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...Neither Tunesmith Willard Robison nor the publisher was cited in the suit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Walkin' Preacher | 6/25/1951 | See Source »

Died. Ivor Novello (Davies), 58, Welsh-born British matinee idol, tunesmith and playwright (Careless Rapture, Perchance to Dream), best known in the U.S. fo Keep the Home Fires Burning; of a coronary thrombosis; in London...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Mar. 19, 1951 | 3/19/1951 | See Source »

...Tunesmith Merrill, 28, the son of a Philadelphia candy manufacturer, has an easy recipe for cooking up a song. Several years ago he began filling notebooks with catch phrases, slang and cliches ("Cliches make the best songs; I put down every one I can find"). Last April, with three notebooks full, he went to Veteran Songwriter Al (Mairzy Doats) Hoffman, who chose Baked a Cake as the most promising title, helped Merrill whip up the words & music in a couple of hours. The lyrics asked very little of the U.S. mind. Sample...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Bakery Specials | 5/8/1950 | See Source »

...Royal Canadians three years ago to get up his own band, was just about the most disturbing thing since the secession of the South. In a way, all of the band members are in the family. If one musician dislikes a new song, out it goes, even if Tunesmith Carm (Coquette, Boo-Hoo) wrote...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: The Same Old Way | 10/10/1949 | See Source »

Married. Lala Andersen, 45, Swedish-born idol of Berlin cabarets and popularizer of Lili Marlene, the nostalgic song ; which haunted Montgomery's "Desert Rats" and Rommel's Afrika Korps (the British claimed the melody as victor's booty); and Arthur ("Thury") Beul, 34, Swiss tunesmith; she for the second time; in Zollikon, Switzerland...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jun. 27, 1949 | 6/27/1949 | See Source »

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