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Mysels, Sammy |
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School. Studied music theory, composition and piano at Hartnett Music School, New York. Musical background acquired in father's music store. In armed forces, World War II, chemical warfare. Writer of music column for Our Town publication. Songs: "Gettysburg Address"; "Heaven Drops Her Curtain Down"; "Sourdough Dan"; "I Lithp (Ekthept When I Thay Ithaca)"; "The Pesca-dor Song"; "One Little Candle" (Christopher Award); "Time Alone"; "The Viper"; "The Batts and the Bel-frys." Home: New York, N.Y. Address: c/o ASCAP.
Mysels, Sammy, composer, author; b. Pittsburgh, Pa., Nov. 17, 1906. ASCAP 1935. Educ: public schools; Carnegie Institute of Technology (scholarship at 10), studied painting and sculpture Frank Vittor, Samuel Rosenberg, William Shulgold, and Drs. Clater, Ellis, and Salleirs. Played drums and bells in school orchestra. Entertained in cabarets; member professional staff music pub- |
lishing house. Song "Short Skirts";
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rize in contest conducted by Pitts-urgh Post-Gazette. Entertainer in radio and in vaudeville. World War II first ASCAP casualty, wounded in Italian campaign 1944. Works: "The Singing Hills"; "We Three"; "Yesterday's Gardenias"; "You Forgot About Me"; "I'm in Love"; "Throwing Stones at the Sun"; "Never Make a Promise in Vain"; "The Address is Still the Same"; "Di earns are a Dime a Dozen"; "At Least You Could Say Hello"; "The Horse With the Lavender Eyes"; "Them Hillbillies Are Mountain Williams Now"; "I'll Be Hanged If They're Gonna Hang Me"; "Is There Somebody Else"; "Mention My Name in Sheboygan"; "I Lithp (Ekthept When I Thay Ithaca)"; " 'Tis Only a Matter of Mind Over Matter", "His Feet Too Big For De Bed", "Hop Along Kasadeech"; "Don't Cry, My Coney Island Baby"; "A Strawberry Moon In a Blueberry Sky"; "Red Silk Stockings and Green Perfume." Home: New York, N.Y. Address: ci ASCAP. |
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Napton, Johnny, composer; b. New York, N.Y., July 10, 1918. ASCAP 1943. Songs: "I'm Not Just Anybody's Baby"; "My Devotion"; "A Gal in Nogales." Home: 1824 McGraw Ave., Bronx, N.Y.
Nash, Ogden, lyricist, author; b. Rye, N.Y., Aug. 19, 1902. ASCAP 1943. Educ.: St. George's School, Newport, R.I., 1917-20; Harvard, 1920-21. Frequent contributor of verse to leading magazines. Volumes of poetry: Hard Lines; The Primrose Path; The Bad Parents9 Garden of Verse. Other books: Free Wheeling; Happy Days; I'm a Stranger Here Myself; Face is Familiar; Good Intentions; Many Long Years Ago. Author of lyrics of songs in Broadway production: One Touch of Venus, in- |
eluding "Speak Low"; "West Wind"; "That's Him." Home: 4300 Rugby Rd., Baltimore 10, Md.
Nathan, Robert, composer, author, poet; b. New York, N.Y., Jan. 2, 1894. ASCAP 1943. Educ.: private schools in New York and Switzerland, Phillips-Exeter; Harvard Univ., 1916. At Harvard, music with Professor Spalding. Member: Natl. Inst, of Arts and Letters (vice president); charter member P.E.N, (president). Books: Peter Kindred; Autumn; Youth Grows Old; The Puppet Master; Jonah; The Fiddler in Barly; The Woodcutters House; The Bishop's Wife; A Cedar Box; There Is Another Heaven; The Orchid; One More Spring; Road of Ages; Selected Poems; The Enchanted Voyage; |
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