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Moon"; "Waiting for a Train"; "Yodeling Cowboy"; "Home Call"; "Never No Mo* Blues"; "You and My Old Guitar"; "Why Should I Be Lonely"; "Any Old Time"; Tm Lonesome Too"; "In the Jailhouse Now"; "My Old Pal." Address: Estate, c/o ASCAP.
Rodgers, Richard, composer, producer; b. New York, N.Y., June 28, 1902. ASCAP 1926 (director 1941-47). Educ: Columbia Univ. 1919-21; Inst, of Musical Art, New York, 1921-23. Began musical career as undergraduate at Columbia, composing for varsity shows where he began his long association with the late Larry Hart. While still in Columbia, was represented on Broadway by Poor Little Ritz Girl. Rodgers and Hart collaborations: The Garrick Gaieties, Dearest Enemy, The Girl Friend, A Connecticut Yankee, Spring is Here, Present Arms, Jumbo, On Your Toes, Babes in Arms, The Boys From Syracuse, I Married an Angel, Too Many Girls, I'd Rather Be Right, Pal Joey, Peggy Ann, Heads Up, Love Me Tonight. Songs of Rodgers and Hart collaboration: "Blue Room"; "Manhattan"; "With a Song in My Heart"; "My Heart Stood Still ; "Mimi"; "Lover"; "Thou Swell"; "Isn't it Romantic"; "I've Got Five Dollars"; "You Took Advantage of Me"; "My Romance"; "Down By the River"; "Soon"; "Easy to Remember"; "Ten Cents a Dance"; "Dancing on the Ceiling"; "You're in My Arms"; "On Your Toes"; "Have You Met Miss Jones?"; "I Married An Angel"; "The Lady is a Tramp"; "Bewitched." Wrote music for motion pictures Love Me Tonight; State Fair; music for ballet Ghost Town. In collaboration with Oscar Hammer-stein, II, wrote Oklahoma (Pulitzer Prize 1944), Carousel, Allegro, South Pacific (Pulitzer Prize 1950), The King and I. Rodgers and Hammer-stein songs: "Oh What a Beautiful |
Morning"; "People Will Say We're in Love"; "Surrey with the Fringe on Top"; "If I Loved You"; "June Is Bustin' out all Over"; "It Might As Well Be Spring"; "That's for Me"; "The Gentleman Is a Dope"; "So Far"; "A Fellow Needs a Girl"; "Bali Ha'i"; "Some Enchanted Evening", "Wonderful Guy"; "Younger Than Springtime"; "There is Nothing Like a Dame"; "I'm Gonna Wash that Man Right Outa My Hair"; "This Was Nearly Mine"; "We Kiss in a Shadow"; "Hello Young Lovers." Active in connection with Hammerstein in casting, rehearsing, producing his own and other shows: Carousel, I Remember Mama, Annie Get Your Gun, John Loves Mary, Happy Birthday, Show Boat, The Happy Time. Home: New York, N.Y. Address: c/o ASCAP.
Rodney, Don (Ragonese), composer, singer; b. Bridgeport, Conn., May 26, 1920. ASCAP 1950. Educ.: Bridgeport public schools; Lawrence High School, Lawrence, N.Y. Studied mandolin and violin in childhood, music, harmony and guitar at age ot twelve; voice at sixteen with Joseph De Luigi and Mary Fabian, Chicago. Singer and player in various popular orchestras. Now has own radio program. Songs: "That's What Every Young Girl Should Know"; "Funny Little Money Man"; "Peculiar"; "The Four Winds and the Seven Seas." Home: Floral Park, N.Y. Address: c/o ASCAP.
Roemheld, Heinz, composer, conductor; b. Milwaukee, Wis., May 1, 1901. ASCAP 1948. Educ.: Milwaukee public schools; Wisconsin College of Music, Bachelor of Music, 1918. Composition in Berlin with Hugo Kaun; piano with Breithaupt and Egon Petri. Debut as pianist with Berlin Philharmonic 1922. Composer and musical director with motion picture companies 1923-26; in Wash- |
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