Franz Grothe
b: Sept. 17, 1908, Berlin (Treptow), Germany. d: Sept. 12, 1982 (cardiac infarction)
It's difficult to imaging better circumstances. His father was not only a representative of a famous piano company, but was also a good pianist. His mother was an excellent concert singer. So it's not amazing that Franz Grothe would become one of the highly gifted composers of the 20th Century (writing concert pieces and for the Films). After the 'Gymnasium' (high school), he attended the Berlin City College of Music, where he studied piano, violin and music theory. In 1929, he began working for the film studios for the first time. His first feature film was "Die Nacht gehrt uns" (The night belongs to us" --about two hundred films would follow. 1935 he came to Hollywood, where it was active for Universal Pictures. Later, back again in Germany, he worked such other important composers as Franz Leh&aecute;r, Emmerich K&aecute;lm&aecute;n, and Robert Stolz, - all of which greatly strongly influenced his further musical s career. He also often worked as a conductor on the TV show "Zum Blauen Bock" with Heinz Schenk. On September 11, 1982, he suffered a cardiac infarction and died the night of September 12.
Morton Gould
b. Dec. 10, 1913, Richmond Hill, NY USA
Overview
This composer is best known for his classical music scores, written for symphony orchestras and ballets. Still, he has also composed some lighter works for the stage and screen. Today, much of his music is played by college bands, for whom he has written extensively.
Gould was a musical prodigy, who had already published his first opus at only age 6 (a waltz for solo piano). He received a scholarship to the Institute of Musical Arts (N.Y.) at age 8. Later he received instruction from Abby Whiteside. He also attended New York University, studying theory and composition under Dr. Vincent Jones.
In the early 1930's, Gould was earning his living as a solo pianist working in vaudeville theaters and radio studios. During this time, he was a staff pianist at New York's famed Radio City Music Hall Theater, and with NBC, the National Broadcasting Corporation Network. In 1934, he accepted the position of Staff Conductor of the WOR Mutual Radio Broadcasting Corporation, and subsequently began a series of broadcasts with CBS, the Columbia Broadcasting System.
Brief Chronology
1936 "Chorale and Fugue in Jazz for Piano and Orchestra", was introduced by famed conductor Leopold Stokowski.
1941 "Foster Gallery", a symphonic treatment of Stephen Vincent Fostertunes.
1944 "The Cowboy Rhapsody", symphonic treatment of traditional 'cowboy' tunes.
1945 The Ballet 'Interplay', used 'blues' themes.
1945 scored the Broadway Show 'Billion Dollar Baby, book and lyrics by the
great team of Adolph Green and Betty Comden.
"I'm Sure of Your Love"
"Bad Timing"
"I've Got a One Track Mind"
1947 "Symphony No. 3", has a jazz scherzo.
1950 Scored the Broadway show 'Arms and the Girl', lyrics by Dorothy Fields.
"You Kissed Me"
"There Must Be Something Better Than Love"
"That's My Fella"
For Hollywood, Gould scored the films,
'Delightfully Dangerous', lyrics by Edward Heyman.
'Through Your Eyes To Your Heart'
'Cinerama Holiday'
'Windjammer'
Ron Grainer
b. 1922, Australia, d. Feb. 21, 1981, Cuckfield, Sussex, England, UK. (cancer)
Australian by birth, this composer had a long career working for the
British Films studios and for British television. He worked on feature and
documentary films, and TV.
Among his documentary films scores are:
1961 'Tetanus'
1963 'Giants of Steam'.
Among his feature films are:
Bawdy Adventures of Tom Jones, The (1976)
I Don't Want to Be Born (1975)
;aka Baby, The (1975)
aka Devil Within Her, The (1975) (USA)
aka It's Growing Inside Her (1975 TV title)
aka Monster, The (1975)
aka Sharon's Baby (1975 USA)
Yellow Dog (1973)
Omega Man, The (1971)
Hoffman (1970)
In Search of Oregon (1970)
In Search of Gregory (1970)
Assassination Bureau, The (1969)
In Search of Gregory (1969)
Lock Up Your Daughters! (1969)
Before Winter Comes (1969)
Only When I Larf (1968)
Tiger Makes Out, The (1967)
To Sir, with Love (1967)
Trap, The (1966)
Caretaker, The (1964. aka in USA: Guest, The)
Night Must Fall (1964)
Guest, The (1964)
Nothing But the Best (1964)
The Finest Hours (1964 - the popular Churchill March was from this film's score)
Moon-Spinners, The (1964)
Home-Made Car (1963)
Doctor Who (1963. composed TV Series theme. aka: Dr. Who)
Running Man, The (1963 composed the title music)
Mouse on the Moon, The (1963)
Station Six-Sahara (1963. aka in West Germany: Endstation 13 Sahara)
Dock Brief, The (1962. aka in USA: Trial and Error)
Live Now - Pay Later (1962)
Some People (1962)
Kind of Loving, A (1962)
His work for British Television includes music for:
Dr Who (1983-1998 The theme as well as other music for this TV Series)
Steptoe and Son (1962. There well known signature theme song.)
"Edward & Mrs. Simpson" (1980 and aka "Roald Dahl's Tales of the Unexpected" in 1979)
Rebecca (1978 TV)
Black Knight, The (1977 TV)
House Full of Men, A (1977 TV)
Mousey (1974 TV. aka: Cat and Mouse)
And No One Could Save Her (1973 TV)
Thief (1971 TV. aka: Day in the Life of a Burglar, A)
Destiny of a Spy (1969 TV. aka: Gaunt Woman, The)
"Prisoner, The" (1967 TV Series)
"Man in a Suitcase" (1967 TV Series - theme)
"Steptoe and Son" (1962 TV Series)
We Joined the Navy (1962. aka in USA(TV): We Are in the Navy Now)
Porter Grainger
Currently No Information Available.
This Black composer is an obscure figure best remembered today for his fine piano accompaniment on the Bessie Smith recordings. Another Black composer remembered him "as one of the real gentlemen in the business." (--Kay Shirley, ed.
'The Book Of The Blues', Leeds publishing, 1963.)
Among his songs are:
"'Taint Nobody's Business If I Do". Everett Robbins lyric. Billie Holiday hit.
Cutie "Coot" Grant
Birmingham, AL.
Another of the pioneering black female blues singers of the early 1920's.. 'Coot' and her husband were a Black vaudeville act for 20 years, during which time they may have written over 400 songs. Probably, their best known song is "Gimme A Pigfoot", which was the last title recorded by Bessie Smith. "Coot" is best recalled today as a fine Blues singer, not as a composer.
Micki Grant
b. Chicago, IL
Overview
This multi-talented black lady is a wonderful composer-lyricist (she usually writes the words first) and is currently also enjoying a career as an actresss.
1972 Scored the Off-Off-Broadway show 'Don't Bother Me, I Can't Cope', 1065 performances.
In June 1980, Grant became the only writer to have two shows opening on Broadway, within one week; 'It's So Nice to be Civilized', and the revival of 'Your Arms Too Short to Box With God'. Composer Alex Bradford had started 'Your Arms Too Short', but Micki Grant was soon called in to finish the writing.
Allan Gray
b. Feb. 23, 1902, Tarnów, Austria (now Poland), d. Sept. 10, 1973, Amersham, Buckinghamshire, England, UK.
né: Josef Zmigrod
During the 1920s, he studied under the great pioneering modernist Arnold Schönberg, and composed popular, Jazz-influenced tunes for cabaret acts in Berlin in order to pay for his tuition. Subsequently, he worked for producer Max Reinhardt, writing music for his stage productions, and also composed a children's opera called "Wavelength ABC". In 1933, he began writing for films; first for the 1933 German feature F.P. 1. In 1936, after the rise of the Nazis, he was forced to leave Germany, following his scoring for the film 'Emil and the Detectives'. Settling in England, he adopted the name Allan Gray, a pseudonym from Oscar Wilde's narcissistic hero, Dorian Gray.
By the late 1930s, he had become firmly established in the British film industry, working at Alexander Korda's London Films, and at other major studios.
All through the 1940s, the heyday of British films, Allan Gray was one of the busiest and most visible film composers in England. During the first half of the 1940s, he reached the peak of his scoring powers when he wrote the scores for a series of films by the writer/producer/director team of Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger.
Perhaps his best work for the Powell/Pressburger team was the 1946 fantasy-drama "A Matter of Life and Death" (aka 'Stairway to Heaven'). This was also his first film score to be recorded (1946) by the 'Queen's Hall Light Orchestra' under Charles Williams. After 1946, the Powell/Pressburger team turned to Brian Easdale for their film scores, but by then Gray was well established,
In the 1950s, Gray received some prominent assignments including John Huston's 'The African Queen' - starring Humphrey Bogart and Kathryn Hepburn. With the public's changing tastes in music during the 1950s, Gray received fewer and fewer assignments, as producers began abandoning symphonic-style scores in favor of those with catchy tunes with the possiblility of becoming Pop hits. However, with the rediscovery and restoration of most of Powell and Pressburger's major films, Gray's music has seen a mild renaissance.
Gray was responsible for the music in at least 53 films and TV shows, among them:
The Iron Mask (1929) (UK 1954 reissue)
Berlin - Alexanderplatz (1931)
Emíl und die Detektive (1931) (as Allan Grey)
Gräfin von Monte-Christo, Die (1932 aka The Countess of Monte Cristo)
Mensch ohne Namen (1932 aka The Man Without a Name)
Un homme sans nom (1932)
F.P.1 antwortet nicht (1932)... aka F.P.1 Doesn't Answer (USA) ... aka F.P.1 Fails to Reply (UK)
The First Offence (1933)
Une fois dans la vie (1933/I aka Une seule fois dans la vie (France))
Brennendes Geheimnis (1933 aka The Burning Secret (USA))
I.F.1 ne répond plus (1933)
Hände aus dem Dunkel (1933)
F.P.1 (1933)
... aka Secrets of F.P.1 (UK: reissue title)
... aka Where the Lighthouse Shines Across the Bay (Australia)
Rund um eine Million (1933)
Mauvaise graine (1934 aka Bad Blood )
Emil and the Detectives (1935)
Secret of Stamboul (1936 aka The Spy in White)
Wolf's Clothing (1936)
The House of the Spaniard (1936)
The Marriage of Corbal (1936)
School for Husbands (1937)
Kate Plus Ten (1938 aka Queen of Crime (USA))
The Challenge (1938)
Sans lendemain (1939 aka Duchesse de Tilsitt, La (France), and aka There's No Tomorrow (USA))
Q Planes (1939 he was uncredited) (aka Clouds Over Europe (USA)
Breach of Promise (1942 He was uncredited) (aka: Adventure in Blackmail (USA))
The Silver Fleet (1943)
The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (1943)
The Volunteer (1943)
A Canterbury Tale (1944)
I Know Where I'm Going (1945).
Latin Quarter (1946)
A Matter of Life and Death (1946 aka Stairway to Heaven (USA))
Mr. Perrin and Mr. Traill (1948)
Madness of the Heart (1949)
The Woman with No Name (1950)
No Place for Jennifer (1950)
The Reluctant Widow (1950)
The Late Edwina Black (1951 aka The Obsessed (USA))
The African Queen (1951)
The Planter's Wife (1952)
The Accused (1953)
The Triangle (1953) (segments "A Lodging for the Night" and "American Duel")
Women of Twilight (1953)
The Genie (1953) (segments "The Genie", "The Heel" and "Emerald Green")
"Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., Presents" (1 episode, 1953) (aka Rheingold Theatre (USA) - Panic (1953) TV Episode)
Destination Milan (1954) (segment "Destination Milan") (segment "Lowland Fling")
Three's Company (1954)
Thought to Kill (1954)
The Last Moment (1954)
Dangerous Voyage (1954)
Solang' es hübsche Mädchen gibt (1955 aka Beautiful Girls (USA))
The Big Hunt (1959)
Jerry Gray
b. July 3, 1915, East Boston, MA, USA, d. Aug. 10, 1976, Dallas, TX, USA. Age: 61 (heart attack)
né: Jerry Graziano
Overview
Primarily a bandsman/arranger, he is included here for his two hit compositions "A String of Pearls" and "Pennsylvania 6-5000" (in collaboration with composer Carl Sigman). Both were big hits for the Glenn Miller Orchestra.
He was arranging with the Artie Shaw Orchestra in the late 1930's and he was responsible for the arrangement of "Begin the Beguine" that was Shaw's first major hit. By the early 1940's he was arranging for the Glenn Miller band.
Thomas Griselle
The Gennett Military Band left a large collection of recorded music with the Music Library of UCLA -- "The Gennett Collection", and it includes a lot of accompaniment by Thomas Griselle. The Gennett Band was owned by the Gennett Record Co. of Richmond, Indiana. In turn, The Gennett Record Company was owned by the Starr Piano Co. which was founded in 1919. Gennett released many recordings by such early Jazz artists as Jelly Roll Morton, "King" Oliver, Louis Armstrong, Bix Beiderbecke, Don Murray and Tommy Dorsey. Incidentally, Richmond, Indiana, was also the home of Hoagy Carmichael so it's claim to fame is "Stardust".
Griselle also worked with the Artie Shaw Band but have not found out doing what.
Composer, or arranger, I suspect.
The only known songs composed by Thomas Griselle are:
In 1938 Green, then an aspiring young actor, met the aspiring actress, Betty Comden. Comden and Green, together with the young actress Judy Holiday, formed a comedy and music troupe, "The Revuers", which was soon a popular Greenwich Village attraction. (For more information, please see the Comden link above.)
His popular-song compositions include
This New York City youngster, attended Horace Mann H.S., the New York Military Academy, and then graduated from Harvard University, in 1928. His main childhood interest was music, and even though his father, a banker, wanted him to follow in his footsteps, Johnny finally turned to music as a career, after having served a year or so in a Wall Street broker's office. Even while still in Harvard, Green, working with Carmen Lombardo, had composed the tune "Coquette", with lyrics by Gus Kahn.
In 1930, - just two years after graduating from Harvard, Johnny had two songs
that firmly established his place in popular music;
From 1930 to 1933, Johnny worked for Paramount Pictures in their Astoria,
N.Y.C. studios, and made personal appearances, as a conductor, in various
Paramount theaters across the U.S.
From 1933 to 1940,Johnny Green toured the U.S. with his own dance band. He also had some coast to coast radio assignments, including such prestigious shows as The Packard Hour with Fred Astaire; The Jack Benny Show, and the Phillip Morris Radio Program.
Green has served as the conductor and musical director for the Academy of Motion Picture Awards ceromonies, four times between the years of 1945 and 1957. (He produced and directed the entire show in 1953.) From 1949 to 1958, Johnny was the executive in charge of Music at the MGM Studios. Among the films to his credit are:
He has, since 1958, produced several TV 'specials'
Green has written some 'serious' works. In the early 1930's, he composed a work called "Night Club: Six Impressions". This work, for orchestra and three pianos, was commissioned by Paul Whiteman. Subsequently, it was played by the Whiteman Orchestra, the BBC Orchestra (in London), and by the CBS Symphony under the baton of Andre Kostelanetz. In the early 1960's, Green wrote a symphonic suite called "Raintree County: Three Themes for Symphony Orchestra". This score was an adaptation of some music Green had written for the MGM film Raintree County, starring Elizabeth Taylor. In more recent years, Johnny has been director and permanent conductor of the Los Angeles Philharmonic's Promenade Concerts series. Green was married to the former Bonnie (Bunny) Waters, the American swimming champion. He is a member of the Songwriters' Hall of Fame.
In 1899, Grofe accompanied his morther when she went to study music at the Leipzig Conservatory, in Germany, returning to Los Angeles, CA in 1892. Not long afterwards, Ferde's father died, and his mother remarried. Family pressure for him to study Law while he wished to pursue music resulted in his 'running away' from home. In the following years, he worked at a number of different jobs including steel worker; newsboy; elevator operator; theater usher, and he even worked in a bookbindery.
In 1908, he finally started working in his chosen field of music. He found some work as a violinist at convention halls and as a pianist with a touring dancing master. He also received his first commission. He composed "The Elks Grand Reunion March" for the Elks convention.
Finally, in 1909, he was hired by the Los Angeles Symphony in the viola section. Ferde stayed with the LA Symphony for about 10 years, during which time he formed his own jazz ensemble and played the local clubs. Paul Whiteman was in attendence at one of the clubs where he heard the young Grofe, and engaged him as a pianist/arranger for Whiteman's own band. Grofe stayed with Whiteman for the next 12 years, and it was his arrangements of songs such as "Whispering" that helped propel the Whiteman Band to world wide fame. In 1924, he arranged Gershwin's "Rhapsody In Blue" for it's Whiteman Orchestra premiere at New York's Aeolian Hall.
In the mid-1920's, Grofe emerged as a major American composer.
Starting in 1954, Ferde and his wife, Anne, began appearing in two-piano concerts.
Among the many other works composed by Grofe are:
Grofe has also written music for several Hollywood films,including:
Walter Gross
Wilhelm Grosz
"Red Sails In The Sunset", with Jimmy Kennedy lyric. for 1935 play "Provincetown Follies".
Wilbur Gumm
Graham first worked as a singer and scriptwriter for radio stations WCAU and WIP in Philadelphia, PA, USA, before turning his hand to composing for such Broadway musical shows as "Crazy With The Heat" and "All About Love", as well as the CBS musical version of Shakespeare's play, "Taming of the Shrew"
Graham's TV work includes writing for the "Show of Shows", starring Imogene Coca and Sid Caesar (directed by Max Liebman, b. 2 August 1902, Vienna, Austria-Hungary (now Austria), d. 21 July 1981, New York, USA). Graham also wrote for the Jane Frohman TV Show, including the song "I Believe" (Words and Music by Ervin Drake, Irvin Graham, Jimmy Shirl and Al Stillman) which Frohman first sang, and which has since become a standard all over the world, - sung by singers from Elvis Presley, and Frankie Laine, to Barbra Streisand. His other popular-song compositions include "Maybe I Love Him", "I'm In Love With a Married Man", and "Twist of the Wrist".
During his career, Graham composed special material for singers Jane Froman, Patrice Munsel, Imogene Coca, Marguerite Piazza, Mimi Benzel, and for actors Eddie Albert and Constance Bennett.
Currently No Information Available
Believed to be most active in the very late 1920s and the 1930's. Griselle was the piano accompanist on many recordings by famed violinst Fritz Kreisler.
(He was the sole composer, except where shown.)
"Cuckoo Clock", - Victor Young and Armon Velasky co-composers.
"March"
"Minuet"
"Nocturne" (Recorded by Artie Shaw Orch.)
"Reflections"
"Two American Sketches"
Our thanks to Mr. John Deal for some of this information on Thomas Griselle.
Adolph Green
b. Dec. 2, 1914, Newl York (The Bronx), NY, USA, d. Oct. 24, 2002, Newl York (Manhattan), NY, USA.
Please also see 'Betty Comden', entry. Their partnership was the longest-lived in Broadway history, spanning six decades.
Bud Green
b. Nov. 19, 1897, Austria, d. Jan. 2, 1981, Yonkers, New York, USA
Lyricist, Songwriter, composer, publisher and author, educated in New York City public schools and later a writer of special material for vaudeville and then the Broadway stage scores and songs in musicals for Cecil Lean, Cleo Mayfield, Winnie Lightner and Sophie Tucker. He also was a staff writer for music publishers between 1920 and 1928, and following that he formed his own firm. This popular lyricist did his most productive work from the early 1920's through the late 1940's. His chief musical collaborators included Buddy G. DeSylva, Al Dubin, Ray Henderson, Ben Homer, Raymond Scott, Sam Stept, Harry Warren, Les Brown, Ella Fitzgerald, and Slim Gaillard.
"Alabamy Bound" (1924), "That's My Weakness Now" (1928), "Once In a While" (1937), "Flat Foot Floogie" (1938), "Sentimental Journey" (1944), "I'll Always Be in Love With You", "The Man Who Comes Around", "Speed Limit", "Blue Fedora", "My Mother's Evening Prayer", "Swingy Little Thingy", "Moonlight on the River", "I Love My Baby", "In My Gondola", "Away Down South in Heaven", "Oh Boy, What a Girl", "Do Something", Congratulations", "Good Little, Bad Little You", "Simple and Sweet", "Dream Sweetheart", "More Than Ever", "You Showed Me the Way", "Tia Juana", "The Man Who Comes Around", "Who Can Tell", "All the Days of Our Years", "My Number One Dream Came True" and "On Accounta I Love You".
Johnny Green
b. Oct. 10, 1908, New York, N.Y., d. May 17, l989
né: John W. Green
Overview
Johnny Green is mainly recalled today as a very popular bandleader. But, perhaps, his biggest claim to fame is as the composer of the hit song "Body and Soul". He is otherwise recalled as an arranger, a conductor, and the musical director for several significant Hollywood films.
From the Broadway revue, 'Three's a Crowd'
"Body and Soul", with lyric by Edward Heyman and Robert Sour.
(Green had been an accompanist for Gertrude Lawrence. He wrote this song as 'special' material for her. She sang the unpublished piece during her tour of England, where it became a big hit, before appearing on the Broadway stage.)
From film 'Leave it to Lester'.
"I'm Yours", lyric by E. Y. "Yip" Harburg These two hits were followed by
"Out of Nowhere", Lyric by Edw. Heyman
"I Cover The Waterfront", lyric by Edward Heyman
"I Wanna Be Loved", lyric by Edward Heyman and Billy Rose
An American In Paris, with Gene Kelly and Leslie Caron
Rhapsody
The Great Caruso, starring Mario Lanza
Brigadoon
Meet Me In Las Vegas In this film, he
wrote the Frankie and Johnny Ballet for Cyd Charisse
High Society, with Frank Sinatra, and Bing Crosby.
Mort Greene
Currently no information available.
This lyricist contributed to some of composer Harry Revel's tunes.
Jesse Greer
Currently no information available.
1927 "I'm Gonna Meet My Sweetie Now", music Greer, lyric Benny Davis.
Eliseo Grenet
Currently no information available.
This Cuban composer is mainly recalled for his song "Mama Inez", a huge
hit in the 1930's for actor/singer Maurice Chevalier, and recorded by a
great many others.
Ferde Grofe
b. March 27, 1892, New York, N.Y. d.
né: Ferdinand Rudolph von Grofe
While still a child, Grofe's family moved to Los Angeles,CA, where Ferde attended the local schools. His was a musical family. His father was an actor and baritone singer, while his mother was a cellist and music instructor who gave her son his first music lessons.
Brief Chronology
1925 Composed "Mississippi Suite", written for and introduced by the Paul
Whiteman Orchestra, in New York City. The four movements of this suite are:
The Father of the Waters
Huckleberry Finn
Old Creole Days
Mardi Gras
1931 Composed "The Grand Canyon Suite". Introduced by the Paul Whiteman Orchestra, in Chicago, IL. The five movements are:
Sunrise
The Painted Desert
On The Trail
Sunset
Cloudburst
1932 Grofe left Paul Whiteman and formed his own orchestra which, for many years, toured America, and was often heard on national radio.
1939 - 1942 Grofe was an instructor at New York's famed Juilliard School of Music.
1961 Composed the "Niagara Suite". Commissioned by the N.Y. State Power Authority to commemorate the opening of the Electric Power Project at Niagara Falls.
"Symphony in Steel" (composed for the American Rolling Mill Corp.)
"Wheels", commissioned by Henry Ford for Ford Motor Corp.
"World's Fair Orchestra Suite" (1964)
scored 'Hollywood Ballet'
scored 'Cafe Society', another ballet.
'Minstrel Man'. He received an Academy Award for his music.
'Time Out of Mind'
'The Return of Jesse James'
b. 1909, New York, N.Y., d.
Overview
Walter, an executive of Musicraft Records, was the conductor, arranger, and/or pianist on many recording sessions. He is included here for his 1947 hit composition "Tenderly," a million seller for Rosemary Clooney in 1952. (Walter was also the pianist on her recording.) I believe this was the only 'hit' tune he ever wrote.
aka: Hugh Williams
b. March 11, 1894, Vienna, Austria. d. Dec. 10, 1939, New York, NY.
Composer/pianist
Studied with F. Schreker von Schuler and with G. Adler. In 1928, he went to Berlin, Germany where he worked in Radio and Recording Studios. In 1934, he emigrated to the USA, where he composed Operas and Ballets,
as well as Dance music - everything from Foxttrots and Tangos to Ballads. He was very active in the Hollywood studios.
Some of the tunes he composed are:
"Harbor Lights", by Will Grosz (as: Hugh Williams) with lyric by Jimmy Kennedy
"Along the Santa Fe Trail", with Al Dubin lyric.
"Beautiful Buxom Barmaid", with Sam Coslow lyric
"Harbour Lights", James B. Kennedy lyric.
"Make Believe Island", with Sam Coslow, and both Charles F. and Nick A. Kenny
"My Heart Is In Vienna Tonight". Roma Campbell Hunter lyric
"Isle of Capri", with Jimmy Kennedy lyric. 1935 play "Provincetown Follies".
VIDEO: "Isle of Capri" Famed British vocalist Greta Keller singing, and the composer Dr. Wilhelm Grosz at the piano, in 1934. (film clip: jozefsterkens)
"Shadows on the Sand", with Stanley Adams.
"Silverlake (A Winter's Tale)", with fellow composer Kurt Weill.
"Tina", with Joseph Hamilton Kennedy
"Tomorrow Night", with Sam Coslow
Bernie Grossman
Currently No Information on this Lyricist.
"Song of The Blues", music by Isham
Jones.
David W. Guion
b. Dec. 15, 1892 Ballinger, TX d.
né: David Wendell De Fentresse Guion
No Information currently available.
b. Indianapolis, IN.
né: Gumbinsky
Wilbur was a Lyricist/music publisher. He was the brother of the very well known composers Albert, and Harry Von Tilzer. Wilbur was a sometimes lyricist with his brother Albert. His brothers, Jules, Jack, Harry, and Albert were all born in Indianapolis and they all became 'Tin Pan Alley' publishers, -primarily publishing songs their brothers had composed. (To make their name more important sounding, the brothers adopted their mother's maiden name -Tilzer- and added the "Von".)
Vicente Greco
b: Feb. 3, 1888, d: Oct. 5, 1924
Bandoneonist, leader and composer
Nickname: Garrote
Currently no information on this Argentinean Tango Bandoneonist, composer, and bandleader.
Here's a photo of Vicente Greco
who first coined the term "Orquesta Tpica" for Tango groups.
Robert Emilio Goyeneche,
b: Oct. 23, 1898, Buenos Aires (Lezama Park), Argentina, d: April 22, 1925, age: 22
Worked as pianist with Orquesta Eduardo Arolas, and composed such Tangos as:
"De Mi Barrio", ("my neighborhood"),
"Pompas de Jab�", ("soap Pomps"),
"Yo te Perdono",("I pardon you"),
"Que te Vaya Bien!".("Have a good
day").
Irvin Graham,
b. Sept. 18, 1909, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA d. Dec.1, 2001, New York, New York, USA.
Graham was educated at the Zeckwer Hahn Musical Academy and a was student of Norman Lloyd. He had his first "hit" at age 15 when he wrote "You Better Go Now", which actress/singer Imogene Coca sang in the Broadway show "New Faces of 1934" that 1934 edition introduced such talents as Henry Fonda and Imogene Coca). The 1952 editon of 'New Faces' introduced such future stars as Eartha Kitt, Ronny Graham, Alice Ghostley, and Paul Lynde, - and had such songs as "Love Is a Simple Thing", "Lizzie Borden" "Monotonous" (sung be Eartha Kitt), Ghostley's "Boston Beguine," Robert Clary's "Lucky Pierre" and "Miss Logan," and June Carroll's (producer Leonard Sillman's sister) "Penny Candy" and "Guess Who I Saw Today."
