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Shield, LeRoy
Home: 808 West End Ave., New York 25, N.Y.
Shelton, James H., composer, author; b. Paducah, Ky., Dec. 5, 1912. ASCAP 1950. Songs: "Lamplight"; "I Dance Alone"; "Our Town"; "Four Young People"; "Lilac Wine"; "I'm the Girl"; *'Matilda"; "Strange New Look." Home: NeV York, N.Y. Ad­dress: c/o ASCAP.
Shepherd, Arthur, composer, educa­tor; b. Paris, Idaho, Feb. 19, 1880. ASCAP 1939. Educ: N. E. Cons, of Music. On graduation, to Salt Lake City as theater orchestra conductor; 1908 member faculty of N. E. Cons. World War I, bandmaster in France. Assistant conductor Cleveland or­chestra 1920; 1927 professor music Western Reserve Univ. At twenty-two awarded Paderewski prize with Overture Joyeuse; J 920 awarded two prizes National Federation of Music Clubs. Member National Inst. Arts and Letters. Works: Overture to a Drama; Symphony No. 1 Horizons (won first Juilliard publication award); Symphony No. 2; two So­natas for Piano; Violin Sonata; three String Quartets; Quintet for piano and strings; Triptych for voice and string quartet, two cantatas. City in the Sea and The Song of the Pilgrims; Choreographic Suite (Four Dance Episodes); Setting of Psalm XLII for chorus and orchestra; Fantasy-Over­ture on Down East Spirituals; Con­certo for Violin and Orchestra; songs and piano pieces. Home: 2095 Len­nox Rd., Cleveland Heights, Ohio.
Sherman, Al, composer, author; b. Kiev, Russia, Sept. 7, 1897. ASCAP 1925. To U.S. 1911. Educ.: Gym­nasium, in Prague, Bohemia. Musical education with father, concert violin­ist. Private study, U.S. Mood music pianist for early film studios, also bit player. Joined staff of music publish­ing house as pianist. Became writer
popular songs and later also standard music. Scores and songs for: Ziegfeld Follies; Gay Paree; George White's Scandals; The Passing Show; Earl CarroWs Vanities; Hit and Run; Yokel Boy. Film musicals incl.: Sensa­tions of '45; The Big Pond; Sweeties; The Sky's the Limit Works (instru­mental): The Feather Suite; Sounds of Sequoia; Love Suite; Southern Sketches. Songs: "Save Your Sor­row"; "Potatoes Are Cheaper"; "When I'm President, (We Want Cantor)"; "No, No, A Thousand Times No!"; "On a Dew Dew Dewy Day"; "On the Beach at Bali Bali"; "You Gotta Be a Football Hero"; "Cross Eyed Kelly"; "Over Somebody Else's Shoul­der"; "99 Out of a Hundred"; "Got the Bench, Got the Park"; "Isn't It a Shame"; "For Sentimental Reasons"; "Ev'ry Now and Then"; "One Night in Monte Carlo"; "When the Organ Played 'O Promise Me'"; "Wanna Eat, Wanna Eat, Wanita"; "When You Waltz With the One You Love"; "(Step by Step) I'm Marching Home to You"; "Ho Ho, Ha Ha, Me Too"; "Wear a Hat With a Silver Lining"; "Pretending"; "The Pigskin Polka." Hymns: "In God We Trust"; "Thv Will be Done"; "Light of the World/" Home: Beverly Hills, Calif. Address: ?o ASCAP.
Shield, LeRoy, composer, pianist, con­ductor, arranger; b. Waseca, Minn., Oct. 2, 1898. ASCAP 1943. Educ.: Chicago Univ.; Columbia School of Music. After concert tours and ac­companying and assisting artists, be­came conductor and arranger for re­cording company; radio musical con­ductor; musical director radio since 1931; also musical transcriptions for ra­dio. Scored motion pictures and made many arrangements and transcrip­tions of standard works. Works: Union Pacific Suite for Orch.; Cuban Carnival. Home: New York, N.Y. Ad­dress: % N.B.C., 30 Rockefeller Plaza, New York 20, N.Y.