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- Jay Livingston (born Jacob Harold Levison; March 28, 1915 – October 17, 2001) was an American composer best known as half of a composing-songwriting duo with Ray Evans, with whom he specialized in composing film scores and original soundtrack songs.
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Jay Livingston (born Jacob Harold Levison; March 28, 1915 – October 17, 2001) was an American composer best known as half of a composing-songwriting duo with Ray Evans, with whom he specialized in composing film scores and original soundtrack songs.
Often described in the late 1990’s as the “last great of the great songwriters of Hollywood,” Livingston and Evans were the recipient of three Academy Awards for Best Song in a Motion Picture for “Que Sera Sera”, “Mona Lisa” and “Buttons and Bows” and received nearly 10 other Oscar nominations.
Oct 18, 2001 · Jay Livingston, the pop composer and lyricist who collaborated with Ray Evans on three movie songs that won Academy Awards -- ''Mona Lisa,'' ''Que Será, Será'' and ''Buttons and Bows'' --...
Jay Livingston began playing piano in dance bands while still in high school and studied orchestration and composition at the University of Pennsylvania where he met his long-time musical collaborator Ray Evans.
Nov 4, 2017 · After 7 years of minimal success living and working in New York City as half of the Livingston & Evans songwriting team, Jay Livingston and his songwriting partner Ray Evans were given the opportunity to try their luck in Hollywood.
Jay Livingston was born March 28, 1915 in McDonald, Pennsylvania. He (along with his partner Ray Evans) composed many songs for movies such as To Each His Own (1946), Tammy and the Bachelor (1957) and Academy Award winning songs "Mona Lisa" from the movie Captain Carey, U.S.A. (1949), "Buttons and Bows" from the movie The Paleface (1948) and ...
Oct 18, 2001 · Jay Livingston, who with songwriting partner Ray Evans wrote some of America’s most popular songs and shared Academy Awards for “Buttons and Bows,” “Mona Lisa” and “Que Sera, Sera,” has died....
