Herbert Martin (songwriter)
Herbert Edward Martin (born 1926 in Stamford , Connecticut , † September 27, 2019 in New Jersey ) was an American songwriter .
Live and act
Martin attended Stamford High School and then studied at the University of Connecticut . After completing his studies, he lived in New York's Upper East Side , where he began his career as a playwright and songwriter. He has also worked in various summer theaters and as a music teacher in New York public schools. He worked with the composer Michael "Mickey" Leonard (1931-2015) on the two Broadway shows The Yearling (1965) and How to Be a Jewish Mother (1967), and with Duke Ellington on the never-realized musical South Africa called Saturday Laughter (later called the Renaissance Man ).
The three songs “I'm All Smiles”, “Why Did I Choose You?” And “The Kind of Man a Woman Needs” came from the cooperation with Leonard in The Yearling ; the former was popularized by the version of Barbra Streisand and also covered by jazz greats such as Geri Allen , Bill Evans , Hampton Hawes , Hank Jones & Tommy Flanagan , Oscar Peterson , George Shearing and Nancy Wilson . In the field of jazz, "I'm All Smiles" was recorded in 85 versions from 1965, according to Tom Lord . Martin's other songs were “All I Need Is You”, which he wrote with Bobby Scott , also “Ain't No Big Thing” and (with Michael Leonard) “My Pa”, covered a. a. by Barbra Streisand and Nancy Sinatra .
Web links
- Herbert Martin at Allmusic (English)
- Herbert Martin at Discogs (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Herbert Martin obituary. Legacy.com, October 3, 2019, accessed October 4, 2019 .
- ↑ Tom Lord : The Jazz Discography (online, accessed October 1, 2019)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Martin, Herbert |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Martin, Herbert Edward (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American songwriter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1926 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Stamford , Connecticut |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 27, 2019 |
| Place of death | New Jersey |