Matty Malneck

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Matty Malneck (born December 9, 1904 in Newark (New Jersey) , † February 25, 1981 in Los Angeles ) was an American jazz musician ( violin , viola ), arranger and composer of film music and well-known jazz standards such as I'll Never Be the same .

Live and act

Malneck grew up in Denver , Colorado , where he took violin lessons from a private tutor. From the age of 16 he played in local bands. From 1926 to 1937 he worked in the orchestra of Paul Whiteman ; During this time he also recorded with Frank Signorelli , Frankie Trumbauer , Bix Beiderbecke , Eddie Lang , Irving Mills , Jack Pettis , Jack Teagarden and Mildred Bailey . In 1932 the first recordings were made under his own name for London Records. In 1938/39 he led a big band with which he recorded for Decca and Brunswick ( St. Louis Blues and adaptations of Rimski-Korsakov's "Flight of the Bumble-Bee" and Dvořák's Humoresque ) and in the music films East Side of Heaven , St Louis Blues and Man About Town performed. In the early 1940s he worked with a studio orchestra on the Abbott and Costello show ; In 1941 he accompanied Helen Ward with his orchestra on recordings for Columbia ("Green Eyes"). The young singer Julie London also appeared in his orchestra in the early 1940s .

From the 1930s onwards, Malneck was best known as a composer of popular songs such as "I'll Never Be the Same", "Goody, Goody" and "I'm Through with Love", which were created in collaboration with songwriters such as Gus Kahn and Johnny Mercer originated, with Mercer he also wrote "If You Were Mine", which in 1935 became an early hit by Billie Holiday . Together with Frank Signorelli he composed Park Avenue Fantasy in 1935 , which in 1939 with the lyrics by Mitchell Parish became the standard "Stairway To The Stars". His best-known film scores include the music for Witness for the Prosecution (1957) and Some Like It Hot (1959). In 1959 he released the album As I Hear It on Warner Brothers , which contained scores from William Holden films such as Sabrina .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Information at Classic moviemusicals'
  2. ^ A b 78discography.com
  3. ↑ cf. Ken Bloom: The American Songbook - The Singers, the Songwriters, and the Songs - 100 Years of American Popular Music - The Stories of the Creators and Performers . New York City, Black Dog & Leventhal, 2005 ISBN 1-57912-448-8
  4. ↑ nfo - birthdays December 9th
  5. ↑ With Mercer he also wrote the songs Pardon My Southern Accent , If I Had A Million Dollars and Eeny Meeny Miney Mo in 1934/35 .
  6. ↑ See Ken Bloom, p. 242.
personal data
SURNAME Malneck, Matty
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American musician, arranger and composer
DATE OF BIRTH December 9, 1904
PLACE OF BIRTH Newark (New Jersey)
DATE OF DEATH February 25, 1981
Place of death los Angeles