URI(s)
Variants
- Brodsky, Roy
- Brodsky, Israel
Identifies LC/NAF RWO
Identifies RWO
Birth Date
- 1918-08-12
Death Date
- 2015-07-02
Birth Place
- Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.)
Associated Language
- English
Field of Activity
Occupation
Exact Matching Concepts from Other Schemes
Closely Matching Concepts from Other Schemes
Sources
- found: His King Creole, c1958.
- found: Red roses for a blue lady, 1948: caption (Roy Brodsky)
- found: U.S. copyright file, Mar. 26, 2001(Roy Brodsky, a.k.a. Roy C. Bennett)
- found: LC database, Mar. 26, 2001(Brodsky, Roy, 1918- [from old catalog])
- found: New York times WWW site, viewed July 13, 2015(in obituary published July 12: Roy C. Bennett; b. Israel Brodsky, Aug. 12, 1918, Brooklyn; changed his name as an adult, picking its parts from the phone book (the C doesn't stand for anything, his son said: "He just liked the way it sounded"); d. July 2, Queens, aged 96; with his partner, Sid Tepper, wrote songs that were recorded by a wide roster of midcentury pop singers, including the titles Red roses for a blue lady, Kiss of fire, and The naughty lady of Shady Lane; they collaborated on both the words and the music for their songs, though Bennett, a self-taught pianist, was the sole musician of the two)
Instance Of
Scheme Membership(s)
Collection Membership(s)
Change Notes
- 1982-06-09: new
- 2015-07-13: revised
Alternate Formats
