1. Harry Carroll was an American songwriter, pianist, and composer.
11 Facts About Harry Carroll
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Harry Carroll taught himself how to play the piano and began playing in movie houses before he finished grade school.
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Harry Carroll contributed the song "Nix on the Glow Worm, Lena" to the Ziegfeld Follies of 1910.
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In 1912, Carroll was hired by the Schubert brothers' Winter Garden productions as a contract writer.
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Harry Carroll worked with Arthur Fields to produce his first hit, On the Mississippi.
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Harry Carroll served as the director of ASCAP from 1914 to 1917.
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Harry Carroll later moved west to Los Angeles and became involved in early movies.
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Harry and Pauline Carroll performed in Las Vegas and toured in the 1940s and together wrote "Say When," a song which Pauline introduced at Grace Hayes Lodge in the San Fernando Valley and was featured in Blackouts of 1942.
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Harry Carroll died on December 26,1962, in Santa Barbara, California, survived by his second wife and 2 daughters and numerous grandchildren.
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In 1970, eight years after his death, Harry Carroll was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame.
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Harry Carroll is the only composer with two songs in the Hall of Fame's list of the Top 100 popular songs.