Zo Elliott(1891-1964)
- Soundtrack
Songwriter ("There's a Long Long Trail A-Winding" [Joseph Vernon
Prize]), composer and author, educated at St. Paul's School, Philip's
Academy, Yale University (BA), Trinity College (Cambridge, England),
Columbia Law School, the American Conservatory (Fontainebleau, France)
and in private music study with Nadia Boulanger, Leonard Bernstein,
Robert Zeller, Willy de Sadler, and Harry Wittemore. While at Yale, he
wrote musicals. Joining ASCAP in 1940, his chief musical collaborator
was Stoddard King, and his other popular-song and instrumental compositions
include "Tulips", "British Eighth" (John Masefield lyric), Captain of
the Crew", "Wait for Me", "There's a Wee Cottage on a Hillside", "The
World Was Made for You and Me", "In the Heart of Paradise", "Enchanted
River", "Bluebird", and "Oh! Oh! Abdullah".
