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Taylor, Irving
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songs, piano pieces, and many song translations. Home: New York, N.Y. Address: c/o ASCAP.
Taylor, Irving, author; b. New York, N.Y., April 8, 1914. ASCAP 1939. Educ: New York Univ.; wrote var­sity shows 1935-36. World War II, in Navy, amphibious, Normandy and Southern France, three years. Wrote submarine service song "Take Her Down." Other songs: "There's a Faraway Look in Your Eye"; "Come Out, Come Out Wherever You Are"; "Swing Mr. Charlie"; "Do You Know Your ABC"; "It Serves You Right"; "Three Little Sisters"; "Take it Easy"; "Lily Belle"; "One-Zy Two-Zy"; "Something Sentimental"; "I'd Do It Again"; "My Dream of Tomorrow"; "Quicksilver'; "So Dear to My Heart"; "Aintcha Ever Comin' Back"; "Ca-ramba! It's the Samba"; "You Broke Your Promise"; "Everybody Loves Somebody"; "Ain't Nobody's Busi­ness But My Own"; "A Razz A Ma Tazz." Home: 4734 Allot Ave., Sher­man Oaks, Calif.
Templeton, Alec, composer, concert pianist, recording artist; b. Cardiff, Wales, Eng., July 4, 1910. ASCAP 1940. To U.S. 1935; citizen 1941. Educ.: Worcester College; Royal Coll. of Music. Piano recitalist in England. Came to U.S. for radio engagement; concert debut Chicago 1936. Guest artist many radio programs, as satirist and pianist; star on own radio broad­casts. Tours U.S., Canada, and Ha­waiian Islands. Associate of Royal College of Music; degree of Licentiate from Royal Academy of Music. Honorary Pipe Major, Seaforth High­landers, Vancouver and Royal Cana­dian Air Force, Toronto, Canada. Works: RJiapsodie Harmonique, Con­certino Lirico, Concerto Grosso, for symph. orch. and piano; three String Quartets; Violin Sonata; Siciliana for violin; Pocket Size Sonata for clarinet and piano; Hast Thou Not Known,
four-part a cappella anthem. Organ works: Pastorale in D; Variation and Fugue on "Picardtf; Suite Noel; and Venite and Hymn for Easter, for chorus and organ. Piano works: Redwoods in Bohemian Grove; Pines; two Piano Sonatas; Over the Sea to Skye; Variation on Skye Boat Song. Piano arrangements: Prelude and Arioso, Bach; Choral Prelude, Sheep May Safely Graze, Bach; Toccata and Fugue in D Minor, Bach; Fantasy on Der Rosenkavalier, Strauss; Staend-chen, Strauss. Songs: "Gifts"; "Hebri-dean Song"; "Voyage a la Lune", "Ave Maria"; "Topsy Turvv Suite" (includes "Bach Goes to Town"). Also, score for motion picture, Cab­bages and Kings. Home: Greenwich, Conn. Address: c/o ASCAP.
Tenney, Jack Breckinridge, composer, lawyer; b. St. Louis, Mo., April 1,
1898.  ASCAP 1942. Educ.: Los An­geles public schools; Associated Col­leges Coll. of Law, 1935, Bachelor of Laws. Admitted to State Bar, San Francisco, 1935. Admitted to Su­preme Court of U.S., 1946. Currently engaged in practice of law, Los An­geles. World War I Veteran, U.S. Army, France. California State As­sembly 1936-40; from 1942, Cali­fornia Senate. Member American Federation of Musicians since 1919. Works: "Mexicali Rose"; "Some Dav I'll Learn to Forget You"; "Border Rose"; "Regular Fellows"; "I Prayed to Heaven"; "Drowsy Moon"; "Song of the Legionnaire'; "Blue Sierra Hills"; "Giddy Yap, We're Goin' Home"; "On the Banks of the Old Merced"; "Sally of Our Alley's Gone to War." Home: 2033 North Avenue 52, Los Angeles, Calif. Business ad­dress: Transamerica Building, 649 S. Olive St., Los Angeles 14, Calif.
Tepper, Saul, composer, author, illus­trator; b. New York, N.Y., Dec. 25,
1899.  ASCAP 1921. Educ.: Studied art at Cooper Union, National Acad.,