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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. Livingston composed the music while Evans wrote the lyrics.
Livingston and Evans were the songwriting and composing team of Jay Livingston (1915–2001) and Ray Evans (1915–2007), who worked on movies, television and stage. They met while attending the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia .
"To Each His Own" is a popular song with music written by Jay Livingston and lyrics by Ray Evans. It is the title song of the movie of the same name and was published in 1946 by Paramount Music. The duo were assigned to write this song after film composer Victor Young turned it down. [3]
"Que Será, Será (Whatever Will Be, Will Be)" [a] is a song written by Jay Livingston and Ray Evans and first published in 1955. [4] Doris Day introduced it in the Alfred Hitchcock film The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956), [5] singing it as a cue to their onscreen kidnapped son. [4]
Pages in category "Songs with music by Jay Livingston" The following 15 pages are in this category, out of 15 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
"Mona Lisa" is a popular song written by Ray Evans and Jay Livingston for the Paramount Pictures film Captain Carey, U.S.A. (1949), in which it was performed by Sergio de Karlo and a recurrent accordion motif.
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Raymond Bernard Evans (February 4, 1915 – February 15, 2007) was an American songwriter best known for being a half of a composing-songwriting duo with Jay Livingston, specializing himself in writing lyrics for film songs. On music Livingston composed, Evans wrote the lyrics. [1]