George Bassman
George Bassman (born February 7, 1914 in New York City , † June 26, 1997 in Los Angeles ) was an American composer and arranger.
life and work
Bassman was born to a Jewish-Russian emigrant family in New York and grew up in Boston , where he also took music lessons at the Boston Conservatory at an early age. He studied orchestration and composition there, but left school as a teenager against his father's wishes to play the piano in a jazz band. He later worked as an arranger for Fletcher Henderson and later for Andre Kostelanetz.
Through these contacts he became a member of the New York jazz scene and soon began to write songs. One of his best known songs is I'm Getting Sentimental Over You , which he wrote with Ned Washington for Tommy Dorsey . In the 1930s he went to Hollywood , where he orchestrated the Gershwin songs in the Fred Astaire film Ein Fräulein in Nöten .
He composed music for the Marx Brothers films A Day at the Race , Go West and The Marx Brothers in the department store and wrote and arranged for musicals such as Lady Be Good and Cabin in the Sky . Other well-known films are the Judy Garland musical The Magic Land , where he orchestrated the background music, as well as Babes in Arms , Babes on Broadway and For Me and My Gal .
His Hollywood career suffered a setback in the McCarthy era in 1947 when he admitted to being a member of the Communist Party . In the meantime Bassman went to New York to work in the theater, for television and for small independent film productions. 1962 returned to Hollywood, but got into an argument with the producers of Sacramento . Bassman ended his career in Hollywood with the film Mail Order Bride . Bassman died alone in 1997 in Los Angeles
Web links
- George Bassman in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Biography and review of an album with Western soundtracks ( Memento from May 2, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
Individual evidence
- ^ George Bassman> Biography - AllMovie . www.allmovie.com. Retrieved July 19, 2009.
- ↑ George Bassman Biography . www.jazzbiographies.com. Retrieved July 19, 2009.
- ↑ George Bassman . www.imdb.com. Retrieved July 19, 2009.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Bassman, George |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American composer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 7, 1914 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | New York City |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 26, 1997 |
| Place of death | los Angeles |