Buddy DeSylva
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About
Known for Button Up Your Overcoat, April Showers, and Just a Memory. He was business partners with Johnny Mercer.
Before Fame
He attended the University of Southern California.
Trivia
He founded Capitol Records with Mercer and Glenn Wallichs. He was posthumously inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1970.
Family Life
His father was Aloysius J. DeSylva, who was popular in America as actor Hal De Forrest.
Associated With
He frequently worked with George Gershwin during the early 1920s.
