Irving Bibo
Irving Bibo was an American composer, songwriter, and publisher.
Biography
Bibo was born in San Francisco.He began his career in New York in the mid 1910s as a Tin Pan Alley composer, writing tunes for the Ziegfeld Follies, the Greenwich Village Follies, and other theatrical productions. He was a staff pianist for Leo Feist.
In 1933 he moved to Los Angeles and scored more than 300 motion pictures, and later in life published several fight songs.
Bibo was the first licensee of Disney merchandise. His daughter Bobette, at the age of 12, wrote the book Mickey Mouse Book, containing stories, games, and cutouts. He contributed the song Mickey Mouse . It was illustrated by Walt Disney Studios, and published by Bibo and Charles Lang in 1930.
Selected compositions
Huggable, Kissable YouForever and a DayCherieThose Panama MamasAm I Wasting My Time on YouMy Cutey's Due at Two-to-Two To-DaySweet Little YouDo You Believe in DreamsLo-Ki I've Got the Profiteering Blues Where Are You, Girl of My Dreams?.Letty Pepper, a musical comedy produced by Oliver Morosco, a sequel to Morsco's earlier Letty productions So Long Letty, Linger Longer Letty, and Let 'Er Go, Letty, all starring Charlotte Greenwood. It was an adaptation of Charles Klein's play Maggie Pepper; Bibo contributed lyrics with Leo Wood, the music was by Werner Janssen. It ran for 32 performances in 1922 at the Vanderbilt Theatre. A Moonlight Night, written with Sydney ClareWhere have those Old Timers Gone Dancing Down in Dixie Land Ain't Nature Grand Old Man Atom Oriental EyesFor schools:The Stanford Scalp Song Sing UCLA
- ''Fight On Michigan State''