Jay Livingston

The post-war songwriter Jay Livingston earned three Academy Awards for Best Music through the 1940s and ’50s in tandem with Ray Evans. Created in Pa, Livingston studied traditional piano as a kid and while in the College or university of Pennsylvania, researched structure and orchestration. He led a dance music group privately, where he fulfilled lyricist Ray Evans. After graduation in 1937, the set moved to NY and discovered their first strike with “G’bye Right now,” created in 1941 for Ole Olsen and Chic Johnson’s Hellzapoppin’. After spending many years in the U.S. Military, Livingston shifted with Evans to Hollywood in 1944 and authorized a agreement with Paramount. In every, they wrote tracks for 100 movies in the a decade from 1946 to 1956, like the award-winning “Control keys and Bows” (from 1948’s The Paleface), “Mona Lisa” (from 1951’s Captain Carey from the U.S.A.), and “Que Sera Sera (Whatever Can Be, Can Become)” (from 1957’s THE PERSON Who Knew AN EXCESSIVE AMOUNT OF). Livingston and Evans started freelancing for different studios through the ’50s and focused more on full ratings — The Lemon Drop Child (which introduced the vacation classic “Silver precious metal Bells”) and MY PAL Irma, amongst others — than isolated tracks. In 1961, the duo made up the rating for the Broadway musical ALLOW IT Ride! Both had been inducted in to the Songwriters Hall of Popularity.