Karl Suessdorf

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Karl Suessdorf (born April 28, 1911 in Valdez, Alaska , † February 1, 1982 in Riverside, California ) was an American composer and songwriter.

Karl Suessdorf's best-known work is the jazz standard Moonlight in Vermont , for which he wrote the music and John Blackburn the text. The piece was popularized in 1944 by Margaret Whiting , whose signature song it became. Together with Blackburn, Suessdorf also wrote the piece I Wish I Knew . Suessdorf also wrote the music for the piece Susquehanna , known in the recording by Oscar Peterson .

He also collaborated with lyricists Leah Worth and Lloyd Sloan on the song Did Anyone Ever Tell You, Mrs. Murphy ; Perry Como recorded the piece in 1949.

Suessdorf and Worth also contributed the text to the 1948 piece Key Largo composed by Benny Carter . In addition to the composer Benny Carter himself, this standard was also recorded by Sarah Vaughan , Marian McPartland , Ira Sullivan , Ella Fitzgerald , Chris Connor and Carmen Lundy .

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Karl Suessdorf on "Death Record". (No longer available online.) Formerly in the original ; Retrieved April 7, 2014 .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.death-record.com  
  2. ↑ Brief biographical entry on Karl Suessdorf at IMDb. Retrieved April 7, 2014 .
  3. ^ The Library of Congress (ed.): Catalog of Copyright Entries Part 3 Musical Compositions, Volume Index for the Year 1945 . S. 9767 ( on Google Books ).
  4. ^ Entry on Oscar Peterson's recordings of Susquehanna on allmusic.com. Retrieved April 7, 2014 .
  5. ^ Entry on Karl Suessdorf at dbopm.com. Retrieved April 7, 2014 .
personal data
SURNAME Suessdorf, Karl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American composer
DATE OF BIRTH April 28, 1911
PLACE OF BIRTH Valdez , Alaska
DATE OF DEATH February 1, 1982
Place of death Riverside , California