Phil Charig(1902-1960)
- Writer
- Music Department
- Soundtrack
Composer and songwriter ("Let Yourself Go", "Where Are You?"), educated
at Commerce High School. He joined ASCAP in 1927, and composed the
Broadway stage scores for "Yes, Yes, Yvette", "Just Fancy", and "Follow
the Girls", and the London stage scores for "That's a Good Girl", and
"Stand Up and Sing". He wrote songs for the Broadway revues "Allez-Oop"
and "Americana" (1926), and "Shoot the Works", and also for films and
television. His chief musical collaborators included Ira Gershwin, Leo
Robin, Dan Shapiro, Irving Caesar, and Milton Pascal. His popular-song
compositions also include "For Days and Days", "Six O'Clock", "Happy
Melody", "One-Two-Three", "Sunny Disposish", "Sweet So-and-So", "Fancy
Our Meeting", "The One I'm Looking For", "It's Not You", "Take It or
Leave It", "There's Almost Tomorrow", "I Wanna Get Married", and
"Twelve O'Clock and All Is Well".
