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clerk in a department store until song-writing became chief activity. Songs: "Waltz Me Around Again Willie"; "Yip-I-Addy-I-Ay"; "The Little Red School House"; "School Days"; "Sun-bonnet Sue"; "I Can't Tell Why I Love You But I Do"; "Good Bye Little Girl Good Bye"; "I Just Can't Make My Eyes Behave"; "Good Bye Dolly Gray"; "I'll Be With You When the Roses Bloom Again." Address: Estate, c/o ASCAP.
Coben, Cy, composer, author; b. New York, N.Y., Apr. 4, 1919. ASCAP 1947. Educ: Lincoln High School, Jersey City; music, Clinton School, New York. Studied trumpet with Michael Skislak, Bayonne, N.J. Played trumpet in local bands and Jersey City Symph. World War II, Pharmacist's Mate, U.S. Navy. Songs: "Spin the Bottle"; "The Machine-Gun Song"; "The Man Who Paints the Rainbow"; "Why Did I Teach My Girl to Drive"; "The Mumbles Song (What Did He Say?)"; "The Old Piano Roll Blues"; "I Love that Guy"; "What, Where and When"; "Punky Punkin "; "Lullaby in Boogie"; "She's a Lady"; "Tambourine"; "C'est La Vie"; "Come Into the Parlour"; "Miles Standish"; "I Think"; "Bullfiddle Boogie"; "Nobody's Child"; "There's No Wings on My Angel." Home: Weehawken, N.J. Address: c/o ASCAP.
Cobey, Louis, composer; radio, recording, and piano roll artist; b. Poughkeepsie, N.Y., Oct. 4, 1897. ASCAP 1944. Educ.: piano with Harry S. Bock, Carl Roeder, and Jacques Friedberger. Pianist for radio and recording orchestras and player-piano rolls. In Army Air Forces during World War II. Works: "Out of a Million"; "A Picture of You"; "Cinderella's Wedding Day"; "Red Roses"; "So Is My Love for You"; "Silhouettes." Address: 441 West 57 St., New York 22, N.Y. |
Coburn, Richard, author, singer; b. Ipswich, Mass., June 8, 1886. ASCAP 192L Songs: "Whispering"; "Tell Me Why"; "Oriental"; 'Mummy Mine"; "Nightingale"; "Behind a Silken Veil"; "I'll Keep Loving You"; "Day by Day"; "Patsy"; "Day Dreaming." Also lyrics tor Carter de Haven's production, Fancies. Home: Phelan, Calif. Address: c/o ASCAP.
Cogane, Nelson, author, newspaper columnist, b. Czarist Russia, Dec. 25, 1902. ASCAP 1940. Brought by parents to Dayton, Ohio, 1904. Educ.: Dayton public schools. Sports writer on Dayton Journal. Wrote songs as avocation. To New York, became business manager Mike Riley Orch. Advertising and promotion manager Music Business Magazine; also wrote "Songwriter's Column" for same publication. Chairman of Clef Award, Carnegie Hall, 1945. Songs: "Eight Little Notes"; "We Three (My Echo, My Shadow and Me)"; "Hey, Hey, Your Cares Away"; "There's a Chill on the Hill"; "Talk to the Boss in the Sky"; "Off the Shores of Somewhere"; "Never Make a Promise in Vain"; "Is There Somebody Else"; "Yesterday's Gardenias"; "Send This Purple Heait to My Sweetheart"; "On The Island of Madeira"; "The Clarinet Polka", "If You Cared"; "I'm Countin' on the Mountain Moon"; "Jumpin' With a G.I. Gal"; "Spelling Bee ; "What Do You Use for a Heart"; "All the World's a Wonderland"; "There's a Rainbow in My Heart"; "Old Songs Bring Memories." Home: 61-41 Saunders St., Rego Park, N.Y.
Cohan, George M., composer, author, actor, playwright, theatrical producer, manager; b. Providence, R.I., July 4, 1878; d. New York, N.Y., Nov. 5, 1942. ASCAP 1914 (charter member). Of theatrical parentage, made first professional appearance as "Little Georgie," child violinist at Keith's Bijou, Boston; first dramatic appear- |
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