Word: byes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Rock-a-Bye Royalties...
...state that Erne Canning Carlton, writer of Rock-a-Bye Baby, "turned many a penny from its royalties...
...Composer Erne Canning Carlton earned an estimated $20,000 from Rock-a-Bye Baby. During her last seven years she was saved from destitution by a $50-a-month gift from the American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers (of which she was never a member). ASCAP also paid her hospital and funeral expenses; its president, Gene Buck, sent the largest floral piece to her funeral. Second largest was from the Hoboes of America. Its inscription: "To Our Beloved Friend...
Married. Benvenuta Rose Crooke Kelley (Benay Venuta), 27, Broadwayfaring songstress and comedienne (Anything Goes, Kiss the Boys Good-Bye); and Armand S. Deutsch Jr., 27, Manhattan adman; she for the second time, he for the first; in Manhattan...
Died. Effie Canning Carlton, 83, old-time song writer and actress, who at 15 wrote the perennially popular tune for the Mother Goose lullaby, Rock-a-Bye Baby, turned many a penny from its royalties; of bronchopneumonia; in Boston, Mass...