That same year, a visiting English producer, Albert Decourville, heard a group that included Gilbert, singing in a Coney Island cafe called 'College Inn'. Decourville took Gilbert to London, where his act was called 'The Ragtime Octet".
Among his best remembered lyrics are:
Gilbert is a member of the Songwriters' Hall of Fame.
Gilkyson is included here for his hit song compositions:
Among his other works are:
He was elected to the Songwriters' Hall of Fame.
Philip developed a love of music while working in his father's radio store where he would listen to classical records. At the Univ. of Chicago (early admission), he studied the violin and flute as well as mathematics and philosophy, and subsequently enrolled in New York's famed Julliard School of Music (driving a cab to support himself) where he studied composition with Darius Milhaud and others. At age 23, he moved to Paris and continued his studies under Nadia Boulanger. The trip was a turning point in his career. He began working for a French film-maker and started to transcribe the works of Ravi
Shankar.
Researching the non-Western music of India and Africa, Glass applied those techniques to his own compositions. During the Late 1960s and early '70s, Glass was again driving a cab in New York City for a living, while simultaneously building a collection of new music. In 1976, Robert Wilson staged Glass' landmark opera "Einstein on the Beach". Perhaps because his compositions were so new, he had to form the Philip Glass Ensemble to give them a venue for performance, while his many recordings have also widened his audience. In 1992, The New York Metropolitan Opera gave him a commission to compose "The Voyage" for the Columbus quinquacentennial. His work for the 1983 film Koyaanisqatsi gave film-makers a new expression for the documentary form. In 1996, he composed original music for the Atlanta Olympic Games, perhaps making Glass almost "mainstream". Philip is divorced from his wife JoAnne Akalaitis, a marriage that produced 2 children
Other films include: Le Roi de Paris, Konig von Paris and David Golder (all three from 1930), Princesse Tam Tam (1935 credited as Goehr), Amateur Gentleman (1936), Secret Lives (1937 aka: I Married a Spy in USA 1938), Great Expectations (1946), Stop Press Girl (1949), I'll Get You for This (1950 aka: Lucky Nick Cain in USA), and Betrayed (1954 aka: The True and the Brave).
He was the conductor for the Archers films: The Volunteer (1943); A Canterbury Tale (1944); I Know Where I'm Going (1945) - all with music by Allan Gray. He was also the conductor for Great Expectations (1946), A Matter of Life and Death (1946. aka: Stairway to Heaven in USA -1947), Goehr was the Musical Director for the film Brief Ecstasy (1937. aka: Dangerous Secrets - working then as George Walter) and the musical arranger for the film For Freedom (1940 again working as George Walter)
In 1960 he earned an Academy Award for his contributions to Otto Preminger's Exodus, its title song later covered by everyone from Lawrence Welk to the Ventures.
Among the many other films on which Gold worked are: Battle of the Coral Sea;
Ship of Fools; It's A Mad Mad Mad World; The Flying Disc Man From Mars; Flame of Youth; Philo Vance's Secret Mission; Wyoming and his very first ever score for the film 'Girl of the Limberlost'.
In addition, Gold has worked on such Television shows as: Dreams of Gold - The Mel Fisher Story; Wallenberg: A Hero's Story; Hawaii Five-O, and others.
Ernest Gold's marriage to Marni Nixon (1950 - '69) ended in divorce. He then married Jan Keller Gold and they remained together until his demise in 1999. They had 1 son and 2 daughters. His marriage to Marni Nixon (né: Marni McEathron, Feb. 22, 1930, Altadena, CA, USA) produced 3 offspring,
one of whom is Singer/Songwriter Andrew Gold. Marni dubbed the singing voice of Aubrey Hepburn in the film 'My Fair Lady'; Natalie Wood in 'West Side Story', and Deborah Kerr in 'The King and I'. In addition to these three
films, Marni's voice was also dubbed in for other actresses in such films as (1949) 'The Fighting Kentuckian'; (1950) 'Dakota Lil'; (1957) 'An Affair
To Remember'; (1961) 'West Side Story' (for "Maria"); For "Sister Sophia" in 1965s 'The Sound of Music'; and a few others as well as a couple of TV programs.
Edwin had a rich musical heritage background. His mother was herself a child pianist prodigy. His cousin was Gustav Hollander, a composer of operettas as well as being the director of the Stern Conservatory in Berlin. His uncles, Nahan and Sam Franko, had founded musical organizations in New York City, and were, in their own right, famous conductors and violinists. In 1886, when Edwin was just eight years old, his family moved to New York City, and it was there that he had his formal schooling and musical training. He took lessons on the cornet from private instructors, and later attended the National Conservatory, where he finished his cornet training under famed teacher Jules Levey. At the time, the Conservatory was under the direction of Antonin Dvorak.
In 1895, when he was 17 years old, he joined the Metropolitan Opera Company
Orchestra, where he remained for a decade, after which time. he taught the
Cornet.
In 1911, Goldman formed his first band, which concertized for the following few years. But in 1918, he was active in raising a public subscription to provide free band concerts on the Columbia University campus. That was the birth of the famous 'Goldman Band'. During the summer of 1922, the 'Goldman Band' began a series of free concerts in New York's Central Park, which, from 1924, were financed by the Guggenheim family.
For three decades, this band was to become a national tradition. While it's main base was New York City, where it gave free summer concerts in the parks, it also toured. The band's library included symphonic works specially adapted for the band, as well as semi-classical and popular songs.
Over this time, Goldman composed over a hundred Marches. among which are:
Goldman helped to found the American Bandmasters Association in 1929, and was the Associations President until 1933. John Philip Sousa, an Honorary Life President of the Association, died in 1932, and in 1933, the Association elected Goldman as their new Honorary Life President. Goldman is the author of several books on orchestras and band instrument instruction. When he died in 1956, at age 78, he was succeeded as conductor of the Goldman Band by his son Richard Franko Goldman, who had been the orchestra's assistant conductor, in years past.
Born in Brooklyn, NY, Gordon studied the Violin as a child. He attended the New York Public School system, and began writing parody songs as a young man, while working in the resort hotels of the Catskill Mountains (NYC resort area).
The early 1930's found him working for Mills Music (Irving Mills, talent agent), where he wrote lyrics for the firm's artists, including adding lyrics to Duke Ellington's "Blue Prelude". He then began composing the music as well as writing the lyrics.
Among his thousands of songs, are:
Four decades (in 1992) after Nat "King" Cole, had recorded "Unforgettable", the song won the Grammy Awards for best album, best song, and for best record, when his daughter, Natalie Cole, added her voice to the original recording, and sang a duet with her father, who had died in 1965. The record also won awards for arranging and for engineering.
Mr. Gordon had moved to Los Angeles, CA, in 1944, and died there in 1996, at age 81
During the 50s, Goodwin then working for Merton Park Studios, beg an composing documentary film scores, and in 1958, wrote his first feature film score for the movie "Whirlpool". In 1960, he joined the MGM British Studios, where he worked under Executive Producer, Laurence P. Bachmann. Subsequently, working with other film studios, Goodwin would go on to compose and conduct music for 61 feature films including "Those Magnificent Men In Their Flying Machines", "Where Eagles Dare" (starring Richard Burton and Clint Eastwood), "Operation Crossbow", Alfred Hitchcock's "Frenzy", Harry Saltzman's "Battle of Britain", 633 Squadron, and others. An interesting sidelight is that his theme from "The Trap" has become the 'official' theme music for BBC TV's annual coverage of the London Marathon.
This very talented Devonshire born conductor achieved his greatest fame with the musical scores he wrote for many movie and TV series of the 1950s and 1960s. Without a doubt, he was one of Britain's most prolific writers for stage and screen.
His career started in 1950, when the CBS music department hired him as a clerk typist. At CBS, he had his first assignments as a composer, writing one score a week (performed live) for radio shows such as 'Romance' and 'CBS Radio Workshop'.
In 1960, he left CBS and began working at Revue Studios where he met legendary film composer Alfred Newman who hired Goldsmith to score the film 'Lonely Are The Brave' (1963), -his first major feature film score. It was the start of a great Hollywood career spanning nearly half a century, during which he would be nominated for 18 'Academy Awards' (won one), and would take home five 'Emmys'. (His 1976 Oscar was for "best original score for film 'The Omen.') He also wrote the fanfare that is used in the Academy Awards telecasts. He was also nominated for nine Golden Globe awards, though he never won one.
His hundreds of works include scores for "The Blue Max", "L.A. Confidential," "Basic Instinct", and ``Chinatown". He scored for action hits such as the "Star Trek" movies, and for "Total Recall" (he considered that to be one of his best scores), and even for Cartoons such as "Looney Tunes: Back in Action". For TV, he wrote themes for shows including "Dr. Kildare", "Barnaby Jones", and "Star Trek: The Next Generation". And, --- there were many other scores too.
L. Wolfe Gilbert
b. 1886, Odessa, Russia, d. July 13, 1970, Los Angeles, CA, USA.
Overview
This fine lyricist was most active from the early teens into the 1930's. In 1912, Gilbert asked composer Lewis F. Muir to write a melody for a lyric he had just written. Muir did, and it was published by F. A. Mills Music Publishers, Inc. The song was called "Waiting For The Robert E. Lee".
1912 "Waiting for the Robert E. Lee", Albert Von Tilzer music, co-lyricist Lewis F. Muir
1915 "By Heck"
1921 "Down Yonder" (revived in 1951)
1924 "O, Katharina"
1925
"I Miss My Swiss (My Swiss Miss Misses Me)", Abel Baer music. A hit
record for the Happiness Boys - Ernie Hare and Billy Jones.
1928
"Ramona"
"Jeannine, I Dream of Lilac Time"
1929
"My Mother's Eyes" Vaudevillian Georgie Jessel's theme song. (from
film 'Lucky Boy') Abel Baer music.
1929
"The Right Kind of Man", Abel Baer Music.
"Dancing to Save My Soul"
1930
"The Peanut Vendor"
"I'm On A Diet of Love", Abel Baer music.
1931
"Green Eyes"
"Mama Inez"
"Marta", 'The Street Singer', Arthur Tracy's best known record.
"Poor Kid"
"Miss Elizabeth Brown", Noel Gaye music.
"My Angeline (in Arkady)", Mabel Wayne music.
1933
"Maria My Own"
Terry Gilkyson
b. 1916, Phoenixville, Pennsylvania, USA
Overview
After graduation from the Univ. of Pennsylvania, where he studied music, he began his career as a folk singer on U.S. Armed Forces Radio, in 1944. In 1951, he was part of 'The Weavers' when the singers recorded their hit song "On Top of Old Smokey".
1950 "Cry of the Wild Goose", a hit Frankie Laine vocal.
1957 "Marianne". A Calypso song that Gilkyson and 'The Easy Riders' recorded.
Haven Gillespie
b. Feb. 6, 1888, Covington, KY, USA, d. 1975, Las Vegas, NV, USA
Overview
While Haven was most active during the 1920's and 1930's as a lyricist,
he did write the music occasionally. He was still writing hit songs
in the early 1950's. Among his best recalled lyrics are:
1925 "Drifting and Dreaming"
1926 "Breezin'Along with the Breeze"
1931 "By The Sycamore Tree", Lyric Pete Wendling
1934 "Santa Claus Is Coming to Town"
1935 "Whos Honey Are You?", lyric J. Fred Coots
1938 "You Go to My Head"
1949 "That Lucky Old Sun"
"Louisiana Fairytale", Lyric by Mitchell Parish and J. Fred Coots.
Philip Glass
b. Jan. 31, 1937, Baltimore, MD, USA
Some critics call Glass a "minimalist" although he denies this categorization. His work includes an opera, theatre pieces, dance and songs. He is an important American composer whose music is haunting, evocative and quite distinctive. Performed alone or in collaboration with other media, his compositions move the listener to places still musically unexplored.
Tom Glazer
Currently no information available.
Among this composer's songs are:
"More", lyrics by Alex Alstone
"Only One", Words and Music by Sunny Skylar, Tom Glazer, and Andrew Ackers
Walter Goehr
b. 1903, Berlin, Germany, d. 1960
aka: George Walter
Goehr studied with Arnold Schoenberg in Berlin. He would later become well known in British film studios, where he was active from the 1930s to the 1950s. Perhaps his most famous score was for David Lean's Great Expectations (1946), while some of his music was interpolated in the British version of the film 'Spellbound', and into the films 'For Freedom' and 'The Ghost Train'.
Ray Goetz
Currently no information available.
Ray Goetz was the brother-in-law of Irving Berlin andis buried directly behind Dorothy Berlin, Irving Berlin's first wife, in the
Forest Lawn Cemetery in Buffalo, NY. USA. I only discovered his burial site by visiting Dorothy Berlin's grave a couple of weeks ago; the Berlin grave is one of the Forest Lawn landmarks (the cemetery includes the grave of Millard Fillmore and many other notables), but no mention is made of Ray Goetz in the Forest Lawn cemetery maps nor is there any notation on his tombstone that he was a songwriter.
This note on Ray Goetz was graciously submitted by Mr. Clifford Falk
Also see the entry for Lyricist Edgar Leslie, where the team is credited with composing the hit song "For Me & My Gal"
Gerry Goffin
Currently no information available.
His 1983 lyric to "Tonight I Celebrate My Love For You", with music by Michael Masser,
was recorded by Perry Como - also recorded by Peabo Bryson and Roberta Flack for Capitol.
Hubert von Goisern
AKA: Hubert Achleitner
This German born composer has been active composing for the German Television and Film industry, beginning in the early 1990s. Among the films for which he contributed scores are: 1996s 'Ein Rucksack voller Lgen' (Eng. title: A Backpack Full of Lies), and three 1995 presentations - 'Die Fernsehsaga - Eine steirische Fernsehgeschichte (Eng. Title: A Styrian Television Story), 'Schlafes Bruder' (film. Eng. Title: 'Brother of Sleep' - He also appeared in this film as a vocalist), 1994s 'Hlleisengretl' (TV - also acted the part of Matthias), and the 1991 TV Score for 'Sehnschte oder Es ist alles unheimlich leicht'.
Ernest Gold
b. July 13, 1921, Vienna, Austria, d. March 17, 1999, Santa Monica, CA, USA
A child prodigy, at age 6 Gold was already playing piano and violin; composed his first song at age 8, and completed a full-length opera at age 13. Later, in 1938, his studies at Vienna's State Academy of Music ended when the family had to flee to escape the Nazis. In 1945, they settled in Hollywood where Gold found work on the staff of Columbia Pictures, Inc. Most of his early work for films was quite forgettable, but his 'big break' came when he met director Stanley Kramer, who would use Gold's work in many of his famous films, including 'Not As A Stranger'; 'The Defiant Ones'; 'On the Beach'; 'Inherit the Wind', and 'Judgment at Nuremberg'.
In 1960, his title song for Otto Preminger's file 'Exodus' won an Academy Award.
Gold also has a number of symphonic works to his credit, as well as the 1968 Broadway musical 'I'm Solomon'. He has directed the Santa Barbara Symphony Orchestra and founded the Los Angeles Senior Citizens Orchestra. In the mid-1970s, his son Andrew Gold, scored the pop hits "Lonely Boy" and "Thank You for Being a Friend,"
[ John Golden ]
b. June 27, 1874, New York, NY; d. June 17, 1955, New York, NY
This Composer and lyricist scored for several Broadway musicals.
Most of his songs did not attain any popularity. By far the most
popular and best known of all his songs were "Goodbye Girls, I'm Through in
Chin-Chin" (1914); and "Poor Butterfly" in The Big Show (1916). He attended
New York University. He began his career first as an actor, and sater tried newspaper reporting.
He then switched to songwriting and subsequently produced Broadway plays such as
'Three Wise Fools', 'Seventh Heaven' and 'Skylark'. He also wrote his
autobiography -- Stagestruck. He is credited with being the founder of both the Stage
Relief Fund and Stage Door Canteen.
The above notes on John Golden were contributed by Mr. Ken Tidwell.
Edwin Franko Goldman
b. Jan. 1, 1878, Louisville, KY, USA., d. Feb. 21, 1956, New York, NY, USA
Overview
A distinguised Composer; Bandleader, and music teacher. He led the famed 'Goldman Band', an orchestra that, for the most part, played Marches and the light classics. He toured America with his band and won over a Hundred Medals and other honors. Because of his March compositions and concerts, he became acknowledged as successor to the famed John Philip Sousa.
"On the Mall March"
"Children's March"
"Central Park March"
"On the Farm March"
"Young America March"
"Emblem of Freedom March"
"On the Campus March"
"On Parade March"
"Sunapee March"
"Indian March"
Goldman also composed some popular songs, none of which ever achieved fame.
"The Love I Have for You"
"Why?"
"In the Springtime"
"In the Twilight"
"My Heaven of Love"
[ Stephane Louis Golmann ]
Currently no information on this singer/songwriter who wrote most all his
own music and lyrics, among which are:
Actualites (written with Albert J. B. Vidalie)
Buffalo Dream (recorded by Tex Ritter)
C'est a S'aimer
Le Caissier
Les Comediens
La Conscience
Le Fleuve
Ma Guitare et Moi
La Marie Joseph
Mon Paris
Les Pres a Germain
Al Goodhart
b. 1905, New York, N.Y., d. 1955, New York, N.Y.
Overview
This lyricist was active during the 1930's and 1940's. Some of Al's hits were:
1932
"Fit as a Fiddle"
"Auf Wiedersehen", music Sigmund Romberg
1951
"I Apologize", A huge hit for vocalist Billy Eckstine.
Lillian Rosedale Goodman
Currently No Information Available
Among her songs are:
1926 "Cherie, I Love You", Annette Hanshaw had a hit with this tune in 1926.
and on June 6, 1958, Pat Boone's version hit #63 on the "Billboard" charts.
"For You"
"I Found You"
"(The) Whole World Knows I Love You"
Irving Gordon
b. Feb. 14, 1915, Brooklyn, NY, USA, d. Dec. 1, 1996, Los Angeles, CA, USA.
Overview
This prolific composer/lyricist turned out songs by the thousands. He is probably best remembered for his big hit "Unforgettable", which was originally recorded by vocalist Nat "King" Cole in 1931.
"Me, Myself and I", a Billy Holiday hit vocal.
"What Will I Tell My Heart", a Bing Crosby hit vocal.
"Be Anything, But Darling Be Mine"
"Mr. and Mississippi"
"Delaware"
"Throw Momma From The Train A Kiss"
Ruth Gipps
Ruth has many works to her name including five symphonies as well as some film scores. Her "Jane Grey Fantasy for Viola and Strings" was dedicated to her friend Nova Pilbeam, who acted that part in the film 'Tudor Rose'. Sadly, this composer is today greatly neglected even in her own country. One critic has described her music 'as unfailingly tuneful but also challenging'.
Hubert Giraud
Currently no information on this French composer who has contributed music for several films, including:
1972. Tueur, Le (aka in Italy: Commissario Le Guen e il caso Gassot, Il. aka English Title:
Killer. aka West Germany: Killer und der Kommissar, Der)
1961. Triomphe de Michel Strogoff, Le (aka in Italy: Trionfo di Michele Strogoff, Il. aka English title: Triumph of Michael Strogoff, The
1960. Jazz Boat
1953
Pocharde, La
Tambour Battant
1952 Duel Dakar
1951 Musique en Téte
Ron Goodwin
b. Feb. 17, 1925, Plymouth, Devon, England, U.K. d. Jan. 8, 2003, Age: 77.
Overview
At the age five, Goodwin began taking piano lessons, still, he began his professional career as a trumpet player. He would go on to perfect his craft while working with the big UK bands of the early 1950s, most notably those of Geraldo, Stanley Black, and Ted Heath, before leading his own group. Yet, today, Goodwin is best remembered as an arranger and Composer.
In 1943, he joined the music publishers 'Campbell, Connelly & Co. Ltd' working as an arranger. From 1945 to 1950, he was the head of the arranging department at Bron Associated Publishers. At the time he wrote arrangements for all the leading British broadcasting bands and orchestras including the BBC Dance Orchestra, Geraldo, and Ted Heath. Circa 1950, he joined Parlophone (EMI) Records as musical director for record producer George Martin, during which time he accompanied such artists as Peter Sellers, Spike Milligan and Sophia Loren.
Jerry Goldsmith
b. Feb. 10, 1929, Los Angeles, CA, USA, d. July 21, 2004, Beverly Hills, CA, USA. (cancer).
A classically trained composer and conductor who began musical studies at age 6, and as a young man studied piano with Jacob Gimpel, and composition, theory and counterpoint with Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco. He later attended classes in film composition given by 'Miklos Rozsa' at the Univeristy of Southern California.