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Promotional video for the album The Best Is Yet To Come: The Songs Of Cy Coleman, featuring Cy Coleman, Fiona Apple, Nikka Costa, Dave Palmer, Jill Sobule, Reggie Hamilton, Tony Bennett, Sara Watkins, Benmont Tench, Sarabeth Tucek, Perla Batalla, Julianna Raye, Tim Young, Aaron Sterling, Chris Bruce, Sam Phillips, Patty Griffin, Madeleine Peyroux, Ambrosia Parsley, and Missy Higgins -- released September 15, 2009 on New West Records. (video credit)
Film shown at the September 23, 2009 Cy Coleman Tribute
at the Grammy Museum in Los Angeles. (video credit)
Hugh Hefner introduces Cy Coleman to play and sing his song "The Best Is Yet to Come" on the TV show Playboy's Penthouse (Oct. 24, 1959). (video credit)
Playboy's Penthouse -- Cy Coleman
As a jazz pianist Coleman led the Cy Coleman Trio, and as a composer, along with many standard songs, he wrote "Playboy's Theme," which became the theme music of Playboy After Dark. This album, recorded in 1960, includes that theme along with several jazz standards and features Cy Coleman (piano), with Bill Takas (bass), Dave Bailey (drums), Ernie Royal (trumpet) and Wayne Andre (trombone).
Cy Colemanresearch resources in print (listed chronologically):
ASCAP Biographical Dictionary, New York: American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers, Cattell/Bowker, Fourth edition, 1980 (dates, collaborators, shows/movies, songs, etc., entry p. 93)
David Ewen. American Songwriters, An H. W. Wilson Biographical Dictionary. New York: The H. W. Wilson Co., 1987 (includes 146 bios of composers and lyricists). -- a wide selection of used copies is available at abebooks.com (entry--Cy Coleman--pp. 96-100).
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, An H. W. Wilson Biographical Dictionary. New York: The H. W. Wilson Co., 1987 (includes 146 bios of composers and lyricists). -- a wide selection of used copies is available at