Peter DeRose
Peter DeRose ( born March 10, 1900 in New York; † April 23, 1953 ) was an American jazz composer and songwriter during the Tin Pan Alley era. He was inducted into the American Songwriters Hall of Fame.
DeRose already showed great interest in music as a child. He learned from an older sister playing the piano and published a first own factory at the age of 18 years. After graduating from high school, he worked as a clerk in a music store. In 1920, he found through his very successful composition " When You're Gone I Will not Forget " a position in the New York office of the Italian music publisher G. Ricordi & Co..
In 1923 he met the ukulele player May Singhi Breen ( 1895-1970 ), which appeared on the radio with the female ukulele group " Syncopators ". It developed a love relationship between the two and she left the group to perform with DeRose in an NBC Radio show called " Sweethearts of the Air ", where DeRose piano and she played the ukulele. The popular radio show of two artists, who married soon, was 16 years old. The show allowed them not only a life of prosperity, but gave DeRose also an opportunity to present many of his compositions.
DeRose has worked with many well-known writers such as Charles Tobias, Al Stillman, Carl Sigman and Billy Hill. Some of DeRose's best known works are:
- Somebody Loves You ( 1932) - piano piece with text recorded by Eddy Arnold 1966;
- Wagon Wheels (1934 ) - song for a Broadway Musical, played by the Ziegfeld Follies in 1934 and was covered by singers such as Bing Crosby and Paul Robeson;
- When the Deep Purple Falls ( 1934) - included, inter alia, Nino Tempo and April Stevens, Donny and Marie Osmond later;
- Rain ( 1934) - sung by Ella Fitzgerald;
- Have You Ever Been Lonely? (1934 ) - Originalhit for the Paul Whiteman Orchestra, also recorded by Teresa Brewer in 1960, Patsy Cline and Jim Reeves 1961 1962;
- On a Little Street in Singapore (1938 ) - Harry James and Frank Sinatra;
- A Marshmallow World ( 1949) - a Christmas song recorded by several artists including 1963 by Johnny Mathis, Dean Martin Christmas Album 1966, Kim Stockwood 1999.
The music by Peter DeRose has been covered by many artists, including John Coltrane, Spike Jones, Art Tatum, Les McCann and Peggy Lee. In addition to the music for Wagon Wheels wrote Peter DeRose songs for Broadway musicals Yes Yes Yvette and Earl Carroll 's Vanities of 1928.
The best known of his songs, When The Deep Purple Falls, also inspired the rock group "Deep Purple", which made the short form of the title song to their band name. The song was composed in 1934 provided as a piano piece and a few years later by Mitchell Parish with text. It was the top hit for Larry Clinton & His Orchestra in 1939 and also Artie Shaw with Helen Forrest, Duke Ellington, Glen Miller and Sarah Vaughan took versions of the song on. 1957 was a No. 20 hit for Billy Ward & The Dominoes and 1963, a No. 1 hit the top one hundred on the Billboard charts of Billboard Magazine in USA for Nino Tempo & April Stevens. Popular it would again in 1976 as a duet by Donny and Marie Osmond.
In 1932 Peter DeRose music with Radio Star Phillips H. Lord for one of Lord's religious " Seth Parker " music books. DeRose 1941 composed music for the show Ice Capades. In the 1040er and early 1950s, he wrote songs for several Hollywood films.
Peter DeRose's last hit was You Can Do It, which he wrote shortly before his death in 1953. He was buried in Kensico Cemetery in Valhalla, where his grave stone bears the words "Every friend he ever made, he kept ". ( Every friend whom he won, he kept. )
In 1970, Peter DeRose was inducted into the American Songwriters Hall of Fame.