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Clark, Edward |
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Council tor Negro Folklore; taught and lectured at New School for Social Research, New York; Columbia Univ.; New Haven State College. Musical essays appeared in many publications. Sang in recitals and Broadway productions including Carmen Jones. Folklorist and interpreter of Afro-American songs. Editor Negro Arts Songs. Many arrangements of traditional Negro melodies: "Gwine Up"; "Trampin*"; "Peter, Go Ring Dem Bells"; "There's a Man Goin' Round." Choral works: "Sing Ye Glad Praises, Alleluia"; "Wade in the Water" (newly arranged for quartet); The Prodigal Son in Babylon (cantata). Home: Jackson, Miss. Address: Jackson College, Jackson, Miss.
Clark, Edward, composer, author, actor, radio-script writer, b. Russia, May 6, 1878. ASCAP 1940. To U.S. 1891. For many years comedian in vaudeville ("Eddie Clark and the Winning Widows," etc.) Musical shows: You're in Love; Cinders, Furs and Frills; Oh What a Girl; The Blushing Bride; Little Miss Charity; Paradise Alley; Honey Girl. Songs: "Say, Sis, Give Us a Kiss"; "My Old Man is Baseball Mad"; "Ring a Ding Dong"; "On Hawaiian Shores"; "Take a Look at Me Now"; "Heart of My Heart"; "You're In Love." Home: 1765 N. Sycamore Ave., Hollywood 28, Calif.
Clark, Kenneth S., composer, author, editor, song leader; b. Pittsburgh, Pa., May 25, 1882; d. Princeton, N.J., Jan. 22, 1943. ASCAP 1943. Educ: Kiskiminetas School, Shadyside Acad., Princeton Univ. 1905. Pioneer in community singing. As Princeton student wrote "The Princeton Jungle Song"; "Going Back to Nassau Hall"; "Princeton, That's All"; "Princeton, Forward March." YMCA secretary as song leader with 79th Div., AEF, World War I. After the war continuously active in community music through na- |
tionwide organizational work and executive posts in publishing houses. Editor of Municipal Aid for Music in America; Music in Industry; and an anthology of drinking songs, Bottoms Up, written under pen name of Clifford Leach. Also, exec, editor of twenty-fifth issue of Carmina Prince-tonia, 1940. Songs: "Our Glorious America"; "An Indian Cradle Song"; setting for Samuel Foss' poem, "House by the Side of the Road"; "Kissing Games"; "A Moonlight Buggy Ride"; "Take a Puff Puff Puff"; "The Battle Song of Princeton"; "When You Steal a Kiss or Two"; "Department Store Cowboy"; "Ridin' Round the Range." Piano solo: Vesper Bells. Address: Estate, <"< ASCAP.
Clarke, Grant, author, pubhshei, b. Akron, Ohio, May 14, 1891; d. California, May 16, 1931. ASCAP 1914 (charter member). Educ: Akron High School. Lett stage career (actor in stock companies) for song writing. Staff writer with New York publishing houses, also had own publishing house. First song hit, "Dat's Harmony," written tor Bert Williams. Also wrote songs for Fannie Bricc, Eva Tanguay, Nora Bayes, Al Jolson. One of first songwriters called to Hollywood with the advent of sound in films; wrote songs for The Jazz Singer, Weary River, On With the Show. Songs. "Tired of Me"; "I've Got a Bimbo Down on the Bamboo Isle"; "Rosy, You Are Working Too Hard"; "Second Hand Rose"; "Mother I Still Have You"; "Weary River"; "Am I Blue"; "Sahara Rose"; "Land of Old Mack Joe"; "Yokohama Lullaby"; "Avalon Town"; "There's a Little Bit of Bad in Every Good Little Girl"; "Get Out and Get Under"; "Everything is Peaches Down in Georgia"; "Thanks to You"; "Dat's Harmony"; "I Hate to Lose You"; "Blue"; "Anything is Nice if it Comes from Dixie Land"; "Just for Me and Mary"; "In the Land of Beginning |
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