Spurred by a weekly radio deadline, David Rose was fast becoming America's most prolific contemporary composer. Last week, for the eighth week in a row, he presented an original composition on his Holiday for Music (CBS, 10:30 p.m., E.D.S.T.). To many a listener he seemed the freshest figure in this spring's broadcasting.
Dave Rose, who hated piano lessons as a kid, was only 17 when he became Ted Fio Rito's tricky pianist in 1927. For the next ten years, he mingled with the great and near-great of Chicago's golden days of popular music, playing or arranging for Benny Goodman, Gene Krupa, Bud...