Ray Passman

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Ray Passman (* before 1950 - July 31, 2010 ) was an American songwriter , music producer and music publisher .

Life

Ray Passman began his career in the New York music scene in the late 1940s, writing lyrics to compositions, such as the lyrics to an old nursery rhyme recorded as Anything You Wanna Do I Wanna Do With You by Billy Eckstine and Anthony Newley . In the following years he wrote a. a. the English text for Besame Mucho , for John Carisi's composition Israel (as It's Your Dance ), and for Boplicity , another title of the Birth of the Cool session, which he titled Bebop Lives . He also wrote lyrics for Phil Medley ( Everybody Needs Love ) and Bob Dorough , with whom he performed Dizzy Gillespie's Woody 'N You on the vocal version Wouldn't You? processed. With Bert Russell Berns he wrote the song Hully Gully Firehouse , which u. a. was covered by Harold Nicholas and Hazy Osterwald . Passman wrote with Herb Wasserman in the mid-1960s a text on Sonny Rollins ' best-known title St. Thomas (1956) as Down St Thomas Way . Passman founded the music publisher Raybird Music . In his later years he promoted and produced young jazz singers such as Stephanie Nakasian ( French Cookin ' , 1992), Diane Hubka , whose debut album Haven't We Met? (1999) co-produced Ann Carlini and Jane Irving. He was also the co-producer of the Meredith D'Ambrosio album Love Is Not a Game (1991).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Obituary in All About Jazz
  2. ↑ Ray Passman at Discogs (English)
  3. ↑ Meredith D'Ambrosio - Love Is Not A Game at Discogs
personal data
SURNAME Passman, Ray
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American songwriter, record producer, and music publisher
DATE OF BIRTH before 1950
DATE OF DEATH July 31, 2010