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- Songwriter ("Beautiful Ohio", "I Scream, You Scream, We All Scream for Ice Cream") and composer, educated in public schools. He was a staff composer for Leo Feist and then for Shapiro and Bernstein between 1908 and 1932, and also appeared in vaudeville. Joining ASCAP in 1920, his chief musical collaborators were Ballard Macdonald, Billy Moll, Ted Fiorito, Howard Johnson and Gus Kahn, and his other popular-song compositions include "Why Did I Kiss That Girl?", "Beyond the Gates of Paradise", "Lafayette, We Hear You Calling", "Anona", "Apple Blossoms", "I Ain't Nobody's Darling", "Moonlight on the Colorado", "Love Bird", "Just Like a Rainbow", and "Dreamy Alabama".
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William J. Burns was born on 19 October 1861 in Baltimore, Maryland, USA. He was an actor and writer, known for The Squaw Man (1914), The Argyle Case (1917) and The Argyle Case (1929). He was married to Annie M. Ressler. He died on 14 April 1932 in Sarasota, Florida, USA.