Billy Hill

b. 14 July 1899, Boston, Massachusetts, USA, d. 24 Dec 1940, Boston, Massachusetts, USA. A prolific composer and lyricist through the 30s, whose tracks have an appropriate, country sense about them. That is probably due to Hill spending a great deal of his early lifestyle going the American western world, playing violin and piano in pubs and dance halls. He composed one of is own first music, ‘Aged Man FROM THE Hill’, with composer Victor Youthful in 1932, but after that, aside from an occasional cooperation with Peter De Rose and a couple of others, he generally supplied both music and lyrics himself. He previously his first strike in 1933 with ‘The Last Round-Up’, that was documented by many performers including Man Lombardo, George Olsen, Don Bestor, Bing Crosby and Youthful. Among his a great many other music in the 30s had been ‘Have got You HAVE YOU BEEN Lonely (PERHAPS YOU HAVE HAVE YOU BEEN Blue?)’, ‘The Aged Spinning Steering wheel’ (US #1 1 for Ray Noble), ‘Oh Muki Muki Oh’, ‘Rainfall’, ‘By itself At A Desk For Two’, ‘Down The Oregon Path’, ‘Lighting Out’ (US #1 1 for Eddie Duchin), ‘Place On A VINTAGE Pair Of Shoes and boots’, ‘Clear Saddles’ (sung by Crosby in the film Tempo On THE NUMBER), ‘In The Chapel In The Moonlight’ (US #1 1 for Shep Areas, and effectively revived by Dean Martin in 1967), and ‘The Glory Of Like’ (US #1 1 for Benny Goodman). Two various other Hill compositions to get to the very best of the united states graph, ‘The Last Round-Up’ (Lombardo) and ‘Wagon Tires’ (Paul Whiteman) had been both highlighted in the Ziegfeld Follies of 1934. Nothing at all significant was forthcoming after 1940 when Hill created ‘On JUST A LITTLE Road In Singapore’ as well as the Gene Autrey film title tune ‘The Call FROM THE Canyon’. The previous was impressively revived in newer times with the stylish vocal quartet Manhattan Transfer.