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Erskine Butterfield

The professional career of the pianist and prolific recording artist began when he wandered in to the publishing offices of then-successful recording artist and composer Clarence Williams with hopes of selling and song or two. It had been the middle-’30s, and whatever tracks Erskine Butterfield experienced on tap in those …

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James Van Heusen

Prolific American pop composer James Vehicle Heusen produced a fantastic amount of hit songs from your late ’30s with the 1960s, particularly for movie musicals. Given birth to Edward Chester Babcock in Syracuse, NY, Vehicle Heusen began composing music while a higher school college student there. It had been also …

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