Ralph Blane
Ralph Blane (born July 26, 1914 in Broken Arrow , Oklahoma as Ralph Uriah Hunsecker ; † November 13, 1995 , ibid) was an American theater and film composer and musician. In his decades-long partnership with Hugh Martin , well-known songs such as Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas were created .
Life
Ralph Blane was born in Oklahoma, the son of a grocer. He began his show career as a radio singer for NBC before turning to Broadway in the 1930s . He has appeared as a musician in pieces such as New Faces of 1936 , Hooray for What! and Louisiana Purchase . He soon formed a distinguished songwriting duo with Hugh Martin , a collaboration that lasted half a century. They performed with two women in the early 1940s under the name The Martinis as a vocal quartet, later they wrote the music for numerous Broadway and film successes. The duo had the most lasting success with the songs they wrote for the classic film Meet Me in St. Louis : The Boy Next Door , Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas and The Trolley Song all became famous. Martin and Blane received two Oscar nominations for Best Movie Song: For the Trolley Song from Meet Me in St. Louis from 1944, and for Pass That Peace Pipe from the film Good News from 1947.
In addition, Blane also worked with other artists such as Harry Warren , Harold Arlen and Kay Thompson . He remained very active into old age and wrote a musical version of Meet Me in St. Louis together with Hugh Martin . This became a huge success and earned them a Tony Award nomination in 1990 . Ralph Blane died in 1995 at the age of 81 in his native Golden Arrow. In his autobiography, published in 2010, Hugh Martin wrote that he would have written much of her songs without Blanes' help. He was mainly concerned with the finances and contracts, in which he - Hugh Martin - was again helpless. In 1983 Ralph Blane was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame .
Web links
- Ralph Blane in the Internet Broadway Database (English)
- Ralph Blane in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Martin, Hugh (2010). The Boy Next Door . Trolley press. Pp. 390-392. ISBN 978-0-615-36507-7 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Blane, Ralph |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Hunsecker, Ralph Uriah (real name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American theater and film composer and musician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 26, 1914 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Broken Arrow , Oklahoma |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 13, 1995 |
| Place of death | Broken Arrow , Oklahoma |