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in the Parlor"; "Red River Lullaby"; "Down at the Old Red Barn"; "Corncob Willie." Address: Estate, c/o ASCAP.
Kenny, Charles F., composer, author, violinist; b. Astoria, N.Y., June 23, 1898. ASCAP 1936. Songs: "Laughing at Life"; "Love Letters in the Sand"; "Every Minute of the Hour"; "Carelessly"; "Goldmine in the Sky"; "Little Old Cathedral in the Pines"; "While a Cigarette Was Burning"; "It's a Lonely Trail When You're Traveling All Alone"; "I Need a Friend"; "Little Skipper"; "Make Believe Island"; "Just a Letter From Home"; "Paradise Valley"; "Running Through My Mind"; "Why Couldn't it Last Last Night", "Violins Were Playing"; "Leanin on the Old Top Rail"; "Beyond the Purple Hills ; "Gone Fishin'." Home: New York, N.Y. Address: c/o ASCAP.
Kenny, Nick, author, poet, newspaper columnist, b. Astoria, L.I., N.Y., Feb. 3, 1895. ASCAP 1932. Educ: Astoria public schools. World War I, Second Mate, Merchant Marine, two years. Newspaper reporter, Bayonne, N.J.; Boston, Mass.; New York. Since 1930, radio editor, New York Daily Mirror. Always interested in versifying, wrote many poems for newspaper column and became songwriter. Pioneer in radio production, established one of first radio amateur hours through which many celebrities were discovered. Songs. "Laughing at Life"; "Love Letters in the Sand"; "Every Minute of the Hour"; "Carelessly"; "Goldmine in the Sky"; Tittle Old Cathedral in the Pines"; "While a Cigarette Was Burning"; "It's a Lonely Trail When You're Traveling All Alone"; "I Need a Friend"; "Little Skipper"; "Make Believe Island"; "Just a Letter from Home"; "Paradise Valley"; T Hate Myself for Falling in Love with You"; "Running Through My Mind"; "Why |
Couldn't It Last Last Night"; "Violins Were Playing"; "Broken-Hearted Waltz"; "Beloved"; "Leanin on the Old Top Rail"; "Beyond the Purple Hills"; "Gone Fishin'." Home: New York, N.Y. Address: c/o ASCAP.
Kent, Arthur, composer; b. New York, N.Y., July 2, 1920. ASCAP 1942. Educ.: City College of New York, Bachelor of Science, 1941. At four played piano; taught by father; several teachers, chiefly Prof. Bernard Ravitch. At ten won five medals in city-wide piano contests. Left electrical engineering for music. Played piano school symphony orchestra; played in dance orchestra; assistant organist in church; taught piano. Wrote music and accompanied several musical shows in college. Became songwriter and pianist with music publishing house. Played in hotel orchestra. Enlisted in Air Force as Aircraft Maintenance Officer 1943, wrote, played for several army shows. Works: "We Go Well Together"; "You Can Bet Your Life It's Love"; "Wonder When My Baby's Coming Home", "You Never Miss the Water Till the Well Runs Dry", and piano solos: Reflections, Forest Lullaby* Upper Fifth Avenue. Home: 7 E. 86 St., New York 28, N.Y.
Kent, Walter, composer; b. New York, N.Y., Nov. 29, 1911. ASCAP 1934. Of musical parentage. Educ.: Town-send Harris High School; Coll. of the City of N.Y.; Juilliard School of Music (scholarship). Advanced violin studies with Leopold Auer and Samuel Gardner. Several years studying and practice of architecture, with music as avocation; led own orchestra playing on radio and in theaters. With publication of first song "Pu-leeze, Mister Hemingway," gave up other interests for comp. To Hollywood as free lance writer; thirteen pictures 1943. Score for musical version of Seventeen. Songs: "111 Be Home for |
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