Jule Styne
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jule Styne (/ˈdʒuːli staɪn/; December 31, 1905 – September 20, 1994) was a British-American song writer and composer known for a series of Broadway musicals, which include several famous and frequently revived shows. Styne was born to a Jewish family in London, England as Julius Kerwin Stein to immigrants from Ukraine, the Russian Empire who ran a small grocery. At the age of eight, he moved with his family to Chicago, where at an early age he began taking piano lessons. He proved to be a prodigy and performed with the Chicago, St. Louis, and Detroit Symphonies before he was ten years old. Styne attended Chicago Musical College, but before then, he had already attracted attention of another teenager, Mike Todd, later a successful film producer, who commissioned him to write a song for a musical act that he was creating. It was the first of over 1,500 published songs Styne composed in his career. His first hit, "Sunday", was written in 1926. In 1929, Styne was playing with the Ben Pollack band. Styne was a vocal coach for 20th Century Fox, until Darryl F. Zanuck fired him because vocal coaching was "a luxury, and we're cutting out those luxuries", and told him he should write songs, because "that's forever". Styne established his own dance band, which brought him to the notice of Hollywood, where he was championed by Frank Sinatra and where he began a collaboration with lyricist Sammy Cahn. He and Cahn wrote many songs for the movies, including "It's Been a Long, Long Time", "Five Minutes More," and the Oscar-winning title song for Three Coins in the Fountain (1954). He collaborated on the score for the 1955 musical film My Sister Eileen with Leo Robin. Ten of his songs were nominated for the Oscar, many written with Cahn, including "I've Heard That Song Before" (#1 for 13 weeks for Harry James and His Orchestra in 1943), "I'll Walk Alone", "It's Magic" (a #2 hit for Doris Day in 1948), and "I Fall in Love Too Easily". In 1947, Styne wrote his first score for a Broadway musical, High Button Shoes, with Cahn, and over the next several decades wrote the scores for many Broadway shows, most notably Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, Peter Pan (additional music), Bells Are Ringing, Gypsy, Do Re Mi, Funny Girl, Sugar, and the Tony-winning Hallelujah, Baby!. His collaborators included Sammy Cahn, Leo Robin, Betty Comden and Adolph Green, Stephen Sondheim, and Bob Merrill. Styne died of heart failure in New York City at the age of 88. His archive - including original hand-written compositions, letters, and production materials - is housed at the Harry Ransom Center. Styne was elected to the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1972 and the American Theatre Hall of Fame in 1981, and he was a recipient of a Drama Desk Special Award and the Kennedy Center Honors in 1990. Additionally, Styne won the 1955 Oscar for Best Music, Original Song for "Three Coins in the Fountain", and "Hallelujah, Baby!" won the 1968 Tony Award for Best Original Score.
Gypsy
(Music)
Funny Girl
(Musical)
The Dangerous Christmas of Red Riding Hood
(Songs)
The Dangerous Christmas of Red Riding Hood
(Music)
Gypsy
(Musical)
Knickerbocker Holiday
(Songs)
Gypsy
(Songs)
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
(Songs)
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
(Music)
Becoming Benanti: The Role of a Lifetime
(Music)
Becoming Benanti: The Role of a Lifetime
(Lyricist)
Romance on the High Seas
(Original Music Composer)
Sweater Girl
(Songs)
Two Tickets to Broadway
(Songs)
Gypsy
(Songs)
Gypsy
(Songs)
Gypsy
(Original Music Composer)
Priorities on Parade
(Songs)
Peter Pan
(Songs)
Anchors Aweigh
(Songs)
Mister Magoo's Christmas Carol
(Songs)
Romance on the High Seas
(Songs)
Funny Girl
(Songs)
My Sister Eileen
(Songs)
The Night the Animals Talked
(Songs)
Tonight and Every Night
(Songs)
What a Way to Go!
(Songs)
Living It Up
(Songs)
Puddin' Head
(Songs)
Angels with Broken Wings
(Songs)
Melody and Moonlight
(Songs)
Melody Ranch
(Songs)
Ridin' on a Rainbow
(Songs)
Mountain Moonlight
(Songs)
Sing, Dance, Plenty Hot
(Songs)
Sailors on Leave
(Songs)
Ice Capades Revue
(Songs)
Hit Parade of 1941
(Songs)
Rookies on Parade
(Songs)
Cowboy Serenade
(Songs)
Sleepytime Gal
(Songs)
Rags to Riches
(Songs)
The Singing Hill
(Songs)
Johnny Doughboy
(Songs)
The Powers Girl
(Songs)
The Old Homestead
(Songs)
Youth on Parade
(Songs)
Swing Your Partner
(Songs)
Girl from Havana
(Songs)
Nevada City
(Songs)
Salute for Three
(Songs)
Hit Parade of 1943
(Songs)
Follow the Boys
(Songs)
Let's Face It
(Songs)
Step Lively
(Songs)
Thumbs Up
(Songs)
Carolina Blues
(Songs)
The All-Star Bond Rally
(Songs)
A Man Betrayed
(Songs)
Back in the Saddle
(Songs)
Cinderella Jones
(Songs)
Ice-Capades
(Songs)
Behind City Lights
(Songs)
Peter Pan
(Songs)
Casanova in Burlesque
(Songs)
Beyond the Blue Horizon
(Songs)
Barnyard Follies
(Songs)
Bad Man of Deadwood
(Songs)
All the Way Home
(Songs)
Mr. District Attorney in the Carter Case
(Songs)
Call of the Canyon
(Songs)
Double Dynamite
(Songs)
Dancing on a Dime
(Lyricist)
Doctors Don't Tell
(Songs)
Down Mexico Way
(Songs)
Gauchos of El Dorado
(Songs)
Glamour Girl
(Songs)
Friendly Neighbors
(Songs)
The Falcon's Alibi
(Songs)
Gangs of Sonora
(Songs)
Hollywood Victory Caravan
(Songs)
Henry Aldrich Swings It
(Songs)
The Great Morgan
(Songs)
In Old Cheyenne
(Songs)
Hold That Co-ed
(Songs)
Janie
(Songs)
Kentucky Moonshine
(Songs)
It's a Great Feeling
(Songs)
Lady from Louisiana
(Songs)
Heart of the Rio Grande
(Songs)
The Heat's On
(Songs)
I'll Get By
(Songs)
The House Across the Bay
(Songs)
How To Be Very, Very Popular
(Songs)
Larceny with Music
(Songs)
It Happened in Brooklyn
(Songs)
Lady for a Night
(Songs)
Ladies' Man
(Songs)
Macao
(Songs)
Meet Me After the Show
(Songs)
The Seven Year Itch
(Songs)
Pack Up Your Troubles
(Songs)
Purple Heart Diary
(Songs)
Ridin' Down the Canyon
(Songs)
Slightly Honorable
(Songs)
Stop, Look and Love
(Songs)
Pistol Packin' Mama
(Songs)
Sierra Sue
(Songs)
Scatterbrain
(Songs)
Sheriff of Tombstone
(Songs)
The Miracle of the Bells
(Songs)
Shantytown
(Songs)
Sis Hopkins
(Songs)
Sierra Sue
(Lyricist)
Slightly Honorable
(Lyricist)
Silent Partner
(Songs)
The Stork Club
(Songs)
Gypsy
(Original Music Composer)
Jule Styne and His Many Lyricists: Distant Melody
(Songs)
Kings of Broadway 2020: A Celebration of the Music of Jule Styne, Jerry Herman, and Stephen Sondheim
(Songs)
Earl Carroll Sketchbook
(Songs)
Gypsy
(Original Music Composer)
Peter Pan
(Original Music Composer)
It's a Great Feeling
(Original Music Composer)
The Kid from Brooklyn
(Original Music Composer)
Perfectly Frank: Frank Loesser Revued
(Songs)
The West Point Story
(Songs)
Cinderella Jones
(Original Music Composer)
The Kid from Brooklyn
(Lyricist)
Funny Girl
(Songs)
Peter Pan Live!
(Songs)
Anything Goes
(Producer)
Peter Pan
(Songs)
Peter Pan
(Songs)
Bells Are Ringing
(Original Music Composer)
Tail Spin
(Vocal Coach)
Living It Up
(Music)
Peter Pan
(Original Music Composer)
Peter Pan
(Original Music Composer)
Peter Pan Live!
(Original Music Composer)
Funny Girl
(Original Music Composer)
Tars and Spars
(Original Music Composer)
Funny Girl
(Musical)
Gypsy
(Musical)
Gypsy
(Musical)
Gypsy
(Writer)
Funny Girl
(Writer)
Sugar
(Music)
Gypsy: Live from the Southern Arizona Light Opera Company
(Original Music Composer)
Paris in the Springtime
(Songs)
The Night the Animals Talked
(Music)
Mister Magoo's Christmas Carol
(Original Music Composer)
Gypsy: Live from the Southern Arizona Light Opera Company
(Writer)
Gypsy: Live from the Southern Arizona Light Opera Company
(Theatre Play)