Search Tips: 1) Click "Find on This Page" button to activate page search box. 2) When searching for a name (e.g. a songwriter), enter last name only. 3) When searching for a song title on the catalog page, omit an initial "The" or "A". 4) more search tips.
Overview and Commentary
Carl Fischer (This section is currently in preparation)
adapted and expanded from the article in Wikipedia.
Carl T. Fischer was a Native American jazz pianist and composer who worked with Frankie Laine and composed Laine's 1945 hit song, "We'll Be Together Again" as well as other important popular songs including "It Started All Over Again," "You've Changed," "Give Me a Kiss for Tomorrow," and "Baby, Just for Me."
Fischer's parents, of Cherokee lineage, overcame poverty to provide him with music lessons. At the age of 32, Fischer joined a touring band and wrote some minor hits, which led to his work as an accompanist, conductor and arranger for Laine from 1946-1954. With Laine's encouragement, Fischer wrote the musical, Tecumseh!, although it was never performed before Fischer's death.
Fischer's work also included serving as a conductor for Navy and Marine Corps bands during WWII and as a pianist for Hollywood film studios.
Alec Wilder in his commentary on Fischer's song "We'll Be Together Again" notes what a great example it is of pop song sophistication while still being different in character from a theater song. Wilder adds that along with being Frankie Laine's accompanist, Fischer is "a very dear man" (Wilder, p. 513, hard cover Ed.).
Cafe Songbook
Music-Video Cabinet:
Carl Fischer (This section is currently in preparation)
Frank Sinatra sings the 1942 Carl Fischer (music) Bill Carey (words) song, "It Started All Over Again" arranged by Sy Oliver from the 1961 album I Remember Tommy.
Carl Fischerresearch 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. 158)
Submit comments on songs, songwriters, performers, etc.
Feel free to suggest an addition or correction.
Please read our Comments Guidelines before making a submission. (Posting of comments is subject to the guidelines.
Not all comments will be posted.)
Credits for Videomakers of videos used on this page:
No videos currently appear on this page.
Borrowed material (text): The sources of all quoted and paraphrased text are cited. Such content is used under the rules of fair use to further the educational objectives of CafeSongbook.com. CafeSongbook.com makes no claims to rights of any kind in this content or the sources from which it comes.
Borrowed material (images): Images of CD, DVD, book and similar product covers are used courtesy of either Amazon.com or iTunes/LinkShare with which CafeSongbook.com maintains an affiliate status. All such images are linked to the source from which they came (i.e. either iTunes/LinkShare or Amazon.com).
Any other images that appear on CafeSongbook.com pages are either in the public domain or appear through the specific permission of their owners. Such permission will be acknowledged in this space on the page where the image is used.
For further information on Cafe Songbook policies with regard to the above matters, see our "About Cafe Songbook" page (link at top and bottom of every page).
Cafe Songbook
Master List of Great American Songbook Songwriters
Names of songwriters who have written at least one song included in the Cafe Songbook Catalog of The Great American Songbook are listed below.
Names of songwriters with two or more song credits in the catalog (with rare exceptions) are linked to their own Cafe Songbook pages, e.g. Fields, Dorothy.
Names of songwriters with only one song credit in the catalog are linked to the Cafe Songbook page for that song, on which may be found information about the songwriter or a link to an information source for him or her.
Please note: Cafe Songbook pages for songwriters are currently in various stages of development.
"
