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Jule Styne (December 31, 1905 – September 20, 1994) was an English
song-writer especially famous for a series of Broadway musicals, which include
several very well known and frequently revived shows.
Styne was born in London, England
as Julius Kerwin Stein.
At the age of eight
he moved with his family to Chicago, where at an early age he began taking piano
lessons.
Tein proved to be a prodigy and performed with the Chicago, St. Louis,
and Detroit Symphonies before he was ten years old.
Styne attended Chicago Musical College, but before then he had
already attracted attention of another teen-ager, Mike Todd, later a successful
film producer, who commissioned him to write a song for a musical act that he
was creating.
It was the first of over 1,500 published songs Styne composed in
his career.
Styne established his own "dance band", which brought him to the
notice of Hollywood, where he was championed by Frank Sinatra and where he began
a collaboration with lyricist Sammy Cahn, with whom he wrote many songs for the
movies, including "It's Been a Long, Long Time" (#1 for 3 weeks for Harry James
and His Orchestra in 1945), "Five Minutes More," and the Oscar-winning "Three
Coins in the Fountain".
He collaborated on the score for the 1955 musical film
My Sister Eileen with Leo Robin. Ten of his songs were nominated for the Oscar,
many written with Cahn, including "I've Heard That Song Before" (#1 for 13 weeks
for Harry James and His Orchestra in 1943), "I'll Walk Alone", "It's Magic" (a
#2 hit for Doris Day in 1948) and "I Fall in Love Too Easily".
In 1947, Styne
wrote his first score for a Broadway musical, "High Button Shoes" with Cahn, and
over the next several decades wrote the scores for many Broadway shows, most
notably "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes", "Peter Pan" (additional music), "Bells Are
Ringing", "Gypsy", "Do Re Mi", "Funny Girl", "Sugar" (with a story based on the movie
Some Like It Hot, but all new music), and the Tony-winning "Hallelujah,
Baby!".
His collaborators included Sammy Cahn, Leo Robin, Betty Comden and
Adolph Green, Stephen Sondheim, and Bob Merrill.
Styne wrote original music
for the short-lived, themed amusement park Freedomland U.S.A. which opened on
June 19, 1960.
Styne was elected to the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1972
and the American Theatre Hall of Fame in 1981, and he was a recipient of a
Drama Desk Special Award and the Kennedy Center Honors in 1990.
The many songs that Styne wrote include:
"The
Christmas Waltz"
"Conchita Marquita Lolita Pepita Rosita Juanita
Lopez"
"Day By Day"
"Don't Rain on My Parade" (from
Funny Girl)
"Diamonds Are a Girl's Best Friend"
"Everything's Coming Up
Roses" (from Gypsy)
"Every Street's a Boulevard in Old New York"
"Fiddle
Dee Dee"
"Guess I'll Hang My Tears Out to Dry"
"How Do You Speak To An
Angel"
"I Don't Want to Walk Without You"
"I Fall In Love Too
Easily"
"I Still Get Jealous"
"I'll Walk Alone"
"It's Been a Long, Long
Time"
"It's Magic" (from Romance on the High Seas)
"I've Heard That Song
Before"
"Just In Time"
"Let Me Entertain You"
"Let It Snow! Let It
Snow! Let It Snow!"
"Long Before I Knew You"
"Make Someone
Happy"
"Neverland"
"Papa, Wont You Dance with Me?"
"The Party's
Over"
"People" (from Funny Girl)
"Saturday Night (Is the Loneliest Night
of the Week)" sung by Frank Sinatra
"Sunday" with Ned Miller
"Time After
Time"
"Three Coins in the Fountain"
"Together wherever we go"
"Pico and
Sepulveda"
Credits
Ice Capades of 1943 (1942) - Styne contributed
one song
Glad to See You! (1944) - closed in Philadelphia PA during
tryout
High Button Shoes (1947)
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1949)
Michael
Todd's Peep Show (1950) - Styne contributed 2 numbers
Two on the Aisle
(1951)
Hazel Flagg (1953)
Peter Pan (1954) (additional music)
My Sister
Eileen (1955)
Bells Are Ringing (1956)
Say, Darling (1958)
A Party with
Betty Comden and Adolph Green (1958)
Gypsy (1959)
Do Re Mi
(1960)
Subways Are For Sleeping (1961)
Mr. Magoo's Christmas Carol
(1962)
Arturo Ui (1963) - Styne contributed incidental music to this Bertolt
Brecht play
Funny Girl (1964)
Wonderworld (1964) - lyrics by Styne's son,
Stanley
Fade Out - Fade In (1964)
Something More! (1964) -directed by
Styne
The Dangerous Christmas of Red Riding Hood (1965)
Hallelujah, Baby!
(1967)
Darling of the Day (1968)
Look to the Lilies (1970)
The Night
the Animals Talked (1970)
Prettybelle (1971) - closed in Boston
Sugar
(1972)
Lorelei (1974) - essentially a sequel/revival of Gentlemen Prefer
Blondes
Hellzapoppin'! (1976) - closed in Baltimore during pre-Broadway
tryout
Side by Side by Sondheim (1976)
Bar Mitzvah Boy (1978)
One Night
Stand (1980) - closed during preview period
Pieces of Eight (1985)
The Red
Shoes (1993)
Notes:
^ "Jule Styne". Britannica
Online. Encyclopædia Britannica. Retrieved 2008-10-20.
^ Jule Styne at the
Songwriters Hall of Fame
^ "26 Elected to the Theater Hall of Fame." The New
York Times, March 3, 1981.
External links[edit source | editbeta]
Official
website
Jule Styne at the Internet Broadway Database
Jule Styne at the
Internet Off-Broadway Database
Jule Styne at the Internet Movie
Database
Kennedy Center biography
PBS biography
New York Times
obituary, September 21, 1994
Jule Styne
musicals
High Button Shoes
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
Two on the
Aisle
Hazel Flagg
Peter Pan
My Sister Eileen
Bells Are
Ringing
Say, Darling
Gypsy: A Musical Fable
Do Re Mi
Subways Are For
Sleeping
Mr. Magoo's Christmas Carol
Funny Girl
Wonderworld
Fade Out
- Fade In
Hallelujah, Baby!
Darling of the Day
Look to the
Lilies
Prettybelle
Sugar
Lorelei
Bar Mitzvah Boy
One Night
Stand
Pieces of Eight
The Red Shoes
[
Kennedy Center Honorees (1990s)
1990Dizzy
Gillespie
Katharine Hepburn
Risë Stevens
Jule Styne
Billy
Wilder
Academy Award for Best Original Song (1951–1960)
"In
the Cool, Cool, Cool of the Evening"
Music: Hoagy Carmichael
Lyrics:
Johnny Mercer (1951)
"High Noon (Do Not Forsake Me, Oh My Darlin')"
Music:
Dimitri Tiomkin
Lyrics: Ned Washington (1952)
"Secret Love"
Music:
Sammy Fain
Lyrics: Paul Francis Webster (1953)
"Three Coins in the
Fountain"
Music: Jule Styne
Lyrics: Sammy Cahn (1954)
"Love Is a Many
Splendored Thing"
Music: Sammy Fain
Lyrics: Paul Francis Webster
(1955)
"Que Sera, Sera (Whatever Will Be, Will Be)"
Music and lyrics: Jay
Livingston and Ray Evans (1956)
"All the Way"
Music: James Van
Heusen
Lyrics: Sammy Cahn (1957)
"Gigi"
Music: Frederick
Loewe
Lyrics: Alan Jay Lerner (1958)
"High Hopes"
Music: James Van
Heusen
Lyrics: Sammy Cahn (1959)
"Never on Sunday"
Music and lyrics:
Manos Hatzidakis (1960)
Tony Award for Best Original Score (1947–1975)
Street
Scene by Kurt Weill (1947)
Kiss Me, Kate by Cole Porter (1949)
South
Pacific by Richard Rodgers (1950)
Call Me Madam by Irving Berlin (1951)
No
Strings by Richard Rodgers (1962)
Oliver! by Lionel Bart (1963)
Hello,
Dolly! by Jerry Herman (1964)
Fiddler on the Roof by Jerry Bock and Sheldon
Harnick (1965)
Man of La Mancha by Mitch Leigh and Joe Darion
(1966)
Cabaret by John Kander and Fred Ebb (1967)
Hallelujah, Baby! by
Jule Styne, Betty Comden, and Adolph Green (1968)
Company by Stephen Sondheim
(1971)
Follies by Stephen Sondheim (1972)
A Little Night Music by Stephen
Sondheim (1973)
Gigi by Frederick Loewe and Alan Jay Lerner (1974)
The Wiz
by Charlie Smalls (1975)
Persondata
NameStyne, Jule
Alternative
names
Short descriptionBritish musician
Date of birthDecember 31,
1905
Place of birth
Date of deathSeptember 20, 1994
Place of
death
Categories:
1905 births
1994 deaths
American people of English
descent
British musical theatre composers
British songwriters
Best Song
Academy Award winning songwriters
English emigrants to the United
States
English Jews
Jewish musicians
Jewish composers and
songwriters
Musicians from London
Songwriters Hall of Fame
inductees
Grammy Award-winning artists
Kennedy Center honorees
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