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Wharton School; Univ. of Pennsylvania; law school Univ. of Pennsylvania. Wrote for Univ. of Pennsylvania Mask and Wig shows. Musical shows: Pleasure Bound; A Night in Venice; Broadway Nights; Wonderful Night. Songs: "Collegiate"; "If You Are But a Dream"; "If I Had My Life to Live Over"; "Bell Bottom Trousers"; "I'm My Own Grandpaw"; "Gypsy in my Soul"; "An Apple a Day"; "Baseball Polka"; "Oh You Sweet One." Two folios, "Batter Up," baseball songs; "Song of Culture," children's songs. Home: 1123 Magnolia Road, West Englewood, N.J.
James, Billy, composer, director, radio artist; b. Philadelphia, Pa., July 3, 1895. ASCAP 1924. Educ: Southern High School. Entertainer in vaudeville 1914-24; World War I, Co. C, 315th Inf., camp shows. Musical director and pianist, radio 1928-46; script writer and musical arranger radio; musical dir., Horn and Hardart Children's Hour beginning in 1930. World War II, U.S.O. units and Stage Door Canteen entertainer. President, music publishing house. Songs: "If the Rose Could Tell its Story"; "Carolina Mammy"; "Cut Yourself a Piece of Cake"; "I'm Saving Up Coupons"; "The Best Dressed Men are in G.I. Uniform"; "Easter Morning"; "Broadway Lament"; "Angel Eyes"; "Carolina Lou"; "Breakin the Piano"; "Roses Bring Sweet Thoughts of You"; "What a Sweet Sensation"; "Less Work for Mother"; "Square and Compass March"; "Laughing Polka." Instrumental, "Better Luck Next Time." Home: 7801 Lorretto Ave., Philadelphia 11, Pa.
James, Harry, composer, trumpeter, band leader, recording artist; b. Albany, Ga., March 15, 1916. ASCAP 1943. Of musical parentage. Educ.: Beaumont, Texas, public schools. Played in high school band; at fif- |
teen won state championship as trumpeter. Soloist with popular orchestras, including Ben Pollock and Benny Goodman. Organized own orchestra 1939. Original arrangements and transcriptions of standard works: "Carnival of Venice"; "Ciribiribin"; "Flight of the Bumble Bee." Songs and instrumentals: "Peckin'"; "Two O'Clock Jump"; "The Mole"; "Music Makers"; "I'm Beginning to See the Light"; "Eleven Sixty P.M." Home: Beverly Hills, Calif. Address: c/o ASCAP.
James, Inez Eleanor, composer; b. New York, N.Y., Nov. 15, 1919. ASCAP 1946. Songs: "Come to Baby Do"; "Sing a Jingle"; "We're Not Obvious"; "The Spirit Is in Me"; "This Must Be a Dream"; "Boogie Woogie Sandman"; "I Can See It Your Way." Home: 4710 Langdon Ave., Sherman Oaks, Calif.
James, Philip, composer, conductor, educator; b. Jersey City, N.J., May 17, 1890. ASCAP 1928. Educ.: Jersey City High School; Coll. of the City of New York; N.Y. College of Music, Mus. D.; music with Norris, Goldmark, Scalero and Elliott Schenck. Musical director of operettas of Victor Herbert, and for Winthrop Ames productions, New Yoik, 1911-16. 2nd Lieut. Inf., U.S. Army, World War I, later bandmaster and commanding officer AEF Headquarters Band. Conductor N.J. Symph. Orch. 1922-29; Brooklyn Orchestral Soc. 1929-30; guest conductor symphony orchestras and in radio. Instructor of music Columbia Univ. 1930-32. Since 1933 chairman music department Washington Square Coll. of Arts and Sciences, New York Univ. Winner $5,000 prize N.B.C., Suite for orchestra; $500 prize Women's Symph. Orch. for symphonic poem, Song of the Night Philh. Symph. prize, overture Bret Harte. Juilliard Publication Award for Suite for |
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