Ralph Freed
b. 1907, Vancouver, Canada, d. 1973, Los Angeles, CA
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   Hugo W. Friedhofer
b. May 3, 1901, San Francisco, CA, USA, d. May 17, 1981, Los Angeles, CA, USA. (complications after an accidental fall)
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This orchestrator, conductor, musical arranger, and occasional composer contributed his talents to perhaps over 200 Hollywood films, and was almost always uncredited.

   Anatole Friedland
b. March 21, 1888, St. Petersburg, Russia
d. July 24, 1938, Atlantic City, NJ, USA.
Overview
Friedland spent many years as a vaudeville headliner. In 1913, he met L. Wolfe Gilbert; the team turned out many successful songs. Sometimes they appeared together on stage singing their own songs. Othertimes, Friedland appeared as just a 'singles' act, playing the piano and singing.

Anatole received his musical training in the Moscow Conservatory. After emigrating to the U.S. he entered Columbia University, and studied Architecture. After his graduation, he worked as an architect by day, and wrote music at night.

In 1911, Friedland wrote the score for a Boadway musical called 'The Wife Hunters'. Malvin Franklin was the lyricist. Enmma Carus and Lew Fields were the stars of the show. Based on what they heard in this show, the Shuberts hired Anatole to write music for their Winter Garden productions, including 'The Passing Show'. In 1912, Anatole wrote the score for the Shubert hit 'Broadway To Paris', with lyrics by Harold Atteridge. (Irene Bordoni starred as well as Louise Dresser and Gertrude Hoffman.)

In 1913, Friedland met L. Wolfe Gilbert. It turned out to be a very fruitful collaboration. They wrote many successful songs together. Friedland spent many years as a vaudeville headliner, and many times he and Gilbert appeared together on stage, singing their own songs. Oftentimes, the pair mounted miniature revues featuring their tunes. (And, many times, Friedland appeared as a 'single' act, just playing the piano and singing songs.) In the early 1930's, near the end of vaudeville, Friedland produced 'tabloid' versions of Broadway musicals. These would toured the motion picture houses that were still showing one film feature, and live vaudeville. Some future stars, such as Barbara Stanwyck and Mae Clark, appeared in these productions. Friedland had a nightclub, in New York, during prohibition.

Some of the songs Friedland wrote, with L. Wolfe Gilbert, are:
   "My Sweet Adair"
   "Lily Of The Valley"
   "I Love You, That's The One Thing I Know"
   "My Little Dream Girl"
   "Are You From Heaven"
   "My Own Iona"
   "Afghanistan"
   "Singapore"
   "My Little Persian Rose"
   "Who Believed in You"
   "Shades of Night"
   "The Greatest Enemy of Love"
   "Out of the Cradle"

In 1936, Friedland suffered the amputation of one leg. He retired from the music business, and took up residence at the Hotel Ritz-Carlton, in Atlantic City, N. J. In 1938, he died.

   Cliff Friend
b. Oct. 1, 1893, Cincinnati, OH, d. June 27, 1974, Las Vegas, NV
Overview
Cliff Friend, a successful songwriter, was most active from the early 1920's through the mid-1950's. Friend and Lyricist Dave Franklyn were real 'Tin Pan Alley' men...a now extinct breed. They wrote their songs 'to order' for vaudevillians, radio and recording artists, dance bands, and also under 'quota contracts' for music publishers. From their office (in the Tin Pan Alley area), they would make daily rounds demonstrating and playing their wares to entertainers in their dressing rooms, rehearsal rooms, hotel rooms and even in 'Steam Rooms'. But their biggest hit was uy Lombardo. Among the scores they composed for the Lombardo orchestra were "The Anniversary Waltz", "Time Waits For No One". "The Merry-Go-Round Broke Down", "Trade Winds", and When My Dream Boat Comes In".

Cliff came from a musical family; one of pioneer stock, one of Ohio's first families. His father was the first violinist with the Woods Theater orchestra. Educated at the Cincinnati Conservatory of Music, his ambition was to become a concert pianist but a three year long bout with Tuberculosis somewhat dashed these hopes. Cliff met another Cincinnatian, Harry Richmond - later to become a nationally famous nightclub singer - and together they played the Ohio vaudeville houses. The pair eventually wound up in Los Angeles where they met and joined Buddy De Sylva, who was then strumming a ukelele in a pseudo-Hawaiian band at Baron Long's roadhouse.

While in California, Friend and Richmond met Al Jolson who encouraged them to leave for New York, where the team starved for two years; occasionally living off Jolson's bounty. Jolson, then playing in the musical 'Bombo' was helpful in getting some of Friend's songs placed in the show. Jolson also helped Friend place some songs in 'The Passing Show' and some Winter Garden (theater) productions. (Friends first "hit" was "You Tell Her - I Stutter", recorded in 1922.

Among his best known hits, are:
   1923 "You Tell Her, I Stutter", A big hit for the 'Happiness Boys', Ernie Hare and Billy Jones.
   1924 "June Night", collaboration with Abel Baer.
   1925 "Then I'll Be Happy,"
   1926 "(Oh) If I Only Had You", Gus Kahn Lyric
   1927 "A Night In June (Beneath the Moon)"
   1928 "My Blackbirds Are Bluebirds Now", Irving Caesar lyric.
   1928 "It Goes Like This", Iving Caesar lyric. Eddie Cantor rec.
   1928 "You're A Real Sweetheart", Irving Caesar lyric.
   1929 "Bashful Baby", collaborated with composer Abner Silver.
   1931 "I Want To Sing About You", collaboration with Dave Dreyer
   1931 "It's Great To Be In Love", in Earl Carroll Vanities of 1931
   1932 "Let's Have a Party"
   1934 "The Sweetest Music This Side Of Heaven", Collab. w. Carmen Lombardo
   1936 "When My Dream Boat Comes Home"
   193? "You've Got Me In The Palm of Your Hand", written with James Monaco and Edgar Leslie.
   1936 "Out Where The Blue Begins"
   1937 "The Merry-Go-Round Broke Down".

   Osvaldo Fresedo
b: May 5, 1897, Buenos Aires, Argentina, d: Nov. 18, 1984
Tag: "El Pibe de La Paternal" (The Boy from the Paternal -section of Buenas Aires)
Bandeonist, Composer, Conductor.
Tag: 'the aesthete of Tango music'
Osvaldo Fresedo was born and raised in the Paternal section of Buenos Aires, Argentina, - a child of a middle class family (his mother was a pianist). He and his orchestra were familiar figures at the many elegant parties given by porteń high society. Many historians now feel that Fresedo was a bridge between Argentina and Europe, between the Tango of the barrio (slum neighborhood of Buenos Aires), and the Tango of the upper classes.

Fresedo was a good friend of Ricardo Giraldes (1887-1927) who was perhaps the archetypal Buenos Aires playboy - rich, handsome and debonair, a poet, and a writer. In 1910 he visited Paris and, maybe more than anyone else, was responsible for the success of the Tango in that city (and in Europe). During WW1 (ca 1915), he published Raucha, a semi-autobiographical novel set in pre-WW1 Paris. In 1911, he had written a poem about the Tango.

   Jack Fulton
b. June 13, 1903, Philipsburg, Pennsylvania, USA, d. Nov. 13, 1993, San Diego, CA, USA.
Here's an album cover photo of Jack Fulton, who, after graduating from High School, first found fame singing with the Paul Whiteman orchestra, remaining with Whiteman for eight years. He subsequently worked - for 22 years - with the CBS Radio Network. While he is today best recalled as a singer, he also composed over 100 tunes (mostly as lyricist), - none of which achieved any great fame. In 1943, he joined ASCAP, and among his princpal musical collaborators were Lois Steele Roberts, Edward D. Ballantine, Moe Jaffe, Frank "Porky" Panico, and Rolf Erickson. Among his better known compositions are "Blue Sails", "If You Are But A Dream", "Quien Sabe", "Please Mr Mailman", "Swinging On A Moonbeam", "True Blue Sue", and a 100 others.