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Don Walker

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Composer b. 1951

Donald Hugh Walker (born 29 November 1951) is an Australian musician and songwriter who wrote many of the hits for Australian pub rock band Cold Chisel. Walker is considered to be one of Australia's best songwriters. In 2012 he was inducted into the Australian Songwriters Hall of Fame. He played piano and keyboard with Cold Chisel from 1973 to 1983, when they disbanded. He has since continued to record and tour, both solo, initially under the name Catfish and as Tex, Don and Charlie, and worked as a songwriter for others. In 2009, he released his first book. Richard Clapton describes Walker as, "the most Australian writer there has ever been. Don just digs being a sort of Beat poet, who goes…

Also credited on17 works

Bless You All
Courtin’ Time
Anyone Can Whistle
Beat the Band
Best Foot Forward
Call Me Madam
Fiddler on the Roof
Finian’s Rainbow
Greenwillow
Hooray For What!
Miss Liberty
The Most Happy Fella
The Music Man
The Rothschilds
The Unsinkable Molly Brown
Up in Central Park
Me and Juliet

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In the literature8 passages

  • Orchestrations by Bernstein and Hershy Kay, Don Walker, Elliott Jacoby and Ted Royalebooks/Bernstein, Leonard/Leonard Bernstein Letters, The - Leonard Bernstein.txt
  • Lyrics and Music : Harold Rome (ballet music by Mischa and Wesley Portnoff, and Don Walker)ebooks/Dietz, Dan/Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals, The - Dan Dietz.txt
  • As for Jack Lawrence’s lyrics and Don Walker’s music, Hawkins said that with two exceptions the score was “pastoral in mood” and “entirely happy.” A trio (“Masculinity,” for the three marriage candidates) lacked the necessary wit to get by and a number for Billie Worth (probably “Araminta to Herself”) was performed so “solemnly that it co…ebooks/Dietz, Dan/Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals, The - Dan Dietz.txt
  • He was also growing unduly suspicious of those around him. Without consulting Kander or even hearing one note of the musical arrangements, he fired Don Walker, considered the dean of Broadway arrangers, who had done the superb orchestrations for Cabaret, Fiddler on the Roof , and Carousel. 81 Just as Gower was about to summon his customar…ebooks/Gilvey, John Anthony/Before the Parade Passes By_ Gower Champion and the Glorious American Musical - John Anthony Gilvey.txt
  • The score was by Jack Lawrence (I Had a Ball later) and Don Walker (The Girl in Pink Tights later), George Balanchine did the dances, and Alfred Drake directed. It was the second of associate producer Alexander H. Cohen’s flops, and the first of Carmen Mathews’ string. For the part of Araminta, the producers cast Billie Worth, a talented…ebooks/Mandelbaum, Ken/Not Since Carrie_ Forty Years of Broadway Musical Flops - Ken Mandelbaum.txt
  • Romberg died before completing composition, so the show's orchestrator, Don Walker, filled out the music, supposedly working from Romberg's sketches. However, as Romberg habitually wrote the "big" songs first and was not much of a sketch maker, it is probable that, aside from the ballads and a few other major numbers, Walker, himself a no…ebooks/Mordden, Ethan/B0035RP5R8 EBOK - Ethan Mordden.txt

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