Frank Loesser

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Frank Loesser (June 29, 1910, New York City - July 26, 1969, New York City) was a Jewish-American composer and lyricist. He died of lung cancer at age 59.

During World War II, he wrote 1942's "Praise the Lord and Pass the Ammunition".

He wrote the following Broadway musicals:

• Where’s Charley? (1948) (starring Ray Bolger)
  • "Once in Love With Amy"
• Guys and Dolls (1950)
  • "A Bushel and a Peck"
  • "Fugue for Tinhorns"
  • "I'll Know"
• The Most Happy Fella (1956)
  • "Standing on the Corner"
  • "Big D"
  • "Somebody Somewhere"
  • "Joey"
• Greenwillow (1960)
• How To Succeed In Business Without Really Trying (1961)

Some well-known songs he composed for movies and Tin Pan Alley:

• "Baby, It's Cold Outside" (from Neptune's Daughter)
• "Heart and Soul" (from the Paramount Short Subject A Song is Born)
• "I Don't Want to Walk Without You" (from the Paramount Pictures motion picture Sweater Girl)
• "Inch Worm" (from the motion picture Hans Christian Andersen)
• "On a Slow Boat to China"
• "Thumbelina" (from Hans Christian Andersen)
• "What are You Doing New Year's Eve?"
• "Wonderful Copenhagen" (from Hans Christian Andersen)

External links

• http://www.frankloesser.net/
• Interview with daughter Susan Loesser - http://freshair.npr.org/day_fa.jhtml?display=day&todayDate=12/29/2003