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Sammy Fain

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Aliases
Sammy Fain (The Crooning Composer)
Real name
Samuel E. Feinberg
Born
June 17, 1902
Died
December 6, 1989
Country
United States
IPI
00009692370 71 works
00009692468 1 work
Affiliation
ASCAP, BMI
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Best known as a composer of popular music, Fain also recorded as a singer and pianist. He composed extensively for Broadway and films from the 1930s into the 1960s. Fain was nominated nine times for the Academy Award for Best Original Song, winning twice for "Secret Love" from "Calamity Jane" (1954) and for "Love is a Many-Splendored Thing" in 1955 from the film of the same name. He was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1972.
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Title Performer Release date Originally by
1929 Margaret Simms & Paul Bass
Are You Happy? Fred Rich's Dance Orchestra – Vocal Chorus The Joy Boys 1927 Unverified
1930 Fats Waller and His Buddies - Vocal Refrain by Orlando Roberson, Chester Gaylord "The Whispering Serenader"
May 21, 2002 Glenn Miller and His Orchestra - Vocal Refrain by Marion Hutton
listen on Internet Archive 1927 Ted Lewis and His Orchestra – Vocal Chorus by Ted Lewis
  May 18, 1999 Dick Todd with Orchestra REC,REL, Tamara PRF
listen on Internet Archive 1931 Al Carney
  1930 George Olsen and His Music REC,REL, Janet Gaynor and Charles Farrell BRD
listen on Internet Archive November 1927 Franklyn Baur
1931 Abe Lyman and His California Orchestra
1928 Sam Lanin and His Famous Players
listen on Internet Archive   1929 John Harron, Ned Sparks, Jack Oakie & Guy Buccola BRD, Gus Arnheim and His Orchestra REC
listen on Internet Archive   1929 Ruth Etting REC,REL,PRF
listen on Internet Archive 1930 (unknown)
listen on Internet Archive 1930 Waring's Pennsylvanians - Vocal Refrain by Clare Hanlon and Chorus
1930 Isham Jones and His Orchestra
listen on Internet Archive 1929 Nick Lucas "The Crooning Troubadour"
1930 Ben Selvin and His Orchestra
1930 Philip Spitalny and His Orchestra - Vocal Refrain by Burt Lorin
listen on Internet Archive 1927 Van and Schenck
listen on Internet Archive   1927 Frankie Trumbauer and His Orchestra with Vocal Refrain Seger Ellis REL, Vaughn De Leath (The Radio Girl) ‑ Bill Regis at the piano REC
listen on Internet Archive 1930 The Charleston Chasers [US]
1930 (unknown)
listen on Internet Archive 1929 (unknown)
listen on Internet Archive 1929 Chick Endor
listen on Internet Archive   1930 Maurice Chevalier BRD, Ed. Loyd and His Orchestra (Ed Kirkeby) REC
listen on Internet Archive 1929 Irving Kaufman
  1931 Jack Albin and His Hotel Pennsylvania Dance Orch. - Vocal Chorus by Bill Coty REC, Adele Astaire & Eddie Foy Jr. PRF