Associated Press, Manhasset, N.Y. 02/24/1957:
Gene Buck, 71, who wrote 500 songs and was for nearly 20 years president of the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP), died today at North Shore Hospital. Buck, whose full name was Edward Eugene Buck, died after an emergency operation.
Known at one time as "Mr. Broadway," he was long associated with the old Ziegfeld Follies. He was credited with discovering such entertainers as Will Rogers and Ed Wynn as a talent scout, and was "right hand man" for producer Florenz Ziegfeld.
Graduated from the University of Detroit, he cut short a business career as a bank clerk to go into show business. In 1911 he scored a success with his song, "Daddy Has a Sweetheart, and Mother is Her Name."
He became chief librettist and producer of more than 30 of the Ziegfeld Follies and originated an intimate stage entertainment, the "Midnight Frolics," that was hailed as a new theatrical development.
Among the songs he wrote were "In the Cool of the Evening," "No Foolin'," "Garden of My Dreams," "Someone, Someday, Somewhere," and "Hello, Frisco."
Gene Buck, 71, who wrote 500 songs and was for nearly 20 years president of the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP), died today at North Shore Hospital. Buck, whose full name was Edward Eugene Buck, died after an emergency operation.
Known at one time as "Mr. Broadway," he was long associated with the old Ziegfeld Follies. He was credited with discovering such entertainers as Will Rogers and Ed Wynn as a talent scout, and was "right hand man" for producer Florenz Ziegfeld.
Graduated from the University of Detroit, he cut short a business career as a bank clerk to go into show business. In 1911 he scored a success with his song, "Daddy Has a Sweetheart, and Mother is Her Name."
He became chief librettist and producer of more than 30 of the Ziegfeld Follies and originated an intimate stage entertainment, the "Midnight Frolics," that was hailed as a new theatrical development.
Among the songs he wrote were "In the Cool of the Evening," "No Foolin'," "Garden of My Dreams," "Someone, Someday, Somewhere," and "Hello, Frisco."
Associated Press, Manhasset, N.Y. 02/24/1957:
Gene Buck, 71, who wrote 500 songs and was for nearly 20 years president of the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP), died today at North Shore Hospital. Buck, whose full name was Edward Eugene Buck, died after an emergency operation.
Known at one time as "Mr. Broadway," he was long associated with the old Ziegfeld Follies. He was credited with discovering such entertainers as Will Rogers and Ed Wynn as a talent scout, and was "right hand man" for producer Florenz Ziegfeld.
Graduated from the University of Detroit, he cut short a business career as a bank clerk to go into show business. In 1911 he scored a success with his song, "Daddy Has a Sweetheart, and Mother is Her Name."
He became chief librettist and producer of more than 30 of the Ziegfeld Follies and originated an intimate stage entertainment, the "Midnight Frolics," that was hailed as a new theatrical development.
Among the songs he wrote were "In the Cool of the Evening," "No Foolin'," "Garden of My Dreams," "Someone, Someday, Somewhere," and "Hello, Frisco."
Gene Buck, 71, who wrote 500 songs and was for nearly 20 years president of the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP), died today at North Shore Hospital. Buck, whose full name was Edward Eugene Buck, died after an emergency operation.
Known at one time as "Mr. Broadway," he was long associated with the old Ziegfeld Follies. He was credited with discovering such entertainers as Will Rogers and Ed Wynn as a talent scout, and was "right hand man" for producer Florenz Ziegfeld.
Graduated from the University of Detroit, he cut short a business career as a bank clerk to go into show business. In 1911 he scored a success with his song, "Daddy Has a Sweetheart, and Mother is Her Name."
He became chief librettist and producer of more than 30 of the Ziegfeld Follies and originated an intimate stage entertainment, the "Midnight Frolics," that was hailed as a new theatrical development.
Among the songs he wrote were "In the Cool of the Evening," "No Foolin'," "Garden of My Dreams," "Someone, Someday, Somewhere," and "Hello, Frisco."
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