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1927. Educ: Fordham Univ. Songs: "The Farmer Took Another Load Away"; "When You Waltz With the One You Love"; "Roses Are Forget-Me-Nots"; "Swingin* in the Hammock"; "Good Evenin*"; "Smile, parnya, Smile!"; "Jungle Drums"; "Melodies Bring Memories";
"Strangers"; "Early In the Mornin (When We Say Goodnight)." Home: New York, N.Y. Address: <'/c ASCAP.
O'Hara, Geoffrey, composer, author, lecturer; b. Chatham, Ontario, Can., Feb. 2, 1882. ASCAP .1914 (charter member; director 1942-45). To U.S. J 904; citizen 1922. Educ: Chatham Collegiate Inst.; studied music with private teachers. After four years gave up banking for career in music. At twelve, organist Chatham Episcopal Church. Early stage career included four years in minstrelsy and major vaudeville circuits as pianist, singer and accompanist. In 1913, wrote "Your Eyes Have Told Me" for Caruso, and "Tennessee" for Jolson; became established as songwriter. Commissioned by Secretary of Interior as instructor in native American music 1913. June 1917, pioneer song-leader among armed forces World War I. Instructor in community singing, Teachers Coll., Columbia Univ., 1936-37. Honorary Doctor of Music, Huron College, 1947. Operettas: ^eggJ/ and the Pirate; Riding Down the Sky; The Count and the Co-Ed; The Smiling Sixpence; Rogues and Vagabonds; Lantern Land; Harmony HaU; The Princess Runs Away; Puddin-Head the First; To Be In Love. Songs: "There is No Death"; "K-K-K-Katy"; "I Love a Little Cottage"; "Wreck of the Julie Plante"; "Leetle Bateese"; 'The Living God"; "I Walked Today Where Jesus Walked"; "Give a Man a Horse He Can Ride"; "Where Heaven Is"; "Tomasso Rotundo"; "A Little Close Harmony"; "The Old Songs"; "Sing Awhile Longer"; "Forward to Christ"; |
"One World"; also volume of poems and book of Canadian folksongs. Home: So. Quaker Hill, Pawling,
N.Y.
Ohman, Phil, composer; b. New Britain, Conn., Oct. 7, 1896. ASCAP 1936. Educ.: New Britain public school and high school. Eaily musical career as pianist and demonstrator, then assistant organist, New York. Solo pianist in orchestra; on tour as accompanist with concert singers. Many years, stage and radio, as member of two-piano team; featured in series Broadway shows. Had own orchestra various cafes, Hollywood, 1934-46. Guest appearances as soloist with symphony orchestras. Wrote motion picture scores: Captain Caution; Million Dollar Week End; Dick Tracy. Works: "Lazy Rolls the Rio Grande"; "Each Time You Say Goodbye"; "Only One"; "Hilda"; "A Time in Havana"; "Hany With the Light Blue Jeans"; "Dont Believe All You Hear About Love"; "What'U I Use For Money"; "If You Are There"; "I Close My Eyes"; "The Girl With the High Buttoned Shoes"; "Dreaming To Music"; "The Cowboy and the Seno-nta"; "The Enchilada Man"; "Dream Awhile"; "Dancing With a Deb"; "Strawberry Samba." Home: 2333 Nichols Can von Rd., Hollywood 46, Calif.
O'Keefe, James Conrad, composer, author, director; b. St. Louis, Mo., Dec. 9, 1892; d. Colorado Springs, Colo., July 26, 1942. ASCAP 1922. Educ.: St. Louis public schools; Acad, and Coll. of St. Louis Univ.; piano and harmony with Charles Kunkel and Ernest Kroeger, St. Louis. Enlisted as musician in U.S. Naval Reserve Force 1917; stationed Great Lakes, 111. Wrote official "Station March"; wrote music and conducted orchestra of two sailor shows: Leave It To the Sailors and Great Lakes Revue; shows toured Middle West for Navy Relief Society. |
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