Raymond Hubbell
b. June 1, 1879 Urbana, Ohio, USA. d. Dec. 13, 1954 Miami, FL, USA.
Raymond attended local schools in Urbana, but studied his music in Chicago, IL. As a young man, he formed a dance band in Chicago, and when that was finished, he took a position with the Charles K. Harris Publishers, as a staff arranger and pianist.

In 1902, Raymond began composing for stage musicals, the first one was called 'Chow Chow' in Chicago. Later, the show opened in New York, under the name of 'The Runaways'.

Brief Chronology:
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1902 Wrote for the Chicago show 'Chow Chow', with songs such as:
   "If I Were a Bright Little Star", lyric by Addison Burkhardt
   "A Kiss For Each Day of the Week", lyric by Addison Burkhardt.
1905 Wrote for the Broadway show 'Fantana', with such numbers as:
   "The Farewell Waltz", lyric by Robert B. Smith
   "That's Art", lyric by Robert B. Smith
   "My Word", lyric by Robert B. Smith
   "What Would Mrs Grundy Say?", lyric by Robert B. Smith
1906 Wrote for the musical 'Mexicana'
1907 Wrote for the musical 'A Knight for a Day'
   "Life Is A See-Saw", lyric by Robert B. Smith
   "Little Girl Blue", Lyric by Robert B. Smith
1910 Wrote the score for Broiadway musical 'The Jolly Bachelors' starring Nora Bayes
1910 Wrote the score for Broadway musical 'The Bachelor Belles'
1911 Wrote music for the Ziegfeld Follies
   "Take Care Little Girl", Lyric Geo. V. Hobart, Bessie McCoy sang it.
   "My Beautiful Lady", lyric George V. Hobart
1912 Wrote the score for Broadway musical 'The Man From Cook's'
1912 Wrote music for the Ziegfeld Follies
   "The Broadway Glide", lyric by Robert B. Smith
   "Romantic Girl", lyric by Robert B. Smith
1912 Wrote the score for Broadway musical 'A Winsome Widow'
1913 Wrote music for the Ziegfeld Follies
1915 Wrote music for the Hippoodrome show 'Hip Hip Hooray'
   "The Ladder of Roses"
1916 Wrote music for the Hippodrome show 'The Big Show',
   "Poor Butterfly", lyric by John Golden (sung by a Japanese soprano)
   "Hello, I've Been Looking For You"
1917 Wrote music for the Ziegfeld Follies
   "Beautiful Garden of Girls", lyric by Hobart and Gene Buck
   "Just You and Me", lyric by Hobart and Gene Buck
   "Chu Chin Chow", lyric by Hobart and Gene Buck
1917 Wrote music for the show 'Cheer Up'
   "Melodyland"
1918 Wrote the score for Broadway musical 'The Kiss Burglar'
1922 Wrote music for the Hippodrome show 'Better Times'
1922 Wrote the score for Broadway musical 'The Elusive Lady', starring Julian Eltinge
1927 Wrote the score for Broadway musical 'Your's Truly', stars Irene Dunne and Leon Errol
1927 Wrote the score for Broadway musical 'The Girl From Cook's'
1928 Wrote the score for Broadway musical 'Three Cheers', starring Will Rogers and Dorothy Stone

The 1928 show 'Three Cheers' was Hubbell's last show. When it was done, he retired to Miami, Florida.

   Will Hudson
b. March 8, 1908, Barstow, CA, USA. d. 1981, USA.
Overview
Will Hudson is best remembered as a bandleader and composer. In the late 20's, Hudson wrote scores for a great many famous bands of the day, including Cab Calloway, Don Redman, Fletcher Henderson, Ina Ray Hutton, Jimmy Lunceford, Earl 'Fatha' Hines, Erskine Tate and McKinney's Cotton Pickers. In the mid to late 1930's, he was active as an orchestra leader, first by himself, and then in partnership with Eddie DeLange.

Hudson's family moved to Detroit, MI, and there in the mid 1930's, he formed his very first band. In 1936, he and Eddie De Lange got together and formed the 'Hudson-DeLange Orchestra'. The band was well drilled and had a good sound, but trouble was brewing in the wings. Eddie was very extroverted and Will was just the reverse, very quiet. Due to this personality difference, the two did not get along and they disbanded in 1938, somewhat acrimoniously. In 1939, Will formed his own Will Hudson Orchestra, which lasted until 1940. In 1941, Hudson and DeLange again formed a band, but it was short-lived. Interestingly, Will studied Composing at New York's Juilliard School of Music in 1948. Never-the-less, he was musically inactive during the 1950's decade.

As a team, Will Hudson's songs with Eddie DeLange's lyrics were "Deep in a Dream"; "Remember When"; and perhaps their most successful work, "Moonglow". Separately, Will Hudson wrote some very successful instrumentals, such as: "Sophisticated Swing"; Love Song of a Half Wit"; "Monopoly Swing"; "Eight Bars in Search of a Melody"; and perhaps his most successful was "Organ Grinder's Swing".

Irving Mills published their music, recorded it on his Master Records label, and took a little "piece of the action" by making them put his name on the music as one of the composers. That was the way the industry operated in those days. Irving did the same thing with the Duke Ellington Orch., and others.

   Nick Hupfe
Currently no information on this Lyricist.
1935 "Midnight Rendezvous", music by Isham Jones.(vocalist Eddie Stone was also given label credit for co-lyrics.)

   Herman Hupfeld
b. Feb. 1, 1894, Montclair, NJ, USA. d. June 8, 1951, Montclair, NJ, USA.
Herman Hupfield did not write a large number of hits, but he managed to produce at least one quality song that will survive.

1931 for the show 'Everybody's Welcome', he wrote:
   "As Time Goes By." It didn't arouse attention when was first published. But when it was featured in MGM's 1943 Bogart and Bergman movie 'Casablanca', where Dooley Wilson sang it while appearing to play the piano, it became a'smash' hit.
Here is Mr. Irwin Schwartz's wonderful rendition of "As Time Goes By".
Other songs by Hupfield include:
   "Let's Put Out the Lights (and Go To Sleep)", Rudy Vallee's signature theme.
1931 For the 'Third Little Show', he wrote:
   "When Yuba Plays the Rhumba on his Tuba"
1933 For picture 'Moonlight and Pretzels', he wrote
   "Are You Making Any Money", a hit for Ramona (voc./piano) with Whiteman Orch.
193? "Goofy Geer (Plays Piano by Ear)"
1933 For Paramount Picture 'Take A Chance',
   "Night Owl"
1933 For picture 'Murder at the Vanities'
   "Savage Serenade"

Hupfeld also contributed some material for other Hollywood films. One that comes to mind at the moment is the 1934 film, 'College Rhythm', which starred Joe Penner, Jackie Oakie, Lanny Ross, and 'The Polish Bombshell' Lyda Roberti, whom Hollywood had called away from her successful Broadway stage career. (I think that Lyda sang two numbers; one was "Take a Number From One to Ten", and the other was "That's College Rhythm." (Also, if I recall, both numbers were by Harburg (lyric) and Fain (music).)

   Victor Hely-Hutchinson
b. 1901, Cape Town, South Africa, d. 1947
Currently no information on this South African Composer, who spent his most creative years in England. During WWII, Hely-Hutchinson contributed the music for a sequence of documentaries including:
Battle of Supplies (Strand 1942)
New Zealand (Crown, 1945)
Camouflage Airview (Verity 1945)
Teeth of Steel (Technique)
The Gen (RAF newsreel - David Moule Evans and John Gough)
When We Build Again (Strand 1944)
The Call of the Sea
South Africa (Crown 1944)

Perhaps Hely-Hutchinson's most famous work is "A Carol Symphony".

   Alex Hyde
b. Feb. 17, 1898, Hamburg, Germany d. July 7, 1956, Santa Monica, California, USA.
né: Alexander Chalfan Hyde.
Songwriter), composer, author and conductor.
In 1898, while just a baby, his family emigrated to the USA, where he was educated in New York city public schools as well as in private music study with Sascha Coleman and Michael Svedrofsky, eventually earning an honorary Mus. D. As a young man, he began his career working in local New York city venues, and, for a while, worked also with 'Mike Denzi's Red Devils'.

During World War I he was a US Navy bandmaster. After his Service discharge, he resumed his musical career as a conductor at theaters and cafés in New York city and in Europe. During World War II, he again served in the United States Armed forces ( Army Air Force) as a composer and bandleader. Again, with his Service Discharge papers in hand, he returned to music, and later scored films and served as a consultant to Miklós Rózsa.

During the early 1920s, Hyde led one of Paul Whiteman's numerous offshoot bands, the Romance of Rhythm Orchestra.. In 1923, the band visited Montreal, Canada, and that was where Hyde was first recorded. During 1923 throughout much of 1924, Hyde was in London, England, leading a Jazz band at the Piccadilly Hotel, sharing the bill with Jack Hylton.,

On May 1, 1924, the Hyde Orchestra's appearance at the "Tivoli Variete" in Hanover, Germany almost became a financial disaster. However, just as Hyde was about to disband, and release the unpaid musicians, a Russian dancer by the name of Ivan Bankoff paid all of Hyde's debts and took the band under his wing. Under his efforts, "Alex Hyde's New York Orchestra" took Berlin by storm, standing the German public on its ear with its corny, "doo-wacka-doo" hot novelty dance music.

In June 1924, after playing Munich's Deutches Theater, Hyde disbanded, sailed for the U.S. Much of his popularity in Germany has been attributed not only to his happy arrangements, but also to his introduction of buzzer mutes and Besson B flat trumpets into an environment where only rotary valve C trumpets had been regularly used. In 1925, he returned to Berlin, Germany, but this time with a better, and more authentic 'Hot Jazz' ensemble. At about this same time, 'Sam Wooding's Chocolate Dandies' were also playing in Berlin.

From the very late 1920s and throughout the 1930s, Hyde assembled and produced a series of all-female orchestras. He subsequently retired from music,and co-managed an insurance company with his brothers.

Among his other compositions are::
      "Oh, Say Can You Swing?"
      "Poor Robinson Crusoe"
      "With Thee I Swing"
      "My Heart Is in a Violin"
      "Picture Me in a Picture With You"
      "I Love You From Coast to Coast"