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unusual facts about Billy Rose



Have Trumpet, Will Excite!

# "I Found a Million Dollar Baby (In a Five and Ten Cent Store)" (Al Dixon, Billy Rose, Harry Warren) – 6:59

Songwriters Guild of America

It was founded as the "Songwriters Protective Association" by Billy Rose, George W. Meyer and Edgar Leslie.


see also

Cel-Ray

Cel-Ray was also mentioned in the Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention record albumI, "The Mothers at the Fillmore-1971. The character of Billy Rose (played by James Caan) in the 1975 film Funny Lady also habitually drank celery tonic, as an alternative to alcohol. Finally, it was used as a plot point joining assistant Harriet Smith and senator James Elton in the popular web series Emma Approved, written and directed by the makers of "The Lizzie Bennet Diaries".

Clap Hands, Here Comes Charlie

"Clap Hands! Here Comes Charley!," a 1925 song by Billy Rose, Ballard MacDonald and Joseph Meyer

I Want to Be Loved

"I Wanna Be Loved", a 1933 popular song written by Johnny Green, Edward Heyman and Billy Rose