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...composer of Shuffle Off to Buffalo, Serenade in Blue, September in the Rain, Chattanooga Choo Choo, I Only Have Eyes For You and more than 300 other songs, including the score of the 1933 film musical 42nd Street, now a successful adaptation on Broadway; in Los Angeles. Born Salvatore Guaragna, the son of an Italian immigrant bootmaker in Brooklyn, the musically self-taught Warren worked as a rehearsal pianist and song plugger before publishing his first hits in the 1920s. During the '30s and '40s he wrote the scores for a string of movie musicals, winning Academy Awards...
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