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: 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: 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: 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 […]