Bill Harrington(1918-2003)
- Actor
- Soundtrack
Songwriter, composer, singer, musician and author, educated at Arsenal
Technical High School, the Arthur Jones Conservatory, and the
Cincinnati Conservatory. He was a pianist and accordionist in dance
bands throughout the United States between 1933 and 1943, then a
vocalist on staff at a Cincinnati radio station before entering World
War II military service. Thereafter he joined the Alvino Rey orchestra,
and in 1946 he came to New York where he had his own radio program for
three years, and then he entered television. Joining ASCAP in 1950, his
popular-song compositions include "Jazzbo Mambo", "Wendy", "Open
Parachute", "Just We Two", "Looking for a Dream", "Texas Lullaby" "I
Made Myself a Promise", and "Drop a Jitney in the Juke Box".