Billy Hill(1899-1940)

Songwriter ("The Glory of Love", "In the Chapel in the Moonlight", "Wagon Wheels"), composer, pianist, author, violinist and conductor, educated in public schools and a music student (violin) of Carl Muck. He worked with surveyors in Death Valley, and then took jobs as a violinist and pianist in dance halls, eventually leading the first jazz band in Salt Lake City, Utah. Joining ASCAP in 1929, his chief musical collaborators were his wife Dedette Hill, and Peter DeRose, Victor Young, William Raskin, Edward Eliscu and J. Keirn Brennan. His other popular musical compositions include "Empty Saddles", "They Cut Down the Old Pine Tree", "The Last Round-Up", "The call of the Canyon", "On a Little Street in Singapore", "The Old Man of the Mountain", "The Old Spinning Wheel", "Lights Out", "There's a Cabin in the Pines", "Put On an Old Pair of Shoes", and a number of others.