Frank Loesser

Broadway Musicals:

Guys and Dolls

How To Succeed In Business Without Really Trying

Most Happy Fella

Hans Christian Andersen

Broadway hits:

My Darling, my Darling

Guys and Dolls

If I were a Bell

I've never been in love before

Fugue for Tin horns

Take back your mink

A women in love

Lyrics (Wrote lyrics for following films):

The Bob Hope Comedy

Thanks for the Memory

The Bing Crosby film

Sing you Sinners

Destry Rides Again

Forest Rangers

Songs:

Praise the Lord and Pass the Ammunition

What do you do in the Infantry

Tallahassee

I wish I didn't love you so

Now that I need you

Baby, It's cold outside

Frank Loesser was the son of a German Virtuoso. He taught himself how to play the piano and harmonica. Loesser was a college dropout but at that time college, and worked odd jobs such as serving and reporting. He first began writing lyrics for the Lions Club and was encouraged to continue. He was then hired by Leo Feist Music Publishing Company. Leo only published one song in the time that Loesser worked for him; it was a piece with music by William Schuman. He then hit a spell where his lyrics for films were not being used so he became a club singer. Soon Universal Pictures would hire Loesser, but soon left and ended up with Paramount in Hollywood. Here he had a few lyrics for films. He also was a Private in World War II. Afterward many of his works were produced. But in 1969 he would soon die from smoking.