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Jimmy Van Heusen (born Edward Chester Babcock; January 26, 1913 – February 6, 1990),〔(Palm Springs Cemetery District, "Interments of Interest" )〕 was an American composer. He wrote songs for films, television and theater, and won an Emmy and four Academy Awards for Best Original Song. ==Life and career== Born Edward Chester Babcock in Syracuse, New York, he began writing music while at high school. He renamed himself at age 16, after the famous shirt makers, Phillips-Van Heusen, to use as his on-air name during local shows. His close friends called him "Chet." Studying at Cazenovia Seminary and Syracuse University, he became friends with Jerry Arlen, the younger brother of Harold Arlen. With the elder Arlen's help, Van Heusen wrote songs for the Cotton Club revue, including "Harlem Hospitality." He then became a staff pianist for some of the Tin Pan Alley publishers, and wrote "It's the Dreamer in Me" (1938) with lyrics by Jimmy Dorsey. Collaborating with lyricist Eddie DeLange, on songs such as "Heaven Can Wait", "So Help Me", and "Darn That Dream", his work became more prolific, writing over 60 songs in 1940 alone. It was in 1940 that he teamed up with the lyricist Johnny Burke. Burke and Van Heusen moved to Hollywood writing for stage musicals and films throughout the 1940s and early 1950s, winning an Academy Award for Best Original Song for "Swinging on a Star" (1944). Their songs were also featured in ''A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court'' (1949). He was also a pilot of some accomplishment; he worked, using his birth name, as a part-time test pilot for Lockheed Corporation in World War II. Van Heusen then teamed up with lyricist Sammy Cahn. Their three Academy Awards for Best Song were won for "All the Way" (1957) from ''The Joker Is Wild'', "High Hopes" (1959) from ''A Hole in the Head'', and "Call Me Irresponsible" (1963) from ''Papa's Delicate Condition''. Their songs were also featured in ''Ocean's Eleven'' (1960) and ''Robin and the 7 Hoods'' (1964), which featured the Oscar-nominated "My Kind of Town." Cahn and Van Heusen also wrote "Love and Marriage" (1955), "To Love and Be Loved", "Come Fly with Me", "Only the Lonely", and "Come Dance with Me" with many of their compositions being the title songs for Frank Sinatra's albums of the late 1950s. Van Heusen wrote the music for five Broadway musicals: ''Swingin' the Dream'' (1939); ''Nellie Bly'' (1946), ''Carnival in Flanders'' (1953), ''Skyscraper'' (1965), and ''Walking Happy'' (1966). While Van Heusen did not achieve nearly the success on Broadway that he did in Hollywood, at least three songs from Van Heusen musicals can legitimately be considered standards - "Darn That Dream" from ''Swingin' the Dream''; "Here's That Rainy Day" from ''Carnival in Flanders'' and "I Only Miss Her When I Think of Her" from ''Skyscraper.'' He became an inductee of the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1971. Van Heusen composed over 800 plus songs of which 50 songs became standards. Van Heusen songs are featured in over two hundred and twenty films. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Jimmy Van Heusen」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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