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Show MUSICAL FAME COMES TO MICKEY MART Modest, retiring, yet nontheless he's a musical genius and famous this Mjicky Hart of Sugar House. Only yesterday Mickey Hart be came a pubic figure of great prom- f ? A- t "MICKEY" HART inence when his latest musical composition was aired over KSL "I Walked in God's Garden," sung Continued on Page 4 MUSICAL FAME Continued iron) I'atfe i when a fine recording of Hart's by the renowned Jessie Evans Smith. That religious music and song were Mickey's newest and perhaps to date his finest compositions. However he admits to writing "some 300 or 400 songs since he was 16 years old. Five,of these are now in records and more and more arc due to come off the music presses in the near future. "I Wouldn't Trade" will be his next recorded release to hit the music shops and radio air. Under contract with B M I (Broadcast Music Inc.) for five years, Mickey will have every note and word he writes taken over ' for recording and distribution. In the mountain west, Mickey Hart is the outlet and adviser to James Ceasar Petrillo, the musicians music-ians labor czar, and he is western representative for the Studio Recording Re-cording company. Mickey Hart took his first music lesson on a piano when he was 16. With that first lesson he began to compose. Three weeks later he was playing piano for a dance orchestra, orch-estra, and has never left the notes, flats, sharps and clefts alone for a single day, Born in Preston, Idaho, Mickey Hart attended the grammar gram-mar schools there and in northern Utah. He graduated from the US AC at Logan, and spent 2y2 years at the Chicago Music College. He returned to teach at the agricultural agri-cultural college, and in 1937 he founded the Hart Music Stores. There is one in Preston, another in Salt Lake and the Sugar House store, operated by Mickey and his four brothers. Mickey's first published song was 'The Waltz LaRue," printed in 1927. He has written scores and scores of scores since, adapting his music to bands, orchestras, choirs, solos and instrumental groups. He is married to the former Helen Hel-en Smith and they have three children. The noted composer is a member of the chamber of commerce and has served as its president and on the board of directors. Mickey's store is the sponsor of the Sugar House chamber of commerce com-merce band and its talented accordion ac-cordion band, and his music can and will be heard over many networks net-works and radio stations in the next few weeks. |