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4 unusual facts about Harry Simeone


Harry Simeone

Once there, he had various music production jobs for several Paramount films between 1939 and 1946, including some that starred Bing Crosby.

On May 22, 2000, Simeone and his wife, by then living on the Upper East Side of New York City, officially established the Harry and Margaret Simeone Music Scholarship at Yale University by bestowing a gift of US$1 million.

After garnering vocal and music arrangement credits for the 1938 RKO motion picture Radio City Revels, Simeone relocated to Hollywood with his wife Margaret McCravy, who briefly sang with Benny Goodman's orchestra, using the stage name Margaret McCrae, and later with Fred Waring.

Simeone's granddaughter Laura Stevenson also became a musician, becoming the frontwoman of Laura Stevenson and the Cans.



see also

Ezra Jack Keats

The Little Drummer Boy (by Katherine Davis, Henry Ohorati and Harry Simeone, 1968)