Harry Warren (born Salvatore Antonio Guaragna; December 24, 1893 – September 22, 1981) was an American composer and the first major American songwriter to write primarily for film. He was nominated for the

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eleven times and won three Oscars for composing " Lullaby of Broadway", " You'll Never Know" and " On the Atchison, Topeka and the Santa Fe". He wrote the music for the first blockbuster film musical, '' 42nd Street'', choreographed by Busby Berkeley, with whom he would collaborate on many musical films. Over a career spanning six decades, Warren wrote more than 800 songs. Other well known Warren hits included " I Only Have Eyes for You", "

You Must Have Been a Beautiful Baby "You Must Have Been a Beautiful Baby" is a popular song with music by Harry Warren and lyrics by Johnny Mercer, written in 1938 for the Warner Brothers movie '' Hard to Get,'' released November 1938, in which it was sung by Dick Powell. The bigge ...

", " Jeepers Creepers", "

The Gold Diggers' Song (We're in the Money) "The Gold Diggers' Song (We're in the Money)" is a song from the 1933 Warner Bros. film ''Gold Diggers of 1933'', sung in the opening sequence by Ginger Rogers and chorus. The entire song is never performed in the 1933 movie, though it introduce ...

", "

That's Amore "That's Amore" is a 1953 song by composer Harry Warren and lyricist Jack Brooks, and became a major hit and signature song for Dean Martin, who first recorded and released it that year. ''Amore'' () means "love" in Italian. History The song ...

", " There Will Never Be Another You", " The More I See You", " At Last" and " Chattanooga Choo Choo" (the last of which was the first gold record in history). Warren was one of America's most prolific film composers, and his songs have been featured in over 300 films.

Biography

Early life

Warren was born Salvatore Antonio Guaragna, one of eleven children of Italian immigrants Antonio (a bootmaker) and Rachel De Luca Guaragna, and grew up in

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. His father changed the family name to Warren when Harry was a child. Although his parents could not afford music lessons, Warren had an early interest in music and taught himself to play his father's

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. He also sang in the church choir and learned to play the drums. He began to play the drums professionally by age 14 and dropped out of high school at 16 to play with his godfather's band in a traveling carnival. Soon he taught himself to play the piano and by 1915, he was working at the Vitagraph Motion Picture Studios, where he did a variety of administrative jobs, such as props man, and also played mood music on the piano for the actors, acted in bit parts and eventually was an assistant director. He also played the piano in cafés and silent-movie houses. In 1918 he joined the U.S. Navy, where he began writing songs.PBS biography entry for Harry Warren.
Accessed February 2009Jenkins, David

at HarryWarrenMusic.com, accessed April 3, 2009

Career

Warren wrote over 800 songs between 1918 and 1981, publishing over 500 of them.Jenkins, David

, HarryWarren.org They were written mainly for 56 feature films or were used in other films that used Warren's newly written or existing songs. His songs eventually appeared in over 300 films and 112 of Warner Bros. ''

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'' and '' Merrie Melodies'' cartoons. 42 of his songs were on the top ten list of the radio program " Your Hit Parade", a measure of a song's popularity. 21 of these reached number 1 on Your Hit Parade. " You'll Never Know" appeared 24 times. His song " I Only Have Eyes for You" is listed in the list of the 25 most-performed songs of the 20th Century, as compiled by the American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers ( ASCAP). Warren was the director of ASCAP from 1929 to 1932. He collaborated on some of his most famous songs with lyricists

Al Dubin Alexander Dubin (June 10, 1891 – February 11, 1945) was an American lyricist. He is best known for his collaborations with the composer Harry Warren. Life Al Dubin came from a Russian Jewish family that emigrated to the United States from Swit ...

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, Mack Gordon, Leo Robin, Ira Gershwin and

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. In 1942 the Gordon-Warren song " Chattanooga Choo-Choo", as performed by the Glenn Miller Orchestra, became the first gold record in history. It was No.1 for nine weeks on the ''Billboard'' pop singles chart in 1941–1942, selling 1.2 million copies. Among his biggest hits were " There Will Never Be Another You", " I Only Have Eyes for You", " Forty-Second Street", "

", " Lullaby of Broadway", " Serenade In Blue", " At Last", " Jeepers Creepers", " You're Getting to Be a Habit with Me", "

", and "Young and Healthy".

Early hits and film years

Warren's first hit song was "Rose of the Rio Grande" (1922), with lyrics by Edgar Leslie. He wrote a succession of hit songs in the 1920s, including "I Love My Baby (My Baby Loves Me)" and "Seminola" in 1925, "Where Do You Work-a John?" and "In My Gondola" in 1926 and "Nagasaki" in 1928. In 1930, he composed the music for the song "Cheerful Little Earful" for the

Broadway revue, ''Sweet and Low'', and composed the music, with lyrics by Mort Dixon and Joe Young, for the Ed Wynn Broadway revue ''The Laugh Parade'' in 1931. He started working for

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in 1932, paired with Dubin to write the score for the first blockbuster film musical, '' 42nd Street'', and continued to work there for six years, writing the scores for 32 more musicals.Walls, Robert
"Who is Harry Warren????"
GuideToMusicals, accessed April 3, 2009 He worked for

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starting in 1940, writing with Mack Gordon.Zinsser, p. 137 He moved to MGM starting in 1944, writing for

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s such as '' The Harvey Girls'' and '' The Barkleys of Broadway'', many starring Fred Astaire. He later worked for Paramount, starting in the early 1950s, writing for the

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movie ''Just for You'' and the

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movie '' The Caddy'', the latter containing the hit song "

". He continued to write songs for several more

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comedies. Warren is particularly remembered for writing scores for the

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s of Busby Berkeley; they worked together on 18 films. His "uptempo songs are as memorable as Berkeley's choreography, as icfor the same reason: they capture, in a few snazzy notes, the vigorous frivolity of the Jazz Age."Corliss, Richar
"That Old Feeling: We Need Harry Warren"
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'', October 5, 2001 Warren won the Academy Award for Best Song three times, collaborating with three different lyricists: " Lullaby of Broadway" with Al Dubin in 1935, " You'll Never Know" with Mack Gordon in 1943, and " On the Atchison, Topeka and the Santa Fe" with Johnny Mercer in 1946. He was nominated for eleven Oscars.

Last years

In 1955, Warren wrote "The Legend of Wyatt Earp", which was used in the ABC/ Desilu Studios television series, ''

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''. He also wrote the opening theme, "Hey, Marty" (lyrics by Paddy Chayefsky), for the film '' Marty'', which won the Academy Award for Best Picture in 1955. The last musical score that Warren composed specifically for Broadway was ''

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'', a disastrous 1956 adaptation of James Hilton's ''

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'', which ran for only 21 performances. In 1957, he received his last Academy Award nomination for the song "

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". He continued to write songs for movies throughout the 1960s and 1970s but never again achieved the fame that he had enjoyed earlier. His last movie score was for ''Manhattan Melody'', in 1980, but the film was never produced. Warren composed a Mass, with Latin text, in 1962. This was performed a decade later at Loyola Marymount University, but it has yet to be recorded commercially. He also wrote nearly three dozen short piano vignettes. The sheet music was first published by Warren's Four Jays Music Co. A dozen of these were released on a 1975 album titled ''Harry Warren's Piano Vignettes'', played by Hugh Delain. Several pianists have recorded the vignettes, including Warren himself.

Personal life

Warren married Josephine Wensler in 1917. They had a son, Harry Jr. (1919–1938), and a daughter, Joan (b. 1925). His wife died in 1993. Warren died on September 22, 1981 in

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. He is interred in the Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery in Los Angeles. The plaque bearing Warren's epitaph displays the first few notes of "You'll Never Know". A theatre in

is named after Warren.

Reputation and legacy

According to

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, quoted in ''

'' magazine': "By silent consensus, the king of this army of unknown soldiers, the Hollywood incognitos, was Harry Warren, who had more songs on the Hit Parade than Berlin himself and who would win the contest hands down if enough people have heard of him." William Zinsser noted: "The familiarity of Harry Warren's songs is matched by the anonymity of the man ... he is the invisible man, his career a prime example of the oblivion that cloaked so many writers who cranked out good songs for bad movies." At least three episodes of the ''

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'' were devoted entirely to Warren's music: Season 18, Episode 5, October 7, 1972; Season 25, Episode 10, November 24, 1979; and Season 27, Episode 17, January 2, 1982 Susannah McCorkle's debut album was ''The Music of Harry Warren'' (1976). In 1980, producer David Merrick and director Gower Champion adapted the 1933 film '' 42nd Street'' into a

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that won the

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in 1981, ran for 3,486 performances and has had several major revivals. The score incorporated songs by Warren and Dubin from various movie musicals including ''42nd Street,

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, Go Into Your Dance,

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'', and '' Gold Diggers of 1935''.

Songs

Music by Warren, unless noted:

Academy Award nominations and winners

;Winners * " Lullaby of Broadway" (1935) w.

for '' Gold Diggers of 1935''"Songs J to M"
, HarryWarren.org, accessed February 25, 2012 * " You'll Never Know" (1943) w. Mack Gordon for ''

Hello, Frisco, Hello ''Hello, Frisco, Hello'' is a 1943 American musical film directed by H. Bruce Humberstone and starring Alice Faye, John Payne, Lynn Bari, and Jack Oakie. The film was made in Technicolor and released by 20th Century-Fox. This was one of the last ...

''"Songs UtoZ"
, HarryWarren.org, accessed February 26, 2012 * " On the Atchison, Topeka and the Santa Fe" (1945) w.

for '' The Harvey Girls''"Songs N to R"
, HarryWarren.org, accessed February 26, 2012 ;Nominations *"Remember Me?" (1937) w. Al Dubin for ''

Mr. Dodd Takes the Air ''Mr. Dodd Takes the Air'' is a 1937 American musical comedy film. Composer Harry Warren and lyricist Al Dubin were nominated at the 10th Academy Awards in the category of Best Song for "Remember Me". Plot summary A small town electrician becom ...

'' *" Jeepers Creepers" (1938) w. Johnny Mercer for '' Going Places'' *"Down Argentina Way" (1940) w. Mack Gordon for '' Down Argentine Way''"Songs D to H"
, HarryWarren.org, accessed February 25, 2012 *" Chattanooga Choo Choo" (1941) w. Mack Gordon for '' Sun Valley Serenade''"Songs A to C"
, HarryWarren.org, accessed February 25, 2012 *" I've Got a Gal in Kalamazoo" (1942) w. Mack Gordon for '' Orchestra Wives''"Songs I"
, HarryWarren.org, accessed February 25, 2012 *" Zing a Little Zong" (1952) w. Leo Robin for '' Just for You'' *"

" (1953) w. Jack Brooks for '' The Caddy''"Songs T"
, HarryWarren.org, accessed February 26, 2012 *" An Affair to Remember (Our Love Affair)" (1956) w.

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and

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for ''

No. 1 hits

* "By the River Sainte Marie" (1931) w. Edgar Leslie * "Too Many Tears" (1932) w. Al Dubin * " I Found a Million Dollar Baby (in a Five and Ten Cent Store)" (1932) w. Mort Dixon * " You're Getting to Be a Habit With Me" (1933) w. Al Dubin * " Forty-Second Street" (1933) w. Al Dubin * "Shadow Waltz" (1933) w. Al Dubin"Songs S"
, HarryWarren.org, accessed February 26, 2012 * "(You May Not Be an Angel, But)

I'll String Along With You ''Twenty Million Sweethearts'' is a 1934 American Pre-Code musical comedy film directed by Ray Enright and starring Pat O'Brien, Dick Powell, Ginger Rogers, and The Mills Brothers. The film was remade in 1949 as ''My Dream Is Yours''. Plot Age ...

" (1934) w. Al Dubin * " Lullaby of Broadway" (1935) w. Al Dubin * "She's a Latin from Manhattan" (1935) w. Al Dubin * "I'll Sing You a Thousand Love Songs" (1936) w. Al Dubin * "

September in the Rain "September in the Rain" is a popular song about nostalgia by Harry Warren and Al Dubin, published in 1937. The song was introduced by James Melton in the film '' Melody for Two''. It has become a standard, having been recorded by many artists sin ...

" (1937) w. Al Dubin * "With Plenty of Money and You" (1937) w. Al Dubin * "Remember Me?" (1937) w. Al Dubin * " Jeepers Creepers" (1938) w. Johnny Mercer * "

" (1938) w. Johnny Mercer * " Chattanooga Choo Choo" (1941) w. Mack Gordon * " My Heart Tells Me (Should I Believe My Heart?)" (1943) w. Mack Gordon * " I Had the Craziest Dream" (1943) w. Mack Gordon * " You'll Never Know" (1943) w. Mack Gordon * " The More I See You" (1945) w. Mack Gordon * " On the Atchison, Topeka and the Santa Fe" (1945) w. Johnny Mercer

Other selected songs from films

* " You're Getting to Be a Habit with Me" (1932) w. Al Dubin for '' 42nd Street'' * " Forty-Second Street" (1933) w. Al Dubin for ''42nd Street'' * "

Shuffle Off to Buffalo "Shuffle Off to Buffalo" is a song written by Al Dubin and Harry Warren and introduced in the 1933 musical film '' 42nd Street'', in which Ruby Keeler and Clarence Nordstrom sang and danced to it. Ginger Rogers, Una Merkel, and the Chorus also ...

" (1933) w. Al Dubin for ''42nd Street'' * " The Boulevard of Broken Dreams" (1933) w. Al Dubin for ''

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* " Keep Young and Beautiful" (1933) w. Al Dubin for '' Roman Scandals'' * " Pettin' in the Park" (1933) w. Al Dubin for ''

'' * " We're in the Money" (1933) w. Al Dubin for ''Gold Diggers of 1933'' * " I Only Have Eyes for You" (1934) w. Al Dubin for ''

'' * "

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" (1934) w. Al Dubin for ''

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'' * " About a Quarter to Nine" (1935) w. Al Dubin for " Go into Your Dance" * " Lullaby of Broadway" (1935) w. Al Dubin for '' Gold Diggers of 1935'' * "

" (1935) w. Al Dubin for '' Stars Over Broadway'' * "

" (1938) w.

for '' Hard to Get'' * " Chica Chica Boom Chic" (1941) w. Mack Gordon for ''

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'' * "

I, Yi, Yi, Yi, Yi (I Like You Very Much) "I, Yi, Yi, Yi, Yi (I Like You Very Much)" is a 1941 song. It was written for the 1941 film '' That Night in Rio'', and was popularized by Carmen Miranda. The lyrics were written by Mack Gordon and the music by Harry Warren. Covers and performan ...

" (1941) w. Mack Gordon for ''That Night in Rio'' * " Chattanooga Choo Choo" (1941) w. Mack Gordon for '' Sun Valley Serenade'' * " I Know Why (And So Do You)" (1941) w. Mack Gordon for ''Sun Valley Serenade'' * " It Happened in Sun Valley" (1941) w. Mack Gordon for ''Sun Valley Serenade'' * " At Last" (1941) w. Mack Gordon for ''Sun Valley Serenade'' * " I Had the Craziest Dream" (1942) w. Mack Gordon for '' Springtime in the Rockies'' * " Serenade In Blue" (1942) w. Mack Gordon for '' Orchestra Wives'' * " There Will Never Be Another You" (1942) w. Mack Gordon for ''

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'' * " You'll Never Know" (1943) w. Mack Gordon for ''

'' * " On the Atchison, Topeka and the Santa Fe" (1945) w.

for '' The Harvey Girls'' * " The More I See You" (1945) w. Mack Gordon for '' Diamond Horseshoe'' * "

This Heart of Mine "This Heart of Mine" is a 1944 song. This music standard was written by composer Harry Warren and lyricist Arthur Freed to be featured in the musical film score ''Ziegfeld Follies''. This song is introduced by Fred Astaire who danced with Lucil ...

" (1946) w. Arthur Freed for ''

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'' * "Cryin' For the Carolines" (1930) w. Sam Lewis and Joe Young for '' Spring Is Here'' * "Have A Little Faith In Me" (1930) w. Sam Lewis and Joe Young for ''Spring Is Here'' * "

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" (1956)

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for ''

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American songbook songs

In his book ''American Popular Song'', Alec Wilder notes that Warren "wasn't in the category as the best theater writers, but he certainly was among the foremost pop song writers." He discusses songs he likes: " Would You Like to Take a Walk?" (1930, with Mort Dixon and

for ''Sweet & Low''), " I Found a Million Dollar Baby (in a Five and Ten Cent Store)" (1931, with Dixon and Rose for ''Crazy Quilt''), " You're Getting to Be a Habit with Me" (1932), "Summer Night" (1936), " There Will Never Be Another You" (1942), " Serenade in Blue" (1942), " At Last" (1942), " Jeepers Creepers" (1938), and " The More I See You" (1945).Wilder, pp. 395–404 ;Other popular songs * " Cheerful Little Earful" (1930) w. Ira Gershwin and

for ''Sweet & Low'' * "

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" (1928) w. Mort Dixon

Notes

References

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External links

The Harry Warren website
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*

at the Encyclopedia of Composers and Songwriters

Harry Warren recordings
at the

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. * * * * Harry Warren: America's Foremost Composer (1933)
Biography at Guide to Musical Theatre

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