Cry Me A River
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Browse piano sheets by Arthur Hamilton on Zen Virtual Piano. Arthur Hamilton wrote songs, and he says his parents were musical: his mother was a singer with the Schubert's on the stage in New York, and his father was a song player working for Irving Berlin for 21 years in New York. There were always at least two or three pianos in the house, Hamilton says, and the piano was the only place for him to go. The Hollywood Reporter says he came to Los Angeles with his parents when he was an infant and learned to play piano. His father's years with Irving Berlin and his own arrival in Los Angeles as an infant may hint at a family connected to both New York and Los Angeles. Hamilton says he studied by looking at music copies and listening to the songs of Richard Rodgers, Jerome Kern and George Gershwin, and he calls those three his mentors. The Hollywood Reporter notes that Hamilton wrote What a Day, a live stage musical, for KTTV in 1949. Afterward he worked for a music publishing company for a couple of years. He says his last job was as a delivery boy for a drug store, where he wrote songs on the back of prescription blanks while making deliveries. The mentors he names and the songs he wrote on prescription blanks may point to a songwriter whose study and writing happened alongside other work. The 1949 stage musical for KTTV and the 1970 film Madron may point to work that reached from a local station to a Western film. Hamilton says that for "Sing a Rainbow" the idea came while he was taking a shower, and the telegram he sent read "Sing a Rainbow." For "Cry Me a River" he says he wrote down the title, said "Oh, come on," and then wrote down "Crimea River." The Hollywood Reporter says Fitzgerald sang "Cry Me a River" for the film, but it did not survive the cutting room floor. The shower idea behind "Sing a Rainbow" and the "Crimea River" title may suggest two songs whose titles came about in different ways. Hamilton says he has worked with Pat Williams, a brilliant writer, and with Johnny Mandel, who is legendary, naming "Shadow of Your Smile" among that work. On who did what, he says, "I was responsible for the words." Riz Ortolani shared the best song Oscar nomination with Hamilton, for "Till Love Touches Your Life" from Madron (1970). Richard Williams and Jan Daley performed it in the Western that starred Richard Boone and Leslie Caron. Hamilton says he is working on a musical with Charlie Fox, the songwriter who wrote Killing Me Softly, and that they are trying to write a Broadway show. The Oscar nomination shared with Riz Ortolani and the musical with Charlie Fox may suggest a writer who works alongside other musicians.
Browse piano sheets by Arthur Hamilton on Zen Virtual Piano.
Arthur Hamilton wrote songs, and he says his parents were musical: his mother was a singer with the Schubert's on the stage in New York, and his father was a song player working for Irving Berlin for 21 years in New York. There were always at least two or three pianos in the house, Hamilton says, and the piano was the only place for him to go. The Hollywood Reporter says he came to Los Angeles with his parents when he was an infant and learned to play piano. His father's years with Irving Berlin and his own arrival in Los Angeles as an infant may hint at a family connected to both New York and Los Angeles.
Hamilton says he studied by looking at music copies and listening to the songs of Richard Rodgers, Jerome Kern and George Gershwin, and he calls those three his mentors. The Hollywood Reporter notes that Hamilton wrote What a Day, a live stage musical, for KTTV in 1949. Afterward he worked for a music publishing company for a couple of years. He says his last job was as a delivery boy for a drug store, where he wrote songs on the back of prescription blanks while making deliveries. The mentors he names and the songs he wrote on prescription blanks may point to a songwriter whose study and writing happened alongside other work. The 1949 stage musical for KTTV and the 1970 film Madron may point to work that reached from a local station to a Western film.
Hamilton says that for "Sing a Rainbow" the idea came while he was taking a shower, and the telegram he sent read "Sing a Rainbow." For "Cry Me a River" he says he wrote down the title, said "Oh, come on," and then wrote down "Crimea River." The Hollywood Reporter says Fitzgerald sang "Cry Me a River" for the film, but it did not survive the cutting room floor. The shower idea behind "Sing a Rainbow" and the "Crimea River" title may suggest two songs whose titles came about in different ways.
Hamilton says he has worked with Pat Williams, a brilliant writer, and with Johnny Mandel, who is legendary, naming "Shadow of Your Smile" among that work. On who did what, he says, "I was responsible for the words." Riz Ortolani shared the best song Oscar nomination with Hamilton, for "Till Love Touches Your Life" from Madron (1970). Richard Williams and Jan Daley performed it in the Western that starred Richard Boone and Leslie Caron. Hamilton says he is working on a musical with Charlie Fox, the songwriter who wrote Killing Me Softly, and that they are trying to write a Broadway show. The Oscar nomination shared with Riz Ortolani and the musical with Charlie Fox may suggest a writer who works alongside other musicians.
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Arthur Hamilton says his mother was a singer with the Schubert's on the stage in New York, his father worked as a song player for Irving Berlin for 21 years, and there were always at least two or three pianos in the house.
Arthur Hamilton says he studied by looking at music copies and listening to the songs of Richard Rodgers, Jerome Kern and George Gershwin, and he calls them his mentors.
The Hollywood Reporter says Fitzgerald sang "Cry Me a River" for the film, but the performance did not survive the cutting room floor.
Arthur Hamilton received an Oscar nomination for best song, shared with composer Riz Ortolani, for "Till Love Touches Your Life" from Madron (1970).