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Saul Chaplin
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Saul Chaplin (February 19, 1912 – November 15, 1997) was an American composer and musical director. He was born Saul Kaplan in Brooklyn, New York. He had worked on stage, screen and television since the days of Tin Pan Alley. In film, he won four Oscars for collaborating on the scores and orchestrations of An American in Paris (1951), Seven Brides for Seven Brothers (1954) and West Side Story (1961). Following education at New York University's School of Commerce, Chaplin joined the ASCAP and started out penning tunes for the theatre, vaudeville and for New York's famous songwriting district, Tin Pan Alley. While in New York, Chaplin teamed with Sammy Cahn to compose original songs for Vitaphone movie shorts, filmed in Brooklyn by Warner Brothers. During this period the team was sometimes billed only by surname ("Cahn and Chaplin"), in the manner of Rodgers and Hart or Gilbert and Sullivan. Cahn and Chaplin relocated to Hollywood and scored two films for Universal Pictures. Chaplin then moved to Columbia Pictures to score Cover Girl and The Jolson Story. While on the latter film, Chaplin and Al Jolson penned the million-selling hit tune The Anniversary Song. In the late 1940s, Chaplin moved to MGM to work on a long string of films including On the Town (1949), Kiss Me Kate (1953), High Society (1956) and Merry Andrew (1958). For collaborating on such hits as Bei Mir Bist Du Schoen and Please Be Kind, Chaplin was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1985. While he
top songs
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If It's The Last Thing I Do
3192Shoe Shine Boy
943Until the Real Thing Comes Along
614The Anniversary Song
515Prosschai (Goodbye)
306Please be Kind
237Please Be Kind (arr. S. Blythe and C. Terry)
1682 Waltzes in C Major (arr. S. Chaplin)
139The Jolson Story: Anniversary Song (arr. S. Chaplin)
1110When You're in Love [Demo Recording]
8albums
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That Devilin' Tune: A Jazz History (1895-1950)
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The Essential Mormon Tabernacle Choir
As Long as there are Songs
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Vintage Hollywood Classics, Vol. 11: From The Roaring Twenties to the Swinging Fifties
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Seven Brides for Seven Brothers [Original Soundtrack]
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Gershwin, G.: Musicals (Arr. for Piano) (Gershwin: Remembrance and Discovery, Vol. 2)
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More Greatest Hits - 18 Best Loved Favorites
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BRITISH DANCE BANDS, Vol. 2 (1928-1940)
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Happy Together
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Vintage Hollywood Classics, Vol. 23: Music for Danny Kaye (Remastered 2016)
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THEMES OF THE BIG BANDS: Here's That Band Again (1934-1947)
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Dowling, Richard: Rhapsody in Ragtime