Harry Warren

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Biography

Electronic musician from the UK. NOTE: For the Italian-American songwriter / co-writer of numerous film & Broadway tunes please use Harry Warren .

  • Real name
  • Harry Warren
  • Name variations
  • Warren
  • Ro-Cham-Bo·Smokestack
  • Primary profession
  • Soundtrack·composer·music_department
  • Country
  • United States
  • Nationality
  • American
  • Gender
  • Male
  • Birth date
  • 24 December 1893
  • Place of birth
  • Brooklyn
  • Death date
  • 1981-09-22
  • Death age
  • 88
  • Place of death
  • Los Angeles
  • Knows language
  • English language

Music

Lyrics

Movies

TV

Books

Trivia

Closely associated with early 30s Warner Bros. musicals, he ranks as one of the most prolific and successful songwriters in the history of American pop music, his many hits include: "Where Do You Work-a, John?", "Nagasaki", "Youre Getting to be a Habit with Me", "I Only Have Eyes for You", "Lullabye of Broadway", "Shadow Waltz", "Young and Healthy", "Forty Second Street", "About a Quarter to Nine", "At Last", "I Had the Craziest Dream", "The More I See You", "There Will Never Be Another You" and the Glenn Miller hit favorite, "Chattanooga Choo-Choo".

Biography in: "The Scribner Encyclopedia of American Lives". Volume One, 1981-1985, pages 842-844. New York: Charles Scribners Sons, 1998.

Inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1971.

Julia Riva is his granddaughter. She is the President of Warrens publishing company, "Four Jays Music". Ms. Riva is the former Mrs. J. Michael Riva , Marlene Dietrich s grandson.

Al Dubin and his musical, "42nd Street" at the Marriott Theatre in Chicago, Illinois was nominated for the 2011 Equity Joseph Jefferson Award for Production of a Musical-Large.

He was interred in the Sanctuary of Tenderness at Westwood Memorial Park in Los Angeles, beside his wife and son.

He had two children with his wife, Josephine: son, Harry Warren, Jr. (born in 1919; died in 1938 from complications from pneumonia); and daughter, Joan (born in 1924; died in 1991).

Al Dubin and his musical, "42nd Street" at the Marriott Theatre in Chicago, Illinois was nominated for a 1994 Joseph Jefferson Equity Award for Musical Production.

Quotes

Out here in Hollywood, a songwriter was always the lowest form of animal,life. .

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