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Moon"; "Out of the Mist"; "Mammy's Lullaby"; "Oklahoma Lullaby"; "When You Smile"; "My Old Piano and Me." Also concert songs, instrumental works. Address: Estate, c/o ASCAP.
Roberts, Paul, composer, author, radio and stage performer; b. Dorchester, Mass., March 30, 1915. ASCAP 1943. Toured country in vaudeville with wife featuring own compositions; also broadcast with wife as singing team. U.S. Army World War II. Songs: "There's A Star Spangled Banner Waving Somewhere"; "She Taught Me How to Yodel"; "If I Could Only Learn to Yodel"; "The Major of St. Lo"; "New England is the Place For Me." Home: U.S. Route 1, Kennebunk, Me. Business address: Swan's Island, Me., or c/o ASCAP.
Robertson, Dick, composer, author, radio conductor, recording artist, singer; b. Brooklyn, N.Y., July 3, 1903. ASCAP 1941. Educ. public schools. Self-taught in music. Entertained throughout U.S., Canada, England, and France. Recording executive. Works: "At Least You Could Say 116110'*, "Out of Port (Out of Sight, Out of Mind)"; "We Three (My Echo, My Shadow and Me)"; "If You Cared"; "I'm Countin' on a Mountain Moon"; "Who Did You Meet Last Night?"; "Good Night Wherever You Are"; "A Little on the Lonely Side"; "Yesterday's Gardenias"; "You Forgot About Me"; "Dearest Darling"; "I'd Do It All Over Again"; "You Can Cry on Somebody Else's Shoulder"; "Is There Somebody Else?"; "My Old Gal." Home: Newfoundland, N.J. Address: c/o ASCAP.
Robertson, James B., composer, author, stage and radio singer; b. Bates-ville, Texas, Feb. 27, 1910. ASCAP 1943. Known as Texas Jim Robert- |
son, singer of hillbilly songs. Songs: "Tumblin On"; "Windy Ben"; "Purple Night on the Prairie"; "My Ma She Told Me So"; "Tennessee Moon"; "Brother Henry." Home: Nyack, N.Y. Address: c/o ASCAP.
Robertson, Leroy, composer; b. Fountain Green, Utah, Dec. 21, 1896. ASCAP 1950. Educ.: Fountain Green and Pleasant Grove, Utah, public schools; Brigham Young Univ. High School, Provo, Utah; New England Cons, of Music, Boston, Mass.; scholarship New England Cons under Chadwick; student of Ernest Bloch at San Francisco Cons, of Music and Switzerland. Student of Hugo Leicht-entritt, Berlin, 1933, M.A. Brigham Young Univ. 1932; graduate work Univ. of Southern Calif., 1946-47. Member Utah Academy of Sciences, Arts and Letters. Prof, of Music, Brigham Young Univ., 1925-48, from 1948 head oi Music Dept. Univ. of Utah, Salt Lake City. Works: Endi-cott Overture (ree'd Endicott prize, Boston 1923); Quintet for Strings and Piano (won first place, Society for Publication of American Music 1936); String Quartet in E Minor (chosen for Critics Circle, New York 1944), Rhapsody for Piano and Orch. ($500 Award by Utah Inst, of Fine Arts 1945); Trilogy for Symph. Orch. (Reichhold Award of $25,000 1947); American Serenade for String Quartet; Dramatic Oratorio from the Book of Mormon; Concerto for Violin and Orch.; Motet on a Traditional Hymn for Chorus, Brass Instruments and Piano; Punch and Judy, for orch.; Prelude, Scherzo and Ricercare for orch. Also piano etudes, songs and short choral works. Home: 1584 S. 14th E., Salt Lake City, Utah.
Robin, Leo, author; b. Pittsburgh, Pa., April 6, 1900. ASCAP 1927. Of literary parentage. Educ.: Pittsburgh public schools and Univ. of Pittsburgh. Became newspaperman; after |
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