Prolific songwriter ("April Showers", "Button Up Your Overcoat", "Look for the Silver Lining", "California, Here I Come"), composer, producer, publisher and author, educated at USC. He wrote songs for the Broadway musicals "Sinbad", "Sally", "The Perfect Fool", "The French Doll", and the 1918 and 1921 editions of the Ziegfeld Follies...See full bio »
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Episode #1.10
(1957)
(lyrics: "Sunny Side Up" - uncredited)
1957The Edsel Show
(TV special)
(lyrics: "The Birth of the Blues" - uncredited, "Somebody Loves Me" - uncredited, "It All Depends on You" - uncredited)
1957The Helen Morgan Story
(lyrics: "Avalon" - uncredited, "Somebody Loves Me" - uncredited)
1956The Best Things in Life Are Free
(lyrics: "Lucky Day", "If I Had a Talking Picture of You", "Here Am I, Broken Hearted", "Button Up Your Overcoat", "Good News", "You're the Cream in My Coffee", "The Best Things in Life Are Free", "Lucky in Love", "Black Bottom", "Birth of the Blues", "Sonny Boy", "Follow Thru", "One More Time", "Thank Your Father", "Together", "It All Depends on You", "You Try Somebody Else We'll Be Back Together Again", "Without Love")
1956He Laughed Last
(writer: "Strike me Pink" / lyrics: "Save Your Sorrow For Tomorrow")
1948If You Knew Susie
(lyrics: "If You Knew Susie" 1925 / as B.G. DeSylva)
1947Good News
(lyrics: "Good News" - uncredited, "Tait Song" - uncredited, "Be a Ladies' Man" - uncredited, "Lucky in Love" - uncredited, "The Best Things in Life Are Free" - uncredited, "Just Imagine" - uncredited, "Varsity Drag" - uncredited)
1945Anchors Aweigh
(lyrics: "If You Knew Susie" 1925 - uncredited)
1945Rhapsody in Blue
(lyrics: "Blue Monday Blues" - uncredited, "Somebody Loves Me" - uncredited, " I'll Build a Stairway to Paradise" - uncredited, "Has One of You Seen Joe?" - uncredited, "I'm Gonna See My Mother" - uncredited, "The Yankee Doodle Blues" - uncredited, "Do It Again" - uncredited)
1945Diamond Horseshoe
(writer: "Hold Tight, Hold Tight Want Some Seafood, Mama" - uncredited)
1933Take a Chance
(lyrics: "So Do I" - uncredited, "Rise 'n' Shine" - uncredited, "Should I Be Sweet or Hot?" - uncredited, "Eadie Was a Lady" - uncredited)
1933My Weakness
(music: "Gather Lip Rouge While You May", "Be Careful", "How Do I Look?" / lyrics: "Gather Lip Rouge While You May", "Be Careful", "How Do I Look?")
1931One More Time
(short)
(lyrics: "One More Time" - uncredited)
1931A Holy Terror
(lyrics: " I'M A DREAMER AREN'T WE ALL?", "I AM THE WORDS YOU ARE THE MUSIC")
1931Indiscreet
(lyrics: "If You Haven't Got Love" - uncredited, "Come to Me" - uncredited)
1930Just Imagine
(lyrics: "There's Something About An Old-Fashioned Girl" 1930 - uncredited, "Mothers Ought to Tell Their Daughters" 1930 - uncredited, " I Am the Words You Are the Melody" 1930 - uncredited, "The Drinking Song" 1930 - uncredited, "Never Swat a Fly" 1930 - uncredited, "The Romance of Elmer Stremingway" 1930 - uncredited)
1930One Good Turn
(short)
("Don't Tell Her What Happened to Me")
1930Follow Thru
(lyrics: "Button Up Your Overcoat", "You Wouldn't Fool Me, Would You?", "I Want to Be Bad")
1930Queen High
(writer: "Everything Will Happen for the Best")
1930Good News
(lyrics: "Good News" 1927 - uncredited, "The Varsity Drag" 1927 - uncredited, "Tait Song" 1927 - uncredited, "The Best Things in Life Are Free" 1927 - uncredited, "He's a Ladies' Man" 1927 - uncredited, "Students Are We" 1927 - uncredited)
1929Sunnyside Up
(lyrics: " I'M A DREAMER AREN'T WE ALL?", "YOU FIND THE TIME AND I'LL FIND THE PLACE", "YOU'VE GOT ME PICKIN' PETALS OFF O' DAISIES", "SUNNY SIDE UP", "TURN ON THE HEAT", "IF I HAD A TALKING PICTURE OF YOU", "IT'S GREAT TO BE NECKED")
1929Sally
(lyrics: "Look for the Silver Lining" 1920 - uncredited)
1929Say It with Songs
(writer: "Why Can't You" - uncredited / lyrics: "I'm in Seventh Heaven" - uncredited, "Little Pal" - uncredited, "Used to You" - uncredited)
1929Blackmail
(writer: "The Best Things in Life Are Free" 1927 - uncredited / "Sonny Boy" 1928 - uncredited)
1994That's Entertainment! III
(documentary)
(grateful acknowledgment: to the extraordinary composers and lyricists - as B.G. De Sylva)
1976That's Entertainment, Part II
(documentary)
(acknowledgement: the special style and content of the musical sequences were created by - as B.G. De Sylva)
1974That's Entertainment!
(documentary)
(acknowledgment: composer of the words and music - as B.G. De Sylva)
Ziegfeld Follies of 1918 (1918). Musical revue. Music by Louis A. Hirsch and Dave Stamper. Book by Rennold Wolf and Gene Buck. Lyrics by Rennold Wolf and Gene Buck. Interpolations by: Irving Berlin and Victor Jacobi. Musical Director: Frank Darling. Featuring songs with lyrics by Bud G. DeSylva, Arthur Jackson...
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Co-founded Capitol Records with Johnny Mercer and Glenn Wallichs. He and Mercer also founded Cowboy Records (Philadelphia, PA) the same year. [1942]
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