Walter Kent

Ideal remembered for the wartime requirements “The White colored Cliffs of Dover” and “I’M GOING TO BE Home for Xmas,” Walter Kent was created in Manhattan in August 1911. He went to CCNY and analyzed music in the exclusive Juilliard College. His first main songwriting success was included with 1932’s “Pu-Leeze Mister Hemingway,” that was co-written with Milton Drake and Abner Metallic and documented by Man Lombardo. He began employed in the film industry through the past due ’30s, writing tunes for a number of Westerns. Nonetheless it was Globe Battle II that offered his greatest motivation; created with lyricist Nat Burton, “(There’ll Become Bluebirds Over) The White colored Cliffs of Dover” was a romanticized ode to England’s struggle contrary to the Nazi danger, and proved a considerable strike for Glenn Miller in 1941. 2 yrs later, Kent published music for the acclaimed film edition of For Whom the Bell Tolls, and discovered a regular composing partner in poet/lyricist Wayne Kimball “Kim” Gannon, with whom he published the holiday traditional “I’M GOING TO BE Home for Xmas.” Documented by Bing Crosby (twelve months following the best-selling “White Xmas”), “I’M GOING TO BE Home for Xmas” was a smash strike, stunning a nerve with abroad GIs as well as the family members who anticipated their return. Carrying on to utilize Gannon, Kent continued to property two Oscar nominations for Greatest Track: 1944’s “AN EXCESSIVE AMOUNT OF in Like” (from Track of the Open up Road, documented by Frank Sinatra) and 1945’s “Endlessly” (from Earl Carroll Vanities). He and Gannon published three tunes for the Disney cartoon brief Johnny Appleseed in 1946, and experienced another strike with Frankie Laine’s 1950 documenting of “I’m Gonna Live Right up until I Die” (later on included in Frank Sinatra). That same 12 months, Kent’s “You’re Usually in my own Dreams” — this time around a cooperation with Al Hoffman and Manny Kurtz — was documented from the proto-doo wop group the Ravens. non-etheless, he continued to utilize Gannon, completing the musical humor Seventeen for any Broadway premiere in 1951. Small was noticed from Kent later on, though some of his music popped up in movies during the past due ’50s.