Gene Buck

The multi-talented Gene Buck was the overlord of many of his songwriting peers as the president of the performing rights society ASCAP in the early '30s. His long and distinguished career on Broadway includes involvement with many of the original Ziegfeld Follies shows as well as several productions that he created completely on his own. He wrote songs in a variety of enduring partnerships, and via ASCAP, lobbied long and hard for the then newly developing industry of radio to embrace music wholeheartedly, if only to bolster sagging sales of sheet music. And the latter situ...