Fred Bornet

Date of birth : 02/25/1915

Date of death : 08/29/2006

City of birth : Scheveningen, Netherlands

Songwriter, composer, author, director and singer who came to the USA in 1939. He studied music with Kozakewitch and Coe Glade and was a singer on radio and recordings in Belgium, and by 1941 he had his own radio show in the US. Serving in the US Army in WW II, he wrote scores for the Army shows "Bottlenecks 1941" and "As You Were". He directed film shorts for Tex McCrary and Jinx Falkenburg in 1947, and wrote, produced and directed film shorts including "One Morning". Also, he wrote the score for "In The Rivers of Streets". Joining ASCAP in 1961, his song compositions include "Two Little Birds in Love" and "I'm Wasting My Time".