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Songwriter Biography: ADAMSON, HAROLD

ADAMSON, HAROLD     Hall of Fame
Born:  1906 Greenville, NJ
Died:  1980 Beverly Hills, CA
Collaborators:  Louis Alter, Hoagy Carmichael, Peter DeRose,
Walter Donaldson, Vernon Duke, Duke Ellington, Burton Lane,
Jimmy McHugh, Sammy Fain

Shows:  As the Girls Go, Banjo Eyes, Earl Carroll's Vanities,
Smiles

Films:  An Affair to Remember, Banjo on My Knee, Dancing
Lady, The Great Ziegfeld, Higher and Higher

Principal Songs:  An Affair to Remember, Around the World, Comin' In
on a Wing and a Prayer, Daybreak, Did I Remember, Everything I
Have Is Yours, Everything's Been Done Before, Ferryboat
Serenade, I Couldn't Sleep a Wink Last Night, I Don't Care
Who Knows It, I Love Lucy, It's a Most Unusual Day, It's a
Wonderful World, It's Been So Long, A Lovely Way to Spend an
Evening, Manhattan Serenade, Moonlight Mood, The Music
Stopped, My Own, My Resistance Is Low, Seven-Twenty in the
Books, Time on My Hands, Tony's Wife, Too Young to Go Steady,
Where Are You, The Woodpecker Song, You, You Never Looked so
Beautiful, You Say the Nicest Things Baby, You're a Sweetheart
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