David was a child of 4 when his family emigrated to the U.S. He attended Chicago public and high schools and studied at the Chicago Music College. After graduation, he was hired by a local NBC station as a pianist and an arranger, and a pianist in the Ted Fiorito Orchestra. In 1938, he was hired as musical director for the Mutual Network, in Hollywood. He served in the U.S.Airforce for 4 years, during WW2.

1943 was a fruitful year for Rose. He was the composer and director of the Moss Hart Air Force production of the play 'Winged Victory'. In addition, he published an instrumental composition that became very successful, "Holiday For Strings". Recorded by over a dozen recording companies, it sold many millions of records.

At War's end, Rose resumed his career, in Hollywood, as a studio conductor. Rose may have been the first man to use the echo chamber in both radio and records. He has remain active in motion pictures and television.

Among the Television programs for which he has served as musical director:
      The Fred Astaire Shows
      The Red Skelton Show
      The Bob Hope Show
      The Dean Martin Show

In 1959, a national survey showed David Rose's music being used in 22 different TV programs as theme songs. Some were:
      "Bonanza"
      "Highway Patrol"
      "Sea Hunt"

Among the films for which he scored or did background music are:
      Young and Pretty
      Operation Petticoat (1959)
      Young Man In a Hurry
      Everything I Have Is Yours
      Jupiter's Darling
      Please Don't Eat The Daisies. (1960)

Rose is the author or many piano pieces, and of such hit tunes as:
      "Just In Love", lyric by Leo Robin. Film Wonder Man, Danny Kaye.
      "Once Upon A Lullaby"
      "One Love", in Walt Disney film, 'Snow White'
      "Holiday for Strings" (1943)
      "The Stripper" (1962)

In 1960, Rose toured Japan. It was just the latest in a long list of cities where he conducted; some other cities were Rome; Paris; Copenhagen and Berlin.

  Fred Rose
b. August 24, 1897, Chicago, IL, USA. d. Dec. 1, 1954, USA.
Currently no information available.
In private correspondence, Mr. J. Adams has recalled that:
  "Although born in Chicago, he eventually settled in Nashville where he had some c&w hits
  He also became "born again". For Bob Wills, the great western swinger, he compose
  "Roly Poly" Bob's last great hit. ("He pulls the wheat and does the chores, runs both way
  to all the stores, he works up an appetite that way")
  For Hank Williams he composed one of his earliest hits, "Setting the Woods on Fire"
  Quite different from "Deed I Do".
  With Roy Acuff, he formed a publishing company which was one the biggest in Nashville."

Among the songs this composer wrote are:
"Flaming Mamie"
"Charlestonette"
"Deep Henderson"
"Red Hot Henry Brown" (1925 Rose?)
"Moon Rose" (Maybe with Fats Waller Collaboration.)
"(Do I love you, Oh My, Do I, Honey,) 'Deed I Do"

  Vincent Rose
b. 1880, Palermo, Italy, d. 1944, Rockville Center, NY, USA.
Overview
Vincent Rose has one of the longest historys of band leading. He organized an orchestra in 1904 and successfully led that group into the forties. A record that may be unmatched by any other leader.

He was very active in the 1920's as a songwriter. Among his hits are:
      1940 "Blueberry Hill"
      1923 "Linger Awhile"
      1920 "Whispering"
      1920 "Avalon", with lyrics by Al Jolson, a big hit for Jolson.

There's an interesting sidelight to the song "Avalon". In 1921, the estate and the publisher of Puccini's operas, G. Ricordi, sued all parties associated with that song, claiming the melody was "lifted" from the aria "E lucevan le stella" from Puccini's opera "Tosca". The Court found for Puccini and his publisher, and they were awarded $25,000 in damages, plua all future royalties to "Avalon."

Rose was elected to the Songwriters' Hall of Fame.

  Lawrence Rosenthal
b. November 4, 1926, Detroit, Michigan, USA.
Lawrence Rosenthal, studied piano and composition at Rochester's (New York) famed Eastman School of Music and later with Nadia Boulanger in Paris, France. Subsequently, Rosenthal composed extensively for films and television, very often working with director Peter Glenville on both stage and screen productions.

In 1972, he was again scheduled to work with Glenville on the film version of "Man of La Mancha". However, United Artists dismissed Glenville after learning that he planned to eliminate most of the songs from the musical film. The studio replaced him with Arthur Hiller (who kept all but two of the songs). Rosenthal stayed with the project and it is Rosenthal's orchestrations that are heard in the film. (He also conducted the orchestra for the sound track.)

Rosenthal has worked on over 120 TV and Film productions. Among his best known film scores are "A Raisin in the Sun", "The Miracle Worker", "Becket", "The Island of Dr. Moreau", "The Return of a Man Called Horse", and Peter Brook's "Meetings with Remarkable Men". He has won seven Emmys for miniseries, including 'Peter the Great', and 'Anastasia', as well as for episodes of George Lucas's, 'The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles'. Some of his symphonic compositions have been premiered by Leonard Bernstein with the New York Philarmonic.