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Harold Adamson |
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Basic InformationBorn: December 10, 1906, Greenville, New Jersey (US) Died: August 17, 1980 (age 73), Beverly Hills, California Primary songwriting role: lyricist Co-writers: frequently Burton Lane and Jimmy McHugh (Click here for database of Harold Adamson co-writers.) |
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  Max Wilk, They're Playing Our Song: Conversations with America's Classic Songwriters (originally published 1973 as They're Playing Our Song: From Jerome Kern to Stephen Sondheim—The Stories behind the Words and Music of Two Generations), New York and Stratford, CT: Easton Studio Press, 2008. |
"Adamson, who worked on Hasty Pudding shows while at Harvard, is an extremely gifted lyricist who has supplied lyrics to the work of many . . . composers: Jimmy McHugh, Hoagy Carmichael, Duke Ellington and others. He and Mack Gordon wrote the lyric to Vincent Youmans 'Time on My Hands'" (Wilk, p. 381). |
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 Frank Sinatra, Where Are You? (orig. 1957/CD 2002 Conducted and arranged by Gordon Jenkins featuring "Where Are You?" with Adamson lyric. Amazon  || iTunes |
 
Wesla Whitfield, Let's Get Lost (orig. 2001/ CD 2009) featuring several songs with Adamson lyrics: "I Just Found Out about Love," "You're a Sweetheart," "Where Are You?" etc. Amazon  || iTunes |
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, New York: American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (3rd edition, 1966, entry p. 4-5)
, An H. W. Wilson Biographical Dictionary. New York: The H. W. Wilson Co., 1987 (entry for Adamson). -- a wide selection of used copies at
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