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the Sea of Dreams"; "Strange Thing"; "You Again." Address: Estate, c/o ASCAP.
King, Robert A., composer; b. New York, N.Y., Sept. 20, 1862; d. New York, N.Y., Apr. 14, 1932. ASCAP 1920. Educ: New York public schools. Errand boy music publishing house; became executive publishing houses. Played in vaudeville. Prolific composer using twenty-five pseudonyms. Songs: "Fashions Caprice"; "Beautiful Ohio"; "Star of Hope"; "Apple Blossoms"; "Beyond the Gates of Paradise"; "Anona"; "Why Did I Kiss That Girl"; "I Ain't Nobody's Darling"; "I Scream, You Scream, We All Scream for Ice Cream"; "Moonlight on the Colorado"; "Love Bird"; "Sunbeams and Shadows"; "Just Like a Rainbow"; "Fanatella", "Sesame"; "An Afternoon Tea"; "Peter Pan." Also ballads, waltzes, marches, gavottes, polkas. Address: Estate, c/o ASCAP.
King, Stoddard, author; b. Jackson, Wis., Aug. 19, 1889; d. Spokane, Wash., June 13, 1933. ASCAP 1941. Educ.: Spokane High School; Yale Univ., 1914. Prize winner English and oratory; press manager Yale Dramatic Assoc.; editor Yale Record; managing editor Yale Dramatic News, member Phi Beta Kappa. Wrote for college show song "There's a Long, Long Trail." Columnist Spokesman-Review of Spokane, Wash. Capt. Co. L, Third Washington Inf. N.G. Author of books of poetry: What the Queens Said, Grand Right and Left, Listen to the Mocking Bird, The Raspberry Tree. Songs: "There's a Wee Cottage on the Hillside"; "Enchanted River"; "Oh Oh Abdullah"; "Roll Along, Cowboy"; "Tiddledi-dee-o." Address: Estate, c/o ASCAP.
King, Wayne, composer, conductor, radio and recording artist; b. Savannah, 111., Feb. 16, 1901. ASCAP 1933. |
Self-taught in music. Educ.: El Paso Texas, public schools and Valparaiso Univ., Ind. Insurance salesman, professional football, garage and lailroad mechanic. Left insurance business to become clarinetist with Del Lampe's orchestra and at twenty-five organized own orchestra. For nine years at Aragon Ballroom, Chicago. Numerous vaudeville and dance-hall tours. Works: "Josephine"; "Annabelle"; "The Waltz You Saved for Me"; "That Little Boy of Mine"; "Corn-silk"; "Baby Shoes"; "Goofus"; "Blue Hours"; 'With You Beside Me"; "So Close to Me"; "I'd Give My Kingdom for a Smile"; "Beautiful Love." Home: Chicago, 111. Address: c/o ASCAP.
Kingsford, Charles, composer; b. New York, N.Y., Aug. 16, 1907. ASCAP 1939. Educ.: Monroe High School; City Coll. of New York; Columbia Univ.; Juilliard Graduate School 1925-29 (fellowship); composition Rubin Goldmark; piano Harold Triggs, Rosina Lhevinne, Edith H. Ricci. Musical Director Ft. Washington Syno-gogue 1938-44; Free Synagogue of Westchester, Mt. Vernon, N.Y., 1944-50; Temple Beth El, Great Neck, N.Y., 1950—. Piano teacher and voice coach for Amer. Theatre Wing since 1947. Member of Composers, Authors Guild. Musical arranger and coach for Broadway production, Good-hue My Fancy, 1948. Works: Well Answer Stalingrad, cantata for chorus and orch.; And Already the Minutes, for voice, string orch. and piano; The Emperors New Clothes; Violin Sonata; numerous concert songs. Home: 150 W. 57 St., New York 19, N.Y.
Kinscella, Hazel Gertrude, musician, composer, educator; b. Nora Springs, la. ASCAP 1942. Educ.: high school; Nora Springs Seminary; Univ. School of Music, Lincoln, Nebr., Bachelor of Music, 1916; Univ. of Nebraska, Bachelor of Fine Arts, 1928 and Bachelor of Arts 1931; Columbia |
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