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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


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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)



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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