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Wallace, Oliver G.
Garment Industries, New York, 1940-44; head of recording company from 1944. Radio personality. Songs: "Will You Love Me in December as You Do in May?"; "Good Bye, Eyes or Blue"; "After They Gather the Hay"; "In the Valley Where My Sally Said Goodbye"; "Kiss All the Girls for Me"; "With the Robins III Re­turn"; "I Like Your Way"; "Black Jim"; "There's Music in the Rustle of a Skirt." Address: Estate, c/o ASCAP.
Walker, Raymond, composer, pianist; b. Brooklyn, N.Y., Dec. 29, 1883. ASCAP 1914. Educ: Brooklyn pub­lic schools. Pianist Coney Island dance halls, Bowery and Chinatown. Played m various night clubs in U.S.; first oichestra The Radiolians to broadcast in New York. World War I, in France with Over There Theater League, entertaining A.E.F. Became vaude­ville accompanist and professional manager popular music publishing houses. Songs: "Yiddisha Rag", "Oh What I Know About You ; "My Yankee Girl"; "Good Night Nurse"; "Funny Bunny Hug"; "She Used To Be the Slowest Girl In Town", "The Price That I Paid For You"; "Fido Is a Hot Dog Now"; "Southern Hos­pitality"; "How Do You Like Your Oysters"; "Love Me Just a Little Bit"; "Poor Pauline"; "I Don't Care Whose Girl You Were"; "Mississippi Dippy Dip." Home: 262-51 St., Brooklyn, N.Y.
Walker, William S., composer, au­thor; b. Chicago, 111., Aug. 28, 1917. ASCAP 1950. Educ: Amherst Col­lege, B.A. 1939; Chicago Cons, of Music. Began career playing piano in college dance orch.; took orchestra to Europe 1939, returning just before outbreak of war. World War II 1941-44 32nd Inf. Division, Second Lieu­tenant. Now writing special material for television. Songs: 'Lovely Lady"; "I Wonder Where That Man of Mine
Has Went"; "Half a Heart Is AD You Left"; "I Thought You Told Your Mother"; "Mocking Bird Rag"; "Danc­ing With You." Home: 742 Franklin Ave., River Forest, 111.
Wallace, Mildred White, composer, author, singer, newspaper publisher, radio artist; b. Columbiana, Ala., Aug. 25, 1889. ASCAP 1936. Educ.: Shelby public schools and Colum­biana High School; Randolph Macon Coll., Lynchburg, Va.; Suflins Coll., Bristol, Tenn., Bachelor of Arts. Studied with Ruth Chandler, Mme. Clara Harper Steele, Birmingham Cons.; voice at Alabama Coll. In radio as "The Dixie Bluebird." Pub­lisher and assoc. editor of Shelby County Reporter Democrat Songs: "Sometime, Somehow, Somewhere"; "Close of Day"; "Black Belt Lullaby"; "I Would Hold You In My Arms"; "Since Your Path Crossed Mine"; "I Would Be Near You Then"; "Alone With Thee"; "Trust Only In His Love"; "In a Porch Swing"; "Love's Legacy"; "Just a Melody (Brings You Back To Me)"; "When Peace Bells Chime Our Melody of Love"; "Song In the Night"; "Lonesome Time"; "Goodnight Little Pal"; "Candlelight Waltz"; "Roses of Remembrance"; "Dream Baby" (A lullaby). Home: Columbiana, Ala.
Wallace, Oliver G., composer, con­ductor; b. London, Eng., Aug. 6, 1887. ASCAP 1940. To U.S. 1906; citizen 1914. Educ.: in London, pri­vate tutors in music. First musician to use pipe organ as interpretative instrument for motion pictures (Seat­tle 1910); to Hollywood 1930 to score motion pictures. Composer-conductor for Walt Disney studios 1936. Composer Dumbo (Acad. Award 1941); Victory Thru Air Power, scores for Der Fuehrers Face, Education for Death, The New Spirit, Seal Island, Cinderella, Alice in Wonderland. Songs: "Hindustan";