Famous Song Team Split By A Death
One of the most famous song-writ-ing teams was split when death claimed Dick Whiting during the filming of “Cowboy from Brooklyn,” the Warner Bros, musical farce. The man who wrote the words for Dick Whiting's melodious tunes was Johnny Mercer, and this team of Whiting and Mercer was a rarity among songwriting teams, for they insisted upon having a reason for each song they wrote. Over a long period of years Whiting and Mercer were responsible, together or in collaboration with other writers, for “Too Marvellous' for Words,” “On the Good Ship Lollipop,” “Mammy’s Little Coal Black Rose,”
“Louise,” “Adorable,” “Goody, Goody,” “Till We Meet Again,” which holds the all-time record I'or sheet music sales, “Ain’t We Got Fun,” “Lazy Bones,” “Japanese Sandman,” “Have You Got Any Castles, Baby.” “Old King Cole,” and an overwhelming list of other hits. The stars of “Cowboy from Brooklyn” include Dick Powell, Pat O’Brien, Priscilla Lane, Ann Sheridan, Reagan and Dick Foran.
Movie romance will hit a new high in a new Universal picture, “Murder in the Surgery.” Helen Mack makes love > to an X-ray picture of Bruce Cabot’s chest. *
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Northern Advocate, 13 May 1939, Page 3 (Supplement)
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