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Gaul, Harvey Bartlett
Garrett, Lloyd Fry, composer, author; b. Moulton, Iowa, July 2, 1886. ASCAP 1925. Educ: Drake Univ. Many years in musical comedies and vaudeville, including George White's Scandals; The Student Prince; C. B. Cochrane's London Revue, and Marx Bros, shows. Songs: "The Rookie's La­ment"; "Honeymoon Blues"; series of songs World War I, "Private Flynn"; "Private Alexander"; "Private Percy Prim"; "Private Arkansas Bill"; also "My Mother"; "Dallas Blues"; "Sing Song Swing"; "They Won't Love You Like I Do"; "Roses of Memory"; "Way Down in My Heart"; "Lilliput'; "Caucasian Love"; "When Katrinka Shakes Her Tambourine." Home: Bloomfield, Iowa. Address: c/o ASCAP.
and musical revues. Address: Estate, c/o ASCAP.
Gates, B. Cecil, composer; b. Hawai­ian Islands, Aug. 7, 1877; d. Salt Lake City, Utah, Aug. 31, 1941. ASCAP 1947. Of Utah parentage. Educ.: Boston and Berlin Cons.; studied under Scharwenka, HefHey, Den6e, Robitschek. Head, Dept. of Music, L.D.S. Univ. (1913-22); in 1919 organized L.D.S. School of Mu­sic (now called McCune School of Music and Art); head, Music Dept., Agricultural College in Logan 1924-29. Organized Choir Publishing Co., Salt Lake City; asst. conductor Tab­ernacle Choir 1937; head, Dept. of Music, Utah State Agricultural Col­lege; director, Lucy Gates (sister) Grand Opera Company. Works: Gates' Story Music (bedtime and playtime melodies); Brighton Sketches; Corn-field Melodies No. 1; Gates' Anthems; Resurrection Morning (cantata); The Restoration; Eternal Light. Songs: "I Met My Love o'er Hill and Dale"; "The Lord's Prayer"; "My Redeemer Lives." Address: Estate, c/o ASCAP.
Gaul, Harvey Bartlett, composer, teacher, critic, organist, lecturer; b. New York, N.Y., April 11, 1881; d. Pittsburgh, Pa., Dec. 1, 1945. ASCAP 1927. Educ.: in music with Dr. Armes and Alfred Gaul, England; Alex­ander Guilmant, Widor and d'Indy Paris; Reilli and Rienzi, Rome. From 1910 choirmaster-organist at Calvary Church, Pittsburgh. Music critic for Pittsburgh papers; dramatic art critic; feature editor Pittsburgh Musical Forecast. Choral director Univ. of Pittsburgh, Carnegie Tech., Wash­ington and Jefferson College and other schools. Choral director Cleve­land and Pittsburgh. Doctor of Music Univ. of Pittsburgh, 1933. Music di­rector radio station; founder, con­ductor Pittsburgh Savoyards and Civic String Orchestra. Member American Guild of Organists; Musicians Club of
Gaskill, Clarence, composer, author; b. Philadelphia, Pa., Feb. 2, 1892, d. Fort Hill, N.Y., Apr. 29, 1947. ASCAP 1921. Of musical parentage. Educ: Quaker School and St. John's School, Philadelphia, Pa. At sixteen, pianist in Phila. theater; at twenty-one owned music publishing firm in Philadelphia, Pa., and Wildwood, N.J. In vaudeville toured country as the "Melody Monarch." World War I, machine gunner and song leader 311th Machine Gun Battalion (Purple Heart veteran). Shows: The Passing Show of 1921; Earl Carroll's Varities (1926-31). Songs: "That's How You Can Tell They're Irish"; "I'm the Guy That Put the Salt in the Ocean"; "Kentucky Blues"; "I Can't Believe That You're in Love With Me"; "I Don't Mind Being Alone When I'm Alone With You"; "I Love to Dunk a Hunk of Spongecake"; "Another Perfect Day Has Passed Away"; "Minnie the Moocher"; "Love Amer­ica or Leave It Alone"; "Prisoner of Love"; "Doo-Wacka-Doo"; "Swanee River Rhapsody"; "One More Waltz"; "I Wish I Was in Dixie"; "Strange Interlude." Also songs for night clubs