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Prolific songwriter ("Heartaches", "Allegheny Moon"), composer, author and drummer. He came to the USA in 1908 and was educated at Franklyn High School in Seattle, Washington. He led his own band in Seattle, then came to New York in 1928 where he was a drummer in night club orchestras. Journeying to England in 1934, he wrote the London stage scores for "This'll Make You Whistle", "Going Greek", and "Hide and Seek". Joining ASCAP in 1930, his chief musical collaborators included Al Goodhart, Maurice Sigler, Ed Nelson, Sammy Lerner, Dick Manning, Jerry Livingston, Milton Drake, Mack David, Mann Curtis, Leo Corday, Leon Carr, Bob Merrill, and Walter Kent. His other popular-song compositions include "I Apologize", "Auf Wiedersehen, My Dear", "Fit as a Fiddle", "Black-Eyed Susan Brown", "Jimmy Had a Nickel", "Who Walks in When I Walk Out?", "I Saw Stars", "Why Don't You Practise What You Preach?", "Little Man You've Had a Busy Day", "Roll Up the Carpet", "I'm in a Dancing Mood", "Without Rhythm", "There Isn't Any Limit to My Love", "Everything Stops For Tea", "From One Minute to Another", "I Can Wiggle My Ears", "Say the Word", "Everything's in Rhythm With My Heart", "Let's Put Some People to Work", "Gangway", "Lord and Lady Whoozis", "She Shall Have Music", "Romance Runs in the Family", "Apple Blossoms and Chapel Bells", "Goodnight, Wherever You Are", "The Story of a Starry Night", "Close to You", "O Dio Mio", "What's the Good Word, Mr. Bluebird?", "I Must Have One More Kiss, Kiss, Kiss", "I Ups to Her and She Ups to Me", "Mairzy Doats", "Fuzzy Wuzzy", "I'm a Big Girl Now", "I Had Too Much to dream Last Night", "Chi-Baba, Chi-Baba", "There's No Tomorrow", "I'm Gonna Live Till I Die", "Bibbidi-Bobbidi-Boo", "A Dream is a Wish Your Heart Makes", "If I Knew You were Comin' I'd Have Baked a Cake", "Takes Two to Tango", "Gilly Gilly Ossenfeffer Katzenellenbogen by the Sea", "Papa Loves Mambo", "Don't Stay Away Too Long", "Hot Diggity", "Mama, Teach Me to Dance", "Ivy Rose", "Are You Really Mine?", "Oh, Oh, I'm Falling in Love Again", "Secretly", "Hawaiian Wedding Song", "You're Cheatin' Yourself", and "If You Smile at the Sun".- Billy Griffith was born on 18 December 1897 in Brazil, Indiana, USA. He was an actor, known for Larceny on the Air (1937), Jiggs and Maggie Out West (1950) and Police Bullets (1942). He died on 21 July 1960 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
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Composer and songwriter ("Let Yourself Go", "Where Are You?"), educated at Commerce High School. He joined ASCAP in 1927, and composed the Broadway stage scores for "Yes, Yes, Yvette", "Just Fancy", and "Follow the Girls", and the London stage scores for "That's a Good Girl", and "Stand Up and Sing". He wrote songs for the Broadway revues "Allez-Oop" and "Americana" (1926), and "Shoot the Works", and also for films and television. His chief musical collaborators included Ira Gershwin, Leo Robin, Dan Shapiro, Irving Caesar, and Milton Pascal. His popular-song compositions also include "For Days and Days", "Six O'Clock", "Happy Melody", "One-Two-Three", "Sunny Disposish", "Sweet So-and-So", "Fancy Our Meeting", "The One I'm Looking For", "It's Not You", "Take It or Leave It", "There's Almost Tomorrow", "I Wanna Get Married", and "Twelve O'Clock and All Is Well".- Massimo Bontempelli graduated from the University of Turin in 1903. He taught elementary school for seven years, doing his writing on the side, but abandoned teaching for journalism when he could not secure a position at a secondary school. He served as a war correspondent during World War I. After the war, he settled in Milan and became interested in the literary styles of futurism and magical realism. In 1926, he, along with Curzio Malaparte, founded the journal "900". James Joyce, Max Jacob, and Rainer Maria Rilke sat on the editorial committee. Virginia Woolf and Blaise Cendrars were among the contributors.
During the late 1920s and early 1930s, Bontempelli was an active fascist. He served as a secretary of the fascist writers' union and spent time abroad lecturing on Italian culture and spreading propaganda. In 1938, he refused to accept a university post formerly held by a Jewish professor and was expelled from the fascist party. After World War II, Bontempelli won a Senate race but the results were voided when his fascist ties were discovered. In 1953, Bontempelli's "L'amante Fedele" won the Strega Prize, Italy's most prestigious literary award. After years of declining health, Bontempelli died in Rome in 1960