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Green, Adolph |
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1914 (charter member). Educ.: Holy Cross School, New York. World War I, joined overseas unit. Collaborated book and lyrics several editions Greenwich Village Follies; Yours Truly; Town Topics; She's In Again; DeCourville's London Hippodrome show Joy Bells; Music Box Revue; Merry Whirl Wrote special material and songs for vaudeville performers Frank Tinney, Bert Williams, Blossom Seeley, Savoy and Brennan, Trixie Friganza, Mae West, etc. Wrote column for Variety and Dramatic Mirror, movie comedies and shorts. Songs: "Any Little Girl That's a Nice Little Girl Is the Right Little Girl For Me"; "Fido Is a Hot Dog Now"; "Think It Over Mary"; "Good Night, Nurse"; "Take Me With You Cutey"; "There's a Little Church Around the Corner"; "That's How You Can Tell They're Irish"; "Not Me"; "Your Mother's Gone Away to Join the Army." Address: Estate, c/o ASCAP.
Green, Adolph, author, entertainer; b. New York, N.Y., Dec. 2, 1915. ASCAP 1945. Educ.: Coll. of City of New York. While student was active with Washington Square Players, then had brief part in road company of Broadway show Having a Wonderful Time. Entertainer in group of five "The Revuers" in night clubs and theaters. Wrote lyrics for the shows, On the Town; Billion Dollar Baby, and 1951 production, "Two on the Aisle." Songs: "Lucky to Be Me"; "I Can Cook Too"; "Some Other Time"; "Lonely Town"; "New York, New York"; "Ya Got Me"; "I Got a One Track Mind"; "I'm Sure of Your Love"; "Bad Timing"; "French Lesson." Home: New York, N.Y. Address: c/o ASCAP.
Green, Bud, composer, author, publisher; b. Austria, Nov. 19, 1897. ASCAP 1921. Educ.: New York public schools. Entered popular music |
field as office boy. Wrote "Whose Izzy Is He?" 1923; "Alabamy Bound" 1925. Organized own music publishing business 1928. To Hollywood to collaborate on a series of motion pictures. Returned to New York to resume activities as writer and publisher 1932. Songs: "That's My Weakness Now"; "I Love My Baby"; "Oh Boy, What a Girl"; "In My Gondola"; "Way Down South in Heaven"; "111 Always Be in Love With You"; "Do Something"; "Congratulations"; "Good Little, Bad Little, You", "Dream Sweetheart"; "Moonlight on the River"; "Swingy Little Thingy"; "Once in a While"; "The Man Who Comes Around"; "Sentimental Journey"; "Flat Foot Floogie." Home: Yonkers, N.Y. Address: c/o ASCAP.
Green, Johnny (John W.), composer, conductor, pianist, arranger, radio and recording artist; b. New York, N.Y., Oct. 10, 1908. ASCAP 1931. Educ.: Horace Mann School, N.Y.; New York Military Acad.; Harvard Univ., 1928, A.B. in Economics at nineteen; music, Herman Wasserman, Ignace Hilsberg, Walter Raymond Spalding. Left Wall Street for music before twenty-one. Several years conductor of prominent coast-to-coast commercial radio programs. Leader of nationally known dance bands, 1933-41. Prominent composer and conductor of musical comedy in New York until 1942. Has worked in Hollywood since 1942. Chairman Music Branch Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences; currently Secretary of Motion Picture Academy. General Musical Director motion-picture company. Scored films: Broadway Rhythm; Bathing Beauty; Weekend at the Waldorf; The Sailor Takes a Wife; Easy to Wed; Fiesta (nominated for Acad. Award); Easter Parade (Acad. Award Oscar 1948); Inspector General (Hollywood Foreign Correspondents' Golden Globe Award, best motion picture score, |
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