Roc Hillman

Songwriter ("Cumana", "My Devotion"), composer, guitarist, and author, educated at the University of Colorado. He was a sports reporter for the Denver Post, and performed with his father in vaudeville, then was a guitarist in dance orchestras, eventually writing and directing Army shows during World War II and going on to become a music director for NBC Television in Hollywood. Joining ASCAP in 1943, his other popular-song compositions include "Long May We Love", "Just Lately", "I Bought a Wooden Whistle", "My Serenade", "A Gal in Nogales", "It Began in Havana", "The New Look", and "Timbales".