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with original Glen Gray Casa Loma Orch. twelve years (part owner). Manager and player with Sonny Dunham Orch. two years. Currently engaged in artist management. Works: "Blue Champagne"; "If You Ever Change Your Mind"; "Daddy's Boy"; "I Remember"; "Mister Rhythm Man"; "The Bottom Man On the Totem Pole"; "You Ain't Been Living Right"; "You Have Been Taking Lessons in Love"; "Jerk McGurk from Albuquerque." Home: Manhasset, N.Y. Address: 1270 Avenue of the Americas, New York 20, New York.
Watts, Wintter, composer; b. Cincinnati, Ohio, March 14, 1884. ASCAP 1933. Studied painting and architecture in Cincinnati, also voice and organ; advanced musical studies Inst, of Musical Art, New York. Awarded Morris Loeb prize 1919 for symphonic poem Young Blood; Pulitzer prize 1923; Prix de Rome, American Academy of Rome 1923-25. Pursued advanced musical studies in Europe 1923-31; then to U.S. Works: Bridal Overture; Pied Piper, opera in three acts; Etchings, orchestral suite; Circles, cycle of seven songs for voice and strings; Miniver Cheevy, dramatic ballad, baritone and orchestra; Vignettes of Italy, cycle of nine songs. Songs: "Blue Are Her Eyes"; "Wings of Night"; "Joy"; "Transformation"; "The Poet Sings"; "Stresa" (finale to the Vignettes with orchestra); "Little Shepherd Song"; "With the Tide"; "Ocean Tramp"; "Like Music on the Waters"; "Wild Tears"; "Entreat Me Not to Leave Thee"; "Green Branches"; "Pierrot"; "Wood Song." Home: New York, N.Y. Address: c/o ASCAP.
Waverly, Jack, composer, author, publisher; b. New York, N.Y., Aug. 12, 1896; d. Bellmore, N.Y., Jan. 30, 1951. ASCAP 1946. Educ: public schools. In musical comedies until World War I, then 1st. Lieut., In- |
fantry U.S. Army. Sang in Ziegfeld Follies 1919; wrote special material for vaudeville. Author and producer of Oh, These Women. Became music publisher 1936. Songs: "Beneath a Starry Heaven"; "Don't Worry Dar-lin'"; Tm Just a Poor Hillbilly Looldn For a Hill"; "Keep That Swing"; "Louie Learned to Yodel"; "Me and My Guitar"; "Never Let No Worry Worry You"; "When Grampa Got His Whiskers Caught In the Zipper of His Shirt"; "God Bless Us, Everyone"; "Nobody Wants to Do the Dishes." Address: Estate, c/o ASCAP.
Waxman, Franz, composer; b. Koe-nigsbutte, Germany, Dec. 24, 1906. ASCAP 1941. Musical educ.: in Berlin and Dresden. Member AKM (Austrian Performing Right Society). To U.S. 1934; since then in Hollywood, musical director for films. Won Acad. Award 1950, best musical score for film Sunset Boulevard. Home: Hollywood, Calif. Address: c/o ASCAP.
Wayne, Jerry, composer, singer, radio, television, and recording artist; b. Buffalo, N.Y., July 24, 1916. ASCAP 1943. Educ.: Univ. of Buffalo; Ohio State Univ. Active in college dramatics; played small parts in radio. Studied voice to improve diction for work in films, became singer with orchestra; plays violin, piano, saxophone, guitar and clarinet. Radio network singing attraction; star Broadway musical, Marinka. Theater and night club attraction. Songs: "I'm Beginning to Know You"; "Hangin' Around"; "Stardust on the Moon"; "My Flame Went Out Last Night"; "Windshield Wiper Song." Home: Forest Hills, N.Y. Address: 101 W. 57 St., New York 19, N.Y.
Wayne, Mabel, composer, pianist, radio artist; b. Brooklyn, N.Y*, July 16, 1904. ASCAP 1928. Educ.: Brooklyn public schools and during Europe sojourn with aunt, concert singer, with |
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