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Vanderpool, Frederick W.
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1917. Works: "I Can't Sleep in the Movies Any More"; "Born to Be Loved"; "Blue Sky out Yonder"; "Hang it in the Hen House"; "Song Without an Ending"; "Somewhere in Your Heart"; "When the Sun Sets over the Rockies"; "Shadows on the Trail"; "Please, Squeeze the Coco­nuts"; "I Just Can t Think of Any­thing But You." Home: 38 Gordon St., Sausalito, Calif.
Vanderpool, Frederick W., composer, pianist, organist, director, actor; b. New York, N.Y., May 8, 1877; d. Newark, N.J., Feb. 13, 1947. ASCAP 1920. Educ: public schools and with private tutors. Studied piano with Louis Koemmenich, Brooklyn; organ with R. Huntington Woodman, Brooklyn; voice with Dr. Carl Dufft and Dr. Frank Dossert, New York. Appeared in choruses of operas; as­sistant musical director De Wolf Opera Company 1901-03. Organist and musical director, Asbury Park, N.J. Assistant to Arthur Pryor, band­master, twenty-two years; staff com­poser New York publishing house and recording artist piano rolls. In radio sang programs of own songs 1927-29. Works: one-act operetta The Kings Highwayman. Songs: "If; "Values"; "I Did Not Know"; "Songs of Dawn and Twilight"; " 'Neath the Autumn Moon"; "Ma Little Sunflower"; "The Want of You"; "Come Love Me"; "Rejoice My Love"; "Come Away"; "I Always Hear You Singing in My Heart"; "Each Night." Sacred songs: "Angel of Light Lead On"; "Dear to the Heart of God"; "Take Thou Mv Hand"; "God is Love, God is Life'; "I Made My Heart a Temple." Ad­dress: Estate, c/o ASCAP.
Van Heusen, Jimmy, composer, or­chestra leader, music publisher; b. Syracuse, N.Y., Jan. 26, 1913. Educ.: Syracuse Univ. In college wrote college musicals and in early thirties
left college to follow music. Profes­sional pianist with publishing houses. Long under contract in Hollywood to write songs for motion pictures. Songs: "It's the Dreamer in Me"; "Heaven Can Wait"; "Deep in a Dream"; "Oh You Crazy Moon"; "All This and Heaven Too"; "Speaking of Heaven"; "Can I Help It"; "Make With the Kisses"; "Moonlight Becomes You"; "Sunday, Monday or Always"; "Constantly"; "Got the Moon in My Pocket"; "Just Plain Lonesome'; "Swinging on a Star" (Academy Award 1944); "Suddenly It's Spring ; "It Could Have Been You"; "Sleigh Ride in July"; "Personality"; "Acci­dents Will Happen"; "And You'll Be Home"; "Blue Rain"; "Aren't You Glad You're You"; "But Beautiful"; "Darn That Dream"; "Going My Wav"; "High On the List"; "Imagina­tion"; "Life Is So Peculiar"; "Sun­shine Cake"; "It Could Happen to You." Home: Los Angeles, Calif. Ad­dress: c/o ASCAP.
Van Loon, Gerard Willem, author; b. Munich, Bavaria, Jan. 16, 1911. ASCAP 1943. To U.S. 1911; citizen 1919. Educ: Eaglebrook School, Deerfield, Mass.; at Glarisegg School, Steckborn, Switz. Attended Max Reinhardt Seminar, in Vienna, 1929-31. Studied ballet in U.S. and Europe. Returned to U.S. 1934, for stage and night-club appearances. Lyric-writer, playwright, translator, and lecturer. U.S. Army, Field Artil­lery 1942; served overseas with Brit. War Office Intell. Research 1943-45. Then Information Control Division, as Theater Control Officer for Bavaria till 1946. Works: "Liberty Under God"; "Sing, Sing, Sing ; "New World on Its Way." Home: 409 E. 52 St., New York 22, N.Y.
Vann, Al, composer, author, record­ing artist; b. Kiev, Russia, May 21, 1899. ASCAP 1934. To U.S. 1909; citizen 1920. Educ.: public schools.