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Browse piano sheets by Louis Silvers on Zen Virtual Piano. Louis “Lou” Silvers, born Louis Silberstein on September 6, 1889, and died March 26, 1954, was an American film score composer whose work has been used in more than 250 movies. In 1935 he won the first Academy Award for Best Original Score, for One Night of Love. Silvers scored the sound sequences in the D. W. Griffith film Dream Street (1921) and the part-talking feature The Jazz Singer (1927). He was also music director for Lux Radio Theater for most of its long run, which lasted from 1934 to 1955. “April Showers” is a 1921 popular song composed by Louis Silvers with lyrics by B. G. De Sylva. The song was introduced in the 1921 Broadway musical Bombo, where Al Jolson performed it. It became a well-known Jolson standard, and his first of several recordings of it was on Columbia Records in October 1921. Many other artists have recorded it too.
Browse piano sheets by Louis Silvers on Zen Virtual Piano.
Louis “Lou” Silvers, born Louis Silberstein on September 6, 1889, and died March 26, 1954, was an American film score composer whose work has been used in more than 250 movies. In 1935 he won the first Academy Award for Best Original Score, for One Night of Love.
Silvers scored the sound sequences in the D. W. Griffith film Dream Street (1921) and the part-talking feature The Jazz Singer (1927). He was also music director for Lux Radio Theater for most of its long run, which lasted from 1934 to 1955.
“April Showers” is a 1921 popular song composed by Louis Silvers with lyrics by B. G. De Sylva. The song was introduced in the 1921 Broadway musical Bombo, where Al Jolson performed it. It became a well-known Jolson standard, and his first of several recordings of it was on Columbia Records in October 1921. Many other artists have recorded it too.
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Louis Silvers composed the 1921 popular song, with lyrics by B. G. De Sylva.
It was introduced in the 1921 Broadway musical Bombo, where it was performed by Al Jolson, who first recorded it for Columbia Records in October 1921.
He was music director for Lux Radio Theater for most of the show's long 1934–1955 run.