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Revision as of 01:52, 23 July 2005
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)
External links
- http://www.frankloesser.com/
- Interview with daughter Susan Loesser - http://freshair.npr.org/day_fa.jhtml?display=day&todayDate=12/29/2003