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Gene Buck

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Lyricist 1885–1957

Edward Eugene Buck (August 7, 1885 – February 24, 1957) was an American illustrator of sheet music, musical theater lyricist, and president of the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP).

Also credited on1 work

Ziegfeld Follies

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In the literature2 passages

  • Songs: “Syncopated Tune” (Louis A. Hirsch-Gene Buck); “Blue Devils of France” (Irving Berlin); “I’m Gonna Pin a Medal on the Girl l Left Behind” (Berlin); “Any Old Time at All” (Hirsch-Buck)ebooks/Green, Stanley/Broadway Musicals, Show By Show - Seventh Edition - Stanley Green & Cary Ginell.txt
  • Songs: “My Baby’s Arms” (Harry Tierney-Joseph McCarthy); “Tulip Time” (David Stamper-Gene Buck); “Mandy”; “A Pretty Girl Is Like a Melody”; “You’d Be Surprised”; “You Cannot Make Your Shimmy Shake on Tea” Berlin-Rennold Wolf)ebooks/Green, Stanley/Broadway Musicals, Show By Show - Seventh Edition - Stanley Green & Cary Ginell.txt

Passages naming this person, found by keyword across 178 books. A keyword match is not a biography, and a common name will pull in the wrong one.

What this page does not know

  • What this person played. No cast list we hold records a character against a performer.
  • Any staging. This name appears in no production cast list we hold — 1,877 of 7,139 people are in that position, most of them writers, composers and designers rather than performers.
  • Which of the credits above the roles on this record — lyricist — apply to. The roles sit on the person and never on a credit, so a director who also acted looks the same here as one who did not.

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