Paul Francis Webster
Paul Francis Webster | |
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Born | New York City, United States | December 20, 1907
Died | March 18, 1984 Beverly Hills, California, United States | (aged 76)
Occupation(s) | Lyricist |
Paul Francis Webster (December 20, 1907 – March 18, 1984)[1] was an American lyricist who won three Academy Awards for Best Original Song, and was nominated sixteen times for the award.
Life and career
Webster was born in
By 1931, however, he turned his career direction to writing song lyrics.[1] His first professional lyric was "Masquerade" (music by John Jacob Loeb) which became a hit in 1932, performed by Paul Whiteman.[1]
In 1935,
After 1950, Webster worked mostly for
Webster is the most successful songwriter of the 1950s on the
Webster's first born son, Guy Webster, was a prolific photographer of musicians and bands in the 1960s and 1970s.[7] His younger son, Mona Roger Webster, is a conceptual artist, a real estate investor and a longtime resident of Venice, CA.[citation needed]
Webster continued writing through 1983.[4] He died in 1984 in Beverly Hills, California, and is buried at Hillside Memorial Park in Culver City, California.
List of songs
Here is a partial list of songs for which he wrote the lyrics:[1][4][8][9]
Songs by Paul Francis Webster that won the Academy Award for Best Original Song
- "Secret Love" (Calamity Jane, 1953)
- "Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing" (Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing, 1955)
- "The Shadow of Your Smile" (The Sandpiper, 1965)
Nominated for the award
- "Remember Me to Carolina" (Minstrel Man, 1944)
- "Friendly Persuasion (Thee I Love)" (Friendly Persuasion, 1956)
- "April Love" (April Love, 1957)
- "A Certain Smile" (A Certain Smile, 1958)
- "A Very Precious Love" (Marjorie Morningstar, 1958)
- "The Green Leaves of Summer" (The Alamo, 1960)
- "Love Theme from El Cid (The Falcon and the Dove)" (El Cid, 1961)
- "Tender Is the Night" (Tender Is the Night, 1962)
- "Love Song From Mutiny on the Bounty (Follow Me)" (Mutiny on the Bounty, 1962)
- "So Little Time" (55 Days at Peking, 1963)
- "A Time for Love" (An American Dream, 1966)
- "Strange Are the Ways of Love" from the film The Stepmother (1972)
- "A World that Never Was" from the film Half a House (1976)
Songs winning Grammy Awards for best song of the year
- "The Shadow of Your Smile" (love theme from The Sandpiper, 1966)
Other songs with lyrics by Paul Francis Webster
- "Anastasia" (1956)
- "Ballad of the Alamo" (1960)
- "Baltimore Oriole"
- "Beloved" (1954)
- "Billy-A-Dick" (1945)
- "Black Coffee"
- "The Black Hills Of Dakota"
- "Blowing Wild (The Ballad Of Black Gold)" (1953)
- "Boy on a Dolphin"
- "The Brown-Skin Gal in the Calico Gown" (1941)
- "Chocolate Shake" (1941)
- "Days of Love" (1967)
- "The Deadwood Stage (Whip-Crack-Away!)"
- "Doctor, Lawyer, Indian Chief"
- "The First Snowfall" (1953) [music composed by Sonny Burke]
- "Guns of Navarone" (1961)
- "Honey-Babe" (1955)
- "How Green Was My Valley" (1957)
- "How It Lies, How It Lies, How It Lies!"
- "I Got it Bad (And That Ain't Good)" (1941)
- "I'll Remember Tonight"
- "I'll Walk with God" (1954)
- "Invitation" (1952)
- "Jump for Joy"
- "Just Blew in from the Windy City" (1953)
- "The Lamplighter's Serenade" (1942)
- "Like Young" (1958)
- "The Loveliest Night of the Year" (1950)
- "Man on Fire"
- "Masquerade" (1931)
- "Maverick"
- "Memphis in June" (1945) for RKO's Johnny Angel, Music by Hoagy Carmichael
- "The Mood I'm In" (co-written with Pete King)
- "My Moonlight Madonna"
- "Padre"
- "Rainbow on the River" (1936)
- "Rio Bravo" (1959)
- "Somewhere My Love" (1966) (The lyrics, which are Webster's original work, are sung to the melody of "Lara's Theme" from the film Doctor Zhivago.[citation needed])
- "The Song Angels Sing" (1951)
- "Song of Green Mansions (1959)
- "The Song of Raintree County" (1957)
- "Spider-Man" (1967)
- "Sugarfoot"
- "Summertime in Heidelberg" (1954)
- "There They Are"
- "There's Never Been Anyone Else But You"
- There's a Rising Moon (1954)
- "Too Beautiful to Last" (1971)
- "The Twelfth of Never"
- "Two Cigarettes in the Dark" (1934)
- "Veni Vidi Vici"
- "Virgins Wrapped in Cellophane" (1932)
- "Who Are We?"
- "The Winds of Chance" (1969)
- "A Woman's Touch" (1953)
- "You Was"
Song compilation
- The Songs of Paul Francis Webster (ISBN 0-7935-0665-4)
- Award-Winning Songs By Paul Francis Webster, Robbins Music Corporation, 1964
References
- ^ ISBN 0-85112-939-0.
- ^ "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived (PDF) from the original on 2018-05-03. Retrieved 2017-07-09.
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: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) - ^ "Potted biographies of musical theatre composers". Guidetomusicaltheatre.com. Archived from the original on 14 August 2017. Retrieved 3 May 2018.
- ^ Michael Feinstein Great American Songbook Initiative. Archivedfrom the original on 2015-01-13. Retrieved 2015-01-12.
- ^ Paul Francis Webster at the Songwriters Hall of Fame
- ^ "Paul Francis Webster Papers". Syracuse University Libraries. Syracuse University. Archived from the original on 2013-10-30. Retrieved 2015-01-12.
- ^ Marinucci, Steve (February 7, 2019). "Guy Webster, Photographer of Album Covers by The Doors and Rolling Stones, Dies at 79". Variety. Retrieved February 8, 2019.
- ^ "Paul Francis Webster Song Catalog". Songwriters Hall of Fame. Songwriters Hall of Fame. Archived from the original on 2015-01-12. Retrieved 2015-01-12.
- ^ "Songs Written by Paul Francis Webster". MusicVF.com. VF Entertainment. Retrieved 2015-01-12.
External links
- Paul Francis Webster at IMDb
Other sources
- Hill, Tony L. "Paul Francis Webster, 1907-1984", in Dictionary of Literary Biography 265. Detroit: Gale Research, 2002.
- Sammy Lifetime Achievement Film Music Award for Paul Francis Webster