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Tyers, William H.
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Wandering Troubador"; "Monastery Bells"; "In a Little Book Shop." Home: New York, N.Y. Address: c/o ASCAP.
Tyers, William H., composer; b. Richmond, Va., March 27, 1876; d. New York, N.Y., April 18, 1924. ASCAP 1917. Educ: New York pub-lie schools; music with private tu­tors; at twenty, theory, Berlin, Ger­many, one year. Staff arranger for popular music publishing houses in New York. Had own orchestra, Bretton Woods, N.H., five summers. In theater as musical director for Rock and White, and Irene and Ver­non Castle. Among early composers in the tango idiom. Works: "Maori"; "Trocha"; "Admiration"; "Call of the Woods" (waltz); "SoHloquy"; "Mele Hula"; "Flames and Fancies"; "Dance of the Philippines"; "La Mariposa"; "La Fiance" (waltz); "Love's Con­tentment"; "Panama"; "Barnyard Shuffle"; "Aunt Mandy's Wedding'; "Troopers Review"; "Summer Moon";
"Brazilian Butterfly"; "Tout a Vous." Address: Estate, c/o ASCAP.
Tyson, Mildred Lund, composer; h. Moline, 111., March 10, 1900. ASCAP 1944. Educ.: Northwestern Univ., Evanston, 111., Bachelor of Music. Postgraduate study, composition and voice, one year; majored in voice with Walter Allen Stults; composition, Carl Beecher and Arne Oldberg; voice, Edward Meyer, Los Angeles, one year; with Frederick Bristol, New York, three years. Taught voice and piano at Pomona Coll., Calif., one year. Church soloist, Mamaroneck, N.Y. Currently directing choral group, choir director and organist, Sidney Congregational Church; teacher of piano and voice. Songs (also in choral arrangement): "The Lilacs Are In Bloom"; "One Little Cloud"; "Sea Moods"; "Like Barley Bending"; "Noon and Night"; "The Great Divide"; "This Moons a Hoop"; "Mav in Japan." Home: "Illahee," Unadilla, N.Y.
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Urbano, Alfred J., author; b. South    Songs: 'Tm Living a Lie"; "Heart-Portland, Me., Jan. 20, 1911. ASCAP    breaking"; "Little Poker Face"; 1948. Educ.: South Portland public    "Serenade of the Bells"; "It's Like a schools; Georgetown Univ., Washing-    Trip to Tipperary"; "Hasty Heart"; ton, D.C. While in college wrote    "Never Again"; '"The Black Rose." poems for college journals. Self-    Home: Valley Stream, N.Y. Address: taught in music. Won "Clef Award,     c/o ASCAP. Amer. Soc. of Disk Jockeys 1948.
Val, Jack, composer; b. Bronx, N.Y., March 12, 1897. ASCAP 1946. Educ.: high school, New York; at 12 began study of piano. Member professional staff of music publishing company 1921. Started music publish­ing company, New York 1943. Songs: "I Was Not So Particular"; "Kitty Kan-nits Karmots"; Tm All Dressed Up With a Broken Heart"; "Three Um­brellas": "I Cant Go On Like This";
"Treat 'Em Rough"; "Lady of Havana"; "I Don't Know Why I Do It But I Do"; "Yum Yum"; "Where in This World"; "Anything Can Happen When You're Lonesome"; "The Wolves Are Out Tonight"; "Gonna Give Myself a Pat"; "Alvidas Ma­riana"; 'I Kissed a Girl and Made Her Cry"; "Do What Your Heart Tells You To Do"; "Paree"; "Just Say I Love Her" (orig. "That Night in