Jule Styne

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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jule Styne (/ˈdʒuːli staɪn/; December 31, 1905 – September 20, 1994) was a British-American song writer and composer known for a series of Broadway musicals, which include several famous and frequently revived shows. Styne was born to a Jewish family in London, England as Julius Kerwin Stein to immigrants from Ukraine, the Russian Empire who ran a small grocery. At the age of eight, he moved with his family to Chicago, where at an early age he began taking piano lessons. He proved to be a prodigy and performed with the Chicago, St. Louis, and Detroit Symphonies before he was ten years old. Styne attended Chicago Musical College, but before then, he had already attracted attention of another teenager, Mike Todd, later a successful film producer, who commissioned him to write a song for a musical act that he was creating. It was the first of over 1,500 published songs Styne composed in his career. His first hit, "Sunday", was written in 1926. In 1929, Styne was playing with the Ben Pollack band. Styne was a vocal coach for 20th Century Fox, until Darryl F. Zanuck fired him because vocal coaching was "a luxury, and we're cutting out those luxuries", and told him he should write songs, because "that's forever". Styne established his own dance band, which brought him to the notice of Hollywood, where he was championed by Frank Sinatra and where he began a collaboration with lyricist Sammy Cahn. He and Cahn wrote many songs for the movies, including "It's Been a Long, Long Time", "Five Minutes More," and the Oscar-winning title song for Three Coins in the Fountain (1954). He collaborated on the score for the 1955 musical film My Sister Eileen with Leo Robin. Ten of his songs were nominated for the Oscar, many written with Cahn, including "I've Heard That Song Before" (#1 for 13 weeks for Harry James and His Orchestra in 1943), "I'll Walk Alone", "It's Magic" (a #2 hit for Doris Day in 1948), and "I Fall in Love Too Easily". In 1947, Styne wrote his first score for a Broadway musical, High Button Shoes, with Cahn, and over the next several decades wrote the scores for many Broadway shows, most notably Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, Peter Pan (additional music), Bells Are Ringing, Gypsy, Do Re Mi, Funny Girl, Sugar, and the Tony-winning Hallelujah, Baby!. His collaborators included Sammy Cahn, Leo Robin, Betty Comden and Adolph Green, Stephen Sondheim, and Bob Merrill. Styne died of heart failure in New York City at the age of 88. His archive - including original hand-written compositions, letters, and production materials - is housed at the Harry Ransom Center. Styne was elected to the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1972 and the American Theatre Hall of Fame in 1981, and he was a recipient of a Drama Desk Special Award and the Kennedy Center Honors in 1990. Additionally, Styne won the 1955 Oscar for Best Music, Original Song for "Three Coins in the Fountain", and "Hallelujah, Baby!" won the 1968 Tony Award for Best Original Score.

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  • wc Gender: Male
  • calendar_month Birth Date: 1905-12-31
  • event Death Date 1994-09-20
  • school Known for: Sound
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  • info Birth Place London, England
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Gypsy

1993-12-12

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Funny Girl

2018-10-24

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The Dangerous Christmas of Red Riding Hood

1965-11-28

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The Dangerous Christmas of Red Riding Hood

1965-11-28

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Gypsy

2015-12-27

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Knickerbocker Holiday

1944-03-17

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Gypsy

2015-12-27

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Gentlemen Prefer Blondes

1953-07-14

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Gentlemen Prefer Blondes

1953-07-14

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Becoming Benanti: The Role of a Lifetime

2022-03-19

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Becoming Benanti: The Role of a Lifetime

2022-03-19

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Romance on the High Seas

1948-06-25

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Sweater Girl

1942-07-13

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Two Tickets to Broadway

1951-11-20

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Gypsy

1962-11-01

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Gypsy

1962-11-01

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Gypsy

1993-12-12

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Priorities on Parade

1942-07-23

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Peter Pan

1960-12-08

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Anchors Aweigh

1945-08-13

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Mister Magoo's Christmas Carol

1962-12-18

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Romance on the High Seas

1948-06-25

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Funny Girl

2018-10-24

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My Sister Eileen

1955-09-22

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Tonight and Every Night

1945-01-09

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Bells Are Ringing

1960-06-23

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What a Way to Go!

1964-07-31

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The Night the Animals Talked

1970-12-09

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Living It Up

1954-07-15

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Sing, Dance, Plenty Hot

1940-08-10

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Girl from Havana

1940-09-11

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Melody and Moonlight

1940-10-10

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Hit Parade of 1941

1940-10-14

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Melody Ranch

1940-09-15

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Ridin' on a Rainbow

1941-01-24

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Rookies on Parade

1941-04-16

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The Singing Hill

1941-04-25

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Angels with Broken Wings

1941-05-27

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Nevada City

1941-06-19

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Puddin' Head

1941-06-25

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Mountain Moonlight

1941-07-12

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Rags to Riches

1941-07-31

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Sailors on Leave

1941-09-30

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Cowboy Serenade

1942-01-30

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Sleepytime Gal

1942-03-05

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The Old Homestead

1942-08-17

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Youth on Parade

1942-10-24

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Ice Capades Revue

1942-12-24

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Johnny Doughboy

1942-12-31

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The Powers Girl

1943-01-15

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Salute for Three

1943-03-17

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Hit Parade of 1943

1943-03-26

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Swing Your Partner

1943-05-20

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Thumbs Up

1943-07-05

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Let's Face It

1943-08-04

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Follow the Boys

1944-05-05

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Step Lively

1944-07-26

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Carolina Blues

1944-12-20

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Ice-Capades

1941-08-19

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The All-Star Bond Rally

1945-05-10

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A Man Betrayed

1936-12-27

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All the Way Home

1963-10-17

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Back in the Saddle

1941-03-14

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Peter Pan

2000-10-10

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Bad Man of Deadwood

1941-09-05

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Barnyard Follies

1940-10-05

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Behind City Lights

1945-09-10

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Beyond the Blue Horizon

1942-06-25

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Call of the Canyon

1942-08-17

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Mr. District Attorney in the Carter Case

1941-12-18

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Casanova in Burlesque

1944-02-19

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Cinderella Jones

1946-03-09

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Dancing on a Dime

1940-11-01

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Doctors Don't Tell

1941-09-22

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Double Dynamite

1951-12-25

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Down Mexico Way

1941-10-15

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The Falcon's Alibi

1946-04-12

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Friendly Neighbors

1940-11-17

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Gangs of Sonora

1941-07-10

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Gauchos of El Dorado

1941-10-24

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Glamour Girl

1948-01-16

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The Great Morgan

1945-01-01

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Heart of the Rio Grande

1942-03-11

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The Heat's On

1943-12-02

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Henry Aldrich Swings It

1943-06-23

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Hold That Co-ed

1938-09-16

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Hollywood Victory Caravan

1945-09-30

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The House Across the Bay

1940-03-01

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How To Be Very, Very Popular

1955-07-22

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I'll Get By

1950-10-02

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In Old Cheyenne

1941-04-04

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It Happened in Brooklyn

1947-03-13

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It's a Great Feeling

1949-08-01

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Janie

1944-09-02

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Kentucky Moonshine

1938-05-20

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Ladies' Man

1947-02-07

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Lady for a Night

1942-01-05

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Lady from Louisiana

1941-04-22

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Larceny with Music

1943-09-10

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Macao

1952-04-11

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Meet Me After the Show

1951-08-15

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The Miracle of the Bells

1948-03-27

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Pack Up Your Troubles

1939-10-24

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Pistol Packin' Mama

1943-12-15

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Purple Heart Diary

1951-11-12

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Ridin' Down the Canyon

1942-12-30

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Scatterbrain

1940-07-20

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The Seven Year Itch

1955-06-03

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Shantytown

1943-04-20

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Sheriff of Tombstone

1941-05-07

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Sierra Sue

1941-11-12

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Sierra Sue

1941-11-12

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Silent Partner

1944-06-09

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Sis Hopkins

1941-04-12

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Slightly Honorable

1939-12-22

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Slightly Honorable

1939-12-22

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Stop, Look and Love

1939-09-22

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The Stork Club

1945-12-28

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Gypsy

2015-12-27

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Earl Carroll Sketchbook

1946-08-22

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Kings of Broadway 2020: A Celebration of the Music of Jule Styne, Jerry Herman, and Stephen Sondheim

2020-05-31

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Jule Styne and His Many Lyricists: Distant Melody

2020-12-07

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Gypsy

1993-12-12

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Peter Pan

1955-03-07

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It's a Great Feeling

1949-08-01

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The Kid from Brooklyn

1946-03-21

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Perfectly Frank: Frank Loesser Revued

1981-01-01

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The West Point Story

1950-11-25

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Cinderella Jones

1946-03-09

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The Kid from Brooklyn

1946-03-21

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Funny Girl

1968-09-19

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Peter Pan Live!

2014-12-04

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Anything Goes

1954-02-28

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Peter Pan

1955-03-07

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Peter Pan

1956-01-09

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Bells Are Ringing

1960-06-23

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Tail Spin

1939-02-19

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Living It Up

1954-07-15

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Peter Pan

1960-12-08

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Peter Pan

2000-10-10

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Peter Pan Live!

2014-12-04

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Funny Girl

1968-09-19