One of the most recorded songwriters of the 1920's and 30's was born into a musical family (his father was a violinist with the Metropolitan Opera). Harry learned to play piano at the age of five and was already a fully-fledged professional while in his second year of high school. He worked in vaudeville for four years, accompanying the popular singer Nora Bayes. During military service at Camp Upton in 1916, he befriended Irving Berlin and soon became staff pianist for his publishing company. D...
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Harry Akst Soundtracks
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Filmography: Harry Akst songs
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| Am I Blue? | Sita Sings the Blues | composer, performer |
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| Am I Blue? | Texaco Star Theater | writer |
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| Dinah | Big Fish | writer |
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| Dinah | The Revelers | composer |
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| Dinah | Texaco Star Theater | writer |
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| Guilty | Le fabuleux destin d'Amélie Poulain | writer |
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| Am I blue | The Sonny and Cher Comedy Hour | writer |
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| Am I Blue | Hope Springs | writer |
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| Am I Blue | The Voice That Thrilled the World | composer |
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| Am I Blue | Shining Girls | writer |
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| Am I Blue? | American Masters | composer |
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| Am I Blue? | Hollywood and the Stars | composer |
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| Am I Blue? | The Milton Berle Show | writer |
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| Am I Blue? | Hollywood Singing and Dancing: A Musical History - The 1920s: The Dawn of the Hollywood Musical | composer |
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| Am I Blue? | Let's Sing a Song from the Movies | composer |
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| Am I Blue? | On with the Show! | composer |
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| Am I Blue? | Rufus Jones for President | composer |
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| Am I Blue? | To Have and Have Not | composer |
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| Am I Blue? | Texaco Star Theatre Starring Milton Berle | writer |
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| Baby Face | Gilmore Girls | performer |
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| Baby Face | The Dean Martin Show | composer |
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| Baby Face | Sharon, Lois & Bram Sing A to Z | performer |
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| Birmingham Bertha | On with the Show! | composer |
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| Dinah | The Milton Berle Show | writer |
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| Dinah | Johnny Carson Presents the Sun City Scandals '72 | writer |
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| Dinah | Texaco Star Theatre Starring Milton Berle | writer |
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| Guilty | Temptation | writer |
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| Am I Blue | The David Frost Show | writer |
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| Am I Blue | The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson | writer |
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| Am I Blue | Armistead Maupin's Tales of the City | writer |
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| Am I Blue | Tales of the City | writer |
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| Am I Blue | Downton Abbey: A New Era | writer |
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| Am I Blue? | Public Enemies | composer |
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| Am I Blue? | Slaves of New York | writer |
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| Baby Face | Por Toda Minha Vida | writer |
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| Baby Face | Jolson Sings Again | composer |
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| Baby Face | My Music: The Big Band Years | composer |
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| Baby Face | Son of the Mask | writer |
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| Baby Face | Thoroughly Modern Millie | composer |
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| Dinah | Boardwalk Empire | writer |
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| Dinah | Dinah! | writer |
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| Dinah | The Perry Como Show | composer |
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| Dinah | Ali Baba Goes to Town | composer |
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| DINAH | Dinah | composer |
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| Dinah | Roman Scandals | composer |
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| Dinah | Rose-Marie | composer |
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| Dinah | Show Business | composer |
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| Dinah | Swing It | writer |
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| Dinah | The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet | composer |
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| My Heart's Love Call | Golden Dawn | composer |
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| One Little Drink | The Song of the Flame | composer |
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| Take It Off the E-String | Lady of Burlesque | writer |
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| That's What Heaven Means to Me | Artistic Temper | composer |
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| There's Nothing Too Good For My Baby | Palmy Days | composer |
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| You're Getting to Be a Habit with Me | 42nd Street | performer |
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| (I Says To Myself Says I) There's The One For Me | Bulldog Drummond | writer |
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| Africa Smiles No More | Golden Dawn | composer |
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| All My Life | Leathernecking | writer |
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| Am I Blue | Lilies of the Field | composer |
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| Am I Blue | Segar Ellis and His Embassy Club Orchestra | composer |
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| Am I Blue | So Long Letty | composer |
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| Am I Blue | SubZero | writer |
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| Am I Blue | The Last Emperor | composer |
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| Am I Blue | Batman & Mr. Freeze: SubZero | writer |
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| Am I Blue | Reel Iconic | writer |
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| Am I Blue? | Hawaiian Eye | composer |
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| Am I Blue? | Justice League | composer |
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| Am I Blue? | Night Court | composer |
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| Am I Blue? | The Facts of Life | composer |
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| Am I Blue? | The Mike Douglas Show | writer |
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| Am I Blue? | A Day at the Zoo | composer |
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| Am I Blue? | Big-Hearted Bosko | composer |
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| Am I Blue? | Body and Soul | writer |
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| Am I Blue? | Booby Hatched | composer |
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| Am I Blue? | Bosko the Doughboy | composer |
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| Am I Blue? | Check and Double Check | composer |
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| Am I Blue? | Chow Hound | composer |
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| Am I Blue? | Confederate Honey | composer |
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| Am I Blue? | Ding Dog Daddy | composer |
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| Am I Blue? | Don't Look Now | composer |
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| Am I Blue? | Frances Shelley and the Four Eton Boys | composer |
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| Am I Blue? | Funny Lady | composer |
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| Am I Blue? | Is Everybody Happy? | composer |
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| Am I Blue? | Lilly Turner | composer |
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| Am I Blue? | Little Beau Porky | composer |
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| Am I Blue? | Loose Ankles | composer |
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| Am I Blue? | One Meat Brawl | composer |
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| Am I Blue? | Pay Day | composer |
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| Am I Blue? | Police Academy: Mission to Moscow | writer |
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| Am I Blue? | Porky's Garden | composer |
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| Am I Blue? | September in the Rain | composer |
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| Am I Blue? | Sittin' on a Backyard Fence | composer |
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| Am I Blue? | Slap Happy Pappy | composer |
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| Am I Blue? | Talent Scout | composer |
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| Am I Blue? | The Cotton Club | composer |
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| Am I Blue? | The Dish Ran Away with the Spoon | composer |
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| Am I Blue? | The Hard Way | composer |
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| Am I Blue? | The Keyhole | composer |
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| Am I Blue? | The Lyin' Mouse | composer |
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| Am I Blue? | The Man with Two Faces | composer |
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| Am I Blue? | Three Brothers | composer |
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| AM I BLUE? | U.S. Marshals | writer |
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| Am I Blue? | Undercover | writer |
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| Am I Blue? | Wabbit Twouble | composer |
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| Am I Blue? | Young and Healthy | composer |
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| Am I Blue? | Hill Street Blues | writer |
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| Am I Blue? | Police Academy: Mission to Moscow - Underneath the Mission | writer |
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| Am I Blue? | Justice League Unlimited | composer, writer |
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| Am I Blue? | Suburbicon | writer |
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| Anema e core | The Color of Money | writer |
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| Anema e core | Gomer Pyle: USMC | writer |
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| Argentine Swing, | Big Town Girl | composer |
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| As Long as I'm with You | No, No, Nanette | composer |
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| At the Beach at Malibu (Hullabaloo at Malibu) | Star for a Night | composer |
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| Baby Face | Jackie Gleason: American Scene Magazine | composer |
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| Baby Face | The Brady Bunch Variety Hour | composer |
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| Baby Face | The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis | composer |
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| Baby Face | The Muppet Show | writer |
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| Baby Face | The Simpsons | composer |
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| Baby Face | The Waltons | writer |
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| Baby Face | Webster | composer |
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| Baby Face | An Egg Scramble | composer |
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| Baby Face | Baby Face | composer |
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| Baby Face | Baby Puss | composer |
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| Baby Face | Bad Ol' Putty Tat | composer |
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| Baby Face | Ballot Box Bunny | composer |
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| Baby Face | Bugs Bunny's Valentine | composer |
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| Baby Face | Casablanca | composer |
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| Baby Face | Chow Hound | composer |
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| Baby Face | Cry of the City | composer |
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| Baby Face | Glorifying the American Girl | composer |
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| Baby Face | Greenwich Village | composer |
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| Baby Face | It's Hummer Time | composer |
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| Baby Face | Johnny Apollo | composer |
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| Baby Face | Mara Maru | composer |
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| Baby Face | Mushrooms | composer |
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| Baby Face | Often an Orphan | composer |
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| Baby Face | One Hand Clapping | composer |
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| Baby Face | Phar Lap | composer |
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| Baby Face | Riff Raffy Daffy | composer |
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| Baby Face | Scent-imental Romeo | composer |
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| Baby Face | Sextette | writer |
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| Baby Face | She's Back on Broadway | composer |
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| Baby Face | She's Working Her Way Through College | composer |
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| Baby Face | Stop, You're Killing Me | composer |
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| Baby Face | Strangers on a Train | composer |
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| Baby Face | The Grey Hounded Hare | composer |
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| Baby Face | The Helen Morgan Story | composer |
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| Baby Face | The House Across the Street | composer |
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| Baby Face | The Iceman Ducketh | composer |
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| Baby Face | The Lady in Red | composer |
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| Baby Face | The Spirit of St. Louis | composer |
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| Baby Face | The Street with No Name | composer |
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| Baby Face | Their Purple Moment | composer |
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| Baby Face | There Auto Be a Law | composer |
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| Baby Face | Undercover | writer |
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| Baby Face | We're Not Married! | composer |
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| Baby Face | Why Be Good? | composer |
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| Baby Face | With Byrd at the South Pole | composer |
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| Baby Face | Young Man with a Horn | composer |
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| Baby Face | All in the Family | writer |
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| Baby Face | All in the Family | writer |
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| Baby Face | Reunion in Rhythm | writer |
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| Baby Face | One Hit Wonderland | writer |
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| Baby Face | The Vic Damone Show | writer |
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| Baby Face | The Craig Caddell Show | writer |
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| Baby! (Baby Face) | The Glorias | writer |
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| Blame It on the Danube | Fight for Your Lady | composer |
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| Blue Is The Evening | Rascals | composer |
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| Carnival Song (What a Gay Occasion) | Rascals | writer |
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| Clowning | So Long Letty | composer |
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| Come Back to Me | Song of the West | composer |
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| Daughter of Mademoiselle | Battle of Broadway | composer |
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| Dinah | American Masters | composer |
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| Dinah | The Adventures of Ozzie & Harriet | composer |
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| Dinah | A Modern Cinderella | composer |
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| Dinah | Broadway | composer |
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| Dinah | Chained | composer |
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| Dinah | Comedian Harmonists | composer, writer |
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| Dinah | Friends of Mr. Sweeney | composer |
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| Dinah | Mwah! The Best of the Dinah Shore Show | composer |
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| Dinah | Night Nurse | composer |
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| Dinah | Phil Spitalny and His Musical Queens | composer |
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| Dinah | Plane Nuts | composer |
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| Dinah | Rafter Romance | composer |
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| Dinah | Round-Up Time in Texas | composer |
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| Dinah | Streamlined Swing | composer |
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| Dinah | The 35th Annual Tony Awards | composer |
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| Dinah | The Cotton Club | composer |
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| Dinah | The High School Hoofer | composer |
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| Dinah | The Yacht Party | composer |
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| Dinah | Trouble in Toyland | composer |
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| Dinah | Tuned Out | composer |
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| Dinah | Vaudeville | composer |
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| Dinah | Walt Roesner and the Capitolians | composer |
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| Dinah | Chained | composer |
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| Dinah | Beginner's Luck | writer |
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| Dinah | Trouble in Toyland | composer |
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| Dinah | Murder in Swingtime | writer |
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| Dinah | Radio Rhapsody | writer, composer |
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| Dinah | Vince Giordano: There's a Future in the Past | writer |
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| Dinah | Bang! | writer |
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| Dinah | Amsterdam | writer |
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| Does You Wanna Go To Heaven? | Can This Be Dixie? | composer |
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| Doin' The Socialite | Boy Friend | composer |
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| Don't It Mean a Thing to You? | On with the Show! | composer |
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| Don't Sing-Everybody Swing | The Holy Terror | composer |
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| Don't Throw Kisses | Big Town Girl | composer |
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| Doo Ah Doo Ah Know What I'm Doing | The Loudspeaker | composer |
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| Down Around Malibu Way | Star for a Night | composer |
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| Father Mississippi | The Mississippi Gambler | writer |
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| Fooling with the Other Woman's Man | Now I'll Tell | composer |
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| Forget the Past | Broadway Bad | composer |
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| From Niagara Falls to Reno | Peach-O-Reno | writer |
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| Good-Bye My Heart (Good Luck to You) | Walking Down Broadway | composer |
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| Guilty | Pushing Daisies | composer |
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| Guilty | The Perry Como Show | composer |
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| Guilty | Age of Consent | composer |
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| Guilty | Agatha Christie's Marple | composer |
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| Guilty | Secret World of Magic | composer |
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| Gypsy Charmer | The Squall | composer |
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| Harlem Versus the Jungle | Now I'll Tell | composer |
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| Heaven on Earth | Glamour | writer |
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| Heaven On Earth | Let's Talk It Over | composer |
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| Holy Lie Production Routine #1 | Star for a Night | composer |
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| I Can't Get Mississippi Off My Mind | High Pressure | composer |
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| I Don't Know Myself Since I Know You | The Holy Terror | composer |
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| I Still Believe In You | Saturday's Children | writer |
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| I'll Settle for Love | Big Town Girl | composer |
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| I'm Just That Way | The Cat's-Paw | composer |
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| I'm the Medicine Man for the Blues | Is Everybody Happy? | composer |
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| If I'd Only Believed in You | Boston Nightly: Long Term Parking | writer |
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| In a Jungle Bungalow | Golden Dawn | composer |
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| In the Land of Jazz | Is Everybody Happy? | composer |
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| In the Land of Let's Pretend | Bubbles | composer |
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| In the Land of Let's Pretend | Cinderella's Feller | composer |
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| In the Land of Let's Pretend | On with the Show! | composer |
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| In the Land of Let's Pretend | The Truth About Youth | composer |
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| Intrigue | Intrigue | writer, composer |
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| It Happpened When Your Eyes Met Mine | Dramatic School | composer |
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| It's Julep Time in Dixieland | Can This Be Dixie? | composer |
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| It's The Strangest Thing | Up the River | composer |
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| Je t'adore | Marie Galante | composer |
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| Je t'adore | Under the Pampas Moon | composer |
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| Joan | She Goes to War | writer |
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| Just an Hour of Love | The Show of Shows | performer |
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| La canción del paria (Derelict Song) | Melodía prohibida | composer |
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| La melodía prohibida | Melodía prohibida | composer |
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| Legionaires | Battle of Broadway | composer |
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| Let Me Have My Dreams | On with the Show! | composer |
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| Let Me Have My Dreams | So Long Letty | composer |
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| Let's Go | The Music Goes 'Round | writer |
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| Liberty Song | The Song of the Flame | composer |
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| Lift the Juleps to Your Two Lips | On with the Show! | composer |
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| Little Big Shot | This Time for Keeps | writer |
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| Living on the Town | She Had to Eat | composer |
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| Living on the Town | Island in the Sky | composer |
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| May I Sing to You' (from _'Coke Time | Bright Lights: Starring Carrie Fisher and Debbie Reynolds | writer |
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| Mooda's Song | Golden Dawn | composer |
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| My Beauty Shop | So Long Letty | composer |
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| My Imaginary Sweetheart | Blind Adventure | composer |
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| My Imaginary Sweetheart | Professional Sweetheart | composer |
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| My Strongest Weakness Is You | So Long Letty | composer |
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| My Stronngest Weakness Is You | So Long Letty | composer |
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| New Orleans | Is Everybody Happy? | composer |
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| No More War | Diplomaniacs | composer |
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| Nobody Cares If I'm Blue | Bright Lights | writer |
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| Nobody Cares If I'm Blue | Bright Lights | composer |
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| Nobody Cares If I'm Blue | Minstrel Days | composer |
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| Nobody Cares If I'm Blue | Ups 'n Downs | composer |
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| O! Mister Carpenter | The Half Naked Truth | composer |
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| O! Mister Carpenter | The Half-Naked Truth | composer |
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| Oh! You Beautiful Doll | Admission Free | composer |
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| On a Little Side Street | Marie Galante | composer |
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| On the Boulevard | Diplomaniacs | composer |
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| On the Rancho with My Pancho | Shooting High | composer |
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| One Little Drink | The Booze Hangs High | composer |
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| One Little Drink | The Flame Song | composer |
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| One Sweet Little Yes | So Long Letty | composer |
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| Ood-Gay Eye-bay | Diplomaniacs | composer |
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| Over a Cup of Coffee | Star for a Night | composer |
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| Pais ideal (The Islands Are Calling Me) | Melodía prohibida | composer |
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| Passing Fancy | The Song of the Flame | composer |
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| Petrograd | The Song of the Flame | composer |
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| Pick Pick Pickaninny | Can This Be Dixie? | composer |
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| Pickles | Sing and Be Happy | composer |
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| Rhythmettes | Up the River | composer |
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| Roll Your Bones | I Loved You Wednesday | composer |
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| Rolling Along | The Music Goes 'Round | writer |
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| Samoa | Is Everybody Happy? | composer |
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| Shrug | International Settlement | writer, composer |
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| Siempre (Till the End of Time) | Melodía prohibida | composer |
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| Sing and Be Happy | Sing and Be Happy | composer |
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| Sing To Me | Diplomaniacs | composer |
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| So This Is You | Lady of Burlesque | writer, composer |
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| So What? | Change of Heart | composer |
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| So What? | The Great Hotel Murder | composer |
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| Song Of A Gypsy Band | Rascals | composer |
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| Song of Rockwell | Up the River | composer |
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| Stand Up And Cheer! | Stand Up and Cheer! | composer |
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| Start the Band | Is Everybody Happy? | composer |
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| Suzannah | The Music Goes 'Round | writer |
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| Take A Tip From A Gypsy | Rascals | composer |
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| Take It Off the E-String, Put It On the G-String | Lady of Burlesque | composer |
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| The Call of the Siren | The Holy Terror | composer |
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| The Egg and I | The Egg and I | writer |
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| The Goose Hangs High | The Song of the Flame | composer |
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| The Sacred Flame | The Sacred Flame | writer |
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| The Shy Violet | Think Fast, Mr. Moto | composer |
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| There I Go Again | The Holy Terror | composer |
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| There Is a Happy Land | Buddy's Show Boat | composer |
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| There Is a Happy Land | She Goes to War | writer |
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| There'll Be No South | The Music Goes 'Round | writer |
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| This Is Heaven | This Is Heaven | writer |
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| This Is Love | Her First Beau | composer |
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| This Is Love | The Music Goes 'Round | writer |
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| Till the Real Thing Comes Along | Rockabye | writer |
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| Tomorrow Night | After the Dance | composer |
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| Top Gallante | Crack-Up | composer |
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| Travelin' Light | Sing and Be Happy | composer |
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| Uncle Tom Is a Cabaret Now | Can This Be Dixie? | composer |
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| Wait For Me | She Goes to War | composer |
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| Wanted - Someone (When the Right One Comes Along) | Pursued | composer |
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| Was My Face Red | Turkey Time | writer |
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| Wedding Day | On with the Show! | composer |
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| Welcome Home | On with the Show! | composer |
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| Welcome to Victory Ranch | Chatterbox | writer |
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| What a Beautiful Beginning | Sing and Be Happy | composer |
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| What Price Love? | Husband's Holiday | writer |
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| When a Girl from Alabama Meets a Boy from Tennessee | She Had to Eat | composer |
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| Which is Which | Paddy O'Day | composer |
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| Which is Which | Paddy O'Day | composer |
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| Who But You | The Loudspeaker | composer |
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| Who Said Dreams Don't Come True? | Blondie Knows Best | writer |
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| Who Said Dreams Don't Come True? | She's a Sweetheart | writer |
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| Who Said Dreams Don't Come True? | The Impatient Years | writer |
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| Who Said Dreams Don't Come True? | Blondie's Lucky Day | writer |
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| Whoa Whoopee, Whoa Whipee (Yippy-I-O-I-Ay) | Wild and Woolly | composer |
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| Why Can't I Sing a Love Song? | Chatterbox | writer |
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| Why Can't I Sing a Love Song? | Rosie the Riveter | composer |
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| Why Don't They Let Me Sing a Love Song? | This Time for Keeps | writer |
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| Wishing and Waiting for Love | Broadway Babies | composer |
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| Wishing and Waiting For Love | Dancing Sweeties | composer |
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| Without You I'm Just Drifting | After the Dance | composer |
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| Wouldn't It Be Wonderful | Let's Elope! | composer |
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| Wouldn't It Be Wonderful | The Jazz Rehearsal | writer |
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| Wouldn't It Be Wonderful? | Is Everybody Happy? | composer |
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| You Made Me That Way | International Settlement | writer |
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| You're a Knockout | Woman-Wise | writer |
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| Your Love is All I Crave | The Show of Shows | performer |
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