Murray Grand

Murray Grand ( born August 27, 1919 in Philadelphia, † March 7, 2007 in Santa Monica ) was an American pianist, composer and songwriter.

Grand began his career when he performed at age 15 at the time of the Great Depression in private clubs as a pianist. During the Second World War he was in the U.S. Army the opportunity to accompany stars like Betty Grable, Gypsy Rose Lee, Beatrice Lillie and Alberta Hunter as part of the USO troop entertainment. After the war he studied composition and piano at the Juilliard School. Over the next four decades, he worked as a pianist and entertainer in New York night clubs known as the Fireside Inn, Upstairs at the Downstairs, Bon Soir, Jack Delaney's and the Village Green. He also worked as a songwriter; his most famous song was Guess Who I Saw Today. Grand composed it for the Broadway revue New Faces of 1952; he was picked up by Eydie Gormé, Nancy Wilson, Julie London, Carmen McRae and Sarah Vaughan. Grands Thursday's Child song has been interpreted, inter alia, by Eartha Kitt and Barbara Lea. With Cy Coleman wrote SweetPussycat. More songs were Grands Hurry and Ev'rything You Want Is Here, the Maynard Ferguson big band inter alia, the recorded. In the 1980s he moved to Fort Lauderdale, where he also ran an animal feed business.