Edgar Hayes(1904-1979)

Composer, songwriter, conductor and pianist, educated at Fisk University and Wilberforce University with a Bachelor of Music degree. He was a pianist in the Lois Deppe orchestra for four years, and then show director for the Alhambra Theatre in New York for four years, then a conductor for the Irving Mills Blue Rhythm Band and later his own orchestra, touring the United States and Europe and making recordings He was pianist at the Somerset House in Riverdale, California for eleven years, then from 1960 was a pianist at Reuben's restaurants in California. He was a member of the executive council of the LAPC, joined ASCAP in 1955, and his popular-song compositions include "Someone Stole Gabriel's Horn", "Love's Serenade", and "Out of a Dream".