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Happy Morning"; "A Song in My Heart'; "He's a Wonderful Savior to Me"; "Resting in His Love"; "Open the Bible and Read It"; "Challenge of the New Day"; "Sing and Smile and Pray." Home: Winona Lake, Ind.
Brock, Virgil P., author; b. Celina, Ohio, Jan. 6, 1887. ASCAP 1950. Educ: Fairmount Friends Acad., Earlham Coll., Richmond, Ind., A.B. 1914. With wife, Blanche Kerr Brock, active in Evangelistic work, and author of more than one hundred gospel hymns, incl.: "Keep Looking Up"; "We Would See Jesus"; "Beyond the Sunset", "O Wonderful Day"; "Some Happy Morning"; "A Song in My Heart'; "He's a Wonderful Savior to Me"; "Resting in His Love"; "Open the Bible and Read It", "Challenge of the New Day", "Sing and Smile and Pray." Home: Winona Lake, Ind.
Brockman, James, composer, author; b. Dec. 8, 1886. ASCAP 1921. Educ: public schools, Cleveland; Cleveland Cons, of Music, with private tutors specializing in voice. Toured with musical shows and in vaudeville; became dialect comedian writing own special material including songs: "Wop Wop Wop"; "Gari-baldie"; "Marianina"; "Yeedisha Love"; "Abie Take an Example from Your Father"; "Yompin Yeeminie Yonson"; "Strumbery, Pich, Hample Pies." Staff member popular music publishing houses; also staft writer motion picture studios Hollywood. Musical show Temptations of 1936. Songs: "I'm Forever Blowing Bubbles"; "Golden Gate", "Feather Your Nest"; "The Ship Without a Sail"; "I Faw Down and Go Boom"; "I Know What It Means to be Lonesome"; "Down Among the Sheltering Palms"; "As Long as the Shamrock Grows Green"; "Let's Grow Old Together." Home: Ambassador Hotel, Los Angeles, Calif. |
Brodsky, Roy, composer, author; b. Brooklyn, N.Y., Aug. 12, 1918. ASCAP 1947. Educ.: Thomas Jefferson High School, Brooklyn; Coll. of the City of New York. In U.S. Army Air Corps, Intelligence Dept, China-Burma-India Theater, World War II. Organized publishing house, 1945, and after a year left to become member of staff of popular music-publishing house. Works: "Wood-chuck Song"; "Baciagaloop"; "Bagel and Lox"; "Oshkosh, Wis."; "Water Faucet"; "Dance with Me"; "Love Means the Same Old Thing"; "Hush Up"; "Eighty-Six"; "Say Something Sweet to Your Sweetheart"; "Red Roses for a Blue Lady"; "Thanks Mr. Florist"; "Here, Pretty Kitty." Home: Kew Gardens, N.Y. Address: c/o ASCAP.
Broekman, David Rendrines, composer; b. Leiden, Holland, May 13, 1902. ASCAP 1947. Educ.: Royal Cons, at the Hague under Van Anrooy and Hofmeester. In youth conducted Residentie Orch., The Hague; also orchestras of French and Royal Opera houses. To U.S. 1924. Musical editor, Electrical Research Products Co. Scores for motion pictures: All Quiet on the Western Front; Phantom of the Opera, and others. Composer and director in radio; guest conductor, Carnegie Pops Concerts. Works: "Through an Old Cathedral Window"; "Little Boy Blue on Broadway"; "This—Our Land"; "The Birds Will Sing No More"; "Dialogue for Lovers"; "Samba of the Orchids"; "Intermezzo for a Day in May"; "I Will Bring You Music"; "Fanfare." Home: New York, N.Y. Address: c/o ASCAP.
Brooks, Harry, composer, pianist; b. Homestead, Pa., Sept. 20, 1895. ASCAP 1936. Educ.: Homestead Public Schools; in music with Prof. Walter Spriggs, Pittsburgh, Pa. Pianist with popular orchestras; staff |
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