Livingston & Evans, 1958
Livingston & Evans: The Last Of The Great Songwriters From The Golden-Age Of Hollywood 1958 was not only a good year for automobiles, it was a good year for Livingston & Evans. In all, Livingston & Evans wrote songs for eight feature films in 1958. The first was the theme song for a Universal International […]
Livingston & Evans, 1956-57
Livingston & Evans: The Last Of The Great Songwriters From The Golden-Age Of Hollywood 1956 saw Livingston & Evans called upon to write songs by two of the major film companies; first, WB Pictures needed a WWII south-seas influenced song for a film titled MISTER ROBERTS, starring Henry Fonda, James Cagney, Jack Lemmon, and William […]
Livingston & Evans, 1954-56
Livingston & Evans: The Last Of The Great Songwriters From The Golden-Age Of Hollywood 1954 saw Livingston & Evans working once again with Paramount Pictures stars Dean Martin & Jerry Lewis, Rosemary Clooney and Bob Hope, among others, on a film called THREE RING CIRCUS. The first project placed Martin & Lewis as entertainers in […]
Livingston & Evans, 1952-53
Livingston & Evans: The Last Of The Great Songwriters From The Golden-Age Of Hollywood 1952 began with Livingston & Evans working with many of their Paramount colleagues and friends once again. First up was another Bob Hope film which was a sequel to THE PALEFACE, called THE SON OF PALEFACE. Once again Jane Russell was […]
Livingston & Evans, 1951
Livingston & Evans: The Last Of The Great Songwriters From The Golden-Age Of Hollywood Coming off of their second Academy Award with Mona Lisa, Livingston & Evans were flying high. The boys had proven to themselves and everyone else they weren’t just one- hit wonders when it came to writing songs for both motion pictures […]
Livingston & Evans, 1949-1950
Livingston & Evans: The Last Of The Great Songwriters From The Golden-Age Of Hollywood Coming off their first Academy Award winning song in 1948, “Buttons and Bows”, you can imagine how this catapulted Livingston & Evans stature as the go to songsmiths at Paramount Pictures. As busy as the boys were prior to this, their […]
Livingston & Evans, 1948
Livingston & Evans: The Last Of The Great Songwriters From The Golden-Age Of Hollywood Even though 1948 ended up becoming a very good year for the songwriting team of Jay Livingston & Ray Evans, it began as a roll up your shirtsleeves and work your ass off kind of time. After coming off of the […]
Livingston & Evans, 1946-1947
Livingston & Evans: The Last Of The Great Songwriters From The Golden-Age Of Hollywood After the great success of “To Each His Own” Paramount moved Livingston & Evans up from writing music for the short subject films to the higher visibility projects. L&E were brought in to write three songs for the 1946 Bob Hope […]