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composer music publishing house, New York. Music for stage shows: Snapshots of 1921; Connie's Hot Chocolates. Piano solos: "On the Loose"; etc. Songs: "Ain't Misbe-havin "; "Rockin' in a Rockin' Chair"; "Swing, Mr. Charlie"; "Low Tide"; "When the Sun Sets South"; "What Did I Do To Be So Black and Blue." Home: New York, N.Y. Address: c/o ASCAP.
Brooks, Harvey Oliver, composer; b. Philadelphia, Pa., Feb. 17, 1899. ASCAP 1942. Songs: "I Want You, I Need You"; "That Dallas Man"; "Found a New Way to Go to Town"; "They Call Me Sister Honky Tonk"; "I'm No Angel"; "Stuff'; "The A. F. of L. March"; "The Sweetest Moments of My Life Are With You"; "Let's Go Ballyhoo"; "La Martinique"; "It's a Mighty Pretty Night for Love"; "Just for You and Me (in Heavenly Hawaii)"; "Vienna Forgot How to Waltz"; "A Little Bird Told Me"; "That's When I Long For You." Home: Los Angeles, Calif. Address: c/o ASCAP.
Brooks, Jack, composer, author; b. Liverpool, Eng., Feb. 14, 1912. ASCAP 1946. To U.S. 1916; citizen 1917. Wrote special material for Bing Crosby, Fred Allen, Phil Harris; also wrote "Command Performance" for Armed Forces Radio Service. Under contract motion picture studios, Hollywood, scoring and writing songs. Motion pictures include: The Killers; Song of Scheherazade; The Chase; Little Miss Big; Cuban Pete; The Black Angel; Frontier Gal; Canyon Passage; This Love of Ours; Abroad with Two Yanks; Summer Stock; Harvey; Buccaneers Girl; Yes Sir, That's My Baby; Rogue's Regiment; The Countess of Monte Cristo; Night in Paradise. Stage show: Meet the People. Works: Libretto for concertized version of The Dybbuk, opera (performed by Werner Jensen and Port- |
land Symph.); also wrote Engb'sh lyrics for four Rimsky-Korsakov songs. Songs: "I Can't Get You Out of My Mind"; "Let's Go to Caliacabu ; "Cherokee Charlie"; "Swinga Bye My Baby"; "Ole Buttermilk Sky"; "Here Come the Co-eds"; "Once Upon a Dream"; "Little Miss Jesse James"; "It's Dreamtime"; "Song of Scheherazade"; "You Wonderful You"; "Look at Me"; "Saturday Date"; "Rosita and Joe"; "Just for a While"; "Men Are Little Children"; "They've Never Figured Out a Woman"; "Is It Yes, Or Is It No"; "Who Can Tell?"; "Lonesome Gal"; "I've Shed a Hundred Tears." Home: 812 S. Robertson Blvd., Los Angeles, 35, Calif.
Brooks, John Benson, composer, arranger, vocal coach; b. Houlton, Me., Feb. 23, 1917. ASCAP 1943. Educ: public schools, Houlton; Waltham and Newton, Mass.; in music with George Cohen, Josef Schillinger, Tom Timothy, and New England Cons, of Music. Vocal coach, arranger, and pianist for publishing house and popular orchs. Songs. "Just As Though You Were Here"; "The Man in the Moon"; "It Ain't Right to Say Ain't"; "This is the House That Love Built"; "Who Threw the Whisky in the Well?"; "A Door Will Open"; "Land of the Loon"; "Holiday Forever"; "A Boy from Texas------A Girl from Tennessee"; "You Came A Long Way from St. Louis"; "The Sun is Always Shining Somewhere." Home: New York, N.Y. Address: c/o ASCAP.
Brooks, Shelton, composer, author; b. Amesburg, Ont., May 4, 1886. ASCAP 1929. U.S. Citizen. First musical educ.: acquired at keyboard of family organ with older brother to pump, bellows being beyond his reach. Became professional pianist in Detroit cafes; then vaudeville entertainer U.S. and Canada. In 1923 to Europe, played musical shows and vaudeville; command performance, |
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