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in film, Fall of the Romanoffs, 1917. Special material for revues, radio, television and motion pictures. Contract songwriter motion picture companies. Council member and former vice-pres. of Songwriters' Protective Assoc. Entertainer, World War II. At request of U.S. Army, wrote official Coast Artillery song, "Great Guns." Show credits: Earl Carroll Sketch Book; Folies Bergere; I Loved You Wednesday; Cotton Club Parade; Riviera Follies; Paradise Parade; Latin Quarter Revue. Film credits: Tlie Awful Truth; My Little Chickadee; Champagne Waltz; He Stayed For Breakfast; Murder in Swingtime; All The Answers; Good Girls Go to Paris; The Big Store; Blondie Meets the Boss; L%1 Ahner; Toast of the Town; Young and Beautiful; Everything's On Ice; Start Cheering. Songs: "Don't Change Horses" (Franklin D. Roosevelt's official campaign song 1944); "My Dreams Have Gone With the Wind" (Acad. Award nomination, 1938); "Mairzy Doats"; "Kiss Me Sweet"; "Champagne Waltz"; "Java Jive"; "For Whom the Bell Tolls"; "Bless Your Heart"; "Heaven Only Knows"; "I'm a Big Girl Now"; "Fuzzy Wuzzy"; "If It's You"; "Golden Wedding Waltz"; "Ashby de la Zooch"; "Lil Abner"; "Pardon My Love"; "Sweetheart Waltz"; "Early to Bed"; "I Loved You Wednesday"; "Jack-in-the-Box"; "Pu-leeze! Mr. Hemingway!"; "Felicia No Capicia"; "She Broke My Heart in Three Places"; "Jack-of-All-Trades"; "Wake Up and Dream"; "Boomerang"; "Whippoorwill Hill"; "If Wishes Were Kisses'; "Miracle on Main Street"; "I Don't Care"; "The Hobo Song." Transcripts and translation versions of German Lieder and ancient ballads. Home: New York, N.Y. Address: c/o ASCAP.
Dresser, Paul, composer, author, publisher, actor, playright, producer; b. Terre Haute, Ind., April 22, 1858; d. New York, N.Y., Jan. 30, 1906. |
ASCAP 1939. A seminarian, St. Meinrad's, Switz City, Ind., to prepare for priesthood; left school at sixteen to become minstrel, then vaudeville singer and monologist. At turn of century was member music publishing house, Howley, Haviland & Dresser. Wrote, produced and starred in plays: A Green Goods Man; The Danger Signal; The Two Johns; The Midnight Bell; A Tin Soldier. Motion picture My Gal Sal, the story of his life, written by brother, Theodore Dreiser. Songs: "The Letter That Never Came"; "The Outcast Unknown"; "My Gal Sal"; "On the Banks of the Wabash" (adopted as Indiana State Song); "The Pardon Came Too Late"; "Once Ev'ry Year"; "Just Tell Them That You Saw Me"; "Jean"; "I Was Looking for My Boy, She Said"; "The Blue and the Grey, Or a Mother's Gift to Her Country"; "You Don't Belong to the Regulars, You're Just a Volunteer." Address: Estate, % ASCAP.
Dreyer, Dave, composer, pianist, publisher; b. Brooklyn, N.Y., Sept. 22, 1894. ASCAP 1925. Pianist for New York music publishing house; vaudeville accompanist Al Jolson, Sophie Tucker, Belle Baker, and Frank Fay. Became member of staff New York music publishing house 1923; wrote scores for motion-picture studios 1929-40. Opened own music-publishing house 1947. Songs: "Me and My Shadow"; "Rainbow 'Round My Shoulder"; "Back in Your Own Back Yard"; "Cecelia"; "Four Walls"; "Golden Gate"; "In a Little Second Hand Store"; "Wabash Moon"; "I'm Following You"; "I Wanna Sing About You"; "I'm Keeping Company"; "You Can't Be True, Dear." Home: New York, N.Y. Address: c/o ASCAP.
Driggs, Collins H., composer, author, organist; b. Manchester, Conn., June 27, 1911. ASCAP 1950. Educ: Manchester public schools; harmony and |
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