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BURTON LANE
BURTON LANE (1912-1997) began his career in the late 1920s as a song plugger in Tin Pan Alley and, over the years, collaborated with a notable collections of lyricists (including Yip Harburg, Alan Jay Lerner, Ira Gershwin and Frank Loesser) to become one of America’s most distinguished composers of popular music. A good deal of his career was spent in Hollywood, where he composed songs for more than 45 films, including Royal Wedding, in which Fred Astaire famously danced on the ceiling to his “You’re All the World to Me.” He is also credited with discovering the 11-year-old Frances Gumm, later better known as Judy Garland. In addition to Finian’s Rainbow, his Broadway scores include Three’s a Crowd,Earl Carroll’sVanities (1931), Hold on to Your Hats, Laffing Room Only, Carmelina and On a Clear Day You Can See Forever.
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