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Artist:

Jack Yellen

Born:
Jul 06, 1892 in Poland

Died:
Apr 17, 1991 in Concord, New York

  • Genre: Vocal Music
  • Active: teens - '40s
  • Instrument: Songwriter, Lyricist, Screenplay

Biography

Pop lyricist Jack Yellen was most active during the 1920s and '30s, composing scores with songwriting partner Milton Ager for Broadway and later writing screenplays for Hollywood. Born in Poland in 1892, Yellen came to the U.S. at the age of five and eventually attended the University of Michigan. After graduation, he worked for a short time as a N.Y. newspaper reporter before taking up songwriting in the early '10s. He started out writing for vaudevillian Sophie Tucker and came up with one of her biggest hits in 1935, "My Yiddish Momme." Yellen eventually ended up co-owner of the publisher Ager-Yellen-Bernstein Music Company. Just a few of the many Broadway musicals he scored are What's in a Name? (1920), Rain or Shine (1928), You Said It (1931), and Boys and Girls Together (1940). In addition to mainly collaborating with Milton Ager, Yellen worked with other composers like Lew Pollack and Sammy Fain. Some of his most successful and enduring songs include "Hard Hearted Hannah," "Alabama Jubilee," "Cheatin' on Me," "I Wonder What's Become of Sally," "Ain't She Sweet," "Happy Days Are Here Again," and "Sing, Baby, Sing." Yellen later wrote numerous screenplays for Hollywood, a few of which are Pig-Skin Parade, Love Is News, Wake Up and Live, and many more. During the 1950s and '60s, Yellen again took up songwriting for Sophie Tucker. ~ Joslyn Layne, All Music Guide
 
 
Writer:

Jack Yellen

  • Born: Jul 06, 1892
  • Died: Apr 17, 1991
  • Occupation: Writer
  • Active: '20s-'40s
  • Major Genres: Musical, Comedy
  • Career Highlights: Love is News, Pigskin Parade, You Can't Have Everything
  • First Major Screen Credit: Bulldog Drummond (1929)

Biography

American librettist/lyricist Jack Yellen was one of many Broadway-ites who migrated to Hollywood when talkies arrived. Before settling at Fox Studios, Yellen wrote lyrics and special material for such early musicals as MGM's They Learned About Women (1930) and Universal's King of Jazz (1930). At Fox he scripted and/or penned lyrics for Shirley Temple (Captain January, Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm) and was one of the principal contributors to the studio's brace of Walter Winchell vehicles, Love Is News and Wake up and Live (1937). Jack Yellen's final film credit was the satirical college musical Hold That Co-Ed (1938). ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

 
Wikipedia: Jack Yellen

Jack Selig Yellen (Jacek Jeleń) (July 6, 1892 - April 17, 1991) was an American lyricist.

Yellen's family emigrated to the United States when he was five. He attended the University of Michigan and on graduating became a reporter for the Buffalo Courier in Buffalo, New York.

He is best remembered for his collaboration with composer Milton Ager. He and Ager entered the music publishing business as part owners of the Ager-Yellen-Bernstein Music Company.

His collaboration with vaudeville star, Sophie Tucker, for whom he was retained to write special material, produced one of Tucker's most well known songs, "My Yiddishe Momme," a song in English with some Yiddish text. Yellen wrote the lyrics which were set to music by Lew Pollack.[1]

Yellen wrote the lyrics to more than 200 popular songs of the early 20th century. Two of his most recognized songs, still popular in the 21st century, are Happy Days Are Here Again, and the Beatles favorite Ain't She Sweet.

Jack Yellen was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1972 and the Buffalo Music Hall of Fame in 1996.

He died in Concord, New York, aged 98.

Broadway musicals

Film Scores

  • The Adding Machine 1969
  • The Affair of Susan 1935
  • Ali Baba Goes To Town 1937
  • Another Thin Man 1939
  • Artistic Temper 1932
  • Bells of Capistrano 1942
  • Blonde Crazy 1931
  • Broadway Melody Of 1938 1937
  • Bulldog Drummond 1939
  • Call of The West 1930
  • Captain January 1936
  • Chasing Rainbows 1930
  • The Christmas Party 1931
  • Crashing The Gate 1934
  • George White’s Scandals 1934
  • Glad Rag Doll 1929
  • Going Hollywood 1933
  • Happy Landing 1938
  • The Heart of New York 1932
  • Hell In The Heavens 1934
  • Hold That Co-Ed 1938
  • Honky Tonk 1929
  • Ice Follies of 1939
  • King of Burlesque 1935
  • The King of Jazz 1930
  • Little Miss Broadway 1938
  • Love Is News 1937
  • My Lucky Star 1938
  • Night and Day 1946
  • Our Little Girl 1935
  • Pigskin Parade 1936
  • Rain or Shine 1930
  • Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm 1938
  • Sally, Irene And Mary 1938
  • Sensations of 1945 - 1944
  • Sing, Baby, Sing 1936
  • Submarine Patrol 1938
  • They Learned About Women 1930
  • This Is Heaven 1929
  • Twentieth Century 1934
  • Unexpected Uncle 1941
  • Wake Up And Live 1937
  • You Can’t Have Everything 1937

Songs

  • Alabama Jubilee (song) 1915
  • Down By The O-Hi-O 1921
  • There's a Garden in Hawaii with music by George B. McConnell 1917
  • Glad Rag Doll 1929
  • Louisville Lou 1923
  • Happy Feet 1930
  • Hard Hearted Hannah (The Vamp Of Savannah) 1924
  • I Wonder What's Become of Sally 1924
  • Cheatin' on Me 1925
  • In Your Green Hat 1925
  • My Yiddishe Momme 1925 with music by Lew Pollack and a huge success for Sophie Tucker.
  • Crazy Words, Crazy Tune 1926
  • Ain't She Sweet 1927
  • Happy Days Are Here Again 1930

Notes

  1. ^ Laurie, Joe, Jr. Vaudeville: From the Honky-tonks to the Palace. New York: Henry Holt, 1953. p. 59.

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