American songwriter; composed "Mr. Sandman" and "(Oh Baby Mine) I Get So Lonely"
"My mother died in Towanda in 1953, where my wife and I cared for her in her declining last year. It was in our apartment there at 15 York Avenue that I wrote "Mister Sandman" which created over $8,000,000 worth of business, worldwide, and upon the royalties of which my wife and I expect to live for the rest of our days. Having no children, the residue is willed to my late cousin Esther's five grandchildren who live in California with their widowed mother." (O. P. Ballard of Troy, Pa. His Lively Life & Times by His Great-Grandson, Published 1958 by Francis Drake "Pat" Ballard, Troy, Pennsylvania).
"My mother died in Towanda in 1953, where my wife and I cared for her in her declining last year. It was in our apartment there at 15 York Avenue that I wrote "Mister Sandman" which created over $8,000,000 worth of business, worldwide, and upon the royalties of which my wife and I expect to live for the rest of our days. Having no children, the residue is willed to my late cousin Esther's five grandchildren who live in California with their widowed mother." (O. P. Ballard of Troy, Pa. His Lively Life & Times by His Great-Grandson, Published 1958 by Francis Drake "Pat" Ballard, Troy, Pennsylvania).
American songwriter; composed "Mr. Sandman" and "(Oh Baby Mine) I Get So Lonely"
"My mother died in Towanda in 1953, where my wife and I cared for her in her declining last year. It was in our apartment there at 15 York Avenue that I wrote "Mister Sandman" which created over $8,000,000 worth of business, worldwide, and upon the royalties of which my wife and I expect to live for the rest of our days. Having no children, the residue is willed to my late cousin Esther's five grandchildren who live in California with their widowed mother." (O. P. Ballard of Troy, Pa. His Lively Life & Times by His Great-Grandson, Published 1958 by Francis Drake "Pat" Ballard, Troy, Pennsylvania).
"My mother died in Towanda in 1953, where my wife and I cared for her in her declining last year. It was in our apartment there at 15 York Avenue that I wrote "Mister Sandman" which created over $8,000,000 worth of business, worldwide, and upon the royalties of which my wife and I expect to live for the rest of our days. Having no children, the residue is willed to my late cousin Esther's five grandchildren who live in California with their widowed mother." (O. P. Ballard of Troy, Pa. His Lively Life & Times by His Great-Grandson, Published 1958 by Francis Drake "Pat" Ballard, Troy, Pennsylvania).
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