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