Frank Loesser - Definition and Overview

Frank Loesser (June 29, 1910, New York City - July 26, 1969, New York City) was a composer and lyricist. He died of lung cancer at age 59.

He wrote the following Broadway musicals:

• Where’s Charley? (1948) (starring Ray Bolger)
  • "Once in Love With Amy"
• Guys and Dolls (1950)
  • "A Bushel and a Peck"
  • "Fugue for Tinhorns"
  • "I'll Know"
• The Most Happy Fella (1956)
  • "Standing on the Corner"
  • "Big D"
  • "Somebody Somewhere"
  • "Joey"
• Greenwillow (1960)
• How To Succeed In Business Without Really Trying (1961)

Some well-known songs he composed for movies and tin pan alley:

• "Baby, It's Cold Outside" (from Neptune's Daughter)
• "Heart and Soul" (from the Paramount Short Subject A Song is Born)
• "I Don't Want to Walk Without You" (from the Paramount Pictures motion picture Sweater Girl)
• "Inch Worm" (from the motion picture Hans Christian Andersen)
• "On a Slow Boat to China"
• "Thumbelina" (from Hans Christian Andersen)
• "What are You Doing New Year's Eve?"
• "Wonderful Copenhagen" (from Hans Christian Andersen)

External links

• http://www.frankloesser.com/
• Interview with daughter Susan Loesser - http://freshair.npr.org/day_fa.jhtml?display=day&todayDate=12/29/2003