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Recently, the Evening Moscow found space to give its favorite tunesmith a somewhat ominous pat on the back. Under a sketch of Sedoi at the piano a verse said: "After songs should come operas. But though he hasn't created any Traviatas, let's sing, friends, and Sedoi, the young laureate, will join...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Tin Pan Laureate | 8/18/1947 | See Source »

Married. Jascha Heifetz, 45, violin virtuoso turned popular tunesmith (When You Make Love to Me-Don't Make Believe), and Frances Spiegelberg, fortyish; both for the second time; in Beverly Hills, Calif...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jan. 20, 1947 | 1/20/1947 | See Source »

Natalie Cantor Metzger, 29, one of Father Eddie Cantor's famous five, followed Sister Edna into divorce court. Natalie wanted her freedom from a Los Angeles antique dealer; Edna was through with Tunesmith Jimmy McHugh...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Holy Ned | 5/13/1946 | See Source »

Died. Gus Edwards (real name: Gustave Edward Simon), 66, impresario extraordinary in the Keith circuit's hey-de-ho day, German immigrant boy who became "the star maker" (he discovered Cantor, Jessel, Hildegarde, Groucho Marx, a galaxy of others), and old-favorite tunesmith (By the Light of the Silvery Moon, School Days, In My Merry Oldsmobile) who never learned to write a note of music; of a heart attack after long illness; in Los Angeles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Nov. 19, 1945 | 11/19/1945 | See Source »

James H. ("Jimmie") Davis, ballad-singer and tunesmith (You Are My Sunshine), who serenaded the people of Louisiana into electing him governor, went fly-casting (with a bug) in a bayou near Bunkie, hooked and landed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Tributes | 9/17/1945 | See Source »

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