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"Josephine"; "Some Day Soon." Scenarios and stories include Lord Jeff, and Henry Aldrich radio series. Home: Beverly Hills, Calif. Address: c/o ASCAP.
Burwell, Clifford R. (Cliff), composer; b. New Haven, Conn., Oct. 6, 1898. ASCAP 1944. Educ: Hillhouse High School, New Haven; piano, harmony, and counterpoint with Parsons. Pianist popular orchestras, Rudy Val-lee's, 1928-40. Appeared in motion pictures with Vallee and toured with him. Works: piano solo, Swing Express to Harlem; song, Sweet Lorraine. Home: 48-05 42 St., Long Island City, N.Y.
Bushkin, Joseph (Joe), composer, author, pianist, arranger; b. New York, N.Y., Nov. 6, 1916. ASCAP 1946. Educ.: DeWitt Clinton High School; in music with private tutors. Pianist and composer for popular orchestras, including Tommy Dorsey, Benny Coodman. Songs: "Oh, Look at Me Now"; "Whatcha Doin' After the War?"; "There'll Be a Hot Time in the Town of Berlin"; "Serenade in Thirds" (piano solo); "Everyday is Christmas ; "If I Knew You Were There"; "Portrait of Tallulah." Home: New York, N.Y. Address: c/o ASCAP.
Busse, Henry, composer, trumpeter, conductor, radio and recording artist; b. Magdeburg, Germany, May 19, 1894. ASCAP 1941. Trumpet soloist Paul Whitemans orchestra 1918-28, then organized own orchestra, night club, radio, recording and dance hall attraction. Has made concert tours Europe and U.S. Works: "Hot Lips"; "Wang Wang Blues"; "Horn Tootin Blues"; "Fiesta"; "Haunting Blues." Home: 40 Sullivan Canyon Rd., Los Angeles 49, Calif.
Buttolph, David (James David But-tolph), composer; b. New York, N.Y., Aug. 3, 1902. ASCAP 1944. Chorister |
in Grace Church Choir School, New York 1910-14. Educ.: New York pub-he and high schools; Inst, of Musical Art 1916-22. In Vienna 1923-24 Academie fur Musik Conducting School. Played in night clubs Vienna and Munich, 1923-26. Operatic coach Munich 1926-27; 1927 conductor and arranger N.B.C.; musical director of WGY 1932-33. From 1933 in Hollywood composing scores for pictures, including This Gun For Hire; Wake Island; My Favorite Blonde; Till We Meet Again; Guadalcanal Diary; The Fighting Lady; Chad Hanna. Home: 804 N. Bedford Dr., Beverly Hills, Calif.
Butts, R. Dale, composer; b. Lamasco, Ky., March 12, 1910. ASCAP 1946. Educ.: Louisville Cons, of Music, piano, organ, harmony, theory, and counterpoint. Later studied harmony and piano with Karl Schmidt, Louisville. Played in hotel orchestras at fourteen, later in vaudeville on tour, conducting. Played and arranged for various popular orchestras; staff pianist and arranger radio stations. In Hollywood scoring motion pictures My Buddy; The Catman of Paris; The Flame of the Barhary Coast; My Pal Trigger; Gay Blades; One Exciting Week; Night Train to Memphis, and others. Songs: "I'm in Love With a Guy Who Flies in the Sky"; "Please Take Me Home this Moment"; "Phrenology"; "I Get to Feeling Like This"; "Lilacs in the Spring"; "Will You Marry Me, Mr. Larramie?"; "Welcome to My Heart." Home: 10470 Kinnard Ave., W. Los Angeles, Calif.
Buys, Peter, composer, bandmaster, educator; b. Amsterdam, Holland, Aug. 11, 1881. ASCAP 1942. Of musical parents; mastered many instruments as child. At sixteen became musician transatlantic liner. At twenty-one to U.S. Eight years with U.S. Military Academy Band West Point; fifteen years with John Philip Sousa, |
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