Mack David

Mack David ( born July 5, 1912 in New York City, New York, † December 30, 1993 in Rancho Mirage, California ) was an American lyricist and composer of film music and the one who most often for an Oscar for best song was nominated, without this ever get.

Biography

David studied post-school at Cornell University and law at the Law School of St. John 's University.

In 1934 he became a member of the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers ( ASCAP ) and created as a composer and lyricist, the music for nearly 200 films and TV series. He worked there along with Jerry Livingston, Al Hoffman, Alex Kramer, Joan Whitney, Frankie Carle, Count Basie, Burt Bacharach, Ernest Gold, Elmer Bernstein, Frank De Vol and Henry Mancini.

Among his most famous songs include Oh, Oh, What Do You Know About Love? , Just a Kid Named Joe, On the Isle of May, Bermuda Buggy Ride, Falling Leaves, A Sinner Kissed an Angel, It's Love, Love, Love, Lili Marlene, I'm Just a Lucky So -And- So, Candy, Spellbound, Chi - Baba Chi - Baba, At a Candlelight Cafe, Sunflower, La Vie en Rose, A Dream Is a Wish Your Heart Makes, I Do not Care If the Sun Do not Shine, It Only Hurts for a Little While, I Like It, I Like It, The Call of the Faraway Hills, My Own True Love, Baby, It's You, So This Is Love, The Unbirthday song, The Willow Room for One More, Take Me, It 's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World and Young Emotions.

At the Academy Awards in 1951, he was beside A. Hoffman and J. Livingston for the first time nominated for the Academy Award for Best Song for " Bibbidy - Bobbidi -Boo " from the animated film Cinderella (1950). Other nominees in this category were 1960 J. Livingston for " The Hanging Tree " from rivals at the Gold River (1959 ), for which he was nominated for a 1959 Laurel Award for Best Song, 1962 H. Mancini for " Bachelor in Paradise " from Bachelor in Paradise (1961 ), which was also nominated for a Laurel Award, 1963 E. Bernstein for " Walk on the Wild Side" from on red-hot patch ( 1962) and 1964 E. gold for "It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World " from A totally, totally crazy world (1963). For this he was awarded in 1964 with the Golden Laurel Award his only price.

Then he was again nominated for an Oscar for best song and indeed in 1965 with F. De Vol for " Hush ... Hush, Sweet Charlotte " from the movie Lullaby for a dead body (1965 ), the 3rd place at the Laurel Award ceremony in 1964 received, 1966 J. Livingston for " the Ballad of Cat Ballou " from Cat Ballou - Hang thou shalt in Wyoming (1965 ), which not only received 2nd place in the Laurel Award in 1965, but also for the Golden Globe Award was nominated for Best Original Song.

His last nomination for an Oscar for best song he received at the 1967 E. Bernstein for the song " My Wishing Doll " from the movie Hawaii ( 1966). Here, too, he was awarded the second place in the Laurel Award ceremony in 1967.

Mack David, who also created the music for television series such as Lawman (1962) and 77 Sunset Strip ( 1964), was the elder brother of the song lyricist Hal David and worked throughout his career with film directors such as Delmer Daves, Jack Arnold, Stanley Kramer, Robert Aldrich, Elliot Silverstein, George Roy Hill, Clyde Geronimi, Wilfred Jackson and Edward Dmytryk together.

In 1975 he was admitted for his services in the American music into the Songwriters Hall of Fame.