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Songwriter ("Messin' Around", "Girl of the Golden West"), composer, arranger and RKO executive, educated at the Chicago Musical College (BA, MM, Mus.D.)and a student of Felix Borowski and Louis Victor Saar. He was a staff composer with Detroit publishing firms, and led his own orchestra in Chicago, and later a staff composer with Radio City Music Hall. He arranged the Broadway musicals "Hot Mikado", "Cabin in the Sky", "Son s o' Fun", "Banjo Eyes", "Sadie Thompson", and "Follow the Girls". Joining ASCAP in 1940, his other popular-song compositions include "I Wonder Where My Loving Man Is Gone", "Blame It on the Blues", "Sing Song Swing", "Drummer's Say", "Lovin' You the Way I Do", and "Goodbye Pretty Butterflies".- Alesia Leon was born on 7 February 1889 in Maidstone, Kent, England, UK. She was an actress, known for The Life of an Actress (1915), Crime and the Penalty (1916) and The Devil's Profession (1915). She was married to F.C.S. Tudor. She died on 25 December 1958 in Wraysbury, Berkshire, England, UK.