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Jean, Elsie
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High School, New York. In Holly­wood scoring motion pictures. Songs: "Isn't This a Night for Lover; "And the Big Bad Wolf is Dead"; "If It Isn't Love"; "Dilly Dally"; "Rhythm in My Heart"; "It Can Happen to You"; "Buy a Kiss"; "Romantic ; "The Penthouse Serenade"; "You Alone"; "Out of the Blue"; "Sincerely Yours." Home: Los Angeles, Calif. Address. c/o ASCAP.
Jean, Elsie, composer, author, radio artist, editor, lecturer; b. New York, N.Y., May 14, 1907. ASCAP 1941. Early musical educ. with mother, piano; composition, Herman Spietlor; Columbia Univ.; National Cons, of Music (scholarship). Carl Schurz So­ciety prize $1000 1927. Conducted own radio program for five years; wrote scripts and appeared as lec­turer to parent teacher groups. Au­thor of special articles Women's Fea­tures, N.Y. Evening Sun and other newspapers. Author of several hun­dred musical and other works in field of musical education for children in­cluding books: Sing With Mother Goose; A Merrie Menagerie; Adven­tures of Fairy Tinkle Toes; Old Fables and Pictures; Wild Flowers and Elves; Sing a Song of Good Health; Wee Robins Christmas Song; Singing As We Go; The Children s Hour Series. Worked with Dr. Walter Damrosch on Universal School Series; musical stories, groups of twelve piano com­positions. Also art songs: "I Love You So"; "Song of My Heart"; "Come Love Me." Choral work On Hills of Freedom. Original recordings fairy tales. Home: 945 Madison Ave., New York 21, N.Y.
Jenkins, Gordon, composer, author, conductor, arranger; b. Webster Groves, Mo., May 12, 1910. ASCAP 1935. Educ.: public schools. At fifteen won first prize ukulele contest; then ban joist in orchestra, St. Louis; radio performer, staff pianist, St.
Louis; conductor and professional ar­ranger. Arranger and musical director Broadway musical The Show Is On 1937. Musical director, N.B.C., on West Coast 1938. Since then active in radio and motion-picture scoring in Hollywood. Songs: Blue Prelude"; "You Have Taken My Heart"; "When a Woman Loves a Man"; "P.S. I Love You"; "Blue Evening"; "Ev'ry Time"; "Goodbye"; "Indian Giver"; "Maybe She'll Remember"; "Saddest Man in Town"; "San Fernando Valley"; "When You Climb Those Golden Stairs"; "Homesick, That's All"; "Goin' Back to Brooklyn"; "Tick Tally Roo"; "Manhattan Tower"; "Tzena Tzena Tzena." Home: Pacific Palisades, Calif. Address: c/o ASCAP.
Jentes, Harry, composer, pianist; b. New York, N.Y., Aug. 28. ASCAP 1915. Instrumental works: California Sunshine; Cats Pajamas; Spell of the Bayou (piano solo). Songs: "Put Me To Sleep With An Old Fashioned Melody"; "I Don't Want to Get Well (I'm In Love With a Beautiful Nurse)"; "All By Myself; "At the Fountain of Youth"; "Honor Thy Father and Mother"; "Way Down Barcelona Way"; "Some Girls Do"; "He May Be Old, But He's Got Young Ideas"; "Lazy Mary Will You Get Up (Before the Sun Goes Down)"; "The Dutchess Threw Her Crutches Away." Home: New York, N.Y. Ad­dress: c/o ASCAP.
Jerome, Jerome, composer, author; b. New York, N.Y., June 1, 1906. ASCAP 1936. Educ.: Cornell Univ., Bachelor of Arts. Songs: "Mamma, I Wanna Make Rhythm"; "I Wanna Know All About You"; "Country Boy"; "So Red the Rose"; "Love is Like a Cigarette"; "Over a Bowl of Suki Yaki"; "The Harlem Waltz"; "I Saw a Ship a-Sailing"; "Under the Woo Woo Tree." Home: Saranac Lake, N.Y. Address: c/o ASCAP.