Ted Koehler

Ted Koehler (* July 14, 1894 in Washington, DC; † January 17, 1973 in Santa Monica, California ) was an American pianist and songwriter. He collaborated with Harold Arlen. Together they wrote the standards Ill Wind and Stormy Weather.

Life and work

Ted Koehler began his professional career as a clerk in a photo shop, ultimately rising but the music and show business, where he began as a theater pianist for silent films. Then he began to write for vaudeville shows and Broadway and produced shows in night clubs. He became famous for his collaboration with composer Harold Arlen. They wrote from the 1920s to the 1940s, a series of songs that were part of the Great American Songbook. Their first common success was in 1931, the song Behind the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea, followed by I Love a Parade and I Gotta Right to Sing the Blues by 1932. The team Arlen / Koehler wrote for Broadway, for productions of the New York Cotton clubs and later for Hollywood films. Koehler also collaborated with other composers such as Jimmy McHugh, Rube Bloom and Sammy Fain.

Many of the songs that Ted Koehler participated as Wrap Your Troubles in Dreams, Get Happy or Stormy Weather later became jazz standards.

Known songs

  • " Animal Crackers in My Soup"
  • " As Long as I Live " - Music: Harold Arlen
  • " Between The Devil And The Deep Blue Sea " - Music: Harold Arlen
  • " Get Happy " - Music: Harold Arlen
  • "I Gotta Right To Sing The Blues " - Music: Harold Arlen
  • " Ill Wind " - Music: Harold Arlen
  • "I'm Shooting High"
  • "I've Got My Fingers Crossed " - Music: Jimmy McHugh
  • "I've Got The World On A String " - Music: Harold Arlen
  • "Let's Fall In Love " - Music: Harold Arlen
  • "Sing My Heart" - Music: Harold Arlen
  • " Spreadin ' Rhythm Around" - Music: Jimmy McHugh
  • " Stormy Weather " - Music: Harold Arlen
  • "When the Sun Comes Out" - Music: Harold Arlen
  • " Wrap Your Troubles in Dreams" - with Harry Barris and Billy Moll
  • "Some Sunday Morning" - Music: Ray Heinsdorf and MK Jerome

Working for Broadway

  • Earl Carroll 's Vanities of 1932 (1932) - revue - co- composer and co- lyricist with Harold Arlen
  • Say When (1934 ) - musical - lyricist
  • Now I Know (1944 ) - musical - lyricist
Comédie en vaudeville Cotton Club Get Happy (song) Wrap Your Troubles in Dreams (song) Ray Heindorf
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