Ray Evans
Ray Evans | |
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Nama lahir | Raymond Bernard Evans |
Lahir | 4 Februari 1915 |
Asal | Salamanca, New York, Amerika Serikat |
Meninggal | 15 Februari 2007 Los Angeles, California, Amerika Serikat | (umur 92)
Pekerjaan | Penulis lirik |
Artis terkait | Jay Livingston |
Raymond Bernard Evans (4 Februari 1915 – 15 Februari 2007) adalah seorang penulis lagu asal Amerika Serikat. Ia bersama-sama menyusun lagu dan menulis lirik bersama Jay Livingston, dikenal karena lagu-lagu yang mereka buat untuk film. Evans menulis liriknya dan Livingston untuk lagu-lagunya.[1]
Biografi
[sunting | sunting sumber]Evans terlahir dari keluarga Yahudi[2] di Salamanca, New York, dari pasangan Philip dan Frances Lipsitz Evans.[3] Dia adalah penulis pidato perpisahan kelas SMA-nya, di mana dia bermain klarinet di band. Buku tahunan Salamanca High School dari tahun 1931 menyatakan: "Tema aslinya dan ceramah lisannya yang brilian adalah keputusasaan teman sekelasnya. Ray juga cukup humoris. Kadang satirnya positif membunuh."[4] Ia menerima gelar sarjana dalam Ekonomi dari Wharton School University of Pennsylvania pada tahun 1936, menulis tesis senior tentang "Hubungan antara bank sentral, bank anggota dan pasar uang ."[1]
Evans bertemu Jay Livingston saat menjadi mahasiswa di Penn. Bersama-sama mereka bermain di orkestra tari perguruan tinggi Universitas, "The Continentals." Selama liburan sekolah orkestra dilibatkan untuk bermain di beberapa kapal pesiar internasional. Setelah lulus duo tersebut melanjutkan kemitraan mereka, mencari karier sebagai tim penulisan lagu di New York dan kemudian Hollywood.[5] Istirahat besar pertama mereka terjadi setelah mengikuti audisi untuk komedian Ole Olsen and Chic Johnson pada tahun 1939. Lagu mereka "G'Bye Now" berhasil masuk ke revue Broadway Olsen and Johnson Hellzapoppin. Pada tahun 1946 Livingston dan Evans menandatangani kontrak dengan Paramount Studios di Hollywood.[6]
Livingston dan Evans, keduanya anggota ASCAP, memenangkan tiga Academy Awards,[7] pada tahun 1948 untuk lagu "Buttons and Bows", yang ditulis untuk film The Paleface; pada tahun 1950 untuk lagu "Mona Lisa", yang ditulis untuk film Captain Carey, U.S.A.; dan 1956 untuk lagu "Whatever Will Be, Que Sera Sera, yang ditampilkan di film Alfred Hitchcock The Man Who Knew Too Much dan dinyanyikan oleh Doris Day. Lagu populer lainnya yang ia dan Livingston tulis untuk sebuah film adalah lagu "Tammy", yang ditulis untuk film 1957 Tammy and the Bachelor. Lagu tersebut dinominasikan untuk Academy Award untuk Best Song. Livingston dan Evans juga menulis tema TV populer untuk pertunjukan termasuk Bonanza dan Mister Ed. Lagu Natal mereka "Silver Bells yang ditujukan untuk film Bob Hope tahun 1951 The Lemon Drop Kid, telah menjadi standar Natal.[8]
Evans muncul sebagai dirinya sendiri dengan Livingston di Sunset Blvd. (1950) di pesta malam Tahun Baru.
Pada tahun 1958, tim penulisan lagu ini dinominasikan untuk Tony Award untuk musikal Oh, Captain!. Evans juga berkolaborasi secara terpisah dengan Michael Feinstein, Henry Mancini, Max Steiner, dan Victor Young. Lagu "Dear Heart" dari film tahun 1964 dengan nama yang sama ditulis oleh Livingston dan Evans bersama Henry Mancini; lagu tersebut dinominasikan untuk Oscar dan untuk Song of the Year Grammy Award, dan telah direkam beberapa kali, untuk Andy Williams, Jack Jones, dan Henry Mancini.
Peninggalan dan kematian
[sunting | sunting sumber]Evans adalah penerima dalam Songwriters Hall of Fame.[9] Ia dan Livingston memiliki bintang di Hollywood Walk of Fame.[10]
Dia meninggal pada usia 92 tahun di Los Angeles, California, pada ulang tahun ke 42 kematian Nat King Cole, yang telah membuat "Mona Lisa" begitu terkenal.[11] Ia menikah hampir 56 tahun dengan aktris, penulis, dan penulis drama Wyn Richie Evans.[12] Peninggalannya dipelihara dan dikembangkan oleh Ray and Wyn Ritchie Evans Foundation di Culver City, California. Teater Ray Evans Seneca di kota asalnya di Salamanca, NY dinamai menurut namanya.
Karya
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Ray Evans menulis lebih dari 700 lagu untuk film, pentas, dan televisi. Sebagian besar bersama dengan rekan penulis Jay Livingston.[13]
Karya untuk film
[sunting | sunting sumber]Tanggal | Film | Produksi | Lagu |
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1941 | Secrets of a Co-Ed | Producers Releasing Corporation (PRC) | Brazilly Willy |
1944 | I Accuse My Parents | Producers Releasing Corporation (PRC) |
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1944 | Swing Hostess | Producers Releasing Corporation (PRC) |
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1944 | Why Girls Leave Home | Producers Releasing Corporation (PRC) |
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1945 | Crime, Inc. | Producers Releasing Corporation (PRC) |
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1945 | Kitty | Paramount Pictures | Kitty |
1945 | People Are Funny | Paramount Pictures | Hey Jose |
1945 | The Stork Club | Paramount Pictures | A Square In The Social Circle |
1946 | Double Rhythm | Paramount Pictures | Have The Last Kiss On Me |
1946 | Monsieur Beaucaire | Paramount Pictures |
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1946 | My Favorite Brunette | Paramount Pictures |
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1946 | To Each His Own | Paramount Pictures | To Each His Own |
1947 | Champagne For Two | Paramount Pictures | Ho! Ho! Jose! |
1947 | Dream Girl | Paramount Pictures |
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1947 | Easy Come, Easy Go | Paramount Pictures | Easy Come, Easy Go |
1947 | Golden Earrings | Paramount Pictures | Golden Earrings |
1947 | Paris In The Spring | Paramount Pictures | At The Carnival |
1947 | Smooth Sailing | Paramount Pictures | Great Feeling |
1947 | The Big Clock | Paramount Pictures | The Big Clock |
1947 | The Imperfect Lady | Paramount Pictures | Piccadilly Tilly |
1947 | Whispering Smith | Paramount Pictures | Laramie |
1948 | Beyond Glory | Paramount Pictures | Beyond Glory |
1948 | Catalina Interlude | Paramount Pictures | Catalina |
1948 | Isn't It Romantic? | Paramount Pictures |
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1948 | Sorrowful Jones | Paramount Pictures |
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1948 | Speed to Spare | Pine-Thomas Productions-Paramount Pictures | Golden Earrings |
1948 | The Paleface | Paramount Pictures |
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1949 | Bride of Vengeance | Paramount Pictures |
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1949 | Copper Canyon | Paramount Pictures | Copper Canyon |
1949 | Dear Wife | Paramount Pictures |
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1949 | My Friend Irma | Paramount Pictures |
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1949 | Paid In Full | Paramount Pictures | You're Wonderful |
1949 | Song of Surrender | Paramount Pictures | Song of Surrender |
1949 | Streets of Laredo | Paramount Pictures | The Streets of Laredo |
1949 | Sunset Blvd. | Paramount Pictures |
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1949 | The Great Lover | Paramount Pictures |
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1949 | The Heiress | Paramount Pictures | My Love Loves Me |
1950 | Ace In The Hole | Paramount Pictures | We're Coming Leo |
1950 | Captain Carey, U.S.A. | Paramount Pictures | Mona Lisa |
1950 | Fancy Pants | Paramount Pictures |
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1950 | Lucy Gallant | Paramount Pictures | How Can I Tell Her? |
1950 | My Friend Irma Goes West | Paramount Pictures |
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1950 | No Man of Her Own | Paramount Pictures | The Lie |
1950 | Samson and Delilah | Paramount Pictures | The Song of Delilah |
1950 | The Furies | Paramount Pictures | T.C. Round-Up Time |
1950 | The Redhead and the Cowboy | Paramount Pictures | Trav'lin' Free |
1951 | Aaron Slick from Punkin Crick | Paramount Pictures |
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1951 | Anything Can Happen | Paramount Pictures | Love Laughs At Kings |
1951 | Crosswinds | Paramount Pictures | Crosswinds |
1951 | Here Comes The Groom | Paramount Pictures |
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1951 | My Favorite Spy | Paramount Pictures | Just A Moment More |
1951 | Rhubarb | Paramount Pictures |
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1951 | Sangaree | Pine Thomas Productions-Paramount Pictures | Sangaree |
1951 | Somebody Loves Me | Paramount Pictures |
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1951 | Son of Paleface | Paramount Pictures |
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1951 | That's My Boy | Paramount Pictures | Ridgeville Fight Song |
1951 | The Lemon Drop Kid | Paramount Pictures |
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1951 | When Worlds Collide | Paramount Pictures | When Worlds Collide |
1952 | Houdini | Paramount Pictures | The Golden Years |
1952 | Off Limits | Paramount Pictures |
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1952 | The Stars Are Singing | Paramount Pictures |
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1952 | Those Redheads from Seattle | Paramount Pictures | Mister Banjo Man |
1952 | Thunder In The East | Paramount Pictures | The Ruby and the Pearl |
1952 | What Price Glory | 20th Century Fox |
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1953 | Here Come The Girls | Paramount Pictures |
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1953 | Red Garters | Paramount Pictures |
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1954 | Casanova's Big Night | Paramount Pictures | Pretty Mandolin |
1954 | Mister Roberts | Warner Bros. | Let Me Hear You Whisper |
1954 | Sabrina | Paramount Pictures | Dream Girl |
1954 | Three Ring Circus | Paramount Pictures | Hey, Punchinello |
1955 | Raw Wind in Eden | Universal International Pictures | The Magic Touch |
1955 | The Man Who Knew Too Much | Paramount Pictures |
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1955 | The Second Greatest Sex | Universal International Pictures | The Second Greatest Sex |
1956 | Istanbul | Universal International Pictures | I Was A Little Too Lonely (And You Were A Little Too Late) |
1956 | Tammy and the Bachelor | Universal International Pictures |
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1956 | The Mole People | Universal International Pictures | The Mole People |
1956 | The Scarlet Hour | Paramount Pictures | Never Let Me Go |
1957 | Omar Khayyam | Paramount Pictures |
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1957 | Saddle the Wind | MGM | Saddle the Wind |
1957 | The James Dean Story | Warner Bros. | Let Me Be Loved |
1957 | This Happy Feeling | Universal International Pictures | This Happy Feeling |
1958 | Another Time Another Place | Paramount Pictures | Another Time Another Place |
1958 | Girls On The Loose | Universal Pictures | I Was A Little Too Lonely (And You Were A Little Too Late) |
1958 | Houseboat | Paramount Pictures |
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1958 | Once Upon A Horse | Universal International Pictures | Once Upon A Horse |
1958 | The Big Beat | Universal International Pictures | As I Love You |
1958 | Vertigo | Paramount Pictures | Vertigo |
1959 | A Private's Affair | 20th Century Fox |
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1959 | The Blue Angel | 20th Century Fox | Lola-Lola |
1959 | Take a Giant Step | United Artists | Take a Giant Step |
1960 | All Hands On Deck | 20th Century Fox |
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1961 | The Two Little Bears | 20th Century Fox | Honey Bear |
1961 | Too Late Blues | Paramount Pictures |
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1962 | Krazy Kat | King Features-Paramount |
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1962 | Wait Until Dark | Warner Bros. | Wait Until Dark |
1964 | Dear Heart | Warner Bros. | Dear Heart |
1964 | Tammy and the Doctor | Universal Pictures | Tammy |
1964 | Those Calloways | Walt Disney | Angel |
1964 | Youngblood Hawke | Warner Bros. | On My Way (The Youngblood Hawke theme) |
1965 | Charade | Universal Pictures | Punch and Judy |
1965 | Harlow | Paramount Pictures | Lonely Girl |
1965 | Never Too Late | Paramount Pictures | Never Too Late |
1965 | The Night of the Grizzly | Paramount Pictures | Angela |
1965 | The Third Day | Warner Bros. | Love Me Now |
1966 | Arabesque | Universal Pictures | We've Loved Before |
1966 | Is Paris Burning? | Paramount Pictures | Paris Smiles |
1966 | The Oscar | Embassy Pictures |
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1966 | This Property is Condemned | Paramount Pictures | Wish Me A Rainbow |
1966 | Torn Curtain | Universal International Pictures | The Green Years |
1966 | What Did You Do in the War, Daddy? | United Artists | In the Arms of Love |
1976 | The Far Side of Paradise | New World Pictures | Foxtrot |
1976 | W.C. Fields and Me | Universal International Pictures | The Joke's On Me |
1984 | The Secret Diary of Sigmund Freud | 20th Century Fox | Angel In The Night |
1986 | Mona Lisa | Handmade Film and Palace Productions | Mona Lisa |
Karya untuk pentas
[sunting | sunting sumber]Tanggal | Musikal | Produksi | Lagu |
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1940 | Hellzapoppin' | Olsen and Johnson |
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1941 | Sons o' Fun | Olsen and Johnson | Additional Music by Jay Levinson and Ray Evans |
1942 | New Hellzapoppin' of 1943 | Olsen and Johnson | Hellzapoppin' Polka |
1951 | I Love Lydia | Players Ring, Hollywood, California |
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1954 | Oh, Captain! | Alvin Theatre |
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1954 | That's Life | Los Angeles Revue |
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1961 | Let It Ride | Eugene O'Neill Theater |
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1976 | Kentucky Lucky | Unproduced |
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1979 | Sugar Babies | Mark Hellinger Theatre |
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1984 | The Italian Look | Unproduced |
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1984 | West of East | Unproduced |
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1987 | The Red Parasol | Unproduced |
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1987 | What Fools These Mortals Be | Unproduced |
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1988 | The Odyssey of Runyon Jones | Valley Music Theater |
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1990 | The Passions of Perichole | Unproduced |
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Karya untuk Televisi
[sunting | sunting sumber]Tanggal | Acara | Produksi | Lagu |
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1954 | Satins And Spurs | NBC |
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1956 | The Dinah Shore Chevy Show | NBC | Anniversary Rose |
1958 | Peter Gunn | NBC |
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1959 | Bonanza | NBC |
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1959 | Mr. Lucky | CBS | Mr. Lucky |
1959 | The Chevy Show | NBC | That Ain't Right |
1959 | General Electric Theater | MCA-TV |
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1960 | Mister Ed | CBS |
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1965 | Tammy | ABC | Tammy |
1970 | To Rome With Love | CBS | To Rome With Love |
1977 | The Busters: Ransom for Alice | NBC | A Dude And A Doll |
1979 | A Family Circus Christmas | Cullen-Kasdan Productions | The Dreamer |
1988 | Bonanza: The Next Generation | NBC | Bonanza |
1993 | Bonanza: The Return | NBC | Bonanza |
1995 | Bonanza: Under Attack | NBC | Bonanza |
Referensi
[sunting | sunting sumber]- ^ a b Ray Evans papers, 1921-2012, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, University of Pennsylvania.
- ^ Bloom, Nate (2006-12-19). "The Jews Who Wrote Christmas Songs". InterfaithFamily. Diakses tanggal 2006-12-19.
- ^ "NNDB". Diakses tanggal 29 September 2014.
- ^ The Seneca. Salamanca, NY: Published by the senior class of Salamanca High School. 1931.
- ^ Whorf, Michael (2012). American Popular Song Lyricists: Oral Histories, 1920s-1960s. Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Company.
- ^ Gottlieb, Robert and Robert Kimball, eds. (2002). Reading Lyrics. New York: Pantheon Books.
- ^ Spencer Leigh (19 October 2001). "Obituary: Jay Livingston". The Independent. Diarsipkan dari versi asli tanggal 2009-03-22. Diakses tanggal 2017-07-27.
- ^ Furia, Philip & Lasser, Michael (2006). America's Songs: The Stories Behind the Songs of Broadway, Hollywood, and Tin Pan Alley. Routledge. hlm. 233.
- ^ "Ray Evans". Songwritershalloffame.org. Diakses tanggal 2014-08-02.
- ^ "Hollywood Walk of Fame". Diarsipkan dari versi asli tanggal 2014-02-04. Diakses tanggal 29 September 2014.
- ^ "Que Sera composer Ray Evans dies". BBC News. 2007-02-17. Diakses tanggal 2007-02-17.
- ^ "Wyn Ritchie Evans: Performer, Wife of Ray Evans (obituary)". Variety. Diakses tanggal 29 September 2014.
- ^ The Ray and Wyn Ritchie Evans Foundation Official Website
Pranala luar
[sunting | sunting sumber]- Ray Evans di IMDb (dalam bahasa Inggris)
- The Ray and Wyn Ritchie Evans Foundation Official Website
- Ray Evans papers, 1921-2012, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, University of Pennsylvania.
- Obituary, The Guardian, 20 Februari 2007
- Obituary Diarsipkan 2007-02-22 di Wayback Machine., The Independent, 20 Februari 2007
- Obituary[pranala nonaktif permanen], The Telegraph, 20 Februari 2007
- Obituary, The New York Times, 17 Februari 2007