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...popular songwriters who has had thorough classical training. He studied at Manhattan's Institute of Musical Art. To earn a living, he took a job as a pianist in the First Little Show (1929), wrote Moanin' Low for Libby Holman. For Paramount Rainger and his lyricist Leo Robin wrote June in January, Love in Bloom and the songs Gladys Swarthout sang in Rose of the Rancho. When Paramount wants swing music, Mack Gordon and Harry Revel are set to work. Clowning at parties pleases them more. With little urging Gordon will hoist his 317 Ib. up onto...
Died. Harry Bache Smith, 75, librettist of more than 300 comic operas and musicomedies, lyricist of 6,000 songs; of heart disease; in Atlantic City. His most profitable work was Robin Hood (1890) with Reginald de Koven. His share of the royalties totaled $250,000 by 1912, and such numbers as 0 Promise Me and Brown October Ale kept him in the highest bracket of the American Society of Composers, Authors " Publishers until his death. Other Smith productions: Victor Herbert's The Fortune Tetter, The Serenade, The Idol's Eye, Irving Berlin's Watch Your Step, Stop...
George White's Scandals has been confected this year upon the principle that a couple of second-hand ideas are worth a single original one. In line with this idea, Lyricist Jack Yellen has taken equal parts of Ted Koehler's Truckin' and Irving Berlin's Top Hat, White Tie and Tails, given them a shaking and poured off something called Truckin' In My Tails. The rest of the twelfth production of George White's periodical durbar largely owes its origin to old burlesque acts, old vaudeville turns, old smoking-room stories. Nevertheless, many...
Like the late great Victor Herbert. Composer Romberg, usually teamed with Oscar Hammerstein II, has rarely received worthy support from his lyricist. Setting no record for originality, Lyricist Hammerstein begins the chief serenade of May Wine: Out of a smile that I found in your eye, I built a dream...
...more than three hundred years ago that Robin Herrick, the jocund lyricist of pastoral England, passed, if we may judge from his Hesperides, a riotous four years in St. John's and Trinity Hall, two colleges backing on the placid Cam. Apprenticed to a goldsmith, he later became a parson in Devonshire, but the fine skill of his rejected trade seems to have followed him into the art of juggling with words...