Sidney Clare

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Biography

Songwriter . Joining ASCAP in 1922, his chief musical collaborators included Con Conrad, Cliff Friend, Lew Pollack, Sam Stept, Lew Brown, Richard Whiting, Jay Gorney, Harry Warren, Vincent Youmans, Oscar Levant, James Monaco, and B. G. "Buddy" DeSylva. His other popular-song compositions include "What Do You Mean by Loving Somebody Else?", "I'm Missin' Mammy's Kissin'", "Weep No More My Mammy", "Oo-oo Ernest", "A New Kind of Man", "Big Butter and Egg Man", "Me and the Boy Friend", "We're Back Together Again", "I'd Climb the Highest Mountain", "Miss Annabelle Lee", "One Sweet Letter from You", "Lovable and Sweet", "My Dream Memory", "Keeping Myself for You", "You're My Thrill", "I've Got You on Top of My List", "It Was a Night in June", "Polly Wolly Doodle", and "It Was Sweet of You".

  • Primary profession
  • Soundtrack·music_department·actor
  • Nationality
  • United States
  • Gender
  • Male
  • Birth date
  • 15 August 1892
  • Place of birth
  • New York City
  • Death date
  • 1972-08-29
  • Death age
  • 80
  • Place of death
  • Los Angeles
  • Knows language
  • English language

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Inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1970.

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