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    Jule Styne was a British-American songwriter and composer known for writing over 1,500 songs and the scores for several famous Broadway musicals such as Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, Gypsy, and Funny Girl. He began taking piano lessons at a young age and performed with symphonies before age 10. Styne established himself in Hollywood writing songs for films with lyricists like Sammy Cahn, winning an Oscar for "Three Coins in the Fountain." He continued writing successful Broadway musicals for decades until his death at age 88.

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    Jule Styne was a British-American songwriter and composer known for writing over 1,500 songs and the scores for several famous Broadway musicals such as Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, Gypsy, and Funny Girl. He began taking piano lessons at a young age and performed with symphonies before age 10. Styne established himself in Hollywood writing songs for films with lyricists like Sammy Cahn, winning an Oscar for "Three Coins in the Fountain." He continued writing successful Broadway musicals for decades until his death at age 88.

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    Jule Styne was a British-American songwriter and composer known for writing music for Broadway musicals. Some of his most famous shows included Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, Gypsy, and Funny Girl. He had a long and successful career writing over 1,500 published songs.

    As a child, Styne was a piano prodigy, performing with symphonies in Chicago, St. Louis, and Detroit before age 10. One of his earliest hits was the song 'Sunday' in 1926. He also had success writing songs for films in Hollywood in the 1940s.

    In 1947, Styne wrote his first Broadway musical score for High Button Shoes, marking his breakthrough on Broadway. He would go on to write scores for many hit Broadway shows over the next few decades.

    Jule Styne

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    Jule Styne (/duli stan/;[1] December 31, 1905 - September 20, 1994) was a British-American song
    writer and composer known for a series of Broadway musicals, which include several famous and
    frequently revived shows.

    Jule Styne

    Background information

    Birth name Julius Kerwin Stein

    Born December 31, 1905

    London, England

    Died September 20, 1994 (aged 88)

    Manhattan, New York, U.S.

    Occupation(s) Song writer, composer

    Years active 1947-1994

    Contents
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    1Early life
    2Career
    3Awards
    4Songs
    o 4.1Credits
    5References
    6External links

    Early life[edit]
    Styne was born in London, England as Julius Kerwin Stein to Jewish immigrants from Ukraine,
    the Russian Empire who ran a small grocery. At the age of eight, he moved with his family
    to Chicago, where at an early age he began taking piano lessons. He proved to be a prodigy and
    performed with the Chicago, St. Louis, and Detroit Symphonies before he was ten years old.

    Career[edit]
    Styne attended Chicago Musical College, but before then, he had already attracted attention of
    another teenager, Mike Todd, later a successful film producer, who commissioned him to write a
    song for a musical act that he was creating. It was the first of over 1,500 published songs Styne
    composed in his career. His first hit, "Sunday", was written in 1926. In 1929, Styne was playing with
    the Ben Pollack band.[2]
    Styne was a vocal coach for 20th Century Fox, until Darryl F. Zanuck fired him because vocal
    coaching was "a luxury, and we're cutting out those luxuries", and told him he should write songs,
    because "that's forever". Styne established his own dance band, which brought him to the notice of
    Hollywood, where he was championed by Frank Sinatra and where he began a collaboration with
    lyricist Sammy Cahn. He and Cahn wrote many songs for the movies, including "It's Been a Long,
    Long Time" (#1 for 3 weeks for Harry James and His Orchestra in 1945), "Five Minutes More," and
    the Oscar-winning title song for Three Coins in the Fountain (1954). He collaborated on the score for
    the 1955 musical film My Sister Eileen with Leo Robin. Ten of his songs were nominated for the
    Oscar, many written with Cahn, including "I've Heard That Song Before" (#1 for 13 weeks for Harry
    James and His Orchestra in 1943), "I'll Walk Alone", "It's Magic" (a #2 hit for Doris Day in 1948), and
    "I Fall in Love Too Easily".
    In 1947, Styne wrote his first score for a Broadway musical, High Button Shoes, with Cahn, and over
    the next several decades wrote the scores for many Broadway shows, most notably Gentlemen
    Prefer Blondes, Peter Pan (additional music), Bells Are Ringing, Gypsy, Do Re Mi, Funny
    Girl, Sugar (with a story based on the movie Some Like It Hot, but all new music), and the Tony-
    winning Hallelujah, Baby!.
    Styne wrote original music for the short-lived, themed amusement park Freedomland U.S.A. which
    opened on June 19, 1960.
    His collaborators included Sammy Cahn, Leo Robin, Betty Comden and Adolph Green, Stephen
    Sondheim, and Bob Merrill.
    He was the subject of This Is Your Life for British television in 1978 when he was surprised
    by Eamonn Andrews in New Yorks Time Square.
    Styne died of heart failure in New York City at the age of 88.[3] His archive - including original hand-
    written compositions, letters, and production materials - is housed at the Harry Ransom Center.[4]

    Awards[edit]
    Styne was elected to the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1972[5] and the American Theatre Hall of
    Fame in 1981,[6] and he was a recipient of a Drama Desk Special Award and the Kennedy
    Center Honors in 1990. Additionally, Styne won the 1955 Oscar for Best Music, Original Song for
    "Three Coins in the Fountain", and "Hallelujah, Baby!" won the 1968 Tony Award for Best Original
    Score.
    Songs[edit]
    A selection of the many songs that Styne wrote:

    "The Christmas Waltz"


    "Conchita Marquita Lolita Pepita Rosita Juanita Lopez"
    "Don't Rain on My Parade" (from Funny Girl)
    "Diamonds Are a Girl's Best Friend" (from Gentlemen Prefer Blondes)
    "Everything's Coming Up Roses" (from Gypsy)
    "Every Street's a Boulevard in Old New York" (from Hazel Flagg)
    "Fiddle Dee Dee"
    "Guess I'll Hang My Tears Out to Dry"
    "How Do You Speak To An Angel"
    "I Don't Want to Walk Without You"
    "I Fall In Love Too Easily" (from Anchors Aweigh)
    "I Still Get Jealous"
    "I'll Walk Alone"
    "It's Been a Long, Long Time"
    "It's Magic" (from Romance on the High Seas)
    "It's You or No One"

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