Ted Koeler, Song Writer composed "Stormy Weather" with H Arlen

Ted L. Koehler (July 14, 1894 – January 17, 1973) was an American lyricist. Koehler was born in Washington, D.C. He started out as a photo-engraver but was attracted to the music business, where he started out as a theater pianist for silent films. He moved on to write for vaudeville shows and Broadway, and he also produced nightclub shows. His most famous collaboration was with the composer Harold Arlen, with whom he wrote many famous songs from the 1920s through the 1940s. The two wrote for Broadway, for productions at the Cotton Club, and for Hollywood films. Koehler also worked with other composers, including Rube Bloom and Sammy Fain.
Koehler died in Santa Monica, California. (Wikipedia)

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Jay Livingston

Jay Livingston (March 28, 1915 – October 17, 2001) was an American composer and singer best known as half of a songwriting duo with Ray Evans that specialized in songs composed for films. Livingston wrote the music and Evans the lyrics.
Livingston was born Jacob Harold Levison in McDonald, Pennsylvania; he was Jewish. Livingston studied piano with Harry Archer in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and worked as a musician at local clubs while still in high school. He attended the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, where he organized a dance band and met Evans, a fellow student in the band. Their professional collaboration began in 1937. Livingston and Evans won the Academy Award for Best Original Song three times, in 1948 for the song Buttons and Bows, written for the movie The Paleface; in 1950 for the song Mona Lisa, written for the movie Captain Carey, U.S.A.; and in 1956 for the song "Whatever Will Be, Will Be (Que Sera, Sera)," featured in the movie The Man Who Knew Too Much. Livingston and Evans wrote popular TV themes for shows including Bonanza and Mr. Ed. They also wrote the Christmas song Silver Bells in 1951 for the film The Lemon Drop Kid as well as "Never Let Me Go" for the 1956 film The Scarlet Hour.

 
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Edgar Yipsel Harburg

Edgar Yipsel Harburg (April 8, 1896 – March 5, 1981), known as E.Y. Harburg or Yip Harburg, was an American popular song lyricist who worked with many well-known composers. He wrote the lyrics to the standards, "Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?", "April in Paris", and "It's Only a Paper Moon", as well as all of the songs in The Wizard of Oz, including "Over the Rainbow".

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JERRY LIVINGSTON

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Carole Bayer Sager

Carole Bayer Sager (born March 8, 1947, New York, United States) is an American lyricist, songwriter and singer and painter. Nobody Does It Better, Don't Cry Out Loud, That's What Friends Are For, Come in from the rain, Arthur's Theme (Best That You Can Do). Many of Sager's early songs were co-written with her former husband, composer Bacharach. She has also collaborated with Neil Diamond, Marvin Hamlisch, Michael Masser, Peter Allen, Melissa Manchester, Sheena Easton, Bruce Roberts, Neil Sedaka, David Foster, Albert Hammond, Michael Jackson, Quincy Jones, Michael McDonald, James Ingram, Donald Fagen, Babyface and Clint Eastwood (for the film True Crime).

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Bronislaw Kaper

Remembering the late "Born Free" composer John Barry

Just added to our playlist- several selections from soundtracks composed by the late John Barry. He was one of the most celebrated film composers of modern times, winning five Academy Awards and four Grammy Awards, with scores for, among others, The Lion in Winter, Midnight Cowboy, Born Free, and Somewhere in Time. Barry was often cited as having had a distinct style which concentrated on lush strings and extensive use of brass. However he was also an innovator, being one of the first to employ synthesizers in a film score (On Her Majesty's Secret Service), and to make wide use of pop artists and songs in Midnight Cowboy. Because Barry provided not just the main title theme but the complete soundtrack score, his music often enhanced the critical reception of a film, notably in Midnight Cowboy, Out of Africa, and Dances with Wolves.

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CHARLES STROUSE

June 7, 1928 Birth of American musical composer Charles STROUSE. Tony Award-winning composer of Bye Bye Birdie also composed the theme song to television's long-running hit sitcom, All in the Family. Works list. 

All American (1962)

Golden Boy (1964)  1964 Broadway Playbill of GOLDEN BOY with Sammy Davis, Jr.

It's a Bird, It's a Plane, It's Superman (1966)

Applause (1970) Applause (Original 1970 Broadway Cast)

Six (1971, Off-Broadway)

I and Albert (1972, London)

Annie (1977) Annie

A Broadway Musical (1978)

Charlie and Algernon (1979, London, as Flowers for Algernon); (1981)

Bring Back Birdie (1981)

Nightingale (1982; this work is often described as an opera)

Dance a Little Closer (1983)

Mayor (1985)

Rags (1986)

Annie 2: Miss Hannigan's Revenge (1989)

Nick and; Nora (1993)

Annie Warbucks (1993)

The Future of the American Musical Theater (2004 opera)

Real Men (2005)

Studio (2006)

Minsky's (2009)