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Radford, Dave
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his death. Works: three Symphonies; The Island of the Dead, symphonic poem; four Piano Concertos; Rhap­sody on a Theme by Paganini, for piano and orch.; Symjriionic Dances; two operas, Aleko and Francesca da Rimini; Piano Trio; Cello Sonata; two Suites for two pianos; many piano pieces and art-songs. Address: Estate, c/o ASCAP.
Radford-, Dave (David Radford Blyth), author; b. Gait, Ontario, Can., Feb. 26, 1884. ASCAP 1941. Songs: "Wouldn't You Like to Take a Little Girl to Raise?"; "Mary Pick-ford"; "It's Tulip Time in Holland"; "My American Beautv Rose"; "In the Valley of the Nile"; "I'm Glad You're Sorry"; "The Whole World Loves a Lover"; "The Girl and the Game"; "Where the Black Eyed Susans Grow"; "It's Lilac Time in Lovers' Lane"; "My Rose of Palestine"; "Where the Four Leaf Clovers Grow"; "Sleepy Hollow Days"; "Song of Persia." Home: New York, N.Y. Address: c/o ASCAP.
Rainger, Ralph, composer; b. New York, N.Y., Oct. 7, 1901; d. Oct. 23, 1942. ASCAP 1931. Educ.: Newark public schools; Damrosch Inst, of Musical Art; Brown University; New Jersey Law School. Studied music under Paolo Gallico, Clarence Adler, Arnold Schoenberg. Graduate lawyer, left law to become professional pian­ist, first as member of two-piano team, then vaudeville accompanist. Played in Paul Whiteman's orchestra. For several years, until death, staff com­poser, Hollywood. Works: "Moanin Low"; "Do I Love You?"; "Love in Bloom"; "June in January": "Love is Just Around the Corner"; "Blue Hawaii"; "Thanks for the Memory" (won Academy Award 1938); "What Goes On Here in My Heart?"; "The Funny Old Hills"; "You're a Sweet Little Headache"; "Faithful Forever"; "You Started Something"; "Please";
"Here Lies Love"; "I'll Take an Op­tion on You"; "Talking Through My Heart"; "La Bomba"; "Hills of Old Wyoming" (adopted by Wyoming as state song); "Uncle Sam Gets Around" (written for Pres. F. D. Roosevelt's campaign); many other songs and scores for motion pictures. Address: Estate, c/o ASCAP.
Raksin, David, composer; b. Phila­delphia, Pa., Aug. 4, 1912. ASCAP 1945. Educ.: Univ. of Pa. 1934; in music with Isidor Raksin, Wm. F. Happich, Harl McDonald, Isadore Freed, Arnold Schoenberg. Played and sang with dance bands. Radio and show arranger on staff of music publishing house. To Hollywood 1935; arranged score of Chaplin film Modern Times. Worked in England 1936. Since then in Hollywood. Film scores include Laura, Smoky, Fallen Angeh The Homestretch, The Secret Life of Walter Mitty, Force of Evil, Forever Amber, Whirlpool, The Re-former and the Redhead, Right Cross, Tlxe Next Voice You Hear, The Mag­nificent Yankee. Song: "Laura." Also film and stage ballets, incidental music for stage plays, score of musical If the Shoe Fits, music for symphony or­chestra and chamber groups. Home: Northridge, Calif. Address: c/o ASCAP.
Ram, Buck, composer, author, pub­lisher, im-anger, pianist; b. Chicago, 111., Dec. 18, 1908. ASCAP 1940. Educ.: Univ. of Illinois Law School; Univ. of So. Calif., Law School, Southwestern Univ. Music with Joseph Schillinger. Member of Bar, California. Has own publishing house. Musical director, arranger with popu­lar orchestras. Songs: 'At Your Beck and Call"; "Afterglow"; "Adam's Ap­ple"; "Noah's Ark"; "Morocco"; "Must We Just Be Friends"; "Boog It"; "Fool That I Am"; "Slow Freight"; "From Day to Day"; "HI Be Home for Christmas"; "Trains in the Night";