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Cuppett, Charles Harold
Can't"; "Where Are You (Girl of My Dreams)"; "Love Me Tonight"; "At Your Command"; "That's Grandma"; "From Monday On"; "I Don't Stand a Ghost of a Chance With You"; "Waltzing In a Dream." Address: 9028 Sunset Blvd., Hollywood, Calif.
Crumit, Frank, composer, author, stage and radio artist; b. Jackson, Ohio, Sept. 26, 1889; d. Long-meadow, Mass., Sept. 7, 1943. ASCAP 1923. Educ: Culver Military Acad. 1906; Univ. of Ohio; left en­gineering course before graduation for stage career. In various vaudeville musical units, and for more than a decade star of musical shows, includ­ing Tangerine; Moonlight; Ziegfeld Follies of 1923; No No Nanette; Queen High; Okay. Among first stage stars to become active in radio. For many years he and Julia Sanderson (Mrs. Crumit) were prominent net­work entertainers. Four years Shep­herd of The Lambs, New York theatncal club. Although a former student at Univ. of Ohio, wrote foot­ball song "The Buckeye Battle Cry" for Ohio State Univ. Songs: "Sweet Lady"; "Gay Caballero"; "Tale of the Ticker"; "Song of the Prune"; "Pretty Little Dear"; "Get Away, Old Man, Get Away"; "King of Borneo"; "A Parlor Is a Pleasant Place to Sit In"; "Abdul Abulbul Amir"; "There Is No One With Endurance Like the Man Who Sells Insurance"; "Donald the Dub." Address: Estate, c/0 ASCAP.
Cunliffe, Richard R., composer, author, b. McKeesport, Pa., Aug. 8, 1906. ASCAP 1949. Educ.: in music with father; harmony, American Cons, of Music; clarinet, Robert Lindeman of Chicago Symphony; also with Leighton Wells and Clar­ence Warmelin of Minneapolis Sym­phony; flute, Theodore Yshke. In­strumentalist and arranger with popu­lar orchestras; twelve years with
Ted Weems. Member of CBS Staff Orch., Chicago, since 1937. Songs: "Quien Sabe"; "Who's Got a Tent for Rent"; "O'Leary is Leery"; "I Met a Miss in Texas"; "In My Heart"; "Are You Still My Valentine?" Home: Chicago, 111. Address: c/o ASCAP.
Cunningham, Paul, author; b. New York, N.Y., Jan. 25, 1890. ASCAP
1921 (director 1945-------; secretary
1951-------). Educ.: New York pub­lic schools; Manhattan Coll., Bache­lor of Arts 1914. Became interested in theatricals and songwriting through staging college shows. On graduation became member of music publishing company, then singer and staff writer for music publishing house. Singer in vaudeville circuits for several years, Cunningham and Bennett (Mrs. Cun­ningham). Songs: "I Am an Ameri­can"; "Please Take a Letter, Miss Brown"; "Have a Smile for Every-" one You Meet"; "Coronation Waltz"; "All Over Nothing at All"; "The Shores of Tripoli"; 'That's How I Believe in You"; "You Can't Make a Fool Out of Me"; "Piggy Wiggy Woo"; "Hats Off to MacArthur"; "Four Buddies"; "Dakota." Home: Glen Cove, N.Y. Address: c/o ASCAP.
Cuppett, Charles Harold, composer, b. Coquimbo, Chile, June 25, 1894. ASCAP 1942. Educ.: Ohio Wesleyan Univ., Bachelor of Science, Phi Beta Kappa. Composer and conductor for numerous commeicial films; organist and choral director. Songs: "Night­fall"; "Inspiration"; "Moon Beams"; "There's Music in the Air"; "I'll Sing My Song for You"; "Paint in the Sky"; "Where is Love." Orch. works: Indigo Moon (rhapsody for orch.; performed by N.B.C.); Piano Con­certo in C Minor; Lament for the Living, suite for piano and orch. Nu­merous songs, choral works, quartets, and the opera Le Baiser. Home: Wanaque, N.J. Address: c/o ASCAP.