Biography

Prolific songwriter William Morgan Lewis, Junior ("How High the Moon", "The Old Soft Shoe") was educated at the University of Michigan and studied music with Hans Pick. Joining ASCAP in 1940, his Broadway stage scores include "One For the Money", "Two For the Show" and "Three to Make Ready", and he wrote songs for "Second Little Show", "Third Little Show" and "New Faces". He scored the Academy Award-winning 1955 documentary film "The Unconquered (Helen Keller, Her Life)". His chief musical collaborators include Nancy Hamilton, Ted Fetter, Edward Eliscu and E. Y. "Yip" Harburg, and his other popular-song compositions include "You Might As Well Pretend", "'Cause You Won't Play House", "Teeter Totter Tessie", "House With a Little Red Barn", "Barnaby Beach", "With All My Heart", "I Only Know", "Once Upon a Time", "At Last It's Love", and "Lazy Kind of Day".
- IMDb mini biography by: Lou Rugani