Reminiscences of Harry Ruby : oral history, 1959.

Biographical Note

Songwriter; interviewee b.1895, d.1974.

Scope and Contents

Childhood in New York; work for Gus Edwards Music Company as a "song plugger"; influences of the invention of the radio on song writing; working on vaudeville; songwriting with Bert Kalmar; working with Marx Brothers, Amos and Andy; feelings about rock and roll; first impressions of Hollywood.

Subjects

• Composers--Interviews.
• Franklin, Joan, interviewer.--http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ivr
• Franklin, Robert, interviewer.--http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ivr
• Interviews.
• Motion picture industry.
• Motion pictures and music.
• Oral histories.
• Popular music.
• Ruby, Harry.
• Vaudeville.

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