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Jay Livingston

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Composer 1915–2001

Jay Livingston (born Jacob Harold Levison; March 28, 1915 – October 17, 2001) was an American composer best known as half of a composing-songwriting duo with Ray Evans, with whom he specialized in composing film scores and original soundtrack songs. Livingston composed the music while Evans wrote the lyrics.

Also credited on2 works

Oh Captain!
Let It Ride

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In the literature7 passages

  • Jay Livingston and Ray Evans’s score was one of the era’s best, a slam-bang fandango of twenty-five separate old-fashioned song numbers, a wild potpourri of comic frolics, ballads, and dances. The songs cleverly delineate the characters, propel the plot forward, and provide a flavorsome and atmospheric background to the English and French…ebooks/Dietz, Dan/Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals, The - Dan Dietz.txt
  • Comparable to Bob Merrill was the team of Jay Livingston and Ray Evans, conveyors of Hollywood pop who, in Oh Captain! (1958), suddenly found themselves fashioning a pointed, storytelling score, and a rich one, too-eighteen numbers, not counting numerous reprises and dances. Oh Captain!'s source was the Alec Guinness film The Captain's Pa…ebooks/Mordden, Ethan/B0035RP5R8 EBOK - Ethan Mordden.txt
  • My single of Ray Evans and Jay Livingston’s song “Tammy” became a big hit and earned me a gold record. The song was in the Top 40 for twenty-three weeks, five of them at number one. It was nominated for an Academy Award as Best Song, but lost to “All the Way” from The Joker Is Wild . Everyone was thrilled for me except my husband, who fel…ebooks/Reynolds, Debbie/B0089LOHFG EBOK - Debbie Reynolds & Dorian Hannaway.txt
  • Oh, Captain! (1958). Book: Al Morgan and Jose Ferrer; lyrics and music: Jay Livingston and Ray Evans.theatre-pdfs/McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of World Drama, v. 3 (I-N).txt
  • Composer Jerry Livingston—not to be confused with Jay Livingston, of Livingston and Evans—coauthored the 1943 hit “Mairzy Doats,” making him an eminently suitable choice to score this Bronx-based opus. Lyricist-librettist Adelson died before Molly did; replacement lyricist Mack David, brother to Hal of Promises, Promises (1968), was best…theatre-pdfs/More Opening Nights on Broadway - Steven Suskin.txt
  • lyrics by Dorothy Fields and Al Dubin Malvin; Page Baby,: additional music and lyrics by Arthur Bounce” by Jay Livingston and Ray Evanstheatre-pdfs/More Opening Nights on Broadway - Steven Suskin.txt

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