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Profile of Frank Loesser on Famous Like Me

 
Name: Frank Loesser  
   
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Date of Birth: 29th June 1910
   
Place of Birth: New York, New York, USA
   
Profession: Composer
 
 
From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia

Frank Loesser (June 29, 1910, New York City - July 26, 1969, New York City) was a composer and lyricist. He died of lung cancer at age 59.

He wrote the following Broadway musicals:

  • Where’s Charley? (1948) (starring Ray Bolger)
    • "Once in Love With Amy"
  • Guys and Dolls (1950)
    • "A Bushel and a Peck"
    • "Fugue for Tinhorns"
    • "I'll Know"
  • The Most Happy Fella (1956)
    • "Standing on the Corner"
    • "Big D"
    • "Somebody Somewhere"
    • "Joey"
  • Greenwillow (1960)
  • How To Succeed In Business Without Really Trying (1961)

Some well-known songs he composed for movies and Tin Pan Alley:

  • "Baby, It's Cold Outside" (from Neptune's Daughter)
  • "Heart and Soul" (from the Paramount Short Subject A Song is Born)
  • "I Don't Want to Walk Without You" (from the Paramount Pictures motion picture Sweater Girl)
  • "Inch Worm" (from the motion picture Hans Christian Andersen)
  • "On a Slow Boat to China"
  • "Thumbelina" (from Hans Christian Andersen)
  • "What are You Doing New Year's Eve?"
  • "Wonderful Copenhagen" (from Hans Christian Andersen)

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