Ted Koehler

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Ted L. Koehler (born July 14, 1894 in Washington, DC , † January 17, 1973 in Santa Monica , California ) was an American pianist and songwriter . He worked with Harold Arlen . Together they wrote the standards Ill Wind and Stormy Weather .

Live and act

Ted Koehler began his professional career as an employee in a photo business, but eventually entered the music and show business, where he began as a theater pianist for silent films . Then he started writing for vaudeville shows and Broadway and produced shows in nightclubs. He became famous for his collaboration with the composer Harold Arlen . They wrote a number of songs from the 1920s through the 1940s that became part of the Great American Songbook . Their first mutual success was the song Behind the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea in 1931 , followed by I Love a Parade and I Gotta Right to Sing the Blues from 1932. The Arlen / Koehler team wrote for Broadway for productions by New York's Cotton Clubs and later also for Hollywood films . Koehler also worked with other composers such as Jimmy McHugh , Rube Bloom and Sammy Fain .

Many of the songs Ted Koehler worked on, such as Wrap Your Troubles in Dreams, Get Happy or Stormy Weather later became jazz standards .

Well-known songs

Working for Broadway

  • Earl Carroll's Vanities of 1932 (1932) - revue - co- composer and co-lyricist with Harold Arlen
  • Say When (1934) - musical lyricist
  • Now I Know (1944) - musical lyricist

Web links

literature

  • Ken Bloom: The American Songbook - The Singers, the Songwriters, and the Songs . New York City, Black Dog & Leventhal, 2005 ISBN 1-57912-448-8
personal data
SURNAME Koehler, Ted
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Koehler, Ted L.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American lyricist
DATE OF BIRTH July 14, 1894
PLACE OF BIRTH Washington, DC
DATE OF DEATH 17th January 1973
Place of death Santa Monica , California