Sam Coslow

American pop and show tunes composer/lyricist Sam Coslow was a significant section of pop music through the ’20s & ’30s, writing such hits as “My Outdated Flame” and music for effective films of that time period. Delivered in N.Con.C. in 1902, Coslow began writing music soon after graduating from senior high school. He previously his first strike tune in 1920, “IT COULD HAVE ALREADY BEEN You,” and proved helpful because the lyricist on his just Broadway production Performers and Types of 1924, but hardly any hits implemented until Coslow transferred out to Hollywood in 1929. That same season, he done his first film, The Dance of Lifestyle, with a lot more to check out. In 1933, Coslow teamed up along with his key collaborator, composer Arthur Johnston, as well as the duo effectively have scored Bing Crosby’s initial leading jobs in College Laughter and AN EXCESSIVE AMOUNT OF Harmony. Other movies containing hit music by Coslow consist of Murder on the Vanities (1934), SWITCH OFF the Moon (1937), Excitement of an eternity (1938), Dreaming ALOUD (1940), Copacabana (1947), and 1953’s Affair Using a Stranger, that was his last title song. The majority of Coslow’s best-known music are from the first to middle-’30s, including “Sing You Sinners,” “JUST ONE SINGLE More Possibility,” “Thanks a lot,” “Moon Tune,” “Figure out how to Croon,” and “Cocktails for just two.” Throughout his profession, Coslow caused various composers such as for example Harry Woods, Fred Hollander, and Abner Metallic. Furthermore to songwriting, Coslow documented several tunes like a vocalist for the Vocalion and Victor brands from the past due ’20s with the middle-’30s, including “State It Isn’t Therefore,” “I Wanna Become Loved by You,” and his personal “Figure out how to Croon.” In 1940, Coslow co-founded a company, with Col. Wayne Roosevelt, of coin-operated track/movie shorts known as “soundies.” Coslow also created some movies through the 1940s. He ultimately remaining the music business and became an effective publisher until he retired. Although Sam Coslow spent his pension years in Florida, he was back N.Con.C. by enough time of his loss of life at age 79.