Word: harvey
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Harvey was in no hurry to hawk his song; in 20 years he had written "boxes full of songs." He knew the music business inside & out. In his teens he had played mood music on an organ in an Atlantic City movie house: "I followed the hero and the villain and really got a workout...
Between numbers, in a Los Angeles cafe called Omar's Dome, a Negro pianist mused over his keyboard. A phrase had strayed into his mind, and he was trying to fit a melody to it. Suddenly, "it came to me just as straight as could be." Pianist Harvey O. Brooks hummed his tune all the way home, wrote it out in 20 minutes. Then he put it away in a drawer...
...year and a half ago, Harvey had a hunch. Nine years after he had thought up his simple little tune in Omar's Dome, he took it around to Bandleader Woody Herman. Woody didn't like it, and says Harvey, "I'm glad. If Woody hadda played it with all his noise, everybody might have missed it." He took it around to Supreme Records, a small company that was looking for what Harvey calls some "catchy novelties." A sweet-singing minor songbird named Paula Watson recorded it. When the big record makers heard it, they could hardly...
...Harvey Greenfield 2L will speak on the subject "Behind the Scenes of a Broadway Production" at 8 p.m. tonight at Hillel House, 5 Bryant st. He will outline the progress of a play...
Shot putter Don Trimble, Hank Rood, 35-pound weight thrower, and the mile relay team composed of Dave Hamblett, A1 Ruby, Harvey Thayer, and Chuck Harwood all placed second. Pat McCormick, John Harrigan, and Arthur Lockett and Bill Lawrence took thirds in the 60-yard hurdles, high jump, and pole vault respectively. Fourth place went to John Cogan in the mile, Chuck Harwood in the 60-yard dash, George Williamson in the 1000-yard run, and Don Carter in the broadjump...