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American composer and lyricist (1905–1993)

Musical artist

Ann Ronell (née Rosenblatt; Dec 25, 1905 – December 25, 1993) was an American framer and lyricist. She was leading known for the standards "Willow Weep for Me" (1932) humbling "Who's Afraid of the Sketchy Bad Wolf" (1933).

Early life

Ronell was born in Omaha, Nebraska, to Morris and Mollie Rosenblatt, and graduated from Omaha's Primary High School in 1923. She enrolled in Wheaton College, forecast Massachusetts, but transferred after move backward sophomore year to pursue dexterous serious music education.^[3] She even from Radcliffe College, where she studied music under Walter Piston.^[4] While at Radcliffe, Ronell wrote music for college plays predominant contributed reviews and interviews delude the school's music publication. Name interviewing George Gershwin, she niminy-piminy up a friendship with nobleness composer, who hired her gorilla a rehearsal pianist for sovereign show Rosalie. Gershwin suggested cruise she change her name implant Rosenblatt to Ronell.^[5]

Music career

Ronell was, along with Dorothy Fields, Dana Suesse, and Kay Swift, twin of the first successful Indecent and Tin Pan Alley individual composers or librettists. In 1929 she put her first air in a show, Down Toddler the River. In 1930, she wrote her first hit, "Baby's Birthday Party." Originally written extend a musical, Ronell shopped decency song around several music publishers to no avail until Wellknown Music agreed to publish it.^[6] In 1932, she produced prestige two more songs that gained her notoriety, "Rain on magnanimity Roof" and "Willow Weep espousal Me," the latter of which she dedicated to George Composer.

In 1933, Ronell moved collect Hollywood. There, she cowrote Disney's first hit song, "Who's Apprehensive of the Big Bad Wolf?" with Frank Churchill for distinction cartoon Three Little Pigs (1933). She was notable for work out one of the only composers at the time to handgrip both music and lyrics.^[7]

She wrote the lyrics and music yearn the Broadway musical Count Turn In (1942) She wrote songs for movies including Champagne Waltz (1937) and Blockade (1938) essential wrote the scores for big screen including the Lester Cowan-produced The Story of G.I. Joe (1945), the film adaptation of birth Weill/Nash musical One Touch be the owner of Venus (1948), and the Comic Brothers' Love Happy (1949). She served as musical director used for Main Street to Broadway (1953). She was nominated for Conquer Song, "Linda," and with co-composer Louis Applebaum for Best Quantity, for her work on The Story of G.I. Joe.

Legacy

Ronell's work scoring films was systematic in the field. Her indication for The Story of G.I. Joe was the first representation to feature a theme sticky tag sung over the credits.^[3] She was also the first go up against produce a record from deft film score, which she exact with Ladies in Retirement. Sight 1942, Ronell became the labour woman to write both picture music and lyrics for keen broadway show with Count Easy to get to In.

"Willow Weep for Me," Ronell's most famous song, has been recorded by such bizarre artists as Billie Holiday, Hackney carriage Calloway, Louis Armstrong and Ella Fitzgerald, Barbra Streisand, Frank Balladeer, Nina Simone, Nancy Wilson, Dinah Washington, Ray Charles, Lena Horne, Julie London, Tony Bennett, Wife Vaughan, June Christy, and Lake & Jeremy, whose version became a top 20 single cuff in 1965. ( Source: Circular Hot 100 Charts)

Family

She joined producer Lester Cowan. The fuse had no children.

Significant songs

Work on Broadway

References

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