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Howard Dietz

American pop and Broadway lyricist Howard Dietz, energetic through the 1920s with the 1960s, is most beneficial known for his use composer Arthur Schwartz. Schwartz and Dietz had written successful Broadway ratings including The Small Present (1929), Three’s a Group (1930), IN THE HOME Overseas (1935), and Inside U.S.A. (1948). …

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Ira Gershwin

Songwriter, known for his collaborations along with his sibling, George Gershwin. Both had written hit tracks for such musicals as Porgy and Bess, Ziegfeld Follies and Female Be Good. A lot of his tracks have already been performed by performing/dance legends Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers and Chet Baker. Delivered in …

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Jack Shilkret

b. 13 Oct 1896, NY, USA, d. 16 June 1964, NY, USA. Younger sibling of Nat Shilkret, Jack port was a pianist and dance music group innovator in the 20s and 30s. He done the radio display Bond Breads Tea Store with Julia Sanderson and Frank Crumit, published the music …

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E.Y. “Yip” Harburg

Among the best American pop lyricists from the 1930s and 1940s, E.Con. “Yip” Harburg published many strikes for Broadway and Hollywood along with his primary collaborators, composers Jay Gorney and Harold Arlen, teaming using the latter around the well-known tunes from the Wizard of Oz. Given birth to in 1896 …

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George Burns

George Uses up had two distinct professions, one particular an outgrowth of the various other. After the loss of life of his beloved wife and partner for 40 years, Gracie Allen, George Uses up went back to operate in present business as an individual. This wasn’t the very first time, …

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