_ To Tin Pan Alley's Jules Leonard Kaye, 31, "a songwriter is a one-man factory. You manufacture the song, advertise it, peddle itno one can do it for you."
It has taken "Buddy" Kaye a long time to come to that summary. He started grinding out lyrics soon after he graduated from Brooklyn's James Madison High School, but in his first ten years at it he netted only pretzel money from his 150 songs. He lived by playing the saxophone in Chinese restaurants and beer parlors. In 1945, after he had peddled and pushed Till the End of Time into a hit...
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