Word: tunesmith
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...Johnny Mercer lives in a Hollywood bungalow, tailors lyrics to fit the suavely hocketing voice of his friend Bing Crosby, rolls up between $50,000 and $85,000 a year in cinema lyric contracts and ASCAP royalties. A one-finger pianist, he does his composing with the help of Tunesmith Harold Arlen. After a two-hour stretch with Tunesmith Arlen, he usually knocks off for an afternoon of golf. Says Johnny: "If I get a good title and the first couple of lines within two hours, that's a damn good day. . . . Most of my titles and lyrics...
...Peaceful in the Country (Harry James; Columbia). Sapling Tunesmith Alec Wilder (Neurotic Goldfish, A Debutante's Diary) gets both music and meaning into the ballad of the month...
...less pious precincts this summer, Ann Corio will probably fall back on her burlesque routine. When she returns to burlesque in the fall, she will add a bit of variety to her act by breaking into a boastful ditty written by Tunesmith Edwin Gilbert especially for her: I was a Hit in Legit...
...years went by and Pianist Levant showed no signs of becoming another Paderewski, he drifted off to Hollywood. As a friend of the late George Gershwin, he became successively a: 1) cinemactor, 2) assistant to a producer of Westerns, 3) composer of cinema scores, 4) one-hit tunesmith (Lady Play Your Mandolin), 5) one-piece piano virtuoso (the famed Gershwin-Grofé Rhapsody in Blue), and an intermittent pupil of famed Arnold Schönberg, who taught him how to write complicated high-brow music. When, nine years later, he returned to Manhattan to conduct and arrange music for shows...
Though Foster keeps his wife in surprising style for a poor tunesmith, Andrea Leeds plays Mrs. Stephen Foster with a suitably pained expression which becomes quite anguished when she suddenly ups and leaves him. It turns out that those two or three decorous benders audiences have seen the composer on were cinemevidences of alcoholism...