Bill Harrington(1918-2003)

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".