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Russell, Henry
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He Calls Me"; "The Stars and Stripes Forever"; "Would I Love You?"; "Carnival", "Once"; "It's the Beast in Me"; "The Sandman Cometh"; "I Happen To Love You"; "Bugle Blues"; "My Lady Love"; "Dreamer's Cloth"; "Jack and the Beanstalk"; "I Fear Nothing"; "Dar-lene"; "He Never Looked Better in His Life." Home: Sherman Oaks, Calif. Address: c/o ASCAP.
Russell, Henry (Olson), composer, author, pianist, arranger, vocalist, b. Mooihead, Minn., Sept. 4, 1913. ASCAP 1944. Educ: public schools, left premed. course lor music. At­tended Concordia Cons., Fargo, N.D., one year. Joined band as vocalist and pianist; continued with Various bands for five years. Organized the Four Bachelors, vocal group and toured U.S. and England. As pianist-airanger-vocalist with a leading band, introduced the Novachoid into dance bands. Vocal rccoidmg artist. Ma­chinist during World War II. Radio musical director, N.B.C. Motion Pic­ture scores. Lulu Belle, Five Songs. "The Madam Swings It", "Bioadway Caballcro", "Pete the Piper"; "Pm Marin", "An Evening At Home", "I Still Care", "Were Going Acioss", "When I'd Yoo Hoo In the Valley", "The Halls of Ivy", "Dream Away"; "Back Home"; "Returning To Me"; "jealous of Me"; "Dangerous", "Sweetie Pie", "Lulu Belle"; "Sun­burst." Home: 15065 Sutton St., Sherman Oaks, Calii.
Russell, Sydney King, composer, author, pianist, recording artist, b. New York, N.Y., Nov. 29, 1897. ASCAP 1937. Educ.: Choate School; Univ. of Calif. Harmony and com­position with Rubin Goldmark; counterpoint, T. Tertius Noble, Sid­ney Homer; piano with Chas. Lee Traeey. Set a number of own poems to music, also poems by others. Edi­tor Parfrif Chap B'*ok, a (|iiarterlv "f
vcisc. Author seven published books of verse, Proud Universe and Lost Warrior. Accompanist for wiie, Jean Love, sopiano, in radio and concert programs. Songs: "Children of Men", "The Song of the Hill'; "Roll Along Cowboy"; "Journey's End"; "Fulfill­ment", "Little Pagan Rain Song"; "My Spint Like a Shepherd Boy", "Sandy River", "Song for Living"; "Prayer foi a May Morning"; "The Way to the Town", "An Autumn Road", "Spring Sabbath Morning", "Harboi Night" (winner of Kimball Awaid), "Sleep You to Dieam" Home 140 Scabiccze Ave., Palm Beach, Fla.
Russo, Dan, composer; b. Chicago, 111., Oct. 14, 1885. ASCAP 1925 Educ.. Saginaw, Mich, public schools. Studied wolm at seven with lather. ILxd ten piece orchestia at foiuteen with I sham Jones as mem­ber. Musical dnector for vaudeville cncuit, Michigan, then to Detroit as director of ballroom orchestra. Oi-gani7ed own orchestra touting coun­try in ballrooms, hotels, and vaude­ville. Songs. "Kentucky Blues', "Toot Toot Tootsie", "Imagination", "Be­cause of You", "Night", "Oh Li/zie", "Couldn't Help It it I Tried"; "Lost " Home. 335 N. Hobart Blvd., Lo> Angeles, Calif.
Russotto, Leo, composer, pianist, b New York, N.Y., Mav 25, 1896. ASCAP 1943. Educ.. Columbia Univ. (nongrad.). Piano, theory at Inst, of Musical Ait, theory, composition privately with Rubin Goldmark, A. W. Lihenthal and Mortimer Wilson, piano with Bertha Feinn^ Tappei, Arthur Hochman and Clarence Ad-ler. Coach of Roxy's Gang 1925-33, coach and accompanist to Jan Pcerce, accompanist to vanous opeia singers. Staff pianist and director of choral groups, N.B.C., 1933-43. Assistant director of music, St. Louis Municipal Opera, 1944. Musical clncetoi lor