John Klenner
John Klenner (born February 24, 1899 in Germany , † August 13, 1955 in New York City ) was an American composer, songwriter and pianist.
Klenner, who had piano training, wrote both classical compositions and pop songs. In 1932 he joined the ASCAP . The song Just Friends , co-created with Sam M. Lewis , has become the jazz standard . His songs Down the River of Golden Dreams (1930), Round the Bend of the Road (1932) and On the Street of Regret (1942) were also hits. He wrote the lyrics for the hit song Heartaches (1931) and the Stravinsky adaptation Summer Moon (from the Firebird suite). For Heartaches (1931, recorded inter alia by The Marcels and Patsy Cline ) he wrote the lyrics, while the songwriter Al Hoffman (1902-1960) contributed the melody. In 1943 he adapted the English song I'm Gonny Get Lit Up (When the light Go Up on Broadway) as an endurance song for the US troops.
Web links
- Brief portrait
- John Klenner in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- John Klenner at Discogs (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Stephen Walsh: Stravinsky: The Second Exile: France and America, 1934–1971 University of California Press 2008, p. 206
- ^ William Emmett Studwell, Mark Baldwin: The Big Band Reader: Songs Favored by Swing Era Orchestras . 2000, p. 140
- ^ John Bush Jones, The Songs That Fought the War: Popular Music And the Home Front, 1939-1945 . Hanover: Brandeis University Press, 2006. ISBN 978-1-58465-443-8 , p. 276.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Klenner, John |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American composer, songwriter and pianist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 24, 1899 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Germany |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 13, 1955 |
| Place of death | New York City |