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"Havana Mariana"; "La Mora"; "Papa Montero"; "Si muero en la Carretera"; "La Pintura Blanca." Address: Estate, c/o ASCAP.
Grennard, Elliott, composer, author; b. New York, N.Y., Dec. 20, 1907. ASCAP 1941. Critic and musicologist. Former music editor of The Billboard and contributor to many publications. Author and composer of special material for shows and night clubs. Songs: "I Didn't Dream It Was Love"; "To Be or Not to Be (in Love)"; "I Understand"; "Time Will Tell"; "Will o the Wisp"; "Monday in Manhattan." Home: 464 N. Harper Ave., Los Angeles 36, Calif.
Grever, Maria, composer, singer, pianist; b. Mexico City, Mexico, Aug. 16, 1894; d. New York, N.Y., Dec. 15, 1951. ASCAP 1935. Of Spanish parentage. At four to Spain where formal education was largely in music. At twelve returned to Mexico City. As a child mastered piano, violin, guitar, later coloratura with vocal recordings. Scored numerous motion pictures. Wrote special numbers for concert singers and film stars. Many concert tours, chiefly in Latin America; occasional engagements in Europe. Presented complete programs of songs of own creation, words and music. Songs: "Besame"; "Tipitin"; "Jurame"; "Lamento Gitano"; "Lero, Lero from Brazil", "Mexico Canta"; "Magic Is the Moonlight"; "Make Love with a Guitar"; "My First, My Last, My Only", "What a Difference a Day Made." Address: Estate, c/o ASCAP.
Grey, Clifford, author, librettist, scenarist; b. Birmingham, Eng., Jan. 5, 1887; d. Ipswich, Eng., Sept. 25, 1941. ASCAP 1925. Educ: King Edward VI School, Birmingham. Became actor at nineteen; left stage to become writer. Author of many revues and musical comedies in New |
York and London, beginning with The Bing Boys Are Here, 1916. Contributed songs to Sally; Artists and Models; June Days; Gay Paree; A Night in Paris; Hit the Deck; The Three Musketeers; Ups-a-Daisy; Accidentally Yours; O You Letty; Lambeth Walk. Songs: "If You Were the Only Girl in the World"; "My Love Parade"; "Valencia"; "Wild Rose"; "The Rogue Song"; "Sometimes I'm Happy"; "Hallaluja"; "Dream Lover"; "Got a Date With an Angel"; "Ma Belle." Address: Estate, c/o ASCAP.
Grey, Frank H., composer, conductor; b. Philadelphia, Pa., Nov. 15, 1883, d. Beverly Hills, Calif., Oct. 3, 1951. ASCAP 1921. Educ: Harvard Univ., 1906; majored in harmony, counterpoint, canon, and fugue with Spaulding; orchestration, Paine; free composition, Converse; piano, Charles Dennee at New England Cons.; two years organ, G. B. Nevin and R. Huntington Woodman. Twenty-six pseudonyms. Conductor various Musical comedies and light operas 1909-26. Wrote thiee musical comedies: Sue Dear; Matinee Girl; and Happy. Contr. to First Little Show; interpolations in mus. com. Little Miss Fixit, Follow Me; At the Waldorf; When Dreams Come True. Conductor and producer, "Celebrity Supper Dances," various hotel ballrooms. Organized music publishing corporation; president, 1939. Works, over four nun-dred piano, vocal, and orchestra: Sunny Sicily, overture; Dream of Summer, violin and piano; Valse Fascination; Woodland Waltz; Hanging Gardens of Babylon; Charme d'Es-pagne, tango. Songs: "Men of Harvard"; "Think Love of Me"; "Mammy Dear"; "Give Me One Rose to Remember"; "In Rose Time"; "Mother of My Heart"; "When I Come Home to You"; "In the Afterglow"; "Ship O'Dreams"; "Ce Soir, Ce Soir, Cherie"; "In the Dusk"; "At Even-time"; "When Blossoms Come"; "Last |
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