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Gerard, Richard H. |
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Wrote songs for motion pictures: The Fabulous Dorseys; Riding on a Rainbow; Dusk on the Painted Desert; Tlie Beautiful Blonde from Bashful Bend; Road House; People are Funny; The Gay Senorita; also for show: Helzapoppiri. Songs: "I Never Mention Your Name"; "Dusk on the Painted Desert"; "The Golden Wedding Waltz"; "We Won't Let It Happen Here"; "Ridin* on a Rainbow"; "Get a Horse"; "Just a Moon Ago"; "Papa Niccolini"; "Two Heavens"; "I Ain't Got Nothin But the Blues"; "I'm Beginning to See the Light"; "You Can't Have Your Cake and Eat It"; "Eleven Sixty P.M."; "A Door Will Open"; "Everything But You"; "Time's a Wastin'"; "Every Hour on the Hour"; "The Wonder of You"; "Calypso Blues"; "My Flame Went Out Last Night"; "An Old Piano Plays the Blues"; "Forsaking All Others"; "The Nickelodeon Waltz"; "The Right Kind"; "The Beautiful Blonde from Bashful Bend"; "When Apples Grow on Cherry Trees"; "Opportunity"; "Tonight We'll Go Dancing." Home: New York, N.Y. Address: <c ASCAP.
George, Don R., composer, organist, violinist, recording artist, conductor, producer stage shows; b. San Francisco, Calif., March 25, 1903. ASCAP 1945. Educ: music, American Cons. Music, Chicago, 111.; organ with Edwin H. Lemare. At thirteen, played organ in motion-picture theater; pioneer among motion-picture organists. At fifteen concert master, assistant * director of Passing Show of 1918. Then organist; musical director theatrical circuits; master ceremonies, produced stage shows throughout U.S. To Honolulu 1932, organist for amusement company; theater manager; organized, supervised USO Camp Shows in Hawaii. President Honolulu Musicians' Union nine years; Labor Commissioner for Territory two terms; Chairman Nat'l Music |
Week, Hawaii, three years; managed theater Honolulu, seven years. April, 1943, joined motion picture studio, Hollywood, music counsellor, talent scout. Sept. 1943, Executive head studio's music department. Composed more than fifty published songs, Univ. of Hawaii song: "Fight for Old Hawaii." Recording artist; transcribed Hawaiian melodies, broadcast six
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)rograms weekly for nine years Hono-ulu. Songs for pictures: "Bowery to Broadway"; "The Merry Monahans"; "Singing Sheriff'; "Murder in the Blue Room"; "Ladies Courageous"; "Merrily We Sing"; "Pardon My Rhythm"; musical comedy: "Lady Nicotine." Songs: "Walkin' Away With My Heart, "Walk a Little, Talk a Little," "Do You Believe in Dreams," "You Love Me, You Love Me Not," "Tropic Trade Winds," "San Remo," "Pass a Piece of Pizza," "The Day You Say Good-Bye to Old Hawaii ; also piano teaching works Gay Ballerina, Lilac Time. Orch. works: Main-street Rhapsody, Hollywood Premier. Home: 12234 Hillslope St., Studio City, Calif.
Gerard, Richard H., composer; b. New York, N.Y., June 8, 1876; d. New York, N.Y., July 2, 1948. ASCAP 1927. Educ.: Eclectic Medical Coll., N.Y. 1904-05; New York Coll. of Dental & Oral Surgery, 1906 (non-grad.). Served overseas, American Red Cross, French Commission, So. Serbian Commission, Polish Commission 1918. Songs: "Sweet Adeline"; "I've Got My Eyes On You"; "Sweet Summer Time"; "Follow the Crowd on a Sunday"; "You're My Heart's Desire, I Love You"; "Sweetest Girl of All"; "When You Have Time and Money"; "My Heart's Regret"; "In the Golden Autumn Time"; "My Sweet Elaine"; "Some Day in the Far Away"; "I Found a Girl"; "Hearts That Wait Grow Weary"; "When the Swallows Northward Fly"; "Sweet Eleanor." Address: Estate, c/o ASCAP. |
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