[1] Brownlow was born in Spokane, Washington, and after serving in the Navy in World War II he lived in Los Angeles from 1945–46, playing with Lester Young, Boyd Raeburn and others.
"[6] "Ray Blagoff, later a lead trumpeter in name bands and the Hollywood studios, was with Jack at the Farragut Naval Base in Idaho.
I wouldn’t have thought that a pianist could go through four completely unrelated keys within 16 bars and still make a song sound good.
[9] The show was a musical exploration of women who wrote pop tunes in the first half of the Twentieth Century for Tin Pan Alley and Broadway.
[10] Three years later Nora Michaels was singing songs by women songwriters in New York when she was heard by a producer for Public Broadcasting.
That led to the American Masters "Yours for a Song: The Women of Tin Pan Alley, that aired nationally on PBS in 1999.