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- Birth nameWilliam Joseph Russo
- William Russo was born on June 25, 1928 in Chicago, Illinois, USA. He was a composer, known for Everybody Rides the Carousel (1976), WOW Women of the World (1975) and Whither Weather (1977). He was married to Shelby Jean Davis. He died on January 11, 2003 in Chicago, Illinois, USA.
- SpouseShelby Jean Davis(1947 - 1953) (divorced, 1 child)
- Composer and founder of the London Jazz Orchestra and the Chicago Jazz Ensemble.
- In the early fifties, whilst serving abroad in the army, composer John Barry noticed an advertisement in Downbeat magazine placed by Russo, offering a correspondence course in 'Composition and Orchestration for the Jazz Orchestra'. Barry jumped at the chance and even found a way of paying for the course in American dollars, by acquainting himself with an Armenian shopkeeper willing to deal in the currency.
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