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Cassin, James
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Cassin, James, composer, author; b. Chicago, 111., April 30, 1910. ASCAP 1950. Educ: Northwestern High School, Detroit, Mich.; New York Coll. of Music, harmony, theory, piano. Worked night clubs with or­chestras and as a single. Played piano and trumpet. World War II, U.S. Air Force, radio operator 1942-45. Songs: "Smiling Through Tears"; "Senti­mental Me"; "My Treasure Chest of Memories"; "The Man in the Moon"; "Loving is Believing." Home: New York, N.Y. Address: c/o ASCAP.
Castelnuovo-Tedesco, Mario, com­poser; b. Florence, Italy, April 3, 1895. ASCAP 1940. To U.S. 1939; citizen 1946. At early age revealed compositional talent while student at Cherubini Royal Inst, of Music; studied composition under Udebrando Pizzetti. At fifteen, wrote original piano pieces. For a time wrote short piano pieces and settings for poems, chiefly Shakespeare's. In 1920, began larger forms of composition. Works include operas, La Mandragola (Na­tional Prize, Venice, 1926), Bacco in Toscana; Aucassin et Nicolette. Film music: And Then There Were None; Down to Earth; Loves of Carmen; Everybody Does It. Incidental music to plays: Savonarola; I Giganti Delia Montagna. Other works: Ballets: The Birthday of the Infanta; The Octoroon Ball Orchestral Works: Nine Shake­speare Overtures; Indian Songs and Dances; Five Humoresques on Fos­ters Themes; American Rhapsody; NoaKs Ark. Concertos, for violin (two), piano (two), cello, guitar and small orch., oboe and strings. Also chamber music, over three hundred songs, over one hundred piano pieces, choral music and oratorio, The Book of Ruth. Home: 269 So. Clark Dr., Beverly Hills, Calif.
Castro, Armando, composer; b. Na-guabo, Puerto Rico, April 13, 1904. ASCAP 1948. Educ: University of
Puerto Rico. Played in school band. Orchestra director and recording artist in Puerto Rico. Songs: "Cu-Tu-Gu-Ru (Jack, Jack, Jack)"; "Mary Ann"; "Cose, Cose, Cose"; "El Papylon"; "Take Me, Take Me"; "Escambao." Home: Miramar, P.R. Address: c/o ASCAP.
Cavanaugh, Bob, composer; b. New York, N.Y., Oct. 3, 1902. ASCAP 1948. Educ.: public schools. Ban-joist in vaudeville, 1922; later played guitar and piano. Member of popular orchestra, played in hotels and toured in vaudeville. World War II, enter­tained with U.S.O. Songs: "You Should Have Told Me"; "Seven More Days"; "So Is My Love for You"; "I'm BA OO BA"; "Midnight Waltz"; "Long as the One I Love Still Loves Me"; "Sentimental Gypsy"; "Greens and Grits"; "One Night in County Clare"; "Any Old Town"; "Who Told You"; "If You Care For Me"; "Back Stage Door"; "Bass Slappin Pappa." Home: Brooklyn, N.Y. Address: c/o ASCAP.
Cavanaugh, James (Jimmy), author; b. New York, N.Y., Oct. 29. ASCAP 1933. Educ.: New York public schools. Wrote own material in vaudeville act. Songs: "Mississippi Mud"; "I Like Mountain Music'; "You're in my Power"; "Mrs. Astor's Horse"; "One Hamburger for Ma­dame"; "The Horse with the Laven­der Eyes"; "The Umbrella Man"; "The Gaucho Serenade"; "Cross-town"; "Whistling in the Wildwood"; "The Man with the Mandolin"; "Goody Goodbye"; "You're Breaking My Heart All Over Again"; "I Came, I Saw, I Congaed"; "A Little on the Lonely Side"; Td Do It All Over Again'; "That Feeling in the Moon­light"; "You're Nobody Till Some­body Loves You"; "Down at Dinty Moore's"; "The Cuban Cabby"; "On a Simmery Summery Day"; "Dearest Darling"; "Christmas In Killarney."