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Dale, Jimmy
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"Shine"; "Oh You Devil" (instru­mental); "Porto Rico" (instrumen­tal); "That Minor Strain." Wrote music for the all-Negro musical revue Rang Tang. Home: 318 W. 139 St., New York 30, N.Y.
Dale, Jimmy, composer, arranger; b. Bronx, N.Y., June 18. ASCAP 1942. Educ: Stuyvesant High School and Columbia Univ. Gave up engineering and banking for music. A successful arranger for school bands at fourteen; at seventeen, professional pianist and violinist. Pianist in vaudeville; ar­ranger for music publishers from 1929. Began original composition in 1931. Now teaching theory, com­position, improvisation, harmony, ar­ranging and orchestration at Essex Cons, of Music, Newark, N.J. Songs: "Call on Me"; "Must I Forget"; "Rhythm"; "The Smugglers* Night­mare"; "Serenade to a Wildcat", "Jumpy Nerves"; "Sudan"; "Cuban Jive Session"; "Dinner for the Duchess"; "Blue Dreams"; "Music af­ter Midnite"; "Military Swing"; "The Navy Bounce"; "Russian Dressin'"; "I've Got a Cookie in Kansas"; "If I'm Lucky"; "Rumpus in Columbus"; "I Hate to See the Evening Sun Go Down"; "Suzanne"; "Don't Have a Minute to Myself; "Just Say I Love Her." Home: 44 Kimball Terrace, Yonkers, N.Y.
Dallam, Helen, composer, author; b. Chicago, 111., Oct. 4. ASCAP 1942. Educ.: American Cons., Chicago (scholarship), Master of Music de­gree, theory, composition (piano, minor). Teacher of theory, com­position, American Cons.; Acad, of Allied Arts, N.Y.C.; also taught pri­vately in Columbus, Ohio, and at present in Buffalo, N.Y. Also played piano in churches, schools, recital programs. Awarded prize Chicago Dauy News contest for American Composers for Quartet for Strings
and Piano, An Indian Legend and song, "Afterthought." Active member N.A.A.C.C; American Pen Women; Society for French-American Symph. Music Abroad. Arrangements for or­chestra, radio stations, Chicago. Con­tributor of music articles to Etude, The Musician, Musical Observer, Music Trade News. Works: Orches­tral—The Slave; Temple Song; Mist of Autumn; Scotch Highland Song. Violin: Betrothal; In a Moorish Mar­ket. Piano: Jewelled Night; Pastel, Group of Four. Tone poem, Earth in Cycle for soprano, harp, and string quartet. Songs: "Desire"; "Crimson Pheasant", "Be Thou Not Sad"; "Of Destiny"; "Whole Tone"; "Rain and Stone"; "The Bird of the Wilderness"; "A Passing Cloud"; "Blue Magic"; "Moonlight on a Summer Night"; "Can't Help Grieving." Also Negro spirituals: "Tse Done De Bes' I Knowed, Lawd"; "OF Massa"; "My Soul is Boun' in de Lawd." Home: New York, N.Y. Address: c/o ASCAP.
Daly, Joseph, composer, director; b. Boston, Mass., Feb. 7, 1891. ASCAP 1938. Educ.: Boston public schools; harmony, counterpoint with Percy Goetschius; piano with Felix Fox. At fourteen started composing; in mer­cantile business; then for one year accompanist in vaudeville for various artists. Organized first girl band in vaudeville, "Joe Daly and His Co-eds." Then variety act "Joe Daly and His RKO Discoveries." For past ten years in production department of N.B.C. Songs: "Chicken Reel"; "Daly's Reel"; "In the Heart of the City that Has No Heart"; "What Dye Mean You Lost Your Dog (Has Anybody Here Seen Rover?)"; "I'm All Dressed Up and No Place To Go"; "It's a Great Life If You Don't Weaken"; "Scented Roses Waltzes"; "Roses and Violets Waltzes"; "Muriel Waltzes"; "Too Much Ginger"; "The Turkey Trot"; "Pitter Patter Rag"; "How Easy It Is