Milton Delugg(1918-2015)
- Music Department
- Composer
- Actor
Composer, songwriter ("Orange-Colored Sky"), "Just Another Polka",
"Hoop Dee Doo"), accordionist and pianist, conductor and author,
educated at UCLA and a student of Tibor Serly. He began as a staff
musician with a Hollywood radio station, and with film studios. During
World War II, he served in the Radio Production Unit of the United
States Army Air Force. He arranged and conducted the Abe Burrows radio
show, and later, Joseph Levine films and recordings, night club revues
and Broadway shows. Joining ASCAP in 1949, he collaborated musically
with his wife Anne Delugg, Bob Hilliard, Sammy Gallop, William
Stein, and Allan Roberts. His other popular-song and instrumental
compositions include "Shanghai", "Sailor Boys Have Talk to Me in
English", "My Lady Loves to Dance", "Be My Life's Companion", "Wrong
Wrong Wrong", "Roller Coaster" ("What's My Line" theme), "The Little
White Horse", "The Big Beat", "Honolulu", and "Gee I'm Glad I Married
You".
