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- Composer, songwriter ("Here Comes Summer", "Almost There"), author, singer and publisher, educated at the University of Tulsa and the Mable Horsey School of Music as well as private voice study. He sang on radio and television in Tulsa while in high school, and was a disc jockey over KAKC in Tulsa. Coming to New York in 1956, he was a publisher, and made television appearances in Europe. He has made many records. Joining ASCAP in 1958, his other popular-song compositions include "The Great Chase", "Little George Got the Hiccups", "My Year of Love", "That's Me", "Fight, Fight", "Sweetheart Roses", "Wild and Wonderful", "The Tears Keep Falling Down", "Bedtime Story", "The Legend of Shenandoah", and "You Can't Be a King".
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- Sang the Top 20 American hit "Here Comes Summer" in 1959
- In the film arena, Keller wrote soundtrack music for I Saw What You Did (1965) and Angel in My Pocket (1969). He also wrote "The Legend of Shenandoah", recited by James Stewart in the 1965 film Shenandoah.
- Keller also wrote the English lyrics of "A Man and a Woman", from "Un homme et une femme" by Francis Lai and Pierre Barouh.
- Jerry Keller is an American pop singer and songwriter.
- Keller moved with his family to Tulsa, Oklahoma, when he was six, and Keller attended Tulsa's Will Rogers High School, graduating in 1955. He attended the University of Tulsa and moved to New York in 1956.
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