| Show r t A c CHIE D GOTTLER S ASCAP musj US His Love Loc For f An In Song fad w S z 5 pY LS 9 5 ry 6 0 t By Daniel Daniell I. I McNamara A GOTTLER COTTLER popular song song- t writer enjoys a unique distinction Lion tion among his fellows of ot the American Ameri Annerl can Society of Composers Authors and Publishers that of being singled out In the records of ot Congress for his creation of ot the patriotic popular song America I Love You Dottier Gottler was four years too young to vote when he wrote the song In 1914 Its spontaneous appeal so tin Ira pi pressed essed members of Congress that the song and Its author were riled lied in Congressional hearings as all exemplifying exemplifying exem exem- the spontaneous patriotism of ot the first generation of new Amer Amu leans Gottler Cottier was the last of five children of Russian Immigrants and the only one born in America Born in New Yorks York's Lower East Side May 14 H. H 1896 he learned to play the piano by ear so well that at thirteen he was relief pl pianist In Ina Ina ina a now long forgotten nickelodeon began writing songs about my wife while he ho was still In knickers Im Im Glad Clad My Wife's In Europe My Wife Is Dancing Mad and Mad and at seventeen gave musical voice to the patriotism then sweeping the country country coun coun- try In America I Love You whose m stirring chorus ends and and theres there's theresa hundred bundred million others a like me Even before he learned to read notes he conducted a vaudeville orchestra or chestra knowing knowing all the songs of the day by ear he had bad to quit when a troupe of ot Russian dancers dancers arrived with unfamiliar music He lie soon mastered the written note con continued tand n. n linued creating songs wrote for such New York productions as as ns Broadway Brevities Follies and Winter Garden shows Ue Lie was one of the first composers for sound film musicals Lets musicals Lets Do Dothe Dothe Dothe the Breakaway Walking with Susie Your Baby Daby and Big Dig City Blues are among his early film song successes Still in his early forties Gottler Cottier now is col with his son Jerome Hows flows About It Itt Yes There Thera Aint No Moon Tonight and Bye Bye Dye Mr Dream Man are some of ot the son father-son creations For the last decade he has been under contract with large film companies com corn panics In America and abroad for both songwriting and the staging of ot dance ensembles With world travel as his hobby he usually arranges contracts so as to have ample Urn time for tor visiting distant lands Music Features Photo Syndicate N N. V. V YI I |
