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Loesser was awarded a Grammy Award in 1961 for Best Original Cast Show Album for How To Succeed In Business Without Really Trying.
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At the age of 17, Herman was introduced to Frank Loesser who, after hearing material he had written, urged him to continue composing.
Frank Henry Loesser () ( June 29, 1910 – July 28, 1969 ) was an American songwriter who wrote the lyrics and music to the Broadway hits Guys and Dolls and How To Succeed In Business Without Really Trying, among others.
Loesser was born in New York City to Henry Loesser, a pianist, and Julia ( Ehrlich ).
Loesser had started out his career writing lyrics for other composers, and " Praise the Lord " was the first song for which he wrote the melody as well as the lyrics.
In 1944, Loesser worked as the lyricist on a little known musical intended to be performed by and for US soldiers abroad, titled Hi Yank !, the music for which was composed by Alex North.
With the support of Jo Loesser, a completed version was presented at the Arena Stage, Washington, DC, in 2004, reworked by the group Culture Clash and director Charles Randolph-Wright.
Loesser was introduced to Jo by his first wife Lynn.
Loesser was the lyricist of over 700 songs.
This was originally a song which Loesser and his wife Lynn performed at parties for the private entertainment of friends.
In 2006 the PBS documentary, Heart & Soul: The Life and Music of Frank Loesser was released.
His Broadway credits also included the 1967 Neil Simon comedy The Star-Spangled Girl, the Frank Loesser musical Greenwillow ( 1960 ), for which he was nominated for another Tony Award for Best Actor in a Musical and Bernard Slade's 1979 play Romantic Comedy opposite Mia Farrow.
Other musical versions include the song “ The Ugly Duckling ” composed by Frank Loesser and sung by Danny Kaye for the 1952 Charles Vidor musical film Hans Christian Andersen, and Honk !, a musical based on the tale which was produced in Britain and won an Olivier Award.
Frank Loesser, who had spent most of his career as a lyricist for movie musicals, was hired as composer and lyricist.
The character of Miss Adelaide was created specifically to fit Vivian Blaine into the musical, after Loesser decided she was ill suited to play the conservative Sarah.
Lizbeth Webb was the only major principal who was British and was chosen to play the part of Sarah Brown by Frank Loesser.
Three new songs, written by Frank Loesser, were added to the film: " Pet Me Poppa "; " A Woman in Love "; and " Adelaide ", which was written specifically for Sinatra.
According to piano historian Arthur Loesser ( reference below ), the first spinet piano was offered to the public in May 1935, by an American manufacturer Loesser does not identify.
") Loesser notes that the spinet was not entirely new, as very small pianos had been manufactured at various times in the 19th century.
' " In an article in the Playbill Magazine for the original Broadway production, Loesser wrote, " What was left seemed to me to be a very warm simple love story, happy ending and all, and dying to be sung and danced.
Loesser and Award
*" Dolores ", a song written by Louis Alter and Frank Loesser, featured in the 1941 film " The Gay City " ( original title " Las Vegas Nights ") and nominated for an Academy Award as Best Music, Original Song.
Gerardo Teissonnière is a recipient of the Arthur Loesser Memorial Award and the 2008 Alumni Achievement Award from the Cleveland Institute of Music.
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Like Mr. Loesser, Jerry Herman is both composer and lyriist for Milk And Honey ( R. C. A. Victor LOC 1065 ; ;
In 1948, Broadway producers Cy Feuer and Ernest Martin asked Loesser to write both music and lyrics to George Abbott's book for an adaptation of the Brandon Thomas play Charley's Aunt.
Under contract to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer to supply a full score for Neptune's Daughter, Loesser included this song which he had created in 1944, originally for their housewarming party.
Loesser received Tony Awards for music and lyrics for How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying and Guys and Dolls.
* Pulitzer Prize for Drama: Frank Loesser, Abe Burrows, How To Succeed In Business Without Really Trying
** Frank Loesser ( composer ) & the original cast with Robert Morse, Rudy Vallee, Charles Nelson Reilly, Bonnie Scott, Claudette Southerland & Sammy Smith for How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying
This production added the song " Adelaide " that Frank Loesser had written for the 1955 film adaptation.
Its music and lyrics, by Frank Loesser, are so right for the show and so completely lacking in banality, that they amount to an artistic triumph ".
*" I'm Riding for a Fall " ( words Frank Loesser ).
In his book The World of Musical Comedy, Stanley Green noted that the musical is " one of the most ambitiously operatic works ever written for the Broadway theatre ... Loesser said ' I may give the impression this show has operatic tendencies.
Loesser and Show
I Know I've Seen This Show Before (" I've Never Been In Love Before ", Loesser )
Other residents of note include: songwriter Frank Loesser, who wrote for Broadway shows including Guys and Dolls ; the playwright, Guy Bolton, who collaborated with Wodehouse on Anything Goes ; and Dave Garroway, the original host of NBC's Today Show when it first aired in January, 1952.
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* 1962: How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying * – Frank Loesser and Abe Burrows
* 1962: How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying – Book by Abe Burrows, Jack Weinstock and Willie Gilbert, music and lyrics by Frank Loesser.
** How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying – Frank Loesser ( music and lyrics )
With his collaborator Frank Loesser, Burrows won a Pulitzer Prize for How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying.
* Frank Loesser is an Oscar, Tony, and Pulitzer prize award winning composer and songwriter best known for Guys and Dolls and How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying.
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'' With music and lyrics by Frank Loesser, directed by Christopher Hewett, choreography by Peter Conlow, musical direction by Samuel Matlowsky.
In general, Mr. Loesser has done a more consistent job as lyricist than he has as composer.
Marlene Dietrich as Frenchy performs the songs " See What the Boys in the Back Room Will Have " and " You've Got That Look ", written by Frank Loesser, set to music by Frederick Hollander, which have become classics.
** Frank Loesser, American songwriter ( b. 1910 )
Hans Christian Andersen is a 1952 Hollywood musical film directed by Charles Vidor, with words and music by Frank Loesser.
* " I Wish I Were Twins " w. Frank Loesser & Eddie DeLange m. Joseph Meyer
* " Junk Man " w. Frank Loesser m. Joseph Meyer
" The pianist and academic Arthur Loesser described it as " this dowdy product of ineptitude.
Loesser wrote the popular war songs " Praise the Lord and Pass the Ammunition " ( 1942 ) and " The Ballad of Rodger Young " ( 1943 ), among others.
Guys and Dolls became a hit and earned Loesser two Tony Awards.
Loesser divorced his first wife, Lynn, in 1957.
Loesser died of lung cancer at age 59 in New York City.
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