, N.Y., Sept. 3, 1916. ASCAP 1941. Educ.: graduate Swedish Cons, of Music, scholarship student; piano, Westlin; Theory, Harmony, Friedman. Pianist and vocal arranger for popular orchestras; wrote score Gay New Orleans (N.Y. World's Fair 1940); also contributed to N.Y. production Star and Garter. In Armed Forces World War II, served as radio operator, Signal Corp. in Okinawa and Korea, 1943-46. Songs: "Teacher's Pet"; "Ain't Ya Got No Romance?"; "Chatterbox" (from picture That's Right You re Wrong); "A Little Boy and A Little Girl"; "I Cant Change My Heart"; "Don't Let Julia Fool Ya"; "It Wouldn't Be Love"; "I Touched a Star"; "The Night Has a Thousand Eyes" (from picture of same name); also theme song for television program "Cavalcade of Bands." Home: 441 Ocean Parkway, Brooklyn 18, New York.
Brana, Herman, composer, arranger, conductor, flutist; b. Mayari, Cuba, Mar. 6, 1910. To U.S. 1923; citizen. ASCAP 1950. Studied under Don Luis Garvia. Arranger for Carlos Molina's orchestra and others. World War II, thirty-four months Army Air Force Band. Stage, radio and television performer. Songs: "His Feet Too Big for the Bed"; " 'Tis Only a Matter of Mind Over Matter"; "The Pig Latin Way"; "Los Caballitos de Palo"; "Pato con Saca"; "Boga Gon-dolero"; "Gloria"; "Melanesia." Home: Copiague, N.Y. Address: c/o ASCAP. |
Branen, Jeff T., author, publisher; b. Sycamore, III, Dec. 9, 1872; d. Butte, Mont, Jan. 19, 1927. ASCAP 1943. Educ.: public schools. A country school teacher in youth; studied law in Chicago and began practice 1898. After one year gave up law; turned to music as author and publisher. For many years active in minstrel field; professional producer of amateur shows. Songs: "Out Where the Billows Roll High"; "I'm Looking for a Nice Young Fellow"; "I Can Start a Little Nation ot My Own"; "In the Valley of the Moon"; "Just a Little Bit of Green"; "Bandanna Rag"; "You May Be the World to a World of Friends, But You'ie More Than a World to Me"; "Baby Love"; "Can't Go To Sleep Till Manny Jinny Comes Home"; "The Bride and the Groom"; "I Wouldn't Be Lonely if I Had You"; "Bring Back My Heart." Address: Estate, c/o ASCAP.
Branscombe, Gena (Mrs. John Ferguson Tenney); composer, author, conductor; b. Picton, Ont. (of pioneer ancestors, Manhattan 1640), Nov. 4, 1881. ASCAP 1932. Educ.: Chicago Musical Coll. (twice gold medal winner) studied with Felix Borowski, Dr. Florenz Ziegfeld, Arthur Friedheim Rudolph Ganz, and Alexander von Fielitz; then to Berlin to specialize in composition with Engelbert Humper-dinck. Became head of piano department Whitman Coll. Cons, of Music 1907-09; honorary Master of Arts, Whitman Coll. 1932. Long active in the musical life of N.Y.; conductor Branscombe Choral of N.Y.; Branscombe Choral of Mountain Lakes, N.J.; conductor state chorus of N.J.; Contemporary Club Choral of Newark, National chorus of one thousand; Golden Jubilee Celebration of Genera) Federation of Women's Clubs, Atlantic City, N.J., 1941. National chairman American music and folksong, General Federation Women's Clubs 1930-35; First Vice Pres. National |
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