Alex Kramer(1903-1998)
- Music Department
- Soundtrack
Composer, songwriter ("No Man Is an Island", "High on a Windy Hill"),
author, conductor pianist and publisher educated at McGill Conservatory
with Gardner and Hungerford. He began his musical career as a
film-theatre pianist in Montreal, and then joined the Meyer Davis
orchestra, eventually leading his own orchestra on Montreal radio
programs. Coming to New York in 1938, he was a vaudeville and night
club accompanist and also a vocal coach. By 1940 he was a staff writer
and music publisher, co-founding the Kramer-Whitney, Inc. publishing
firm in 1947. He was a council member on AGAC and founded the Bedside
Network at the Veterans Hospital Radio & Television Guild, and served
as its president. Joining ASCAP in 1942 (he was an ASCAP director
between 1955 and 1959), his other popular-song compositions include "It
All Comes Back To Me Now", "It's Love Love Love", "Candy", "Comme-ci,
Comme-ca", "That's the Beginning of the End", "Ain't Nobody Here But Us
Chickens", "Money Is the Root of All Evil", "Love Somebody", "Dangerous
Dan McGrew", "You'll Never Get Away", "Far Away Places", "My Sister and
I", "Summer Rain", "I Only Saw Him Once", "Story of My Life", and "No
Other Arms, No Other Lips".
