Musicians - Frank Loesser

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Frank Loesser (June 29, 1910, New York City - July 26, 1969, New York City) was a Jewish-American 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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