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Ray Evans was an American lyricist who, with composer Jay Livingston, wrote the Broadway scores for Oh, Captain! (1958) and Let It Ride!; the pair were Oscar-winning Hollywood songwriters ("Mona Lisa," "Que Sera, Sera").

Also credited on2 works

Oh Captain!
Let It Ride

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In the literature6 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
  • 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
  • Musicals Tonight! presents: LET IT RIDE; Music/Lyrics, Jay Livingston and Ray Evans; Book, Abram S. Ginnes; Based on the play Three Men On a Horse by John Cecil Holm and George Abbott; Adaptation, Mel Miller; Director, Thomas Mills; Music Director, Mark W. Hartman; Lighting/Stage Manager, Tony Galluccio CAST: Robin Baxter (Audrey/Mabel),…theatre-pdfs/Theatre World/Theatre World, 1998-99 Season, v. 55 (Willis).txt

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