Jack Little
b. 1900, London, England, d. 1956, Hollywood, Florida
Overview
"Little" Jack Little was a popular singer on radio during the 1920's. In fact, he was one of the very earliest singers to become popular due to their radio exposure. He is included here for the songs he composed.
1924 "Jealous"
1932 "In a Shanty in Old Shanty Town"

During the 1930's he led a popoular dance band, and in the 1940's he worked as a 'single' act. After that he became a disc jockey briefly before disappearing from the public eye.

   Jay Livingston
b. March 28, 1915, McDonald, PA, USA. d. Oct. 17, 2001, Los Angeles, CA, USA. (pneumonia).
Overview:
As a child, he studied piano with Harry Archer in Pittsburg, PA. Later, while attending the University of Pennsylvania, he studied composition and orchestration with Harl McDonald. While still a student, be organized a dance band that played for various school functions, and during school vacations, also played on globe girdling crusie ships. One of his fellow students, Ray B. Evans, was also in the band (playing reeds). Livingston and Evans subsequently became a songwriting team, with Evans as the lyricist.

In 1937, Livingston and Evans both graduated, and then went to New York, where they spent the next six years. During which time, he and Evans had a Tin Pan Alley hit song with "G'bye Now". In 1939, the duo scored the motion picture 'The Cat and the Canary'. In 1940, Livingston and Evans wrote some songs that were interpolated into the Olsen and Johnson Broadway show 'Son's O' Fun'.

During WW2, Livingston served in the U.S.Army. In 1944, Livingston and composer Ray Evans, went to Hollywood where they signed a Paramount Pictures contract. They were destined to write songs for more than a hundred different films, over a ten year span.

In 1946, their title song for the film "To Each His Own", starring Olivia DeHaviland, was a huge hit. The team received three Academy Awards, in the ensuing years. The Eddie Howard release reached No. 1 on the Top Ten Charts.
1948
      For film 'The Paleface', starring Bob Hope -"Buttons and Bows", won Academy Award. It became a Dinah Shore Hit recording, among many other feminine vocalists.
1951
      For film 'Captain Carey of the U.S.A.', the team wrote a song originally called "Prima Donna", but later renamed as "Mona Lisa", and as such became a world-wide hit for singer Nat "King" Cole.
1951
      For film 'Lemon Drop Kid', starred Bob Hope and Marilyn Maxwell song "Silver Bells" was a very big hit.
1957
      For the film 'The Man Who Knew Too Much', their song, "Que Sera, Sera", won Academy Award. It soon became a Rosemary Clooney hit recording.
1957
      "Tammy"

After 1955, Livingston and Evans free-lanced for many different Hollywood studios. During this time, they not only contributed individual songs, but also wrote complete scores, including the score for 'The Lemon Drop Kid' with Bob Hope; 'My Friend Irma', and others.

1958 saw Livingston and Evans' first full Broadway score for 'Oh Captain'. This was a stage adaptation of the successful film, "The Captain's Paradise', starring Alec Guinness.

In 1959, Livingston and Evans scrored a Television musical 'No Man Can Tame Me".

In 1961, Livingston an Evans scored the Broadway musical 'Let It Ride!' This was a musical comedy adaptation of the George Abbott and Cecil Holm play, 'Three Men On A Horse'. George Gobel starred as the' Greeting Card Poet'. Sam Levene returned to Broadway to play the part of Patsy, the Horseplayer, the same role he played in the original Broadway play.