Jule, Styne

Jule Styne (December 31, 1905 – September 20, 1994) was a British born American songwriter, especially famous for a series of Broadway Musicals, which included several very well known and frequently revived shows.

Styne was born in London, England as Julius Kerwin Stein of Jewish immigrants from the Ukraine.[1] 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.

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 which he was creating. It would be the first of over 1,500 published songs Styne would compose in his career.

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, with whom he wrote many songs for the movies, including "It's Been a Long, Long Time, "Five Minutes More", and the Oscar-winning "Three Coins in the Fountain."

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, 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!.

His collaborators included Betty Comden and Adolph Green, Stephen Sondheim, and Bob Merrill, and among the songs in those shows composed by Styne are "I Still Get Jealous," "Diamonds Are a Girl's Best Friend," "Just In Time," "The Party's Over," "Make Someone Happy," "Everything's Coming Up Roses," "Let Me Entertain You," and "People."

Styne was elected to the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1972 and the Theatre Hall of Fame in 1981, and he was a recipient of the Kennedy Center Honors in 1990.

Jule Styne Songs, die Sinatra aufnahm:

All I Need Is The Girl

And Then You Kissed Me

Bop! Goes My Heart

Bye, Bye, Baby

Can't You Just See Yourself?

Come Out, Come Out, Wherever You Are

Ever Homeward

Five Minutes More

Guess I'll Hang My Tears Out To Dry

Hey Look, No Crying

I Begged Her

I Believe

I Fall In Love Too Easily

I Got A Gal I Love

I've Heard That Song Before

It's Sunday

It's The Same Old Dream

Just A Kiss Apart

Just In Time

Kisses And Tears

Let It Snow, Let It Snow, Let It Snow

Love Makes Us Whatever We Want To Be

Only One To A Customer

Saturday Night (Is The Loneliest Night In The Week)

Searching

Some Other Time

Sunday

The Brooklyn Bridge

The Charm Of You

The Christmas Waltz

The Song's Gotta Come From The Heart

The Things We Did Last Summer

Three Coins In The Fountain

Time After Time

What Makes The Sunset?

You're My Girl

Musical with the music by Jule Styne

* 1947 - High Button Shoes - 727 Vorstellungen bis 1949
* 1949 - Blondinen bevorzugt (Gentlemen Prefer Blondes) - 740 Vorstellungen bis 1951
* 1951 - Two on the Aisle
* 1953 - Hazel Flagg - Libretto: Ben Hecht
* 1956 - Bells Are Ringing - - Regie: Jerome Robbins - 924 Vorstellungen bis 1959
* 1958 - Say, Darling
* 1959 - Gypsy - Libretto: Arthur Laurents und Stephen Sondheim - Regie: Jerome Robbins (mit Ethel Merman und Jack Klugman) - 702 Vorstellungen bis 1961
* 1960 - Do Re Mi - 400 Vorstellungen bis 1962
* 1961 - Subways Are For Sleeping - mit Sydney Chaplin
* 1964 - Funny Girl - mit Sydney Chaplin und Barbra Streisand - 1.348 Vorstellungen bis 1967
* 1964 - Fade Out, Fade In - Regie: George Abbott
* 1967 - Halleluja, Baby - Libretto: Arthur Laurents
* 1968 - Darling of the Day - mit Vincent Price
* 1970 - Look to the Lilies - Regie: Joshua Logan
* 1972 - Sugar - nach dem Drehbuch für Manche mögen's heiß von Billy Wilder - 505 Vorstellungen bis 1973
* 1974 - Lorelei - leicht veränderte Wiederaufführung von Gentlemen Prefer Blond mit Carol Channing
* 1993 - The Red Shoes - Regie: Stanley Donen

Selectec Movie Musical

* Step Lively (1944) *
* Anchors Aweigh (1945) *
* It Happened in Brooklyn (1947) *
* The West Point Story (1950)

* With Frank Sinatra

Official Website:

http://www.julestyne.com/