CREATIVE TEAM

Yale Hirsch (Author/Composer)

Yale Hirsch is best known as the creator of the perennial best-selling Stock Trader’s Almanac® (Wiley), now in its forty-first annual edition. Mr. Hirsch has formulated market indicators which are now widely regarded and often quoted, such as the “January Barometer,” the “Santa Claus Rally,” and the “Best Six Months of the Year.” Mr. Hirsch has appeared on Wall $treet Week, CNN, CNBC and Fox News. He has written a number of financial columns and is widely quoted in major newspapers and financial publications.

Before going out on his own in 1966 to produce the Almanac, Yale began his Wall Street career as vice president at the fabled publication, Indicator Digest, in 1961, under the tutelage of his cousin, the former songwriter and producer, Sam Coslow (“Cocktails for Two,” “Just One More Chance,” “My Old Flame,” and “Copacabana”). Years earlier, Yale had traveled to Hollywood to connect with his older cousin to try his hand at songwriting and the movie business.

His penchant for music, songwriting and the theater, never wavered. While running the Hirsch Organization, producing the Almanac annually and several monthly investment letters, Yale kept at the piano writing songs. Inspired by the original Broadway straight play and the movie about the Elephant Man, he conceived and composed his own original musical version, Merrick & Melissa.

Warren Randall (Co-Author)

Warren Randall, known for his wit and penchant for putting his words to other writers’ music, is an unabashed enthusiast of all things Sherlock Holmes. He is well known among “Sherlockian” societies throughout the world as a man of many words. His clever manipulation of verse and rhyme is greatly anticipated at diverse gatherings including the annual birthday celebration for Sherlock Holmes where Mr. Randall’s intelligent variations on songs, skits and other entertainment stand out.

Mr. Randall is an accomplished scholar; he edited “The Log of the Gloria Scott,” (1998), a collection of essays and articles by the late Robert N. Brodie and is the editor of Prescott’s Press. A college administrator, Mr. Randall has been at Stony Brook University since 1963, having won both the State University’s “Chancellor’s Award” and “The President’s Award” for his outstanding service there. His current off-campus projects have taken a distinctly different turn in his research for a biography of Harvey Officer, a 20th century composer and musical scholar and in creating the libretto for Merrick & Melissa.

John Gentry Tennyson (Co-Composer)

John Gentry Tennyson was born in Houston, Texas in 1965 into a royal heritage of music. Realizing an immediate affinity for music and the piano, John developed rapidly under the tutelage of his well-known musical father, Hal Tennyson, alto saxophonist and clarinetist on Glenn Miller’s original 1939 classic hit, “In The Mood.” While the elder Tennyson can be found on countless hit records from the big band swing era, the young Tennyson was musically exposed to the regular ‘guests’ of the Tennyson household, jazz icons-Stan Getz and Nelson Riddle. Most notably, Nelson Riddle taught young Tennyson his first standards, “Misty,” “Body & Soul,” and “Stardust.”

Upon moving to New York City, John immersed himself in the local jazz scene playing with such notable legends as Al Di Meola, Randy Brecker, Dewey Redman, Mel Lewis, Grady Tate, Hiram Bullock, Buddy Williams, Marc Johnson, and Eddie Gomez. He earned a standing featured artist status with Les Paul at the Iridium Jazz Club for seven years.

Tennyson has also worked extensively as Musical Director and Associate Conductor for Broadway Directors Andre De Shields (“Harlem Nocturne”), George Faison (“Monte-Carlo Starshow”), George C. Wolfe (“Harlem Song” at the Apollo Theatre) and Otis Salid (“Jazzical”/Opera Noir). Other credits include, keyboardist for Diana Ross, Sarah Brightman (“Music Of The Night”), and Musical Director for Grammy Award-winning vocalists, BJ Crosby (“Smokey Joe’s Cafe”) and Musical Director for the legendary Jennifer Holliday (“Dreamgirls”).

Barton Green (Script Writer)

Barton Green was first published at the age of ten, and earned the National COG Teen Talent Writing Award just seven years later. He has served as Senior Writer for the LBN/FamilyNet Cable Network, and Director of Project Development for Hollywood-based, Gener8Xion Entertainment.

Barton’s inspiring short stories such as Took, Apathy Boulevard, A Path Of Your Own and the classic, Alone In Times Square, have appeared in countless periodicals. And in the world of Television, Green’s innovative scripts have served as the foundation for both FamilyNet’s long-running Act It Out series, as well as the imaginative vignettes of the nationally syndicated, Kingdom Connection.

Green’s most recent effort, a collection of stories-behind-the-songs, took the established form of recounting the conception of a hit and reinvented it. Composed in first person, Bart weaved the poetry of the artists’ lyrics throughout the prose account of each song’s birth, creating a rare connection between the composer, their music and the reader. The Standard Publishing release is aptly titled, Between The Lines & Spaces. Bart Green divides his time between his residence in Los Angeles and his family home in East Tennessee.

Jeff Hirsch (Executive Producer)

Jeffrey A. Hirsch is president of the Hirsch Organization, editor-in-chief of the Stock Trader’s Almanac® (Wiley), Almanac Investor newsletter and www.stocktradersalmanac.com. He started with the Hirsch Organization in 1990 as a market analyst and historian under the mentorship of his father, Yale Hirsch. He was handed the reigns in 2000 and continues to run the operation from his Nyack, New York offices. Jeffrey regularly appears on major news networks such as CNBC, CNN, Bloomberg and Fox News. As well as writing numerous financial columns he is widely quoted in all of the major newspapers and financial publications.

Josh Harris (Producer)

Artist, saxophonist and composer, Josh Harris has worked with Whitney Houston, Jennifer Holiday, Mary Wilson, Freddie Jackson, Matt “Guitar” Murphy, Martha Reeves and Vickie Sue Robinson. In the jazz world Josh has worked in big bands at the Umbria Jazz Festival (Perugia), the Playboy Jazz Festival, the Kool Jazz Festival and Symphony Space, NYC with Branford and Wynton Marsalis, as well as on Broadway. He has also had acting rolls in commercials for Diet Coke, Compaq Computers and can be seen in the last two episodes of “Sex In The City”.

Martin Albisetti (Graphic Designer)

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