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Palmer, Jack
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Patch O'Land"; Tve Waited All My Life for You"; "Yuletide Reverie; "Gone"; "My Old Home Calls to Me." Home: New York, N.Y. Ad­dress: c/o ASCAP.
Palmer, Jack, composer, author; b. Nashville, Tenn., May 29, 1900. ASCAP 1926. Educ: public schools and Christian Brothers Coll., Mem­phis. Largely self-educated in music. At fifteen enlisted (drum major) in First Rainbow Division; several years as marine engineer and able-bodied seaman. To New York 1923; pianist Greenwich Village cafes and later on professional staff popular music pub­lishing houses. Wrote scores for floor shows and songs for motion pictures. Songs: "Everybody Loves My Baby"; "fve Found a New Baby"; "I Love to See the Evenin Sun Go Down"; "Silver Dollar"; "Sentimental Baby"; "Are You Making Believe You Love Me"; "Jumpin Jive"; "Boogit"; "Ogee-chee River Lullaby"; "Old Pigeon Toed Joad"; "Taint Me"; "You're Right, I'm Wrong"; "Just Another Love Affair"; "I'll Take the South"; "It All Begins and Ends With You"; "For No Rhyme or Reason"; "I Knew You When"; "Geechy Joe"; "Love Doesn't Grow On Trees"; "Love I'd Give My Life For You"; "In My Sun­day Go to Meetin'"; "You Dreamer You." Home: Jackson Heights, N.Y. Address: c/o ASCAP.
Parenteau, Zoel, composer, conductor; b. Northampton, Mass., April 9, 1883. ASCAP 1917. Educ: music with fac­ulty members of Smith College, Northampton; harmony and compo­sition private tutors, Ernest Bloch. Played in theater orchestras, toured with musical shows as musical direc­tor. Composed, arranged, synchro­nized and conducted musical scores for feature photo-plays. Musical di­rector Soc. of Arts, Palm Beach, Fla., also N.B.C.; conductor network pro­grams. Member Pittsburgh Musical
Soc.; Assn. Musicians Greater New York. Composed scores for The Amber Empress; The JMdtj of Luzon; Follow the Girl; composed songs for theat­rical productions of Dillingham, Tyler, the Shuberts, Florenz Ziegfeld and others. Works: The Lord is My Shepherd, chorus and orchestra; "I See His Blood Upon the Rose"; "Do I Love Thee?"; "Egvpt"; "Wondering"; "Someday 111 Find'You." Home: New York, N.Y. Address: 130 W. 44 St., New York 18, N.Y.
Parish, Mitchell, author; b. Shreve-port, La., July 10, 1900. ASCAP 1929. Educ.: New York public schools; Columbia Univ.; New York Univ., Bachelor of Arts. Wrote poetry and short stories for school papers; editor of school magazines. Ambitious to study medicine, was admitting clerk in N.Y. Hospital when a doctor brought his verse to the attention of a music publisher. Became staff writer for music publishers 1919. Wrote lyrics for more than one thousand songs. Works: "Stardust"; "Deep Purple"; "Sophisticated Lady"; "Li­lacs in the Rain"; "Stars Fell on Alabama"; "One Morning in May"; "Don't Be That Way"; "Hands Across the Table"; "Let Me Love You To­night"; "Stairway to the Stars"; "The Lamp is Low"; "Sentimental Gentle­man from Georgia"; "Cabin in the Cotton"; "Moonlight Serenade"; "Sweet Lorraine"; "Does Your Heart Beat for Me?"; "Organ Grinder's Swing"; "Blues Serenade"; "River-boat Shuffle"; "Christmas Night in Harlem"; "Take Me in Your Arms"; "The Blue Skirt Waltz"; "All My Love"; "Sleigh Ride"; "Tzena, Tzena, Tzena." Also special material for stage, screen, ana night clubs. Home: New York, N.Y. Address: c/o ASCAP.
Parker, Horatio William, composer, conductor, organist, educator; b. Auburndale, Mass., Sept. 15, 1863; d. Cedarhurst, N.Y., Dec. 18, 1919.