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Songwriter Biography: CONRAD, CON

CONRAD, CON         Hall of Fame
(Conrad K. Dober)
Born: 1891 New York, NY
Died: 1938 Van Nuys, CA
Collaborators: Herb Magidson, Joe Young, Sidney Clare, Billy
Rose, B. G. DeSylva, Benny Davis, Leo Robin, J. Russel
Robinson, Vincent Rose, Archie Gottler, Sidney Mitchell

Pianist and vaudeville entertainer, wrote for many films

Shows: Ed Wynn Carnival, Midnight Rounders, Snapshots of 1921,
Bombo, Greenwich Village Follies, Moonlight, Betty Lee, Big
Boy, Mercenary Mary, The Comic Supplement, Kitty's Kisses,
Americana, Take the Air, Moonlight

Films: Movietone Follies of 1929, Broadway, Palmy Days,
Here's to Romance

Principal Songs: Barney Google, Blue Sky Avenue, The Champagne Waltz,
The Continental, Here's to Romance, Lonesome and Sorry, Ma!,
Margie, Memory Lane, Midnight in Paris, A Needle in a
Naystack, You Call It Madness, You've Got to See Mamma Ev'ry
Night
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