Livingston & Evans: The Last Of The Great Songwriters From The Golden-Age Of Hollywood After Buddy DeSylva picked up the Livingston & Evans song “A Square In The Social Circle” for Betty Hutton to perform in The Stork Club, Louis Lipstone invited Jay & Ray to join the music department at Paramount Pictures. Being new […]
Livingston & Evans: The Last Of The Great Songwriters From The Golden-Age Of Hollywood Now that Livingston & Evans were pounding the streets of Hollywood and had the recognition and support of non-other than one of the greatest lyricists of all time, Johnny Mercer, it was only time before lady luck knocked. In June 1945, […]
Livingston & Evans: The Last Of The Great Songwriters From The Golden-Age Of Hollywood In 1944, Livingston & Evans were offered the opportunity to go to Hollywood by Ole Olsen, half of the famous comedy team of Olsen & Johnson. Seems Olsen wanted Livingston & Evans to drive his car to Los Angeles. After only […]
Livingston & Evans: The Last Of The Great Songwriters From The Golden-Age Of Hollywood After 7 years of minimal success living and working in New York City as half of the Livingston & Evans songwriting team, Jay Livingston and his songwriting partner Ray Evans were given the opportunity to try their luck in Hollywood. L&E’s […]