Today is the birthday of John Steel (1895-1971), best known for having introduced Irving Berlin’s “A Pretty Girl is Like a Melody” in the Ziegfeld Follies of 1919. He’d gotten his start on Broadway just a year before, in a show called The Maid of the Mountains, after studying music in Paris during the First [...]
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 07:38AM on January 11, 2013