[1] Born in Brooklyn, Goell received his BSC in agriculture from Cornell University and served in the Army Air Forces during World War II.
[1] "Huggin' and Chalkin'", Goell's song written with Clancy Hayes, was recorded by Kay Kyser, Hoagy Carmichael and Johnny Mercer,[1] and his "One Finger Melody" was a hit for Frank Sinatra.
[1] In 1947 Billboard reported that Goell's lawyers had written to Craig accusing him of portraying himself as the sole author of "Near You".
[4] The President of the Tobacco Institute, George V. Allen refused funding to the musical because he thought the plot "atrocious".
Allen wrote in 1962 that he felt depicting Pocahontas as a "drunken brawler in London horrifies my every emotion...If there were historical justification for Goell's version (which I doubt), I prefer to let such realism rest in the musty archives of the British Museum.