David Buttolph

David Buttolph was a jazz-fluent, classically trained composer, arranger, and performer, educated in his native New York in the teens and in Germany and Austria in the 1920s. He worked in radio as an arranger and conductor, and later as a radio station music director in Schenectady, NY, from the late '20s through the early '30s, and then went out to Hollywood, joining Fox (later 20th Century Fox) as an arranger, composer, and conductor, and also composing for Paramount and later on freelancing for MGM, Warner Bros., and Columbia. Although he was a formidable composer in his ow...