Seven Songs for “ Kicking The Moon Around”
COMPOSED BY JAMES KENNEDY AND MICHAEL CARR (Kosy: Screening Saturday.) J ames Kennedy and Michael Carr, the lamous song-writing duo, composed seven numbers lor the new Gaumont-British-Dominion Film production, “Kicking The Moon Around,” starring Ambrose, Evelyn Dali, Harry Richman and Florence Desmond. These two remarkable young men have between them composed some of the best song hits of the past few years, including “Red Sails in the Sunset,” “Isle of Capri” and “Dinner for One Please James.” James Kennedy was formerly a schoolmaster, but the profession bored him, and in 1930 he decided to become
either a journalist or a song writer. A toss of the coin induced him to follow the latter course. Ilis first manuscript, “The Maid’s Song,’’ was ignored by all the publishers for two months. When he eventually sold it it earned him £OOOO in two weeks. Michael Carr ran away from his Dublin home at 17, became a stowaway, and spent five years in America, truck driving, bar tending and acting in fitups. Ho was introduced to James Kennedy by a mutual friend, and now together, they turn ojit yearly some of ’he greatest song hits produced by England or any other country.
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Manawatu Times, Volume 64, Issue 80, 5 April 1939, Page 11
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205Seven Songs for “ Kicking The Moon Around” Manawatu Times, Volume 64, Issue 80, 5 April 1939, Page 11
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