Buddy's first birthday
- Buddy standing on stool with his mother, Sarah
All
6 shared a 2 bedroom tenement at 105th/Madison during the
time of horse drawn milk carts, ice deliveries, & subways being
built.
Popular
songs of 1912:
"Alexander's Ragtime Band" -
w & m: Irving Berlin
"My
Melancholy Baby" -
w: Norton/ m: Burnett
"On
Moonlight Bay" -
w: Madden/ m: Weinrich
"When
I Was Twenty-One and You Were Sweet Sixteen"
by Henry Burr & Albert Campbell
1918
Flu pandemic hits NYC -
Buddy confined
to bed for 2 years!
1930
- 38
Catskills - actor/singer/dancer/tummeler
Brill
Building - song plugger/writer
Lewis Music Co.
& Popular Music Co.
|
Photo:
Spectropop | The
Brill Building - 1619 Broadway - in the heart of
New York's music district post-Tin Pan Alley. After its completion
in 1931, the owners were forced by a deepening Depression to rent space to
music publishers, since there were few other takers. The first three were
Southern Music, Mills Music (another publisher
of Buddy's) and Famous-Music.
By 1962 the Brill Building contained 165
music businesses. Residents included
Bacharach & David, Boyce & Hart, Don Kirshner,
Phil Spector, Goffin & King, Mann & Weil, Greenfield & Sedaka,
Barry & Greenwich, Pomus & Shuman, Leiber & Stoller,
etc. - Today
Paul Simon's office is located there. |
Buddy
sang live on CBS Radio -
First
to sing "Stardust" on the air
He was a singer, dancer and vocalist with several
orchestras, and a soloist
on radio. He wrote and
co-produced the radio show
"Rhythm
School of the Air".
Wrote
with Milton Berle, Lester
Young,
Erskine
Hawkins, Avery Parrish,
Peter Tinturin,
etc.
Milton Berle changed Buddy's
name to Feyne
1939-41
HITS - "Jersey
Bounce," "Tuxedo Junction,"
both
at the top of the Hit Parade,
"Monica,"
"The Shadow Knows," "Dolimite," and more
Feinstein
boys post-war
Buddy, Jack
Irving, Al
WWII
Served in the 77th Infantry Division in the Pacific:
Leyte
& Phillipines
Awarded
2 medals:
Bronze
star
for bravery going behind enemy lines | |
Purple heart for injury
sustained in line of duty | |
Wrote
for the Armed Forces Radio Service
and
produced shows for servicemen
Composed
"Soldier Boy" &
Performed
it on Armed Forces Radio
While stationed
in the Phillippines
(too close
to the front for the USO)
Created shows for his unit:
Composed,
led band and sang
Taught 200 service men ballroom dancing.
(The "Jersey
Bounce" was being played by the band
onshore as he shipped
out for duty.
No one on board knew he composed it.)
(Similarly,
the final song played by
the US Army Band prior to the
1991 Gulf War was "Tuxedo Junction.")
WWII - Pilots
name their craft
"Jersey Bounce"
Named their B-17 bombers "Jersey Bounce"
Post
War - studied early TV
1947
Married Virginia Molin
Studied
early TV at the
American
Academy of Television in Los Angeles
He
wrote "Preview Theatre" for KFWB
in California
and "The
Bill Harrington Show" for television in New York, which
he also produced.
He also wrote special material for night club singers.
1950-55 - wrote songs and musicals
with Bill Harrington
& Harry Revel
So
This Is Brooklyn &
Song of Texas
Wrote & hosted & sang on
Radio:
After School Swing Special
& The Nursery Crime Detective
1956-98:
Formed
Publishing Company: ESSENJAY
&
Label: SEGUE
Records
to promote original music.
Continued to write and compose with:
Milton Berle, Bill
Harrington,
Stan Worth, Ken Carson, Harry Revel, Bill Baker,
Joe Williams,
Al Sherman and many more.
Songs
performed on television by:
Gene Autry on the Gene Autry Show
Lex Baxter
on the Ernie Kovacs Show
Joe Williams on the Joey Bishop Show
1960s-
70s Created reviews and special material:
Lamb's Club Salute to Ed
Sullivan
produced by Harry Delmar in NYC
Review: Up
Your Alley
1964:
Children's Album - Music and Lyrics
Romper Room: Time
for Fun
Continued
to write both Music and Lyrics
"I'll Remember
the Good Things," "Joe's Notion,"
"Little Tommy Tumbleweed,"
etc.
1971
- 73 Film
Scores:
Diary of a Stewardess
& Dead End Dolls
1978
Developed 20 year friendship with
The Manhattan
Transfer
Theme Song: "Tuxedo
Junction"
1984-98
Reworked So
This Is Brooklyn
Contributed to several
albums by Bill Baker
Composed "She Carries The
Torch"
Sang at Barbata's
in Los Angeles
Treasured
friendships include:
PERFORMERS: Manhattan Transfer, Milton
Berle,
Joe Williams,
LA Jazz Choir, Frank Wayne,
Bob Grabeau, Gerry Eskelin
COMPOSERS: Peter Tinturin, Bill Baker,
Bill Harrington, Irving Miller, Al Sherman,
Stan Worth, Ken Carson
PUBLISHERS & PRODUCERS: Mort Browne, Harry
Delmar
The
Independent (London)
obit dated Jan 22, 1999
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