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Boston Univ. end Suffolk Law School. Started writing songs for high school football. Won international song writing contest 1939; became general manager popular music publishing house; now has own publishing house. Songs: "One Foot in Heaven"; "After It's Over"; '"Superstitious Aloysius"; "That's My Daddy"; "When the Old Gang's Back on the Corner"; "What's Your Hurry"; "Wedding Waltz"; "The Things You Want Most of All"; "Broken Heart"; "Tennessee"; "A Song Was Born"; "If I Live to Be a Hundred"; "Curtain Call", "I'm No Angel"; "I Can't See Myself with Somebody Else"; "I Fell and Broke My Heart"; "Laughing Up My Sleeve." Home: Melody Ranch, Wakefield, Mass.
Mills, Irving, composer, author, publisher; b. Russia, Jan. 16, 1894. ASCAP 1926. Assn. with brother Jack, in New York music publishing house. Songs: "It Don't Mean a Thing If It Ain't Got That Swing"; "Sophisticated Lady"; "Minnie the Moocher"; "Mood Indigo"; "Solitude"; "I Let a Song Go Out Of My Heart"; "Keep That Rhythm Going ; "Caravan"; "When My Sugar Walks Down the Street"; "Moon Glow." Home: New York, N.Y. Address: c/o ASCAP.
Mills, Paul, composer, author; b. of musical parentage, Jan. 9, 1921, Philadelphia, Pa. ASCAP 1946. Educ: Rutgers Preparatory, New Brunswick, N.J.; Riverside Military Acad., Gainesville, Ga. and Abe Lincoln High School, Brooklyn. World War II U.S. Marines. Cited as radio combat correspondent Mille Atoll and Wake Island. Wrote songs for school show Sharpy. Other songs: "Ode to a Marine"; "Cement Mixer Put-Ti Put-Ti"; "Sunset"; "Silly Old Moon"; "Don't Say No To the U.S.O."; "Sorry I Couldn't Wait"; "Yep Roc Heresi"; "Down By the Station." |
Home: 6533 Hollywood Blvd., Hollywood 28, Calif. Address: % Mills Music, Inc., 1619 Broadway, N.Y.
Mills, William R. (Billy Mills), composer, conductor; b. Flint, Mich., Sept. 6, 1894. ASCAP 1943. Educ: Univ. of Syracuse; Univ. of Michigan, wrote college musicals. World War I, bandmaster 31st Field Artillery. Became arranger for Isham Jones; organized own orchestra in Chicago, 1922. Wrote special music and material for orchestral units. To Canada 1929 to supervise stage presentations for Famous Players Ltd. In 1931 entered radio as conductor and musical director; general mus. dir. Western Div. C.B.S. 1932. Director of Fibber McGee and Molly radio program since 1938. Recording artist since 1943. Member of Masquers, Hollywood; Mimes (Univ. or Michigan), Tambourine & Bones (Univ. of Syracuse); Natl. Song Comm. of Beta Theta Pi, honorary life member Flint Federation of Musicians. Songs: "One Magic Hour", "I Sang a Song"; "Wing to Wing"; "We Two"; "I'm In Love With the Sound Effects Man", "Ninety-Nine Years is a Long Time", "Cornball Rag." Also California Sketches, suite for Hammond Organ. Home: 1537 Genessee Ave., Hollywood 46, Calif.
Milton, Jay, composer, author, pianist; b. Auburn, N.Y., Feb. 15, 1910. ASCAP 1941. Educ.: Nottingham High School, Syracuse, N.Y.; Syracuse Univ., Bachelor of Science, 1933. Worked as pianist dance bands, Hollywood studios. World War II, Army Air Forces. Songs: "Shame On You'; "Angry River"; "Laughing Up My Sleeve"; "Downstream"; ' Gardenia"; "Little Lad"; "You're All That Matters To Me"; "Minka"; "Don't Forget Tonight, Tomorrow"; "Pin Marin." Home: 10853 Wilshire Blvd., Los Angeles 24, Calif. |
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