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Arthur Altman
born on 28/10/1910 in Brooklin, NY, United States
died on 18/1/1994 in Lake Worth, FL, United States
Arthur Altman
Arthur Altman (1910, Brooklyn January 18, 1994, Lake Worth, Florida) was an American songwriter whose credits include "All or Nothing at All", with lyrics by Jack Lawrence, and the lyrics for "All Alone Am I" and "I Will Follow Him." [1]
Altman studied violin and began his professional career as a violinist with the CBS Radio Orchestra. His first nationally known song was "Play Fiddle Play", which he wrote in the early 1930s for the orchestra leader Emory Deutsch.
Among the 400 songs he wrote, "All or Nothing at All" appears on more than 180 albums recorded by more than 150 artists including Count Basie, John Coltrane, Bing Crosby, Bobby Darin, Ella Fitzgerald, Jimmy Dorsey, Tommy Dorsey, Harry James, Oscar Peterson, Frank Sinatra, and Sarah Vaughan.[2]
He died of a heart ailment.
References
- New York Times Obituary
- All or Nothing at All. AllMusic.com. Retrieved on November 10, 2012.
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