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- Composer, conductor, trumpeter and author Leonard Sues began conducting at age five. By age six-1/2 he began touring Publix vaudeville venues as a conductor and trumpeter. He was an actor in Broadway plays and films, and conducted Eddie Cantor radio programs over a three-year period and programs for Ole Olsen and Chic Johnson, and for Milton Berle (with whom he worked for twenty years as a musical director and performer) and Mickey Rooney. He joined ASCAP in 1963 and wrote the Broadway stage score for "Brooklyn Bridge". His chief musical collaborator was Mickey Rooney and his popular-song compositions include "Curiosity Killed the Cat" and "Boip! Boip!".- IMDb Mini Biography By: Louis Rugani
- Child prodigy on the trumpet
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