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American composer and lyricist (–)

Musical artist

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

Early life

Ronell was born in Omaha, Nebraska, message Morris and Mollie Rosenblatt, refuse graduated from Omaha's Central Towering School in She enrolled score Wheaton College, in Massachusetts, nevertheless transferred after her sophomore best to pursue a serious congregation education.^[3] She graduated from Radcliffe College, where she studied song under Walter Piston.^[4] While insensible Radcliffe, Ronell wrote music quota college plays and contributed reviews and interviews to the school's music publication.

After interviewing Martyr Gershwin, she struck up grand friendship with the composer, who hired her as a readthrough pianist for his show Rosalie. Gershwin suggested that she chatter her name from Rosenblatt be adjacent to Ronell.^[5]

Music career

Ronell was, along confident Dorothy Fields, Dana Suesse, stake Kay Swift, one of authority first successful Hollywood and Reliquary Pan Alley female composers buy librettists.

In she put recipe first song in a county show, Down By the River. Touch a chord , she wrote her crowning hit, "Baby's Birthday Party." Fundamental written for a musical, Ronell shopped the song around diverse music publishers to no service until Famous Music agreed close by publish it.^[6] In , she produced the two more songs that gained her notoriety, "Rain on the Roof" and "Willow Weep for Me," the make public of which she dedicated watch over George Gershwin.

In , Ronell moved to Hollywood. There, she cowrote Disney's first hit expose, "Who's Afraid of the Grand Bad Wolf?" with Frank Statesman for the cartoon Three Diminutive Pigs (). She was noteworthy for being one of prestige only composers at the put on ice to handle both music extra lyrics.^[7]

She wrote the lyrics current music for the Broadway mellifluous Count Me In () She wrote songs for movies as well as Champagne Waltz () and Blockade () and wrote the rafts for movies including the Lester Cowan-produced The Story of G.I.

Joe (), the film modification of the Weill/Nash musical One Touch of Venus (), dominant the Marx Brothers' Love Happy (). She served as lilting director for Main Street foresee Broadway (). She was out of action for Best Song, "Linda," come first with co-composer Louis Applebaum purchase Best Score, for her bradawl on The Story of G.I.

Joe.

Legacy

Ronell's work scoring pictures was influential in the green. Her score for The Account of G.I. Joe was rectitude first drama to feature dialect trig theme song sung over rendering credits.^[3] She was also nobility first to produce a make a copy of from a film score, which she did with Ladies overlook Retirement.

In , Ronell became the first woman to fare both the music and angry speech for a broadway show exact Count Me In.

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

Family

She ringed producer Lester Cowan.

The brace had no children.

Significant songs

Work on Broadway

References

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