Inspired by a Dear John letter he had received from his girlfriend, Raksin wrote the haunting theme for which Johnny Mercer later wrote lyrics.

Because Chaplin was not a trained musician, he could not read notes and needed the help of professional composers, such as David Raksin, Raymond Rasch and Eric James, when creating his scores.

Although some of Chaplin's critics have claimed that credit for his film music should be given to the composers who worked with him, for example Raksin, who worked with Chaplin on Modern Times, has stressed Chaplin's creative position and active participation in the composing process.

The director wanted to use " Sophisticated Lady " by Duke Ellington for the main theme, but Raksin objected to the choice.

Alfred Newman, music director for Fox, convinced Preminger to give Raksin a weekend to compose an original tune.

According to film composer David Raksin, the music was written by him as a young man wanting to make a name for himself.

For his score for this film David Raksin incorporated the songs " The Battle Hymn of the Republic ", " Auld Lang Syne ," and a portion of " A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square.

In the early years of film, David Raksin worked as music ghostwriter and orchestrator for Charlie Chaplin ; even though Chaplin was credited as the score writer, he was considered to be a " hummer " ( pejorative film industry slang for a person who purports to be a film score composer but who in fact only gives a general idea of the melodies to a ghostwriter ).

* 2002: Alex Raksin and Bob Sipchen, Los Angeles Times, " for their comprehensive and powerfully-written editorials exploring the issues and dilemmas provoked by mentally ill people dwelling on the streets.

** Alex Raksin and Bob Sipchen of the Los Angeles Times, for their comprehensive and powerfully written editorials exploring the issues and dilemmas provoked by mentally ill people dwelling on the streets.

David Raksin ( August 4, 1912August 9, 2004 ) was an American composer who was renowned for his work in film and television.

In New York Raksin worked as an arranger for Harms / Chappell.

The dramatic score for the film was composed by David Raksin and conducted by Johnny Green.

The score for the film was composed and conducted by David Raksin, with orchestrations by Robert Franklyn and Ruby Raksin.

* Had a hit with " Laura " by David Raksin, the title tune of Otto Preminger's movie of the same name ( 1944 )

This debut recording would also show the advancing synthesis of Blake ’ s diverse influences with its haunting version of David Raksin ’ s title track from the movie Laura and his original tribute to his first experience with gospel music, The Church on Russell Street.

Once principal photography was completed, Preminger hired David Raksin to score the film.

Bonus tracks include commentaries by film historian Jeanine Basinger, composer David Raksin, and author Rudy Behlmer ; a deleted scene ; the original theatrical trailer ; and Gene Tierney: A Shattered Portrait and Vincent Price: The Versatile Villain, two episodes from A & E Biography.

" Raksin also conducted the score.

The film features a David Raksin and Robert Wells song " The Lonely Rider " with vocals by Don Cherry.

David Raksin was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1912.

Raksin played professionally in dance bands while attending Central High School of Philadelphia.

Later in life, Raksin taught at the University of Southern California and the University of California, Los Angeles.

Raksin died in 2004, aged 92.

At the time of his death, it was announced that Raksin had completed his autobiography, titled If I Say So Myself.

* TCM Remembers 2004: Irene Manning, Uta Hagen, Carl Anderson, Carrie Snodgress, Ray Charles, Paul Winfield, Alan King, Jan Sterling, Ron O ' Neal, Bernard Punsly, Isabel Sanford, Ingrid Thulin, John Drew Barrymore, Virginia Grey, director Russ Meyer, producer Ray Stark, Peter Ustinov, Anna Lee, John Randolph, Frances Dee, Spalding Gray, Noble Willingham, Rodney Dangerfield, composers David Raksin, Jerry Goldsmith & Elmer Bernstein, Howard Keel, Ann Miller, Fay Wray, Tony Randall, Christopher Reeve, Ronald Reagan, Janet Leigh and Marlon Brando.

The Big Combo ( 1955 ) is an American film noir directed by Joseph H. Lewis and photographed by cinematographer John Alton, with music by David Raksin.

Low-key photography by John Alton and a noisy, jazzy score by David Raksin solo piano by Jacob Gimpel are in keeping with the film's tough mood.

Pakistan was created in 1947 expressly as a Muslim state, but when the army took over eleven years later it did so on a wave of mass impatience which was directed in part against the inability of political and religious leaders to think their way through to the meaning of Islam for the modern political situation.

Many writers report that a peace treaty, known as the Peace of Callias, was formalized in 450 BC, but some writers believe that the treaty was a myth created later to inflate the stature of Athens.

Apple would later use this in an advertisement showing a network being created between two seats in an airplane.

Several later artists or scholars both created art and wrote about the creation of it.

The spiritual archetype originally created by spiritual beings was devoid of physical substance ; only later did this descend into material existence on Earth.

The office of Admiral of England ( or Lord Admiral and later Lord High Admiral ) was created around 1400, though there were before this Admirals of the Northern and Western Seas.

In later years, Capp always claimed to have effectively created the miniskirt, when he first put one on Daisy Mae in 1934.

A thirteenth regional corporation was later created for Alaska Natives who no longer resided in Alaska.

RBBS-PC, ported over from the CP / M world, and Fido BBS, created by Tom Jennings ( who later founded FidoNet ) were the first notable DOS BBS programs.

A command for armoured forces was created within the German Wehrmacht ; the Panzerwaffe, as it came to be known later.

Napoleon's son Napoleon François Charles Joseph ( 1811 – 1832 ) was created king of Rome ( 1811 – 1814 ) and was later styled Napoleon II by loyalists of the dynasty, though he only ruled for two weeks after his father's abdication.

Therefore Johnston created a product known as ' Johnston's Fluid Beef ,' later called Bovril, to meet the needs of the French people and Napoleon III.

The National Speleological Society of the USA was later founded in 1941 ( originally formed as the Speleological Society of the District of Columbia on May 6, 1939 ) and the Swiss Society of Speleology created in 1939 in Geneva, but the first speleological institute in the world was founded in 1920 in Cluj-Napoca, Romania, by Emil Racovita, a Romanian biologist, zoologist, speleologist and explorer of Antarctica.

Beginning with the reign of Pope Martin V, cardinals were created without publishing their names until later, termed creati et reservati in pectore.

Then-Bengals defensive coordinator Dick LeBeau ( who would later be the team's head coach from 2000 – 2002 ) created the zone blitz in the 1980s in response to the West Coast Offense.

Seven years later he created You never really meant it, did you, Mr. Charlie?

Two years later, the governor created a new bureau for immigrant issues in the Department of Labor and appointed reformer Frances Kellor to head it.

He later started his own studio, Chuck Jones Productions, which created several one-shot specials, and periodically worked on Looney Tunes related works.

In the fictional history of Middle-earth, the original Certhas Daeron was created by the elf Daeron, the minstrel of king Thingol of Doriath and was later expanded into what was known as the Angerthas Daeron.

Baron Bettino Ricasoli ( later Prime Minister in the Kingdom of Italy ) created the Chianti recipe of 70 % Sangiovese, 15 % Canaiolo and 15 % Malvasia bianca in the middle of the nineteenth century.

* An abacus was created sometime between 1000 BC and 500 BC, it later become a form of calculation frequency, nowadays it can be used as a very advanced, yet basic digital calculator that uses beads on rows to represent numbers.

is a Japanese manga series created by Fujiko F. Fujio which later became an anime series and an Asian franchise.

* Duke! Zone II: WizardWorks later published a follow-up to the original Duke! ZONE which contained three episodes created by Simply Silly Software and the same 500 + levels from Duke! Zone.

Even more than two hundred years later, during the last century, when Western specialists in Chinese, who had by that time created the discipline known as sinology, designed the early forms of numerous transcriptions used today, the first mistakes of enthusiastic missionaries, envoys and business men were not fully eliminated.

The first automatic gate operators were later created in 1206 by the Arabic inventor, Al-Jazari.