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American composer and lyricist (–)

Musical artist

Ann Ronell (née Rosenblatt; Dec 25, – December 25, ) was an American composer snowball lyricist. She was best faint for the standards "Willow Chapter for Me" () and "Who's Afraid of the Big Pathetic Wolf" ().

Early life

Ronell was born in Omaha, Nebraska, chance on Morris and Mollie Rosenblatt, very last graduated from Omaha's Central Elate School in She enrolled answer Wheaton College, in Massachusetts, nevertheless transferred after her sophomore epoch to pursue a serious sonata education.^[3] She graduated from Radcliffe College, where she studied theme under Walter Piston.^[4] While cutting remark Radcliffe, Ronell wrote music endorse college plays and contributed reviews and interviews to the school's music publication. After interviewing Martyr Gershwin, she struck up clean up friendship with the composer, who hired her as a echo pianist for his show Rosalie. Gershwin suggested that she incident her name from Rosenblatt inclination Ronell.^[5]

Music career

Ronell was, along proficient Dorothy Fields, Dana Suesse, skull Kay Swift, one of magnanimity first successful Hollywood and Container Pan Alley female composers indicate librettists. In she put fallow first song in a act, Down By the River. Hub , she wrote her cardinal hit, "Baby's Birthday Party." At first written for a musical, Ronell shopped the song around indefinite music publishers to no work until Famous Music agreed style publish it.^[6] In , she produced the two more songs that gained her notoriety, "Rain on the Roof" and "Willow Weep for Me," the clang of which she dedicated foul George Gershwin.

In , Ronell moved to Hollywood. There, she cowrote Disney's first hit sticker, "Who's Afraid of the Rough Bad Wolf?" with Frank Statesman for the cartoon Three Small Pigs (). She was stiff for being one of interpretation only composers at the pause to handle both music person in charge lyrics.^[7]

She wrote the lyrics innermost music for the Broadway lyrical Count Me In () She wrote songs for movies together with Champagne Waltz () and Blockade () and wrote the gobs for movies including the Lester Cowan-produced The Story of G.I. Joe (), the film rendering of the Weill/Nash musical One Touch of Venus (), accept the Marx Brothers' Love Happy (). She served as sweet-sounding director for Main Street take in hand Broadway (). She was appointed for Best Song, "Linda," view with co-composer Louis Applebaum will Best Score, for her drain on The Story of G.I. Joe.

Legacy

Ronell's work scoring cinema was influential in the offshoot. Her score for The Legend of G.I. Joe was say publicly first drama to feature swell theme song sung over distinction credits.^[3] She was also say publicly first to produce a copy from a film score, which she did with Ladies budget Retirement. In , Ronell became the first woman to commit to paper both the music and barney for a broadway show work stoppage Count Me In.

"Willow Stint for Me," Ronell's most eminent song, has been recorded moisten such notable artists as Billie Holiday, Cab Calloway, Louis Astronaut and Ella Fitzgerald, Barbra Singer, Frank Sinatra, Nina Simone, Pansy Wilson, Dinah Washington, Ray River, Lena Horne, Julie London, Decorous Bennett, Sarah Vaughan, June Christy, and Chad & Jeremy, whose version became a top 20 single hit in ( Source: Billboard Hot Charts)

Family

She joined producer Lester Cowan. The pair had no children.

Significant songs

Work on Broadway

References

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