Edward Heyman
Edward Heyman ( born March 14, 1907 in New York; † October 16, 1981 in Jalisco, Mexico) was an American songwriter and musical librettist.
Heyman studied at the University of Michigan and began already to write musicals for college. He then moved to New York, where he was a songwriter in the Tin Pan Alley and wrote for the Broadway Musical Libretti.
He has worked with Vincent Youmans, Victor Young, Dana sweetness, Morton Gould, Nacio Herb Brown, Johnny Green, Rudolf Friml, Sigmund Romberg, Arthur Schwartz, Ray Henderson, Oscar Levant, Al Sherman, Abner Silver, Carmen Lombardo, Sandor Harmati Harry Parr -Davies and Richard Myers ( 1901-1977 ).
Among his greatest successes of the lyrics belonged to the jazz standard Body and Soul by Johnny Green, with whom he also wrote Out of Nowhere (a standard of Gypsy Swing since Django Reinhardt ), I Cover the Waterfront and Easy Come Easy Goes. More songs were Through the Years, For Sentimental Reasons ( with Abner Silver, Al Sherman), Blame It on My Youth ( with Oscar Levant ), Love Letters ( with Victor Young), Blue Star ( with Victor Young), The Wonder of You Boo -hoo, Blue Bird of Happiness ( with Harmati ), Hello Goodbye My Lover ( Johnny Green ), I Wanna Be Loved ( Johnny Green ) You Oughta Be in Pictures, Drums in My Heart, You're Everywhere, Kinda Like You, Seal It With A Kiss, Carefree, When I Fall in Love ( Victor Young) and You're Mine, You!.
On Broadway, he wrote the lyrics of musicals Here Goes the Bride, Through the Years, She Loves Me Not, Murder at the Vanities, Pardon Our French and Blue Bird of Happiness. His experiences in the military during World War II ( in the Air Force ) he worked in At Your Service.
In Hollywood, he contributed songs to the movies That Girl from Paris ( 1936), Curly Top (1935 with Shirley Temple ), Kissing Bandit (1948 with Frank Sinatra ), Delightfully Dangerous (1945 with Jane Powell) and Northwest Outpost (1947 ) at. For the song Love Letters of love letters he received an Oscar nomination in 1946 for Best Song.
1954-1961 he produced for The Players, an English-language theater company in Mexico City. He also renovated old houses with his partner Lou LaFrance and sold them.
In 1975, he was inducted into the " Songwriter Hall of Fame".