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Raymond Jessel

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ComposerLyricist 1929–2015

Raymond Jessel (16 October 1929 – 17 July 2015) was a Welsh songwriter, screenwriter, orchestrator, and musical theatre composer. Born in Cardiff, he moved to Canada in 1955 and started a career as an orchestrator and composer for CBC Radio and CBC Television. He met a Canadian pianist Marian Grudeff, who became his songwriting partner. He received five MAC Awards for "Original Song" and the 2004 Bistro Award. He was most recognised for his audition for America's Got Talent in 2014 in which he sang an original song about a transgender woman. With little success in Toronto, Jessel and Grudeff moved to New York City where they made their first success with the Broadway musical, Baker Street, i…

Also credited on2 works

Baker Street
I Remember Mama

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  • Both Barnum and Baker Street would have scores written by newcomers Marian Grudeff and Raymond Jessel. A Barnum musical wouldn’t surface until 1980, and from a completely different team and management. But Cohen, the last of the great Broadway razzmatazz showmen whose shows seldom returned their investments, made sure that Baker Street wo…ebooks/Filichia, Peter/B007L4OWCU EBOK - Peter Filichia.txt
  • Baker Street . Music and lyrics by Marian Grudeff and Raymond Jessel. [Additional songs by Bock and Harnick, uncredited.] Vocal selections: Marks Music, 1964.ebooks/Lambert, Philip/B00590X4L8 EBOK - Philip Lambert.txt
  • Baker Street . Book by Jerome Coopersmith, based on the stories of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Music and lyrics by Marian Grudeff and Raymond Jessel; additional lyrics [un-credited] by Sheldon Harnick. Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1966.ebooks/Lambert, Philip/B00590X4L8 EBOK - Philip Lambert.txt
  • Choreographer Graciela Daniele retained her contractual billing, but replacement Danny Daniels is given more prominent treatment. Raymond Jessel was credited on the song listing page and given a bio as additional lyricist.ebooks/Suskin, Steven/B001T4YWBO EBOK - Steven Suskin.txt
  • 95 Sam Zolotow, “June Havoc Gets ‘One Foot in Door,’” New York Times , September 5, 1957, 32 . In 1965, Marian Grudeff and Raymond Jessel presented their own musical version of Sherlock Holmes, called Baker Street .ebooks/Unknown/Alan Jay Lerner_ A Lyricist's Letters - Unknown.txt
  • music and lyrics by Marian Grudeff and Raymond Jessel (additional music andlyrics by Jerry Bock and Sheldon Harnick) book by Jerome Coopersmith based on the 1891 story4Snel m | Boles, and other adventures of Sherlock Holmes Cantey 1887-ee mes Sir netheatre-pdfs/More Opening Nights on Broadway - Steven Suskin.txt

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