George Henninger

Songwriter ("Butterfingers"), organist, composer, conductor and director, educated at the University of Pittsburgh; he studied music with Dudley Fitch, and James Ford. He was an organist in St. Petersburg, Florida, and came to New York in 1936 as a free-lance organist, eventually doing musical and dramatic programs on radio and in theatres, and then joining the ABC staff. Joining ASCAP in 1947, his other popular songs included "Old Prairie Wagon", "Little Darlin'", "God Is Everywhere", "In Suniland", "In Flanders", "Sunset Lullabye", "Our Graduation Waltz", and "St. Patrick's Bells".