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loved"; "Spain"; "Joy"; "A Love Song"; "Clementine"; "I Will Lift Mine Eyes." Home: 194 Riverside Dr., New York 25, N.Y.
Edwards, Gus, composer, producer; b. Hohensallza, Germany, Aug. 18, 1879; d. Los Angeles, Calif., Nov. 7, 1945. ASCAP 1914 (charter member). To U.S. 1881; citizen 1903. Educ: New York public schools; night schools. Self-educated in music. As child worked in cigar factory and sang at night in lodge halls, excursion boats, etc. Became professional singer, first singing from gallery with stage stars and later in own acts. Promoter of juvenile acts in vaudeville evolving into musical comedy School Days. Developed talent of children who became screen, stage and radio stars (Elsie Janis, Eddie Cantor, George Jessel, Walter Win-chell, Georgie Price, Lila Lee, Helen Menken, Eleanor Powell, Ray Bolger, Herman Timberg, The Duncan Sisters, Hildegarde, Mae Murray, Sally Rand, Groucho Marx, Jack Pearl, Eddie Buzzell, Bert Wheeler, Louis Silvers, Mervyn Le Roy, The Lane Sisters, Paul Haakon, Ricardo Cortez, Harry Rapt, Louise Groody, and Ina Ray Hutton). Wrote and produced musical comedies: Merry Go Round; Sunbonnet Sue; Show Window. Established Gus Edwards Music Hall, New York; conducted own music publishing house; retired from vaudeville 1928 and two years created and produced special subjects for films. Also produced many cabaret shows. Returned to vaudeville 1930-37 and conducted musical activities of stage, screen, and radio until ill health forced retirement 1939. Story of life included in motion picture The Star Maker. Songs: "All I Want Is My Black Baby Back"; "Schooldays'; "Sunbonnet Sue"; "In My Merry Olds-mobile"; "Tammany"; "By the Light of the Silvery Moon"; "I Can't Tell Why I Love You But I Do"; "Goodbye |
Little Girl Goodbye"; "I Just Can't Make My Eyes Behave"; "Could You Be True to Eyes of Blue—If You Looked into Eyes of Brown"; "111 Be with You When the Roses Bloom Again"; "If a Girl Like You Loved a Boy Like Me"; "He's My Pal"; "Way Down Yonder in the Cornfield'; "In Zanzibar"; "Two Dirty Little Hands." Address: Estate, c/o ASCAP.
Edwards, Jack, composer; b. New York, N.Y., April 9, 1920. ASCAP 1943. Educ.: New York Univ., 1942, Bachelor of Arts, majoring in music and radio. Of musical family (nephew of Gus and Leo Edwards, q.v/). Year in armed forces. Songs: "And So It Ended"; "Ten Million Men and a Girl"; "A Soldier Marched Away with My Heart"; "Let's Mop It"; "Christmas Lullaby"; "Walking on Air"; "Takin the Trains Out"; "My Mother"; "Easter Greetings"; "Boogie Woogie Polka" (instrumental); "Here Comes the Band"; "Waltz With Me"; "Go West Young Man"; "Take Her to Jamaica"; "The Same Old Crowd"; "Smiles and Tears"; "When I Gets to Where I'm Goin'"; "If I Could Steal You from Somebody Else"; "The Laugh's On Me"; "Forward My Mail"; "Life's Too Short for Tears"; "I'm Afraid, I'm Afraid, I'm Afraid." Also, "Au Clair De Lune," piano solo, and musical setting, Ten Commandments. Home: 25 Central Park West, New York 23, N.Y.
Edwards, Joan, composer, author, singer; b. New York, N.Y., Feb. 13, 1920. ASCAP 1950. Educ.: George Washington High School; Hunter College, New York. Studied piano Raphael Samuel. Niece of Leo and Gus Edwards, q.v. Accompanist for singers. Appeared on top radio programs; five years featured singer on Hit Parade. Hotel, club, stage and screen singer; appeared in motion |
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