Ralph Rainger

Ralph Rainger ( October 7, 1901 in New York City as Ralph rich valley, † October 24, 1942 ) was an American musician, film composer and songwriter. He collaborated with Leo Robin.

Life and work

Ralph Rainger published at the age of 22 years, his first composition he had written for a Broadway theater. He first began a legal education, and then to concentrate on writing songs. In 1926 he worked at the Broadway musical queen-high with samples as a pianist. He initially played in Broadway orchestras and in a duo with Edgar Fairchild in vaudeville shows. Finally, he got a job in the revue The Little Show ( 1929), for which he " Moanin ' Low" wrote his first hit, with the text by Howard Dietz. The piece he wrote for the singer Libby Holman.

After that he went - like many of his colleagues - to Hollywood to work in the emerging film industry for musical productions of Paramount Studios. His partner was at this time the lyricist Leo Robin; together they formed one of the leading songwriter duo of the 1930s and early 1940s. They wrote more than 50 hits, first mainly songs for Bing Crosby as " Please", "Here Live Love" (1932 ), "June in January " and " With Every Breathe I Take " (1934 ). At a jazz standard, the Billie Holiday interpreted the song " Easy Living " from the film of 1937.

Other achievements include " Thanks for the Memory", written for Bob Hope and Shirley Ross ( The Big Broadcast of 1938, 1938).

Death

Leo Robin & Ralph Rainger worked together until a sudden to Raingers accidental death when he crashed near Palm Springs, California on October 23, 1942 with an airplane. He was a passenger on board a civil aircraft American Airlines DC -3, which collided with a bomber of the U.S. Army Air Corps; he was only 41 years old.