The Resume

(May 9, 1911-February 22, 2005)
Born in Newark, New Jersey
Conductor, arranger and composer
Conductor for 'The Firestone Hour' (1952-59) and 'The Kate Smith Show' (1960)
Assembled the Harry Simeone Chorale
Recorded the singles 'The Little Drummer Boy' (1958) and 'Do You Hear What I Hear' (1962)

Why he might be annoying:

He dropped out of Juilliard to work for bandleader Fred Waring.
He was listed as a composer of 'The Little Drummer Boy' but did not actually write any of the song.
Oddly, his recording of 'The Little Drummer Boy' features no drums.

Why he might not be annoying:

He recorded in an old Greenwich Village church, felling that the old timber would enhance the acoustics.
He and his wife donated $1 million to Yale to endow a music scholarship program.
Reissues of his recording of 'The Little Drummer Boy' made the Billboard Top 40 five consecutive Christmases (1958-62).

Credit: C. Fishel

Featured in the following Annoying Collections:

• ASCAP Top 25 Holiday Songs [December 2005] (Ranked: 10)
• C. Fishel's Profiles [Series 46]
• College Drop Outs
• Don't Look at Me, I'm Not in My Profile Picture
• Ed Sullivan Show Guests
• I am from Newark, NJ
• I Attended Juilliard
• I Covered 'The Little Drummer Boy'
• I Died in 2005 (Ranked: 93)
• I Named My Kid After Myself
• I Sampled ‘Besame Mucho’
• Jewish Composers of Christmas Songs
• Look at My Album Cover
• My Song Was Covered By Whitney Houston
• People with Tom, Dick or Harry in their Names
• Profiles 33751-34000 (Ranked: 33857)

Year In Review:

In 2023, Out of 4 Votes: 75.00% Annoying
In 2022, Out of 2 Votes: 0% Annoying
In 2021, Out of 6 Votes: 66.67% Annoying
In 2020, Out of 2 Votes: 100% Annoying
In 2019, Out of 4 Votes: 25.00% Annoying
In 2017, Out of 11 Votes: 54.55% Annoying
In 2016, Out of 3 Votes: 66.67% Annoying
In 2015, Out of 10 Votes: 60.0% Annoying
In 2014, Out of 16 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
In 2013, Out of 63 Votes: 36.51% Annoying
In 2012, Out of 10 Votes: 50.0% Annoying