His popular-song compositions include "You'll Never Know" (Academy Award, 1943), "Chattanooga Choo-Choo", "I've Got a Gal in Kalamazoo", "Time on My Hands", "Help Yourself to Happiness", "Listen to the German Band", "Underneath the Harlem Moon", "I Played Fiddle for the Czar", "An Orchid to You", "A Tree Was a Tree"...
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Round 1: Part 2
(2008)
(lyrics: "The More I See You" - uncredited)
2009Hollywood Singing and Dancing: A Musical History - The 1940s: Stars, Stripes and Singing
(video documentary)
(lyrics: "Boa Noite Good-Night" - uncredited, "Down Argentina Way" - uncredited, "In Acapulco" - uncredited, "On the Boardwalk in Atlantic City" - uncredited, "I, Yi, Yi, Yi, Yi I Like You Very Much" - uncredited, "Chattanooga Choo Choo" - uncredited)
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Love
(1998)
(lyrics: "You Say the Sweetest Things Baby" - uncredited)
1997Hidden Hollywood: Treasures from the 20th Century Fox Film Vaults
(TV documentary)
(lyrics: "But Definitely" - uncredited, "Down Argentina Way" - uncredited, "You're My Little Pin-Up Girl" - uncredited, "I Can't Begin to Tell You" - uncredited, "This Is It", "Chica Chica Boom Chic" - uncredited, "Blue Shadows and White Gardenias")
1997Picture Perfect
(writer: "I Had the Craziest Dream", "You'll Never Know", "The More I See You", "You Make Me Feel So Young", "There's a Lull in My Life")
1997That Old Feeling
(writer: "There Will Never Be Another You", "At Last")
1997Inventing the Abbotts
(writer: "You'll Never Know", "I've Got a Gal in Kalamazoo", "You Make Me Feel So Young", "Serenade in Blue")
1997The Devil's Own
(writer: "There Will Never Be Another You")
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You'll Never Know
(1982)
(lyrics: "You'll Never Know" - uncredited)
1982The 54th Annual Academy Awards
(TV special documentary)
(lyrics: "I, Yi, Yi, Yi, Yi I Like You Very Much" - uncredited, "Chattanooga Choo Choo" - uncredited, "You'll Never Know" - uncredited, "There Will Never Be Another You" - uncredited)
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Episode #1.2
(1970)
(lyrics: "I Had the Craziest Dream" - uncredited)
1970Myra Breckinridge
(lyrics: "You Gotta S-M-I-L-E to Be H-A-Double-P-Y", "May I Tempt You with a Big Red Rosy Apple?", "Chica Chica Boom Chic", "Chattanooga Choo Choo")
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Episode dated 16 December 1959
(1959)
(lyrics: "Stay as Sweet as You Are" - uncredited, "You Make Me Feel So Young" - uncredited, "Time on My Hands" - uncredited, "Chattanooga Choo Choo" - uncredited, "You'll Never Know" - uncredited)
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Episode dated 7 October 1959
(1959)
(lyrics: "You'll Never Know" - uncredited, "I Can't Begin to Tell You" - uncredited, "You Say the Sweetest Things Baby" - uncredited, "It Happened in Sun Valley" - uncredited)
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Harry Warren
(1958)
(lyrics: "Chattanooga Choo Choo" - uncredited, "I Had the Craziest Dream" - uncredited, "You'll Never Know" - uncredited, "I Know Why and So Do You" - uncredited, "Down Argentina Way" - uncredited, "Serenade in Blue" - uncredited)
1957Kiss Them for Me
(lyrics: "I Had the Craziest Dream" - uncredited)
1953The Girl Next Door
(lyrics: "We Girls of the Chorus" - uncredited, "The Great White Way" - uncredited, "A Quiet Little Place in the Country" - uncredited, "If I Love You a Mountain" - uncredited, "I'd Rather Have a Pal Than a Gal Anytime" - uncredited, "You're Doin' All Right" - uncredited, "Nowhere Guy" - uncredited, "I'm Mad About the Girl Next Door" - uncredited, "You" - uncredited)
1953I Love Melvin
(lyrics: "A Lady Loves", "Saturday Afternoon Before the Game", "I Wanna Wander", "We Have Never Met, As Yet", "Life Has Its Funny Little Ups and Downs", "Where Did You Learn To Dance")
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Episode #1.40
(1951)
(writer: "On the Boardwalk in Atlantic City")
1951On the Riviera
(lyrics: "Chica Chica Boom Chic" - uncredited)
1951Half Angel
(lyrics: "I Had the Craziest Dream" - uncredited)
1951Call Me Mister
(lyrics: "JAPANESE GIRL LIKE 'MERICAN BOY", "I JUST CAN'T DO ENOUGH FOR YOU, BABY", "LOVE IS BACK IN BUSINESS")
1950I'll Get By
(lyrics: "There Will Never Be Another You", "You Make Me Feel So Young", "Fifth Avenue", "Down Argentina Way", "I've Got a Gal in Kalamazoo", "I'm Making Believe", "The More I See You", "You Say the Sweetest Things Baby")
1950Summer Stock
(lyrics: "Dig-Dig-Dig Dig For Your Dinner" - uncredited, "Friendly Star" - uncredited, " Howdy Neighbor Happy Harvest" - uncredited, "If You Feel Like Singing, Sing" - uncredited, "Mem'ry Island" - uncredited)
1950The Big Lift
(lyrics: "Chattanooga Choo Choo" - uncredited)
1950Wabash Avenue
(lyrics: "DOWN ON WABASH AVENUE", "I WISH I COULD SHIMMY LIKE MY SISTER KATE" - uncredited, "MAY I TEMPT YOU WITH A BIG RED ROSY APPLE?", "BABY WON'T YOU SAY YOU LOVE ME?", "WILHELMINA", "Clean Up Chicago")
1949You're My Everything
(writer: "Lollipop Prelude and Interlude" / lyrics: "I Want to Be Teacher's Pet", "Chattanooga Choo Choo", "I Can't Begin to Tell You" / performer: "I Can't Begin to Tell You")
1947Mother Wore Tights
(lyrics: "You Do", "This Is My Favorite City", "We're a Couple of Broadway Brothers", "Kokomo, Indiana", "Tra-La-La-La" - uncredited, "There's Nothing Like a Song", " Rolling Down Bowling Green On a Little Two-Seat Tandem", "Fare-Thee-Well, Dear Alma Mater")
1946Three Little Girls in Blue
(lyrics: "On the Boardwalk in Atlantic City" - uncredited, "You Make Me Feel So Young" - uncredited, "Always a Lady" - uncredited, "A Farmer's Life Is a Very Merry Life" - uncredited, "I Like Mike" - uncredited, "Somewhere in the Night" - uncredited)
1946Do You Love Me
(lyrics: "The More I See You" - uncredited)
1945The Dolly Sisters
(lyrics: "I Can't Begin to Tell You" - uncredited, "We Have Been Around" - uncredited, "Don't Be Too Old Fashioned Old Fashioned Girl" - uncredited, "Powder, Lipstick and Rouge" - uncredited)
1945Diamond Horseshoe
(lyrics: "Welcome to the Diamond Horseshoe" - uncredited, "Cooking Up a Show" - uncredited, "In Acapulco" - uncredited, "I Wish I Knew" - uncredited, "The More I See You" - uncredited, "Play Me an Old Fashioned Melody" - uncredited, "A Nickel's Worth of Jive" - uncredited, "You'll Never Know" - uncredited, "Dessert Finale" - uncredited, "The Old and the New Prelude" - uncredited)
1944Sweet and Low-Down
(lyrics: "I'm Making Believe" 1944, "Ten Days with Baby" 1944, "Chug Chug Choo-Choo Chug" 1944, "Hey Bub! Let's Have a Ball" 1944, "Down Argentina Way" 1940 - uncredited, "I, Yi, Yi, Yi, Yi I Like You Very Much" 1940 - uncredited)
1944Home in Indiana
(lyrics: "You'll Never Know" 1943 - uncredited)
1944Pin Up Girl
(lyrics: "You're My Little Pin Up Girl" - uncredited, "Time Alone Will Tell" - uncredited, "Red Robins, Bobwhites and Bluebirds" - uncredited, "Don't Carry Tales out of School" - uncredited, "Yankee Doodle Hayride" - uncredited, "Once Too Often" - uncredited, "The Story of the Very Merry Widow" - uncredited)
1944Four Jills in a Jeep
(lyrics: "I, Yi, Yi, Yi, Yi I Like You Very Much" - uncredited, "You'll Never Know" - uncredited)
1944My Heart Tells Me
(short)
(lyrics: "My Heart Tells Me Should I Believe My Heart?")
1943The Gang's All Here
(lyrics: " I've Got a Gal in Kalamazoo" - uncredited)
1943Sweet Rosie O'Grady
(lyrics: "Get Your Police Gazette", "Goin' to the County Fair", "My Heart Tells Me Should I Believe My Heart?", "My Sam", "Where, Oh, Where Is the Groom?", "The Wishing Waltz")
1943Hello Frisco, Hello
(lyrics: "You'll Never Know", "I've Got a Gal in Every Port" - uncredited)
1942Song of the Islands
(writer: "Down on Ami Ami Oni Oni Isle" 1942, "Sing Me a Song of the Islands" 1942, "Maluna Malolo Mawaena Hawaiian Drinking Song" 1942, "What's Buzzin' Cousin?" 1942, "O'Brien Has Gone Hawaiian" 1942, "Blue Shadows and White Gardenias" 1942 / lyrics: "Home on the Range" 1904 - uncredited)
1942Time to Kill
(lyrics: "I Had the Craziest Dream" - uncredited)
1942Springtime in the Rockies
(lyrics: "Run, Little Raindrop, Run", "I Had the Craziest Dream", "Chattanooga Choo Choo", "A Poem Set to Music", "Pan American Jubilee")
1942Iceland
(lyrics: "I Like a Military Tune" - uncredited, "I, Yi, Yi, Yi, Yi I Like You Very Much" - uncredited, "It's the Lovers' Knot" - uncredited, "Let's Bring New Glory to Old Glory" - uncredited, "There Will Never Be Another You" - uncredited, "You Can't Say No to a Soldier" - uncredited, "Hawaiian Prelude" - uncredited)
1942Orchestra Wives
("At Last" - uncredited, " I've Got a Gal in Kalamazoo" - uncredited, "People Like You and Me" - uncredited, "Serenade in Blue" - uncredited)
1941Week-End in Havana
(lyrics: "A Week-End in Havana", "When I Love, I Love", "Tropical Magic", "Romance and Rhumba", "The Man with the Lollypop Song", "The Ñango Nyango")
1941Sun Valley Serenade
("Chattanooga Choo Choo" - uncredited, "I Know Why and So Do You" - uncredited, "It Happened in Sun Valley" - uncredited, "The Kiss Polka" - uncredited)
1941Dance Hall
(lyrics: "There's a Lull in My Life")
1941The Great American Broadcast
(lyrics: "The Great American Broadcast", "I Take to You", "It's All in a Lifetime", "I've Got a Bone to Pick with You", "Long Ago Last Night", "Run, Little Raindrop, Run", "Where You Are", "Chesterstrikes", "Chapman's Cheerful Cheese")
1941That Night in Rio
(lyrics: "Chica Chica Boom Chic" - uncredited, "The Baron Is in Conference" - uncredited, "The Conference" - uncredited, "They Met in Rio A Midnight Serenade" - uncredited, "I, Yi, Yi, Yi, Yi I Like You Very Much" - uncredited, "Boa Noite Good-Night" - uncredited)
1941Small Town Deb
(lyrics: "I, Yi, Yi, Yi, Yi I Like You Very Much" - uncredited)
1940Young People
(lyrics: "Fifth Avenue" 1940 - uncredited, "I Wouldn't Take A Million" 1940 - uncredited, "The Mason-Dixon Line" 1940 - uncredited, "Tra-La-La-La" 1940 - uncredited, "Young People" 1940 - uncredited)
1940Tin Pan Alley
(lyrics: "You Say The Sweetest Things Baby" 1940 - uncredited)
1940Little Old New York
(music: "Who Is the Beau of the Belle Of New York" 1940 - uncredited / lyrics: "Who Is the Beau of the Belle Of New York" 1940 - uncredited)
1940Lillian Russell
(lyrics: "Adored One" 1940, "Waltz Is King" - uncredited)
1940Johnny Apollo
(writer: "This Is the Beginning of the End" 1940)
1940Down Argentine Way
(lyrics: "Down Argentina Way" - uncredited, "Nenita" - uncredited, "Sing to Your Señorita" - uncredited, "Two Dreams Met" - uncredited)
1940Star Dust
(writer: "Secrets in the Moonlight", "Don't Let It Get You Down")
1939The Rains Came
(music: "The Rains Came" 1939 / lyrics: "The Rains Came" 1939)
1939Tail Spin
(lyrics: "Are You in the Mood for Mischief?")
1938Hold That Co-ed
(music: "Hold That Co-ed" 1938 - uncredited, "Here I Am Doing It" 1938 - uncredited / lyrics: "Hold That Co-ed" 1938 - uncredited, "Here I Am Doing It" 1938 - uncredited)
1938Thanks for Everything
(lyrics: "Thanks for Everything", "You're the World's Fairest", "Puff a Puff", "Three Cheers for Henry Smith")
1938My Lucky Star
(lyrics: "By a Wishing Well", "Could You Pass in Love?", "This May Be the Night", "I've Got a Date with a Dream", "Classy Clothes Chris", "Plymouth Rock", "Marching Along", "Plymouth Farewell Song")
1938Love Finds Andy Hardy
(music: "What Do You Know About Love", "It Never Rains, But What It Pours", "Meet The Beat Of My Heart" / lyrics: "What Do You Know About Love", "It Never Rains, But What It Pours", "Meet The Beat Of My Heart")
1938Josette
(lyrics: "May I Drop a Petal in Your Glass of Wine?", "In Any Language It's Love", "Where in the World")
1938Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm
(lyrics: "You've Gotta Eat Your Spinach, Baby", "An Old Straw Hat", "When I'm with You", "Oh My Goodness", "Goodnight, My Love", "Nevada Moon")
1938Bluebeard's Eighth Wife
(music: "Here Comes Cookie" 1935 - uncredited / lyrics: "Here Comes Cookie" 1935 - uncredited)
1938Sally, Irene and Mary
(lyrics: "Sweet as a Song" - uncredited, "Got My Mind on Music" - uncredited)
1937You Can't Have Everything
(lyrics: "You Can't Have Everything" 1937 - uncredited, "The Loveliness of You" 1937 - uncredited, "Danger, Love at Work" 1937 - uncredited, "Afraid to Dream" 1937 - uncredited, "Please Pardon Us, We're in Love" 1937 - uncredited, "North Pole Sketch" 1937 - uncredited)
1937This Is My Affair
(lyrics: "I Hum a Waltz" 1937, "Fill It Up" 1937, "Put Down Your Glass - Pick Up Your Girl" 1937)
1937In Old Chicago
(music: "In Old Chicago" 1937 - uncredited / lyrics: "In Old Chicago" 1937 - uncredited)
1937Ali Baba Goes to Town
(lyrics: "Laugh Your Way Through Life" 1937 - uncredited, "Swing Is Here to Sway" 1937 - uncredited, "I've Got My Heart Set on You" 1937 - uncredited, "Vote for Honest Abe" 1937 - uncredited, "Arabania" 1937 - uncredited)
1937Love and Hisses
(music: "Sweet Someone", "I Wannt Be In Winchell's Column", "Broadway's Gone Hawaii", "Be A Good Sport" / lyrics: "Sweet Someone", "I Wannt Be In Winchell's Column", "Broadway's Gone Hawaii", "Be A Good Sport")
1937The Girl Was Young
(writer: "May I Have the Next Romance With You" - uncredited)
1937Wake Up and Live
(lyrics: "There's a Lull in My Life", "Wake Up and Live", "Never in a Million Years", "I'm Bubbling Over", "It's Swell of You", "Oh, But I'm Happy", "I Love You Too Much, Muchacha", "Red Seal Malt", "Bernie's Love Song")
1937Gangway
(lyrics: "My, What a Different Night" - uncredited)
1937The New Professor
(short)
(lyrics: "One Never Knows, Does One?" - uncredited)
1937Head Over Heels in Love
(lyrics: "Head Over Heels" - uncredited, "May I Have the Next Romance with You" - uncredited, "Don't Give a Good Gosh Darn" - uncredited, "Looking Around Corners for You" - uncredited, "There's That Look in Your Eyes Again" - uncredited, "Through the Courtesy of Love" - uncredited, "Advertising Jingles - Gents Outfitters, Dental Cream, Chewing Gum" - uncredited)
1937Starlets
(short)
(lyrics: "A Star Fell Out of Heaven" - uncredited)
1936Stowaway
(lyrics: "Goodnight, My Love" 1936, "You Gotta S-M-I-L-E To Be H-A-Double-P-Y" 1936, "One Never Knows, Does One?" 1936, "I Wanna Go To The Zoo" 1936 - uncredited)
1936Poor Little Rich Girl
(lyrics: "When I'm with You" 1936 - uncredited, "Oh My Goodness" 1936 - uncredited, "You've Gotta Eat Your Spinach, Baby" 1936 - uncredited, "But Definitely" 1936 - uncredited, "Buy a Bar of Barry's" 1936 - uncredited, "Military Man" 1936 - uncredited, "Peck's Theme" 1936 - uncredited)
1936Everybody Dance
(lyrics: "My, What a Different Night", "Everybody Dance", "What Does It Get Me?", "Why Did I Marry a Wrestler?")
1936The Backyard Broadcast
(short)
(writer: " Lookie, Lookie, Lookie Here Comes Cookie" - uncredited)
1936Collegiate
(music: "My Grandfather's Clock in the Hallway", "Alma Mater", "Who Am I", "You Hit the Spot", "Rhythmantic", "I Feel Like a Feather In The Breeze", "Rhythmatic", "Learn to Be Lovely", "Will I Ever Know", "Guess Again" / lyrics: "My Grandfather's Clock in the Hallway", "Alma Mater", "Who Am I", "You Hit the Spot", "Rhythmantic", "I Feel Like a Feather In The Breeze", "Rhythmatic", "Learn to Be Lovely", "Will I Ever Know", "Guess Again")
1936The Half Wit-ness
(short)
(lyrics: "Without a Word of Warning" - uncredited)
1935Remember Last Night?
(music: "Lookie Lookie Lookie, Here Comes Cookie" 1935 - uncredited / lyrics: "Lookie Lookie Lookie, Here Comes Cookie" 1935 - uncredited)
1935Two for Tonight
(lyrics: "It Takes Two To Make a Bargain", "Without a Word of Warning", "From the Top of Your Head To the Tip of Your Toes", "I Wish I Were Aladdin")
1935Stolen Harmony
(lyrics: "WOULD THERE BE LOVE?", "FAGIN, YOUSE IS A VIPER", "WITH MY EYES WIDE OPEN I'M DREAMING", "STAY AS SWEET AS YOU ARE", "LET'S SPILL THE BEANS")
1935Love in Bloom
(writer: "My Heart Is an Open Book" - uncredited, " Lookie, Lookie, Lookie, Here Comes Cookie" - uncredited, "Got Me Doin' Things" - uncredited, "Let Me Sing You to Sleep with a Love Song" - uncredited)
1934We're Not Dressing
(lyrics: "Sailor's Chanty It's a Lie" 1934 - uncredited, "It's Just a New Spanish Custom" 1934 - uncredited, "I Positively Refuse to Sing" 1934 - uncredited, "May I?" 1934 - uncredited, "Goodnight Lovely Little Lady" 1934 - uncredited, "She Reminds Me of You" 1934 - uncredited, "Love Thy Neighbor" 1934 - uncredited, "Let's Play House" 1934 - uncredited, "Once in a Blue Moon" 1934 - uncredited, "It's the Animal in Me" 1934 - uncredited)
1934The Old Fashioned Way
(lyrics: "We're Just Poor Folks Rolling in Love" 1934 - uncredited, "A Little Bit of Heaven, Known as Mother" 1934 - uncredited)
1934The Gay Divorcee
(music: "Don't Let It Bother You" 1934, "Let's K-nock K-nees" 1931 / lyrics: "Don't Let It Bother You" 1934, "Let's K-nock K-nees" 1931)
1934College Rhythm
(lyrics: "Take a Number from One to Ten", "Stay as Sweet As You Are", "Let's Give Three Cheers For Love", "College Rhythm", "Goo-Goo I'm Ga-Ga Over You")
1934Hollywood Rhythm
(short)
(lyrics: "Stay as Sweet as You Are", "College Rhythm", "Take a Number from One to Ten", "Goodnight, Lovely Little Lady", "You're Such a Comfort to Me", "Did You Ever See a Dream Walking?", "With My Eyes Wide Open I'm Dreaming" / performer: "Stay as Sweet as You Are", "College Rhythm", "Goodnight, Lovely Little Lady", "You're Such a Comfort to Me", "Did You Ever See a Dream Walking?", "With My Eyes Wide Open I'm Dreaming")
1934Rhythm on the Roof
(short)
(lyrics: "May I" - uncredited, "Love Thy Neighbor" - uncredited, "Good Night, Lovely Little Lady" - uncredited)
1934A Dream Walking
(short)
(music: "Did You Ever See a Dream Walking" - uncredited / lyrics: "Did You Ever See a Dream Walking" - uncredited)
1934She Loves Me Not
(lyrics: "PUT A LITTLE RHYTHM IN EVERY LITTLE THING YOU DO", "STRAIGHT FROM THE SHOULDER", "I'M HUMMIN', I'M WHISTLIN', I'M SINGIN'")
1933Sitting Pretty
(lyrics: "Did You Ever See A Dream Walking?", "I Wanna Meander With Miranda", "You're Such a Comfort to Me", "Good Morning Glory", "Many Moons Ago", "Lucky Little Extras", "There's a Bluebird at My Window", "And Then We Wrote", "Blonde, Blasé and Beautiful", "Ballad of the Southland", "Lights, Action, Camera, Love")
1933White Woman
(lyrics: "Yes, My Dear", "He's a Cute Brute")
1933Broadway Thru a Keyhole
("Doin' the Uptown Lowdown", "When You Were a Girl on a Scooter and I the Boy on the Bike", "You Are My Past, Present and Future", "I Love You Pizzicato")
His popular-song compositions include "You'll Never Know" (Academy Award, 1943), "Chattanooga Choo-Choo", "I've Got a Gal in Kalamazoo", "Time on My Hands", "Help Yourself to Happiness", "Listen to the German Band", "Underneath the Harlem Moon", "I Played Fiddle for the Czar", "An Orchid to You", "A Tree Was a Tree"...
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