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Dream, Can't I"; "111 be Seeing You." Address: Estate, c/o ASCAP.
Kahn, Donald, composer, author; b. Chicago, 111., July 17, 1918. ASCAP 1947. Son of Gus Kahn and Grace LeBoy Kahn, both ASCAP. Educ: high school; Black Foxe Military Acad.; Univ. of So. Calif.; Pomona Coll., Bachelor of Arts. Studied music with private tutors: Dean Remick, Leila Simon, Maurice Zam, and Arthur Wynter-Smith. Harmony, theory, orchestration, and counterpoint with Theodore Stearns and Julius Gold. In college played in campus bands and arranged. Arranger for Matty Malneck, Chico Marx, Skitch Henderson, and others. World War II, instructor for Royal Air Force. Songs: "Sam's Got Him"; "The G.I. Jive"; "Baby Made a Change in Me"; "Dream on a Summer Night" (piano solo). Home: 4420 Ventura Canyon, Sherman Oaks, Calif.
Kahn, Grace LeBoy, composer; b. Brooklyn, N.Y., Sept. 22, 1891. ASCAP 1930. Educ.: Elgin, 111., public schools. Musical from childhood. At fifteen, pianist for music publishing house, Chicago. From 1908, songwriter. Songs: "I Wish I Had a Girl"; "Lazy Day"; "Everybody Rag With Me"; "Evening"; "Good Ship Mary Ann"; "My Love For You ; "You Gave Me Everything But Love"; "Oh, How That Woman Can Cook"; "Twas Only a Summer Night's Dream"; "Think of Me." Wrote songs for musical play: Jumping Jupiter, and music for fifty songs of husband, Gus Kahn. Home: 1715 Ambassador Ave., Beverly Hills, Calif.
Kahn, Gus, author; b. Coblenz, Germany, Nov. 6, 1886; d. Beverly Hills, Calif., Oct. 8, 1941. ASCAP 1921 (director 1927-30). To U.S. 1891. Educ.: Chicago public schools. Worked for hotel supply house. First |
song: "I Wish I Had a Girl"; published 1908. Created much special material for vaudeville artists. Songs for Broadway musical plays: Whoopee, Show Girl. To Beverly Hills, Calif. 1933 to write exclusively for motion pictures. Songs: "Memories"; ^'Pretty Baby"; "Sunshine and Roses"; "Carolina In the Morning"; "My Buddv"; "My Isle of Golden Dreams"; 'Riptide"; "Love Me or Leave Me"; "Ain't We Got Fun"; "When You and I Were Seventeen"; "Liza"; "It Had to be You"; "III See You in My Dreams"; "Chloe"; "Cari-oca"; "I Never Knew"; "The Hour of Parting"; "She's Nobody's Sweetheart Now"; "Your Eyes Have Told Me So"; "One Night of Love"; "Yes, Sir, That's My Baby"; "The Waltz You Saved For Me; "The One I Love Belongs to Somebody Else"; "Swingin' Down the Lane"; "Spain"; "I Wonder Where My Baby Is Tonight"; "Charley My Boy"; "Coquette"; "Flying Down to Rio"; "Josephine"; "On the Alamo"; "Sometime." Address: Estate, c/o ASCAP.
Kahn, Roger Wolfe, composer, conductor, radio and recording artist, test pilot, aviation consultant; b. Morristown, N.J.; Oct. 19, 1907. ASCAP 1941. At seven, began study of violin; in early youth mastered eighteen instruments. Studied harmony, theory, and counterpoint. At twelve, started composing; first published song 1924. At fifteen, organized, directed own orchestra, in various New York theaters, night clubs, and hotels, nine years. In 1926, opened band and artist booking office. Built and operated own night club in New York featuring own orchestra 1927. Toured vaudeville houses through U.S. 1924. Learned to fly, gave up orchestra and booking office for composing and aviation 1935. Opened New York aviation consultant office; did test and research flying. From 1941, employed as test |
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