Paul Francis Webster

Paul Francis Webster ( born December 20, 1907 in New York City; † 18 March 1984 in Beverly Hills, California ) was an American songwriter.

After aborted studies in New York Webster worked in the late 1920s on various ships in Asia. He had his first hit success finally in 1932 with the song Masquerade, which he wrote with John Jacob Loeb. In 1941 he worked for the musical Jump for Joy, which was also the Duke Ellington Orchestra participated. A hit from I Got It Bad and That Is not Good. In 1942 he wrote with Hoagy Carmichael The Lamplighter 's Serenade; then they put in 1945 continued to work with Baltimore Oriole, Billy -A- Dik, Doctor Lawyer and Indian Chief as well as with Memphis in June.

In the 1950s he wrote with Sonny Burke for the Peggy Lee hit Black Coffee, with Sammy Fain the Doris Day hit Secret Love (1953 ) in the Western comedy severity Colts in tender hand. In the late 1950s, Webster wrote a whole series of theme songs for Hollywood films; from traditional songs like Love Is a Many Splendored Thing ( 1955), April Love (1957 ), The Heart is a Lonerly Hunter ( with Sammy Fain, 1957) and Song of Green Mansions with Bronislau caper in 1959.

In the 1960s, he wrote for the John Wayne movie Alamo (1960 ) The Green Leaves of Summer, for the Doctor Zhivago movie the song Somewhere My Love (1966 ) by Maurice Jarre and the last great success of the theme song for Spider Man (1967 ) with Bob Harris.

He was with a total of sixteen Oscar nominations among the most successful lyricists of Hollywood. Three times he was awarded the Academy Award for Best Song, as the price is officially known, namely Secret Love (1953) and Love is a Many Splendored Thing - (1956 ), which he wrote with Sammy Fain, and for the song The Shadow of Your Smile ( 1965), whose text he wrote to Johnny Mandel's Love Theme from The Sandpiper. The latter song also won the Grammy Award for Best Song of the Year 1965. Many of Webster provided with texts pieces are now in the canon of the Great American Songbook, many are considered jazz standards. Webster wrote the lyrics for some jazz composer in the strict sense, the most famous of them was Duke Ellington, whose I Got It Bad (And That Is not Good) was interpreted with the Ivie Anderson Text Webster's 1941 successful.

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