Mark Warnow

Mark Warnow (April 10, 1900 - October 17, 1949) was a noted violinist and orchestra conductor, who performed widely on radio in the 1930s and 1940s. He was the older brother of composer/bandleader Raymond Scott (b. Harry Warnow), and is credited with steering his younger (and eventually more famous) brother into a career in music.^[1]

Warnow was born in Ukraine (then part of the Russian Empire) to Jewish parents, and came with them to the US as a boy.

Warnow enjoyed a lengthy and versatile career with the CBS Radio network. He was CBS music director in the early 1930s, and hired brother Harry as a keyboardist in 1931. Warnow conducted the orchestra on the long-running CBS radio program Your Hit Parade from 1939 to his death in 1949.

Warnow also produced a Broadway musical-comedy, What's Up? (1943).^[2] He appeared as himself with his band in the Paramount Pictures release Paramount Headliner: The Star Reporter (1938).^[3] In the 1940s, he conducted and arranged for Frank Sinatra while the singer was signed to Columbia Records, then owned by the CBS network. He was also a composer and recording artist.

He married twice, and died in New York City.

References

1. ^ IMDB entry
2. ^ IBDB entry
3. ^ IMDB entry

External links

• Mark Warnow at IMDB
• Mark Warnow Band at IMDB
• Mark Warnow at Internet Broadway Database

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Name	Warnow, Mark
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Date of birth	1900
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Date of death	October 17, 1949
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