Songwriter ("The Best Things in Life Are Free", "Birth of the Blues", "Button Up Your Overcoat"), composer, pianist, publisher and producer, educated at the Chicago Conservatory. He was a pianist in dance bands and an arranger for New York publishing companies in vaudeville. In 1925, he joined B. G...See full bio »
1956The Best Things in Life Are Free
(music: "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", "This Is the Missus", "Together", "It All Depends on You", "You Try Somebody Else We'll Be Back Together Again", "Without Love")
1956Millionaire Droopy
(short)
(music: "I'm Sitting on Top of the World" - uncredited)
1955Love Me or Leave Me
(music: "I'm Sitting on Top of the World" - uncredited, "It All Depends On You" - uncredited, "Five Foot Two, Eyes of Blue Has Anybody Seen My Girl?" - uncredited)
1947Good News
(music: "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)
1947Birth of a Notion
(short)
(music: "Bye Bye Blackbird" - uncredited)
1946The Jolson Story
(music: "I'm Sitting on Top of the World" - uncredited)
1935Curly Top
(music: "Animal Crackers in My Soup" 1935 - uncredited, "When I Grow Up" 1935 - uncredited, "Curly Top" 1935 - uncredited, "It's All So New to Me" 1935 - uncredited, "The Simple Things in Life" 1935 - uncredited)
1934Four Parts
(short)
(music: "I'm Sitting on Top of the World" - uncredited)
1934George White's Scandals
(music: "Nasty Man", "Sweet and Simple", "Hold My Hand", "Six Women", "So Nice", "My Dog Loves Your Dog", "Every Day Is Father's Day With Baby", "Following In Mother's Footsteps")
1934Oliver the Eighth
(short)
(music: "I'm Sitting on Top of the World" 1925 - uncredited)
1930Just Imagine
(music: "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")
1930Box Car Blues
(short)
(music: "Alabamy Bound" 1925 - uncredited)
1930Hold Anything
(short)
(music: "Don't Hold Everything" - uncredited)
1930Follow Thru
(music: "Button Up Your Overcoat", "You Wouldn't Fool Me, Would You?", "I Want to Be Bad")
1930Good News
(music: "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
(music: " 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")
1929Say It with Songs
(writer: "Why Can't You" - uncredited, "Back in Your Own Backyard" - uncredited / music: "I'm in Seventh Heaven" - uncredited, "Little Pal" - uncredited, "Used to You" - uncredited)
(1929). Stage Play: Follow Thru. Musical comedy. Book by Laurence Schwab and Buddy G. DeSylva. Music by Ray Henderson. Lyrics by Lew Brown and Buddy G. DeSylva. Scenic Design by Donald Oenslager; Costume Design by Kiviette. Musical Numbers Staged by Bobby Connolly. Book Directed by Edgar J. MacGregor. Chanin's...
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