Biography

Academy Award-winning songwriter ("Zip-a-Dee-Doo-Dah" [1947]), composer and author, educated in public schools and then a writer of special material for Sophie Tucker, Harry Richman and Buddy Rogers. He came to Hollywood in 1939 and wrote for Earl Carroll, then signed for 3 1/2 years with Walt Disney. Joining ASCAP in 1946, his chief musical collaborators included Hoagy Carmichael, Ted Fio Rito, Allie Wrubel, Eddie Sauter and Paul A. Nero. His other popular-song compositions included "You Belong to My Heart", "That's a-Plenty", "Sooner or Later", "The Hot Canary", "Cuanto le Gusta", "My Fickle Eye", "All the Cats Join In", "The Three Caballeros", "Everybody Has a Laughing Place", "Bahia", "Muskrat Ramble", "Johnny Fedora and Alice Blue Bonnet", "I want a Zoot Suit", "Whistle Your Way Back Home", "Ashcan Parade", "Vene, Veno, Vena", "And Roses and Roses", "Cherry", "Two Silhouettes", "Casey at the Bat", "Bonita", "She's a Carioca", "Dindi" and "If You Went Away".
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Father of singer Joanne Gilbert. Received an Academy Award for his song, "Zip-a-Dee-Doo-Dah" for Song of the South (1946).

Ray Gilbert was an American lyricist.

Gilbert also wrote the English lyrics for a number of songs composed by Antonio Carlos Jobim, including "Dindi," ""Amor em Paz" ("Once I Loved"), and "Inútil Paisagem" ("Useless Landscape"/"If You Never Come to Me").

He wrote American English lyrics for the songs in The Three Caballeros featuring Donald Duck.

He wrote the lyrics for Paul Nero's composition The Hot Canary, and also wrote the English lyrics of the Andy Williams' 1965 hit, "...and Roses and Roses", and "Lost in Your Love" with Sidney Miller, to music by Bert Jay.