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Tizol, Juan
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nal Corps, as general music director for 800th Regiment, produced, wrote, directed, composed music, and lyrics for many shows; organized series Sun­day musicales at twenty-six chapels, Camp Crowder, Mo., and an army symphony orchestra; wrote official song: "Saga of the Signal Corps." To Hollywood 1937; active in writing music, lyrics for many pictures; at present member of faculty, Chadwick School, Rolling Hills, Calif. Works: A Tone Poem, based on Lincoln's Gettysburg Address; And When the Hour Has Come (written while in Army, reed seven citations). Songs: "What Will I Tell My Heart", "Big Boy Blue"; "Hasta Mariana", "Have You Ever Been In Heaven"; "111 Close My Eyes to Everyone Else"; 'You Or No One"; "Take Me Away"; "When the Lights Are Soft and Low"; "I'm Glad for Your Sake, But I'm Sorry For Mine"; "Debutante Waltz"; "The Song Is the Thing"; "The Monkey and the Organ Grinder"; "Don't Gamble With Romance"; "Mother Prairie"; "Ring, Telephone, Ring"; "May the Good Lord Take a Liking to You"; "Legend of the Roses"; "A New Star Is Shining In Heaven." Home: Redondo Beach, Calif. Ad­dress: c/o ASCAP.
Home: 2150 S. Hobart, Los Angeles, Calif.
Tobias, Charles, composer, author, ra­dio and vaudeville artist, music pub­lisher; b. New York, N.Y., Aug. 15, 1898. ASCAP 1922. Educ.: Worces­ter, Mass., public schools. Always interested in songwriting, began as schoolboy writing parodies. Became singer on professional staff of various publishers 1916; radio pioneer from 1921; own publishing business. New York. Several years in vaudeville. Wrote scores and songs used in Hellzapoppin, Earl Carroll's Vanities, Yokel Boy. Also scores and songs for motion pictures. Songs: "Me Too, Ho Ho, Ha Ha, Me Too"; "Miss You"; "Two Tickets to Georgia"; "When Your Hair Has Turned to Silver"; "Flowers for Madam", "Let's Swing It"; "Rose O'Day"; "Don't Sweetheart Me"; "I Wish I Could Hide Inside this Letter"; "For the First Time"; "The Broken Record"; "Time Waits for No One"; "In the Valley of the Moon"; "Somebody Loves You"; "Little Lady Make Be­lieve", "Little Curly Hair in a High Chair", "Tiny Little Finger Prints", "Trade Winds"; "We Did It Before and We Can Do It Again"; "Wait for Me Maiy"; "Just a Prayer Away"; "No Can Do"; "Don't Sit Under the Apple Tree"; "Coax Me a Little Bit"; "The Old Lamplighter"; "Rosewood Spinet"; "That's Where I Came In"; "You Missed the Boat." Home: 140 Riverside Dr., New York 24, N.Y.
Tobias, Harry, author, music pub-Usher; b. New York, N.Y., Sept. 11, 1895. ASCAP 1922. Educ.: Worces­ter, Mass., public schools. As school boy joined brother Charlie (qf.t?.), in own music publishing ven­ture, retailing their own songs. World War I, enlisted U.S. Army, became sergeant. After discharge from army returned to music publishing busi­ness. To Hollywood 1929, author of
Tizol, Juan, composer, arranger, trom­bonist; b. San Juan, Puerto Rico, Jan. 22, 1900. ASCAP 1942. To U.S. 1920; citizen. Educ: music, with uncle, Manuel Tizol, Played in Municipal Band, San Juan. With Duke Elling­ton's Orchestra during which com­posed many songs, 1929-44. Since 1944 with Harry James Band, as trombonist. Works: "Caravan"; "Per-dido"; "Lost in Meditation"; "Gypsy Without a Song"; "Luna de Cuba ; "Bakiff"; "Pyramid"; "Congo Brava"; "Night Song"; "Zanzibar"; "Keblah"; "The Sphinx"; "You Can't Have Your Cake and Eat It"; "Let's Knock Our­selves Out"; "Get Back on the Road."