Hal David(1921-2012)
- Composer
- Music Department
- Actor
Songwriter ("Magic Moments", "Baby Elephant Walk", "What the World
Needs Now is Love") and author, educated at New York University.
Joining ASCAP in 1943, he collaborated musically with Burt Bacharach, Sherman Edwards,
Lee Pockriss, [error], Redd Evans, Don Rodney, John Barry and Henry Mancini. His other
popular-song compositions include "Four Winds and the Seven Seas, The",
"American Beauty Rose", "My Heart is an Open Book", "Broken-Hearted
Melody", "What Do You See in Her?", "Sea of Heart Break", "La
Charanga", "Our Concerto", "Johnny Get Angry", "You'll Answer to Me",
"Don't Make Me Over", "Make it Easy on Yourself", "Only Love Can Break
a Heart", "Story of My Life, The", "Blue on Blue", "True Love Never
Runs Smooth", "24 Hours From Tulsa", "Who's Been Sleeping in My Bed?",
"Anyone who Had a Heart", "Walk On By", "Any Old Time of the Day",
"Reach Out for Me", "I Wake Up Cryin'", "Don't Envy Me", "First Night
of the Full Moon, The", "(There's) Always Something There to Remind
Me", "Magic Potion", "This Empty Place", "You'll Never Get to Heaven",
"To Wait For Love", "Trains and Boats and Planes", "We Have All The
Time in the World" and "Lifetime of Loneliness, A".
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