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- Birth nameAlbert T. Jacobs
- Songwriter ("This Is My Country", "I Need You Now", "If I Give My Heart to You"), composer, conductor, pianist, author and singer. He was a piano salesman after college and taught piano, then became the general manager of the Sherman Clay & Company and the business manager at the Miller Music Company. Later he became a professional manager at the Crawford Music, Melrose Music, and Stasny Music companies, then was assistant music director at Al Pearce radio, and manager at the Wurlitzer Music School in San Francisco. He joined KGO radio as staff pianist, and was a singer and pianist for KJBS radio. Joining ASCAP in 1936, his chief musical collaborators included Jimmie Crane and Joseph Meyer, and his other popular-song compositions included "Hurt", "Ev'ry Day of My Life", "Just One More Time", "Please Believe Me", "'Taint No Good", "But I Did", "All I Want Is a Chance", "Anybody's Love Song", "The Last Polka", "I'm Just an Ordinary Human Being", "When the Roses Bloom Again", "Honolulu", "There'll Never Be Another You", "Make a Wish", "Scalawag", "I'm Glad I Waited for You", "Will o' the Wisp", "Fortune for a Penny", "My Believing Heart", "I'm a Lucky Devil", "Time Stands Still", "I've Got a Heart Filled With Love", "Twilight Interlude", "No More Rivers to Cross", "Kon Tiki", "Crime and Punishment", "Rosie the Redskin", "Surprise", and "My Sailor Boy".- IMDb Mini Biography By: Hup234!
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