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Composer (Music Score), Songwriter Born: March 28, 1915 in McDonald, PA Death: October 17, 2001 in Los Angeles, CA Biography:Composer/songwriter "Jay Livingston" was educated at the University of Pennsylvania, where he organized an orchestra and played in a touring band. One of his bandmates was another composer, "Ray Evans", with whom "Livingston" later formed a profitable partnership. "Livingston" entered films at Paramount in 1939, earning an Academy Award nomination for his scoring of "The Cat and the Canary". After a brief stay at Columbia, "Livingston" returned to Paramount in the company of his old friend "Ray Evans". "Livingston" and Evans turned out songs and incidental music for such films as "Golden Earrings" (1947) "Sorrowful Jones" (1949), "Fancy Pants" (1950), and "Here Comes the Groom" (1952). Their biggest hit during this period was the theme song from 1946's "To Each His Own". The team won Oscars for "Buttons and Bows" (from "Bob Hope"'s "The Paleface" [1948]), "Mona Lisa" (from Captain Carey USA... Full Biography
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