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Hammond, William G. |
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1895. ASCAP 1923 (director
1939------). Of family prominent in
American theater; named for grandfather, operatic impresario and builder of Manhattan Opera House, Philadelphia Opera House, London Opera House, and many theaters in New York; father, William Hammerstein, manager historic New York vaudeville theater, Victoria. Graduate Columbia Univ. 1916; Law School 1917. President, Authors' League of America; partner Williamson Music, Inc. Medal of Excellence, Columbia University, 1949; Honorary Law Degree from Drury College, 1949; Medal of Excellence, Columbia University, 1949. Special Pulitzer Award 1944 for Oklahoma*; Donaldson Award 1944 Carmen Jones; Donaldson Award 1945 Carousel, Donaldson Award 1948 Allegro, Donaldson Award 1949 South Pacific, New York Critics Award 1949 South Pacific; Pulitzer Prize Award 1950 South Pacific. Wrote, acted in annual varsity shows. Stage manager musical shows of uncle, Arthur Hammerstein, who produced nephew's Always You 1919. Shows that followed: Tickle Me; Wild Flower; Rose Marie; Sunny; Desert Song; Show Boat; New Moon, Sweet Adeline; Music in the Air; OklaJioma!; Carmen Jones; Carousel; Allegro; South Pacific; The King and 1. Screen plays and lyrics for pictures: Viennese Nights; Castles in the Air; Show Boat; Swing High, Swing Low; State Fair. With Richard Rodgers produced: I Remember Mama; Annie Get Your Gun; John Loves Mary; Happy Birthday; The Happy Time. Songs: "Bambalina"; "Wild Flower"; "Rose Marie"; "Indian Love Call"; "Who?"; "RifiF Song"; "One Alone"; "Desert Song"; "01' Man River"; "Only Make Believe"; "Why Do I Love You?"; "Can't Help Lovin" Dat Man"; "Lover Come Back to Me"; "Stout Hearted Men"; "Softly As in the Morning Sunrise"; "Why Was I Born?"; "The Song is You ; |
"I've Told Every Little Star"; "When I Grow too Old to Dream"; "The Last Time I Saw Paris" (motion picture Acad. Award 1945); "All the Things You Are"; "The Surrey with the Fringe on Top"; "People Will Say We're in Love"; "Oklahoma!"; "Oh, What a Beautiful Morning"; "If I Loved You"; "June is Busrin' Out AH Over"; "It Might As Well Be Spring" (motion picture Acad. Award 1946); "All Through The Day"; "Some Enchanted Evening"; "Bali Ha'i"; "Wonderful Guy." Home: Doylestown, Pa.
Hammond, William G., composer; b.
Mellville, N.Y., Aug. 7, 1874; d. New York, N.Y., Dec. 22, 1945. ASCAP 1942. For more than thirty yeara organist old Dutch Reformed Church, Brooklyn. Works include many settings for poems, usually in choral form. Songs: "The Lovely Month of May"; "When Into Thine Eyes I Gaze"; "Ballad of the Bony Fiddler"; 4T Fain Would Outpour All My Sorrows"; "When Thou Commandesl Me to Sing"; "Three Men O' Merri"; "Love's Springtime", "Recompense"; "Cloud Shadows"; "Mis' Rose"; "Sunlight and Song"; "Sleepy Lan'"; 'My Shadow"; "Behold the Master Passeth By"; "Cupid's Wings"; "On the Rhine, the Beautiful River"; "Lochinvar"; "The Liberty Bell"; "A Ballad of Lorraine"; "Dawn"; "Pipes O' Gordon's Men." Address: Estate, % ASCAP.
Handman, Lou, composer; b. New York, N.Y., Sept. 10, 1894. ASCAP 1923. A natural musician, became professional pianist at seventeen; after brief vaudeville tour in Australia in two-man act, returned to U.S. and enlisted in Army, World War I. Back in civilian life, returned to professional piano playing for publishing houses and began composing own songs 1920, with publication of "Give Me a Smile and a Kiss." Then continued composing and working as accompanist for vaudeville singers; |
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