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SONGWRITERS BIRTHDAYS - JULY July 4 (1889) Joe Young Lyrics: I'm Sitting On Top of The World, Was That The Human Thing To Do?, Lullaby of The Leaves
July 4 (1895) Irving Caesar Lyrics: Sometimes I'm Happy, Tea For Two, Crazy Rhythm, I Want To Be Happy, Is It True What They Say About Dixie?
July 5 (1944) Robbie Robertson Music & Lyrics: The Weight, Up On Cripple Creek, The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down, It Makes No Difference, Between Trains, The Moon Struck One, Broken Arrow
July 6 (1892) Jack Yellen Lyrics: Are You Having Any Fun?, Happy Days Are Here Again, Something I Dreamed Last Night, Ain't She Sweet
July 6 (1912) Redd Evans Music & Lyrics: Don't Go To Strangers, There I've Said It Again, No Moon At All, The Frim Fram Sauce
July 7 (1932) Josef Zawinul Music: Mercy, Mercy, Mercy; Birdland
July 10 (1894) Jimmy McHugh Music: It's A Most Unusual Day, I Won't Dance, Sunny Side of The Street, Don't Blame Me, I'm In The Mood For Love, Exactly Like You, How Blue The Night
July 10 (1900) Mitchell Parish Lyrics: Star Dust, Deep Purple, Sweet Lorraine, Does Your Heart Beat For Me, Stars Fell On Alabama, Sophisticated Lady
July 10 (1933) Jerry Herman Music & Lyrics: Hello Dolly, Mame, If He Walked Into My Life, Look Over There
July 12 (1895) Oscar Hammerstein Lyrics: It Might As Well Be Spring, The Folks Who Live On The Hill, People Will Say We're In Love, The Gentleman Is A Dope, All The Things You Are, I'll Take Romance, Hello Young Lovers, All In Fun, Why Was I Born?, The Song Is You, If I Loved You
July 14 (1894) Ted Koehler Lyrics: Let's Fall In Love, I've Got The World On a String, Don't Worry 'Bout Me, Stormy Weather, When The Sun Comes Out, Wrap Your Troubles In Dreams, Ill Wind
July 14 (1909) Walter Gross Music: Tenderly
July 14 (1912) Woody Guthrie Music & Lyrics: This Land Is Your Land, So Long (It's Been Good To Know Yuh)
July 15 (1905) Dorothy Fields Lyrics: Pick Yourself Up, I Can't Give You Anything But Love, The Way You Look Tonight, Remind Me, Don't Blame Me, A Fine Romance, Hooray For Love
July 26 (1914) Ralph Blane Music & Lyrics: The Trolley Song, The Boy Next Door, An Occasional Man, Ev'ry Time
July 29 (1887) Sigmund Romberg Music: Close As Pages In A Book, Lover Come Back To Me, The Night Is Young, Softly As In A Morning Sunrise
July 30 (1941) Paul Anka Lyrics: My Way Music & Lyrics: Crazy Love, Diana, Love Makes The World Go 'Round
July 31 (1919) David Saxon Music: Vagabond Shoes, There Must Be a Way, Are These Really Mine, There'll Soon Be a Rainbow
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SONGWRITERS BIRTHDAYS - APRIL
Apr. 2 (1941) Leon Russell Music & Lyrics: A Song For You, Delta Lady, This Masquerade, Rainbow In Your Eyes.
Apr. 3 (1919) Ervin Drake Music: It Was a Very Good Year, I Believe. Lyrics: Good Morning Heartache, Perdido.
Apr. 6 (1900) Leo Robin Lyrics: Easy Living, If I Should Lose You, With Every Breath I Take, My Ideal, Thanks For The Memory
Apr. 7 (1912) Jack Lawrence Lyrics: Tenderly, A Handful of Stars, Beyond The Sea, What Will I Tell My Heart. Music: All Or Nothing At All.
Apr. 8 (1880) Victor Schertzinger Music: One Night of Love, I Remember You, I'll Never Let a Day Pass By, Kiss The Boys Goodbye
Apr. 8 (1896) Yip Harburg Lyrics: April In Paris, Over The Rainbow, What Is There To Say, It Is Only A Paper Moon, Then I'll Be Tired Of You, Happiness Is Just A Thing Called Joe.
Apr. 8 (1933) Fred Ebb Lyrics: Theme From New York New York, Maybe This Time, All That Jazz, My Coloring Book.
Apr. 9 (1912) Carl Fischer Music: We'll Be Together Again, You're Just The Kind, You've Changed, It Started All Over Again.
Apr. 9 (1921) George D. Weiss Music & Lyrics: Too Close For Comfort, That Sunday That Summer, Mr. Wonderful, Rumors Are Flying. Lyrics: Lullaby Of Birdland.
Apr. 16 (1924) Henry Mancini Music: The Days of Wine and Roses, Moon River, Mr. Lucky, Peter Gunn.
Apr. 19 (1897) Kay Swift Music: Fine and Dandy, Can This Be Love?, Can We Be Friends?
Apr. 24 (1902) Rube Bloom Music: Fools Rush In, Give Me The Simple Life, Don't Worry 'Bout Me, Day In-Day Out.
Apr. 25 (1914) Bob Russell Lyrics: Don't Get Around Much Anymore, Ballerina, Crazy He Calls Me, Do Nothin' Till You Hear From Me, You Came A Long Way From St. Louis, Time Was.
Apr. 25 (1933) Jerry Leiber Music & Lyrics: Is That All There Is, Kansas City, I'm a Woman, On Broadway, Spanish Harlem.
Apr. 26 (1902) Edward Eliscu Lyrics: More Than You Know, Something To Live For, Without a Song, You Forgot Your Gloves.
Apr. 28 (1921) Karl Suessdorf Lyrics: Moonlight In Vermont, I Wish I Knew.
Apr. 29 (1899) Duke Ellington Music: Mood Indigo, Sophisticated Lady, I Got It Bad and That Ain't Good, Satin Doll, In a Mellotone, Solitude, Don't Get Around Much Anymore, Rockin' In Rhythm, I'm Beginning To See The Light, Caravan, Just A-Sittin' And A-Rockin', Cotton Tail.
Apr. 29 (1934) Jack Reardon Music & Lyrics: The Good Life, A Worried Guy, When, La Strada Del' Amore.
Apr. 30 (1924) Sheldon Harnick Music: Fiddler On the Roof, If I was a Rich Man. Lyrics: Matchmaker Matchmaker, Sunrise Sunset.
SONGWRITERS BIRTHDAY ANNIVERSARIES MARCH Now Playing: Significant Pop Standard Composers Birth Anniversaries Topic: ComposerBIRTHDAYs
SONGWRITERS BIRTHDAYS - MARCH (BeautifulInstrumentals post at YahooGroups)
Mar. 1 (1903) Sid Lippman Music: Too Young, My Sugar Is So Refined, Through The Eyes of Love, That's The Chance You Take.
Mar. 2 (1900) Kurt Weill Music: September Song, Lost In The Stars, My Ship, Mack The Knife, It Never Was You, Speak Low.
Mar. 5 (1903) Irving Kahal Lyrics: I'll Be Seeing You, You Brought a New Kind of Love to Me, When I Take My Sugar to Tea, I Can Dream Can't I
Mar. 8 (1908) Will Hudson Music: Organ Grinder's Swing, Moonglow, Deep in a Dream, You're Not The Kind, Sophisticated Swing.
Mar. 8 (1927) John Kander Music: Cabaret, Maybe This Time, All That Jazz, Theme from New York New York, My Coloring Book.
Mar. 8 (1946) Carol Bayer Sager Lyrics: Looking Through the Eyes of Love, Nobody Does it Better, That's What Friends Are For, It's My Turn, Don't Cry Out Loud
Mar. 9 (1926) Jerry Ross Music & Lyrics: Whatever Lola Wants, Hey There, Rags To Riches, Hernando's Hideaway, Heart.
Mar. 10 (1900) Peter DeRose Music: Deep Purple, The Lamp is Low, On a Little Street in Singapore, Lilacs in the Rain, Autumn Serenade.
Mar. 12 (1894) Joseph Meyer Music: Crazy Rhythm, Idle Gossip, Isn't It Heavenly, How Long Will It Last?
Mar. 12 (1905) Allan Roberts Music & Lyrics: That Old Devil Called Love, Into Each Life Some Rain Must Fall, You Always Hurt the One You Love, You Can't See The Sun When You're Crying, Tampico.
Mar. 13 (1914) Bob Haggart Music: What's New, South Rampart Street Parade, Big Noise From Winnetka.
Mar. 13 (1933) Mike Stoller Music & Lyrics: Is That All There Is, I'm a Woman, Kansas City, Bernie's Tune, On Broadway, Ruby Baby
Mar. 14 (1907) Edward Heyman Lyrics: You're Mine You, When I Fall in Love, Body and Soul, Blame It on My Youth, I Cover the Waterfront, Love Letters, Out of Nowhere.
Mar. 16 (1909) Don Raye Lyrics: Irresistible You, I'll Remember April, You Don't Know What Love Is, Star Eyes, He's My Guy
Mar. 16 (1915) Sammy Gallop Lyrics: Count Every Star, Vagabond Shoes, Night Lights, Forgive My Heart Music & Lyrics: There Must Be a Way
Mar. 17 (1901) Alfred Newman Music: Through a Long and Sleepless Night, The Best of Everything, Moon of Manakoora.
Mar. 17 (1943) Jim Weatherly Music & Lyrics: The Need To Be, Best Thing That Ever Happened to Me, Midnight Train to Georgia.
Mar. 20 (1892) Mort Dixon Lyrics: The Lady in Red, You're My Everything, Bye Bye Blackbird, I Found a Million Dollar-Baby.
Mar. 22 (1930) Stephen Sondheim Music & Lyrics: "A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum", "Sweeney Todd", "Company", "A Little Night Music" Lyrics: "West Side Story", "Gypsy"
Mar. 23 (1933) Dave Frishberg Music & Lyrics: Let's Eat Home, I'm Hip, Peel Me A Grape, My Attorney Bernie, Another Song About Paris
Mar. 25 (1903) Don George Lyrics: I'm Beginning to See the Light, It Shouldn't Happen to a Dream, Everything But You, Tulip or Turnip
Mar. 25 (1947) Elton John Music: Your Song, Candle in the Wind, Don't Go Breaking My Heart, Sad Songs (Say So Much), Goodbye Yellow Brick Road, Bennie And The Jets, Don't Let The Sun Go Down On Me.
Mar. 27 (1916) Albert Frisch Music:I Won't Cry Anymore, Two Different Worlds, Congratulations to Someone, This is No Laughing Matter
Mar. 28 (1915) Jay Livingston Music: Buttons and Bows, Mona Lisa, Que Sera Sera, To Each His Own, Golden Earrings, The Ruby and The Pearl, Marshmallow Moon.
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SONGWRITERS BIRTHDAYS - FEBRUARY
Feb. 1 (1894) Herman Hupfeld Music & Lyrics: As Time Goes By, Sing Something Sinple, Let's Turn Out The Lights and Go To Sleep.
Feb. 2 (1912) Burton Lane Music: If This Isn't Love, Old Devil Moon, I Hear Music, On a Clear Day (You Can See Forever), You're My Thrill, Everything I Have Is Yours, Come Back To Me, How About You?.
Feb. 4 (1915) Ray Evans Lyrics: Mona Lisa, Whatever Will Be Will Be (Que Sera Sera), To Each His Own, Golden Earrings, Never Let Me Go.
Feb. 5 (1902) Bronislaw Kaper Music: Hi-Lilli Hi-Lo, Invitation, On Green Dolphin Street, All God's Chillun Got Rhythm.
Feb. 5 (1928) Robert Allen Music No Not Much, Chances Are, Moments To Remember, It's Not For Me To Say.
Feb. 6 (1888) Haven Gillespie Lyrics That Lucky Old Sun, Santa Claus is Coming to Town, You Go to My Head, Breezin' Along With the Breeze.
Feb. 10 (1944) Peter Allen Music & Lyrics: Arthur's Theme (Best That You Can Do), I'd Rather Leave While I'm In Love, I Honestly Love You, Don't Cry Out Loud.
Feb. 11 (1914) Matt Dennis Music: Violets For Your Furs, Will You Still Be Mine, Everything Happens To Me, Angel Eyes, Let's Get Away From It All, The Night We Called It A Day.
Feb. 12 (1952) Michael McDonald Music & Lyrics: Takin' It To The Streets, What a Fool Believes, Minute by Minute, It Keeps You Running.
Feb. 14 (1915) Irving Gordon Music & Lyrics: Unforgettable, What Will I Tell My Heart. Lyrics: Prelude to a Kiss.
Feb. 15 (1893) Walter Donaldson Music: Makin' Whoopee, Love Me or Leave Me, My Buddy, After I Say I'm Sorry, My Blue Heaven, You're Driving Me Crazy, My Baby Just Cares For Me.
Feb. 15 (1905) Harold Arlen Music: Stormy Weather, Over The Rainbow, I've Got the World On a String, Come Rain or Come Shine, Blues In the Night, Down With Love, My Shining Hour, The Man That Got Away, It's Only a Paper Moon, Last Night When We Were Young, Ill Wind.
Feb. 16 (1884) Bert Kalmar Lyrics: Nevertheless (I'm in Love With You), A Kiss to Build a Dream On, Who's Sorry Now, Three Little Words.
Feb. 17 (1907) Alec Wilder Music: While We're Young, I'll Be Around, The Long Night, Who Can I Turn To.
Feb. 20 (1950) Walter Becker Music & Lyrics: Aja, I've Got The News, Rikki Don't Lose That Number, Do It Again, Kid Charlemagne, My Old School, Peg, Green Earrings.
Feb. 22 (1896) Herb Nacio Brown Music: Singing In The Rain, Paradise, You Stepped Out of a Dream, Should I?.
Feb. 24 (1932) Michel Legrand Music: How Do You Keep the Music Playing, The Windmills of Your Mind, Once Upon a Summertime, Watch What Happens.
Feb. 26 (1932) Johnny Cash Music & Lyrics: Folsom Prison Blues, See Ruby Fall, Don't Take Your Guns to Town, I Walk The Line.
Feb. 28 (1910) Josef Myrow Music: Somewhere in the Night, You Make Me Feel So Young, Autumn Nocturne, It Happens Every Spring.
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SONGWRITERS BIRTHDAYS - JANUARY
Jan. 7 (1906) Herb Magidson Lyrics: The Masquerade is Over, I'll Buy That Dream, Music Maestro Please, The Continental, Gone With the Wind
Jan. 9 (1922) Vic Mizzy Music: There's a Faraway Look In Your Eyes, My Dreams Are Getting Better All The Time, Take It Easy
Jan. 10 (1898) Arthur Johnston Music: Pennies From Heaven, Just One More Chance, My Old Flame, Cocktails For Two
Jan. 10 (1948) Donald Fagen Music & Lyrics: Deacon Blues, Walk Between Raindrops, Hey Nineteen, Third World Man, FM (No Static At All), Black Friday, Century's End, Snowbound, Aja, My Old School.
Jan. 12 (1904) Edgar DeLange Lyrics: Lost April, Darn That Dream, Solitude, Moonglow, Deep In a Dream
Jan. 13 (1885) James Monaco Music: There Will Never Be Another You, This Is My Night to Dream, You Made Me Love You, I'm Making Believe, I Can't Begin To Tell You
Jan. 14 (1896) Seymour Simons Music: All Of Me Lyrics: Breezin' Along With The Breeze, Honey
Jan. 15 (1905) Allie Wrubel Music: The Masquerade is Over, I'll Buy That Dream, Music Maestro Please, As You Desire Me, Gone With The Wind
Jan. 22 (1895) Buddy DeSylva Lyrics: The Best Things in Life Are Free, Sunny Side Up, Birth of the Blues, Somebody Loves Me, It All Depends On You
Jan. 25 (1896) Harry Link Music: These Foolish Things (Remind Me of You), I've Got a Feeling I'm Falling, By My Side.
Jan. 25 (1927) Antonio Carlos Jobim Music: Desifinado, Meditation, Girl From Ipanema. Music & Lyrics (Port.): Quiet Nights of Quiet Stars, One Note Samba, Waters of March.
Jan. 25 (1929) Benny Golson Music: Killer Joe, I Remember Clifford, Stablemates, Along Came Betty, Whisper Not.
Jan. 26 (1913) James Van Heusen Music: Here's That Rainy Day, Polka Dots and Moonbeams, Like Someone In Love, Walking Happy, It Could Happen To You, Darn That Dream, Imagination, Aren't You Glad You're You?
Jan. 27 (1885) Jerome Kern Music: In Love in Vain, Nobody Else But Me, All The Things You Are, Pick Yourself Up, Smoke Gets in Your Eyes, The Way You Look Tonight, A Fine Romance, The Song is You
Jan. 27 (1895) Harry Ruby Music: Nevertheless (I'm in Love With You), Give Me the Simple Life, Who's Sorry Now, Three Little Words
Jan. 28 (1918) Bob Hilliard Lyrics: In The Wee Small Hours of the Morning, How Do You Speak to An Angel, Dear Hearts and Gentle People, Our Day Will Come
Jan. 29 (1937) Leslie Bricusse Music & Lyrics: What Kind of Fool Am I?, A Wonderful Day Like Today, Gonna Build a Mountain, Who Can I Turn To (When Nobody Needs Me)? Lyrics: If I Ruled the World
Jan. 31 (1894) Isham Jones Music: It Had To Be You, There Is No Greater Love, You've Got Me Crying Again, I'll See You in My Dreams, The One I Love (Belongs to Somebody Else).
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SONGWRITERS BIRTHDAYS - DECEMBER
Dec. 1 (1896) Ray Henderson Music: The Best Things in Life Are Free, It All Depends On You, Birth of the Blues, Bye Bye Blackbird, The Thrill Is Gone.
Dec. 2 (1915) Adolph Green Lyrics: Never Never Land, The Party's Over, Just In Time, Make Someone Happy.
Dec. 3 (1909) Dana Suesse Music: The Night is Young and You're So Beautiful, My Silent Love, You Ought To Be in Pictures.
Dec. 6 (1896) Ira Gershwin Lyrics: 'S Wonderful, Embraceable You, I've Got a Crush On You, The Man I Love, Fascinating Rhythm, Someone To Watch Over Me, But Not For Me, Soon, Who Cares?, They All Laughed.
Dec. 9 (1903) Matty Malneck Music: Goody Goody, I'm Through With Love, Stairway to The Stars, I'll Never Be the Same.
Dec. 10 (1893) Lew Brown Music: Birth of The Blues, Lucky In Love, That Old Feeling, The Best Things In Life Are Free, Button Up Your Overcoat, Life Is Just a Bowl of Cherries.
Dec. 10 (1906) Harold Adamson Lyrics: This Is a Lovely Way To Spend An Evening, It's a Most Unusual Day, Time On My Hands, How Blue The Night, Everything I Have Is Yours.
Dec. 12 (1923) Bob Dorough Music & Lyrics: I've Got Just About Everything, But For Now, There's Never Been a Day. Music: Devil May Care, Nothing Like You.
Dec. 16 (1895) Andy Razaf Lyrics: Ain't Misbehavin', S'posin, Honeysuckle Rose, Gee Baby Ain't I Good To You?, Stompin' At The Savoy.
Dec. 16 (1899) Noel Coward Music & Lyrics: A Room With a View, Mad About The Boy, If Love Were All, Poor Little Rich Girl.
Dec. 19 (1928) Morris Charlap Music: You Only You, I Won't Grow Up, Great Day in the Morning, I Gotta Crow, Love Eyes, Young Ideas
Dec. 20 (1907) Paul F. Webster Lyrics: I've Got It Bad and That Ain't Good, The Shadow of Your Smile, Baltimore Oriole, Secret Love, Jump For Joy, Love Is a Many Splendored Thing.
Dec. 21 (1905) Harry Revel Music: There's a Lull in My Life, Stay As Sweet As You Are, And So To Bed, Never In a Million Years.
Dec. 24 (1893) Harry Warren Music: At Last, Jeepers Creepers, There Will Never Be Another You, This Heart of Mine, I Only Have Eyes For You, September In The Rain, The More I See You.
Dec. 26 (1921) Steve Allen Music & Lyrics: This Could Be The Start of Something, Impossible, Gravy Waltz, Pretend You Don't See Her.
Dec. 27 (1902) Sam Coslow Music: Cocktails For Two, I'm In Love With The Honorable Mr. So and So, My Old Flame, Just One More Chance.
Dec. 27 (1906) Oscar Levant Music: Blame It On My Youth, Afterglow, Pardon My Love.
Dec. 27 (1916) John Frigo Music: Detour Ahead, Seeing You Like This, I Told Ya' I Love Ya' Now Get Out.
Dec. 28 (1899) Abner Silver Music: With These Hands, How Did He Look?, The Mood That I'm In, There Goes My Heart.
Dec. 28 (1906) Ann Ronell Music & Lyrics: Willow Weep For Me, Linda, My Heart Is Showing.
Dec. 31 (1885) Edgar Leslie Lyrics: A Little Bit Independent, For Me and My Gal, Among My Souvenirs, Lost In a Dream.
Dec. 31 (1905) Jule Styne Music: Just In Time, Guess I'll Hang My Tears Out To Dry, People, Time After Time, It's You Or No One, Three Coins In The Fountain, It's Magic,The Music That Makes Me Dance.
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Songwriter Birthdays Now Playing: NOVEMBER Birthdays of Standard Pop Composers Topic: ComposerBIRTHDAYs
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SONGWRITERS BIRTHDAYS - NOVEMBER
Nov. 4 (1896) Harry Woods Music: Try a Little Tenderness, Side By Side, We Just Couldn't Say Goodbye, What a Little Moonlight Can Do
Nov. 4 (1907) Bennie Benjamin Music: I Don't Want to Set the World on Fire, Confess, Oh What It Seemed To Be, Rumors Are Flying.
Nov. 6 (1886) Gus Kahn Lyrics: It Had To Be You, You Stepped Out of a Dream, Love Me or Leave Me, Makin' Whoopee, I'm Through With Love
Nov. 7 (1943) Joni Mitchell Music & Lyrics The Circle Game, Both Sides Now, Free Man In Paris, Carey, Big Yellow Taxi
Nov. 10 (1929) Marilyn Bergman Lyrics: How Do You Keep the Music Playing?, The Way We Were, Nice 'n Easy, The Windmills of Your Mind, I Believe In Love.
Nov. 12 (1891) Richard Whiting Music: Hooray For Hollywood, Too Marvelous For Words, My Ideal, Beyond the Blue Horizon, She's Funny That Way.
Nov. 12 (1936) Mort Shuman Music & Lyrics: Save The Last Dance For Me, Can't Get Used To Losing You, This Magic Moment.
Nov. 16 (1873) W. C. Handy Music: St. Louis Blues, Beale Street Blues, Long Gone, Joe Turner's Blues.
Nov. 18 (1909) Johnny Mercer Lyrics: Something's Gotta Give, That Old Black Magic, Midnight Sun, Satin Doll, Day In Day Out, Blues in the Night, Laura, The Days of Wine and Roses.
Nov. 22 (1899) Hoagy Carmichael Music: Skylark, The Nearness of You, Georgia on My Mind, Star Dust, Baltimore Oriole, I Get Along Without You Very Well, Lazy Bones, How Little We Know.
Nov. 22 (1902) Allen Neiburg Music: It's the Talk of the Town, Under a Blanket of Blue, I'm Confessin' That I Love You.
Nov. 23 (1925) Johnny Mandel Music: A Time For Love, Not Really The Blues, The Shadow of Your Smile, Emily, Straight Life, Where Do You Start, The Shining Sea, Unless It's You.
Nov. 23 (1928) Jerry Bock Music: Too Close For Comfort, Matchmaker Matchmaker, Sunrise Sunset, Mr. Wonderful, Tonight At Eight.
Nov. 24 (1868) Scott Joplin Music: Maple Leaf Rag, Sugar Cane Rag, Wall Street Rag, The Entertainer.
Nov. 25 (1900) Arthur Schwartz Music: Dancing In The Dark, That's Entertainment, I Guess I'll Have To Change My Plan, Alone Together, Then I'll Be Tired of You, I See Your Face Before Me, A Gal In Calico.
Nov. 28 (1943) Randy Newman Music & Lyrics: Short People, I Love To See You Smile, Mama Told Me Not To Come, I Think It's Going To Rain Today.
Nov. 29 (1915) Billy Strayhorn Music & Lyrics: Lush Life, Take the "A" Train, Something To Live For. Music: Just A-Sittin' and A-Rockin', Chelsea Bridge, Satin Doll
Songwriters Birthdays Now Playing: in October Topic: ComposerBIRTHDAYs
SONGWRITERS BIRTHDAYS - OCTOBER
Oct. 3 (1908) Johnny Burke Lyrics: Here's That Rainy Day, Misty, Like Someone In Love, Polka Dots and Moonbeams, It Could Happen To You.
Oct. 3 (1916) David Mann Music: In The Wee Small Hours of the Morning, There I've Said It Again, Don't Go To Strangers, No Moon At All.
Oct. 6 (1893) Milton Ager Music: Happy Days Are Here Again, What Good Am I Without You, Hard-Hearted Hannah, I'm Nobody's Baby
Oct. 7 (1900) Ralph Rainger Music: If I Should Lose You, With Every Breath I Take, Ebb Tide, June In January, Easy Living.
Oct. 9 (1940) John Lennon Music & Lyrics: Imagine, Fool On The Hill, Eleanor Rigby, Michelle, Penny Lane.
Oct. 9 (1948) Jackson Browne Music & Lyrics: That Girl Could Sing, Doctor My Eyes, Running On Empty, The Pretender
Oct. 10 (1903) Vernon Duke Music: April In Paris, I Can't Get Started, What Is There To Say, Taking A Chance On Love. Music & Lyrics: Autumn In New York.
Oct. 10 (1908) Johnny Green Music: Body and Soul, I Cover The Waterfront, Out of Nowhere, You're Mine You, Coquette.
Oct. 10 (1917) Thelonious Monk Music: 'Round Midnight, Straight No Chaser, Ruby My Dear, Well You Needn't, Off Minor.
Oct. 11 (1913) Sunny Skylar Music & Lyrics: You're Breaking My Heart, Waitin' For The Train To Come In, Are These Really Mine?, Gotta Be This Or That.
Oct. 13 (1920) Albert Hague Music: Young And Foolish, Just For Once.
Oct. 13 (1941) Paul Simon Music & Lyrics: Fifty Ways To Leave Your Lover, The Sound of Silence, Bridge Over Troubled Waters, Mrs. Robinson, Still Crazy After All These Years
Oct. 14 (1889) Spencer Williams Music: Squeeze Me, I Found A New Baby, Basin Street Blues, I Ain't Got Nobody.
Oct. 15 (1922) Robert Wells Music: When Joanna Loved Me, Here's to the Losers. Lyrics: The Christmas Song (Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Fire), Born to be Blue, From Here to Eternity.
Oct. 18 (1918) Bobby Troup Music & Lyrics: Route 66, Baby Baby All The Time, You're Lookin' At Me, The Meaning of The Blues. Lyrics: Girl Talk.
Oct. 18 (1948) Laura Nyro Music & Lyrics: Stoney End, And When I Die, Wedding Bell Blues, Eli's Coming.
Oct. 19 (1918) Jack Segal Lyrics: When Sunny Gets Blue, Scarlet Ribbons, When Joanna Loved Me, Here's To The Losers. Music & Lyrics: More Love.
Oct. 21 (1927) Fran Landesman Lyrics: Spring Can Really Hang You Up The Most, Ballad Of The Sad Young Men, There Are Days When I Don't Think of You At All, This Life We've Led, Nothing Like You.
Oct. 22 (1914) Sylvia Dee Lyrics: My Sugar Is So Refined, Too Young, A House With Love In It.
Oct. 25 (1885) Sammy Lewis Lyrics: Gloomy Sunday, For All We Know, Just Friends, I'm Sitting On Top of The World.
Oct. 28 (1912) Arthur Altman Music: All Or Nothing At All, The Green Years, American Beauty Rose.
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SONGWRITERS BIRTHDAYS - SEPTEMBER
Sept. 2 (1928) Horace Silver Music & Lyrics: Song For My Father, Doodlin', The Preacher, Senor Blues, Sister Sadie.
Sept. 4 (1897) Gus Arnheim Music: Sweet and Lovely, I Cried For You
Sept. 4 (1925) Tommy Wolf Music: Spring Can Really Hang You Up The Most, Ballad of The Sad Young Men, Laugh I Thought I'd Die, I've Never Been Anything, Say Cheese.
Sept. 7 (1956) Diane Warren Music & Lyrics: Nothing Broken But My Heart, All I Want Is Forever, I'll Be Your Shelter, Blame It On The Rain.
Sept. 8 (1897) Howard Dietz Lyrics: Dancing In The Dark, You And The Night And The Music, Alone Together, I See Your Face Before Me, That's Entertainment, By Myself.
Sept. 9 (1894) Arthur Freed Lyrics: This Heart Of Mine, I Cried For You, Singin' In The Rain, Should I?
Sept. 11 (1925) Alan Bergman Lyrics: Like a Lover, The Way We Were, I'm a Stranger To Myself, Nice 'n' Easy, How Do You Keep the Music Playing.
Sept. 13 (1925) Mel Torme Music & Lyrics: Born To Be Blue, Lament To Love, A Stranger In Town, Welcome To The Club, The California Suite (Entire Score). Music: The Christmas Song.
Sept. 15 (1912) Ray Gilbert Lyrics: Dindi, Once I Loved, Without You, Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah.
Sept. 16 (1921) Jon Hendricks Lyrics: One Note Samba, Sermonette, Bijou, Four Brothers. Music & Lyrics: Gimme That Wine.
Sept. 17 (1923) Hank Williams Music & Lyrics: Cold Cold Heart, Hey Good Lookin', Jambalaya, Your Cheatin' Heart, Honky Tonk Blues.
Sept. 18 (1894) Willard Robison Music: A Cottage For Sale, Old Folks, Now We Know. Music & Lyrics: Don't Smoke In Bed
Sept. 18 (1897) Sam Stept Music: Comes Love, Don't Sit Under The Apple Tree, Please Don't Talk About Me When I'm Gone, It Seems Like Old Times.
Sept. 19 (1892) Fred Ahlert Music: Walkin' My Baby Back Home, Mean To Me, I'll Get By, I'm Gonna Sit Right Down and Write Myself a Letter, I Don't Know Why.
Sept. 19 (1940) Paul Williams Music & Lyrics: We've Only Just Begun, I Won't Last a Day Without You, Rainy Days and Mondays, Watch What Happens, Evergreen (Love Theme from "A Star Is Born").
Sept. 20 (1892) Roy Turk Lyrics: Walkin' My Baby Back Home, Mean To Me, I'll Get By, I Don't Know Why.
Sept. 21 (1934) Leonard Cohen Music & Lyrics: Bird on the Wire, Hey That's No Way To Say Goodbye, I'm Your Man, First We Take Manhattan, Dance Me to the End of Love.
Sept. 23 (1949) Bruce Springsteen Music & Lyrics: The River, Born In The U.S.A., Fire, Blinded By the Light, My Hometown.
Sept. 24 (1907) Ben Oakland Music: A Pink Cocktail For a Blue Lady, If I Love Again, I'll Take Romance.
Sept. 24 (1909) Carl Sigman Music: Crazy He Calls Me, Ballerina. Lyrics: What Now My Love, Ebb Tide, It's All In The Game.
Sept. 24 (1931) Anthony Newley Music & Lyrics: What Kind of Fool Am I?, Gonna Build a Mountain, Sweet Beginning, Look At That Face, Who Can I Turn To?
Sept. 25 (1902) Al Hoffman Music: I Saw Stars, I Apologize, The Story Of A Starry Night, There's No Tomorrow.
Sept. 26 (1898) George Gershwin Music: The Man I Love, S' Wonderful, But Not For Me, A Foggy Day, Embraceable You, I Got Rhythm, Somebody Loves Me, Who Cares?, Love Is Here To Stay, I've Got a Crush On You.
Sept. 26 (1916) Marvin Fisher Music: When Sunny Gets Blue, Strange, Nothing Ever Changes My Love For You, I Keep Going Back To Joe's, Love Is A Serious Thing.
Sept. 27 (1885) Joseph McCarthy Lyrics: You Made Me Love You, I'm Always Chasing Rainbows, You've Got Me Out On a Limb.
Sept. 27 (1898) Vincent Youmans Music: Tea For Two, Sometimes I'm Happy, More Than You Know, Without A Song, Time On My Hands.
Sept. 29 (1921) Loonis McGlohon Music: A Long Night, Blueberry Winter, South To a Warmer Place, Songbird.
Sept. 30 (1875) Fred Fisher Music: & Lyrics: Chicago, Peg O' My Heart, Whispering Grass, Dardanella.
Songwriters Birthdays - August Now Playing: As posted on BeautifulInstrumentals@yahoogroups.com Topic: ComposerBIRTHDAYs
Aug. 3 (1921) Richard Adler Music: Hey There, You've Gotta Have Heart, Rags to Riches
Aug. 8 (1900) Victor Young Music: When I Fall in Love, My Foolish Heart, Street of Dreams, Golden Earrings, Stella by Starlight, Love Letters
Aug. 11 (1914) Hugh Martin Music & Lyrics: The Trolley Song, The Boy Next Door, An Occasional Man, Ev'ry Time
Aug. 11 (1943) Kenny Gamble Music & Lyics: Me and Mrs. Jones, If You Don't Know Me By Now, The Love I Lost, Break Up To Make Up.
Aug. 14 (1924) Lee Adams Lyrics: Put On a Happy Face, This Is the Life, A Lot of Livin' To Do, The Mating Game.
Aug. 15 (1892) Sidney Clare Lyrics: You're My Thrill, Please Don't Talk About Me When I'm Gone, Keeping Myself For You
Aug. 15 (1894) Harry Akst Music: Travelin' Light, Am I Blue, Baby Face
Aug. 15 (1901) Ned Washington Lyrics: I Don't Stand a Ghost of a Chance With You, My Foolish Heart, Love is The Thing, When You Wish Upon a Star, The Nearness of You
Aug. 15 (1946) Jim Webb Music & Lyrics: Up Up And Away, Didn't We, MacArthur Park, By The Time I Get to Phoenix
Aug. 18 (1873) Otto Harbach Lyrics: Smoke Gets In Your Eyes, Who, The Touch of Your Lips, Yesterdays, The Night Was Made For Love
Aug. 21 (1895) Benny Davis Music: I'm Nobody's Baby, I Still Get a Thrill, With These Hands, There Goes My Heart
Aug. 21 (1926) Carolyn Leigh Lyrics: Hey Look Me Over, Witchcraft, The Best Is Yet to Come, Young At Heart, The Rules of the Road
Aug. 24 (1919) Murray Grand Music: Guess Who I Saw Today Music & Lyrics: Come By Sunday, Thursday's Child
Aug. 26 (1948) Valerie Simpson Music & Lyrics: I'm Every Woman, Ain't No Mountain High Enough, Your Precious Love, Count Your Blessings.