Bart Howard(1915-2004)
- Music Department
- Composer
- Soundtrack
Songwriter ("Fly Me To the Moon" [In Other Words], "The Man in the
Looking Glass"), composer, author and pianist, educated at Juilliard
and in private music study. He left home at 16 to tour the US as a
dance-band pianist with the conjoined twins Daisy and Violet Hilton,
then joined the US Army in World War II. He was an accompanist to Mabel
Mercer, and between 1951 and 1959 an MC, intermission pianist and
director of shows at the Blue Angel in New York, where he introduced
Eartha Kitt, Johnny Mathis, Dorothy Loudon and others. A member of the
Authors League, he joined ASCAP in 1952, and his other popular-song
compositions include "My Love Is a Wanderer", "On the First Warm Day",
"Let Me Love You", "Would You Believe It", "Perfect Stranger", "Sell
Me", "Be My All", "Walk-Up", "Year After Year", "Everybody Wants to Be
Loved", "It Was Worth It", "You Are Not My First Love", "Don't Dream of
Anybody But Me", "You Are In Love", "Upstairs at the Downstairs Waltz",
"Miracles", "I'll Be Easy to Find", "Forget Me Not", "Tomorrow Song",
"Welcome Home, Angelina", "Beautiful Women", "To Be in Love", "Gather
Your Dreams", and "Sky Full of Rainbows".
