Bob Haggart(1914-1998)
- Actor
- Music Department
- Soundtrack
Composer ("South Rampart Street Parade", "What's New?", "Big Noise From
Winnetka"), songwriter and bassist, educated in high school and a
student of Stefan Wolpe, Ruppert Graves, Tibor Serly, and Tom Timothy.
He was a bassist in the Bob Crosby orchestra between 1935 and 1942, and
thereafter he was a freelance composer for radio, records and
television. Later he joined the NBC staff with Skitch Henderson and wrote
commercial themes, radio and television jingles and film music. Joining
ASCAP in 1954, his chief musical collaborators included Ray Bauduc,
Johnny Burke, Jack Lawrence and Bud Freeman, and his other popular-song
and instrumental compositions include "So What Else Is New?" and "Gone
But Not Forgotten".
