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Ellsworth, Bob
Light"; "Bouncing Buoyancy"; "C Jam Blues." Also symphonic suite, Black, Brown and Beige, and music for Beggars Holiday. Home: New York, N.Y. Address: c/o ASCAP.
Elliott, John M. (Jack), composer, author; b. Cowanda, N.Y., May 7, 1914. ASCAP 1945. Educ.: Bennett High School, Buffalo. Vaudeville, night club, theater, and radio enter­tainer. Wrote special material for him­self and others. Theatrical reporter on Chicago Variety 1939. Began song-writing 1940. To Hollywood 1943; has written over one hundred musical scores for motion pictures. Songs: "I Think of You"; "Do You Care"; "Drop Me A Line"; "Mornm on the Farm"; "It's So Nice to Have a Man Around the House"; "Be Mine"; "Sam's Song"; "Our Very Own"; "Timeless"; "Coffee in the Morning" (rec'd hon­orable mention Acad, of Motion Pic­ture Arts and Sciences 1949); "I Don't Wanna Be Kissed"; "Three Wishes." Home: 12634 Moorpark, Studio City, Calif.
Elliott, Zo (Alonzo Elliott), com­poser; b. Manchester, N.H., May 25, 1891. ASCAP 1940. Educ.: St. Paul's, Concord; Philips, Andover; Yale; Trinity Coll., Cambridge; Columbia Law; Fontainebleau Cons., France. Studied harmony with Nadia Bou-langer, and conducting with Leonard Bernstein and Robert Zeller; singing with Willy, de Sadler; piano with Harry Wittemore. Songwriter at Yale, where in amateur musical introduced what later became World War I song, "There's a Long, Long Trail." At fourteen had song "Tulips" pub­lished followed by a march, Captain of the Crew; also The Phillipien March, both words and music, 1908, written for an Andover-Exeter foot­ball game. Other songs: "The Mid­shipman's March"; "There's a Wee Cottage on a Hillside"; "The World Was Made for You and Me"; "In the
Heart of Paradise"; "Enchanted River"; "British' Eighth March" (John Masefield wrote words for refrain); "Bluebird." Home: Manchester, N.H. Address: c/o ASCAP.
Ellis, Jack, author; b. New York, N.Y., March 28, 1898. ASCAP 1942. Educ.: Commercial High School; New York Univ. Started writing songs through special lyrics and parodies for motion picture company conven­tions. For twenty years motion-picture executive. Songs: "When Love Grows Cold"; "Yes, Sorority"; "I Can Get It for You Wholesale"; "If I Can't Have Anna in Havana"; "I'll Never Let You Go"; "Blue Underneath a Yellow Moon"; "I Adore Eleanor"; "Throwing Pebbles in the Millstream"; "Who Pushed the Button"; "Let's Go To The Movies" (sponsored by mo­tion picture industry). Home: 333 W. 56 St., New York 19, N.Y.
Ellis, Seger, composer, author; b. Houston, Tex., July 4, 1904. ASCAP 1942. Songs: "Sentimental Blues"; "Prairie Blues"; "(Drizzle Drizzle the Party's a Fizzle) O What a Night to Love"; "My Beloved Is Rugged"; "Little Jack Frost, Get Lost"; "Eleven Sixty P.M.", "It's All Over But the Crying"; "You're All I Want For Christmas." Home: Houston, Texas. Address: c/o ASCAP.
Ellsworth, Bob (Robert H. Ells­worth), composer, author, publisher; b. Boston, Mass., Dec. 27, 1895. ASCAP 1942. Educ.: Boston Cons, of Music. World War I veteran. Spe­cialty writer for radio programs and professionals of radio and stage. Man­aged New England interests of two New York music publishers; then be­came publisher. Songs: "We Will Meet at the End of the Trail"; "Dan-sette"; "I Want Them All to Know"; "Did I Make a Mistake in You?"; "Carmelita"; "Where I First ^ Whis­pered Sweetheart to You"; "Saying