European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - March 13, 1948, Darmstadt, Hesse United new York Ity the poor composer of pop ular songs and the lyricists. They Seldom Are named on the radio never on the jukeboxes and ordinarily they get Only a half Bill ing on phonograph platters. The Sheet music publisher is about the Only one who exposes their full names to Public gaze but the Sheet music business is not what it was in the Day when the piano had no com petition. Of course there Are and Kern and Herbert and Rodgers and Berlin and other tunesmith of a similar Caliper usually get a plug when their com positions Are played. But mostly the naming of names stops with the1 or Chestra Leader or the Singer. If anyone really cares who wrote what song though there is a Book that has just been published called the asap biographical diction Ary of composers authors and it contains More than two thousand biographies and what. Most persons who have thumbed through copies so farm utter words of Surprise at the identity of some of the who in re lation to some of the whats. They also find that while the words an music of Many a piece May be familiar the names of the authors Are not and that does t seem like asap Book has Many More Virtues however than simply pro Viding a few minor surprises. What probably is most fascinating to per sons who Are getting along in years is the nostalgia evoked by the rec ords of some of the old timers. Most of them Are still alive today and Active. Take for example a fellow named Harry Armstrong composer of a number known to every american of any age an there probably is Only one song that can qualify under such a sweeping statement Armstrong born in 1879, is the composer of Sweet now lives in the Bronx and is the writer of Many other songs. Re member something called i love my wife but of you kid that Sarmstrong s. Back in the Days when chicag was a theatrical production Center three men wrote a series of very popular musical comedies for the old Lasalle theater. They were Josephe. Howard born in 1878, will m. Hough 1882, and Frank r. Adams,1883. If Howard or his one time con Freres should turn on the radio this minute it s an even Chande they would hear one of their songs like i. Wonder shots kissing her those three men also collaborate Don such Well remembered shows As the time the place and the girl a. Stubborn � Prince of tonight and miss nobody from starland. From their musical com Edies came such hits As what s the use of dreaming and be Sweet Tome according to asap s books Hough lives in los Angeles Adams in Whitehall Michigan and Howard in new York City when heis not on the Road singing dancing and producing. Boy of boy what you can Fin Down the musical memory Lane How about one called in the Shad of the old Apple who has t heard of that one it came from the pen of Egbert Anson Van Alstyne who was born in Chicago in 1882and still lives there. All of these songs which Are As familiar As the Woolworth building also were authored by Van Alstyne you Reyes have told me so won t you " come Over to my House i afraid to go Home in the dark Cheyenne Pony boy pretty baby and that old girl of mine.". Cheyenne and Pony boy naturally bring to mind another old timer red that was by Kerry Mills now seventy nine years old and living in Hawthorne Cali fornia. Then there is Percy Wenrich. Born in Joplin Missouri and Nowin new York who penned put on your old Gray Wenri Coalso wrote such Barbershop chord. Standbys As Moonlight Bay when you wore a Tulip and i wore a big red Rose and Whereto we go from Here boys you could go of like this All Day among composers and songs from Jean Schwartz and his Chinatown Down to the. Number that was put on the jukeboxes the Day before yester Day. Among present Day music producers who still Are turning out hit tunes with the regularity of heartbeats let s pause a moment at the biography of Irving Berlin. Berlin seems to go on forever. He has written More than a thousand songs and he qualifies for the Book on All cylinders As a composer author and publisher. He is in addition to those a charter member of asap which was organized in 1914. By Victor Herbert arid eight other founder members to collect fees for Public performances of copyright music. Berlin will be sixty years old May 11. His first song Marie from sunny Italy came out in 1907. If inthe forty years since he has turned out More. Than a thousand tunes that s at the rate of. Twenty five a year or about one every two in itself might be duplicated by another Busy musician with a reason Able share of inspiration but what stands out about Berlin is the tremendous number of popular successes credited to the one time sing ing waiter from Sadie Salome go Home 1907 Down to the literal Shower of hits in the current show Annie get your most memories probably Don t need refreshing Here Are some unforgettable Berlin songs what la i do All alone Snookey Bokums a pretty girl is like a Melody White Christmas Alex Ander s ragtime ban they say it s wonderful easter Parade indy harem when that Midnight. Choo for Alabam take another of the More modern composers Harold Arlen. Looking Over the record he was born in Buffalo in 1905 and still is cranking up hit after hit. The reason for sin gling out Arlen is that it is probable that few people know the full extent of his smash record. How Many aver. Who s who in the tunesmith business is practically a parlor game with the new asap musical directory age music listeners know that Stormy weather Devil and the deep Blue sea i love a Parade Over the Rainbow it s Only a paper Moon blues in the night accentuate the positive and that old Black magic Are All Arlen songs. The asap directory Lias More surprises. Very few persons know that Rupert Hughes novelist an playwright also is the composer of an album of musical settings for James Whitcomb Riley s poems in addition to a respectably Long list of other songs then look who s Here none other than Lionel Barrymore of the stage and screen. If he had never acted uneven one movie his musical biography alone would fill a considerable space. The asap dictionary notes that hews musical from childhood com posed numerous Standard pieces and made arrangements for Many stand Ard his orchestral number include russian dances Partite fugue fantasia and in but that in t nearly All. There s a one act opera a number of piano pieces and a flock of songs including Johnnie dear and our prayer All under Barrymore s name. It is pretty Well known that Bill Rose night club impresario and newspaper columnist has had his hand in the lyrics for a. Number of popular songs. The actual list How Ever May astonish a person or two. Who would t recognize All of these Barney Google that old gang of mine Rainbow round my Shoul Der i found a million Dollar baby in a five and ten cent store you be got to see Mamma every night you Tell her i stutter to follow the Swallow and it s Only a paper one might also mention that Rose wrote the lyrics to three of Vincent Youman s Best known songs More than you know without a song and great t speaking of Billy the roses see to have made quite a record. There s David Rose who wrote Holiday for strings de Rose who did the words for he walked right in and turned around and walked right out again. Fred Rose with Don t bring me posies when it s Sho esies that i need and Vincent Rose of Ava Lon and whispering Fame. Skipping Over quite a few pages of the directory there is something rather confusing Back under y. Thea Scap Book lists two Victor Youngs both composers and both turning out musical scores today. The Victor Young who was born in Chicago in1900 and who now lives in Beverly Hills California was responsible for such delicacies As Stella by Star Light Sweet sue and love me tonight the other Victor Young was born in Bristol Tennessee in1889. And his works include in the great smokes Scher Zetto but lets Back up again in the the is in the directory is listed a Bald headed Man called curly who thirty years ago wrote hit dance tunes for Vernon and Irene Castle. Curly is still tinkling tuneful past for people who Are homesick for yesterday. He is Arthurn Green now billed As the Man of a million melodies but once know Nas America s dance King. In his sixtieth year curly play Sta battered piano in a Manhattan theater cafe. It s funny about the old tunes they re like life itself says curly whose fingers Are a rip pling anthology of the last half Cen Tury of music. They re popular fora while and then lose out. But every so often they come Back again As a new generation comes along to enjoy each night he lives Over his life again As he tinkles out tunes. Few people How request any of the thirty numbers he wrote himself except lonely elks who Call for hello Bill the official Lodge song. But More than three decades ago people in the streets hummed his now half for gotten Novelty if i catch the Guy who wrote poor butterfly.". An America weary of the Waltz turned eagerly to the new dance rhythms Green composed for the famous Castle team tango Argentine the first tango written in the u.s., innovation tango Sanssouci the half and half and Raggin the old Virginia but the death of Vernon Castle in an air crash in 1918 broke up Green s hit Parade. Castle had been his close Friend. For Twenty years i could write a note curly says he went into vaudeville with his wife. They were a featured act on the four a Day circuits for year until something happened to Vaude. Ville. Then Green retired but he stack again now. He s turned out a new Catchy dance Tempo kind Ofa Boogie Boogie with a Rumba rhythm which he says is catching on in Harlem. Writing a Melody is easy says Green. I can do it in fifteen minute Sand base it on anything a phone number a car License the figures on a Dollar Bill. But turning out a hit tune there s no rhyme or reason to that. Writing a hit sorg is like throwing Dice you can come up with a natural a by time. How of ten you will is another believes that women May write the Best american popular songs in the next generation. There be been Only a few in the history of popular music he says. But women Are turning More anymore to new Fields and some Are bound to put their thoughts in of his proudest memories is the Day in 1917 when the late Georgem. Cohan stepped into a music House humming a tune he had just com posed. He wanted it written Down. Green volunteered. V i think Cohan got the tune from listening to the Railroad wheels that morning As he Rode in Green says. There was t a piano Handy and Soi just write Down the notes As he hummed tune was Over still has the original copy signed by Cohan in his scrapbook something All show people keep to cheer them through the Rainy Days. Hal boy be and ,. A week kid i every we at Hutu Todt. Hew. Germany Tat . 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