1940's
Lyricist who wrote some of the all time greats sung and performed by notables artists like
Ella Fizgerald,
Benny Goodman,
Frank Sinatra,
Bing Crosby,
Pat Boone,
Tony Bennett,
Louis Armstrong,
The Pied Pipers,
Fred Astaire,
Tommy Dorsey,
Woody Herman,
Martha Tipton,
Nelson Riddle and
Henry Mancini.
Many of the songs were used in stage shows and famous films at the time, like:
The Americanization of Emily
Breakfast at Tiffanys
Going Places
Love With The Proper Stranger
Days of Wine and Roses
Lil Abner
Songs which included:
Ac-cent-tchu-ate the Positive
And The Angels Sing
Autumn Leaves
Bernardine
Blues In The Night (My Mama Done Tol' Me)
Candy (before The Cars)
Come Rain Or Come Shine
Day In - Day Out
Days Of Wine and Roses
Dearly Beloved
Dream (When You're Feeling Blue)
Drinking Again
Early Autumn
Emily
Empty Tables
Fools Rush In (before Elvis)
The Glow Worm
Goody, Goody
Hooray For Hollywood
I'd Know You Anywhere
If You Were Mine
I'm An Old Cowhand
I'm Old Fashioned
In The Cool, Cool, Cool Of The Evening
I Remember You
I Thought About You
I Wanna Be Around
Jeepers Creepers
Jubilation T. Cornpone
Laura
Love With The Proper Stranger
Midnight Sun
Moment To Moment
Moon River
My Shining Hour
Once Upon A Summertime
One For My Baby (And One More For The Road)
On The Atchison Topeka And Santa Fe
Out Of This World
P.S. I Love You (before the Beatles)
Santa Claus Came In The Spring *
Satin Doll
Single-O
Skylark
Something's Gotta Give
Summer Wind
Talk To Me Baby
Tangerine
That Old Black Magic
This Time The Dream's On Me
Too Marvelous For Words
Trav'lin' Light
Two Of A Kind
When A Woman Loves A Man
When The World Was Young
You Must Have Been A Beautiful Baby
You Were Never Lovelier