Ray Evans

Oscar alla migliore canzone 1949

Oscar alla migliore canzone 1951

Oscar alla migliore canzone 1957

Ray Evans, all'anagrafe Raymond Bernard (Salamanca, 4 febbraio 1915 – Los Angeles, 15 febbraio 2007), è stato un cantautore statunitense.

È ricordato spesso in coppia con Jay Livingston come coautore di colonne sonore di celebri film.

Durante gli studi alla University of Pennsylvania, Ray conobbe Jay Livingston, il quale aveva formato una band con altri studenti del college e chiese a Ray di unirsi al gruppo, la band suonò in vari club e nelle navi da crociera, è in questo periodo che Evans sviluppò un naturale talento come autore, dopo la laurea il duo si trasferì a New York dove iniziarono a scrivere del materiale per la Olsen e Johnson Productions di Broadway, nel 1941 colsero il loro primo successo con G'bye Now^[1].

Livingston ed Evans vinsero il premio Oscar nel 1949 con la canzone Buttons and Bowns scritta per il film Viso pallido (the Paleface); nel 1951 con la canzone Mona Lisa, scritta per il film La spia del lago (Captain Carey, U.S.A.) e nel 1957 con la canzone Que sera sera, per il film L'uomo che sapeva troppo (The Men Who Knew Too Much), interpretata da Doris Day^[2]. Livingston ed Evans furono anche autori di molte canzoni per serie tv.

Nel 1958 conquistò una nomination al Tony Award con il musical Oh, Captain!^[3].

Evans collaborò inoltre con Henry Mancini, Max Steiner e Victor Young.

Lavori per Broadway

1941 Sons O' Fun - revue - coautore delle canzoni.
1958 Oh, Captain! - musical - coautore delle canzoni e dei testi insieme a Livingston, nomination al Tony Award.
1961 Let It Ride - musical - coautore delle canzoni e dei testi insieme a Livingston.
1979 Sugar Babies - revue - coautore delle canzoni insieme a Livingston.

Lista canzoni composte

Brani scritti e composti da Ray Evans e Jay Livingston, eccetto dove indicato.

36 34 36 (Jimmy McHugh, Ray Evans, Jay Livingston)
Aaron Slick
Adios Señorita
Alì Baba (Be My Baby)
All About Love
All Hands on Deck
All Mine (Roy Guerra, Victor Hime, Ray Evans, Jay Livingston)
All the Time
Alley Oop
Amours de printempts, Les (Henri Contet, Ray Evans, Jay Livingston)
Andy's Mistery Tune (canzone conosciuta anche come Nostalgia)
Angel Theme (Max Steiner, Ray Evans, Jay Livingston)
Angela
Angeltown
Anniversary Rose
Another Time, Another Place
April Child (Moacir Santos, Ray Evans, Jay Livingston)
Are You Happy in Your Work
As I Love You
At the Carnival
At the Nickleodeon
Baby Obey Me
Back Home (canzone conosciuta anche come Rentrons chez nous)
Bad News
Banana Boat (canzone conosciuta anche come Oomba Oomba Oomba)
Beatles, The
Beside You
Beyond Glory
Big Carnival, The
Big Clock
Bing Bang Bong
Bonanza
Bonnie nuit (canzone conosciuta anche come Good Night)
Bounce
Brain She Ain't, A
Brave Man
Bride of Vengeance (Troy Sandears, Ray Evans, Jay Livingston)
Broads Ain't People
Buttons and Bows
Buy Bonds for Bob
Bye Bye (Henry Mancini, Ray Evans, Jay Livingston)
C'est la guerre (Michael Goldsen, Ray Evans, Jay Livingston)
Calcutta
California Rose
Captain Henry St. James
Cat and the Canary
Chihuahua Choo Choo
Chores
Cincinnati
Ciudad de Mexico (David Raskin, Ray Evans, Jay Livingston)
Coach and Four, A
Come a Runnin' Manoe
Come to Broadway
Copper Canyon
Crosswinds
Cyd Charisse
Dark City
Daughter of Molly Malone
Dear Heart
Dime and a Dollar, A
Do It Yourself Cha Cha
Double Standard
Dream Girl
Dreamer, The (Tom McIntosh, Ray Evans, Jay Livingston)
Dreamsville (Henry Mancini, Ray Evans, Jay Livingston)
Drunk with Love
Easy Come, Easy Go
Era of Jazz
Everything Beautiful
Fancy Paints
Feminity
Fiddle and Gittar Band
For Your Applause
Fox Trot (Pete Rugolo, Ray Evans, Jay Livingston)
Frangipani Blossom
Free (David Raskin, Ray Evans, Jay Livingston)
French Heels
G Bye Ee
G'bye Now (John Olsen, Ray Evans, Jay Livingston)
General Store
Girls
Give It All You Got
Glass Mountain, The (Percy Faith, Ray Evans, Jay Livingston)
Go Away My Love
Golden Earrings (Victor Young, Ray Evans, Jay Livingston)
Golden Years, the
Good Intentions
Great Feeling
Happy Birthday Erwin
Haven't Got a Worry
Havin' a Wonderful Wish
He Needs You
Hear That Band
Heart of a Drum
Heavenly Days
Hello There
Here Comes the Groom
Here's to Love
Herman
Hey Jimmy, Joe, Jim, Jack Through Children's Eyes
Hey Jose
Hey Madame
hey Puchinello
Highway Polka (Lewis Bellin, Ray Evans, Jay Livingston)
His Own Little Island
Home Cookin'
Honey, Oh My Honey
Honorable Congratulations
How Can I be Alone Again
How Can I Tell Her
How Do We Know We're In
How Much Will I Love You?
How Shall We Begin (David Raskin, Ray Evans, Jay Livingston)
I Depend on You
I Do, I Do, I Do
I Don't Feel at Home
I Got It Made
I Shoulda Quit
I Waited so Long
I Was a Little Too Lonely
I Wouldn't Have Had To
I'd Like to Baby You
I'll Always Love You
I'll Eat My Hat (Lewis Bellin, Ray Evans, Jay Livingston)
I'll Learin Ya
I've Been There
I've Had Enough
If Flutterby Wins
Illinois
Imperfect Lady
In Laguna (George Russell, Ray Evans, Jay Livingston)
In the Arms of Love (Henry Mancini, Ray Evans, Jay Livingston)
Indian Summer
It Doesn't Cost a Dime to Dream
It's a Privilege to Live in Brooklyn
It's Never Quite the Same
It's Raining Rain
It's Torment
J.J. Jones
Jennifer (Patrick Williams, Ray Evans, Jay Livingston)
Joke's on Me (Henry Mancini, Ray Evans, Jay Livingston)
Just a Moment More
Just an Honest Mistake
Just for Fun
Kathy (Moacir Santos, Ray Evans, Jay Livingston)
Keep It Simple
Kit Carson and the Mountain (Norman Baker, Ray Evans, Jay Livingston)
Kitty
Krazy Kat
Krazy Theme
Lady Killer
Laramie
Laughing at Love (Robert Swanson, Ray Evans, Jay Livingston)
Let It Ride
Let Me Be Loved
Let Me Hear You Whisper
Let Me Love You
Let Me so Love
Let's Capture This Moment Forever (Lewis Bellin, Ray Evans, Jay Livingston)
Let's Go Home (Peanuts Holland, Sande Williams, Ray Evans, Jay Livingston)
Let's Go on with the Show
Life Begins at Fourteen
Life Does a Man a Favor
Life Is a Beautiful Thing
Little Rock Roll, The
Lola Lola
Lonely Girl (Neal Hefti, Ray Evans, Jay Livingston)
Lonely Weather for Ducks
Love Came Between Us
Love Him
Love Is Hell
Love Laughs at Kings (Victor Young, Ray Evans, Jay Livingston)
Love Let Me Know
Love Me Now (Percy Faith, Ray Evans, Jay Livingston)
Lovers in New York (Henry Mancini, Ray Evans, Jay Livingston)
Lovers of Omar Khayyam, The
Luanne (Moacir Santos, Ray Evans, Jay Livingston)
Lucky Us
Magic Touch
Mama Mama Mama (Where You Get De Cigar)
Man and Woman
Marshmellow Moon
Mating Season, The
Maybe September (Song from the Oscar) (Percy Faith, Ray Evans, Jay Livingston)
Media, The
Meet a Happy Guy
Meetcha 'Round the Corner
Meeting Time
Melody
Military Policeman, The
Miss Dynamite
Miss Julie July
Mister Ed
Misto Cristofo Columbo
Mole People, The
Mona Lisa
Monday Mourning on Saturday
Monsieur Beaucaire
Moondreams (You, Love and Me) (Egberto Gismonti, Ray Evans, Jay Livingston)
Morning Music of Montmartre, The
Mother Brown (Knees Up Mother Brown)
Mr. Bando Man
Mr. Lucky (Henry Mancini, Ray Evans, Jay Livingston)
My Beloved
My Favorite Brunette
My Favorite Chair
My Friend Irma
My Heart Is Home
My Heart's in America (Harold Johnson, Ray Evans, Jay Livingston)
My Heart's Popping
My Hearts on Ice (John Olsen, Ray Evans, Jay Livingston)
My Kind of Day
My Love Loves Me (G.B. Martini, Ray Evans, Jay Livingston)
My Love, My Life
My Own True Love
My Own, My Only, My All
My Sons, My Sons
Never Let Me Go
Never so Beautiful
Never Too Late (David Rose, Ray Evans, Jay Livingston)
New Vienna Woods, The
Nicest Thing, The
No Man Can Tame Me
No Man of Her Own
Nobody Cares
Norman Corwin Presents
Nothing Will Keep Me Away
On My Way (Max Steiner, Ray Evans, Jay Livingston)
On the Other End of a Kiss
On This Show
Once Upon a Horse
Oom Pah Pah
Open Your Arms
Out in All That Rain
Paramount Doesn't Want Me Blue
Paris Smiles (Maurice Jarre, Ray Evans, Jay Livingston)
Pat Boone Blues, The
Pretty Mandolin Tic a Tic, A
Promenade
Purt Night But Not Plumb
Que sera sera (Whatever Will Be Will Be)
Rams Are Rolling, The (Henry Mancini, Ray Evans, Jay Livingston)
Ransom for Alice (David Rose, Ray Evans, Jay Livingston)
Rear Window
Red Garters
Red Robin Randall Song, The
Rhubarb
Ridgeville Fight Song
Right or Wrong
Rose Tattoo
Round and Round the Christmas Tree
Ruby and the Pearl, The
Run, Run, Run
Saddle the Wind
Saga of Sadie Thompson
Sailor Beware
Sainted Sisters
Samba (Luiz Peixoto, Ray Evans, Jay Livingston)
Same Old Army (Jimmy McHugh, Ray Evans, Jay Livingston)
Satins and Spurs
Saturday Night in Puckin Crick
Say It with Love (Lewis Bellin, Ray Evans, Jay Livingston)
Second Greatest Sex, The
Secret of Old Glory Mine
See the Circus
See You Around (Percy Faith, Ray Evans, Jay Livingston)
Sepulveda
Sexy Sadie
Silver Bells
Sin
Somebody Loves Me
Someday You'll Be Sorry
Somewhere There's Home
Soin of Paleface
Song of Delilah (Victor Young, Ray Evans, Jay Livingston)
Song of Surrender (Victor Young, Ray Evans, Jay Livingston)
Song of the Wheel
Sorrowful Jones
Sounds That I Love, The (Van Alexander, Ray Evans)
Square in the Social Circle, A
Still Water
Straight to Baby (Henry Mancini, Ray Evans, Jay Livingston)
Straw Hat
Streets of Laredo
Stuff Like That There
Sugar Boat
Surprise
Swing Hostess (Lewis Bellin, Ray Evans, Jay Livingston)
T.C. Roundup
Take a Giant Step
Take Your Time
Tammy
Tell My Love (Victor Young, Ray Evans, Jay Livingston)
Temple
Thank You All
Thanks to You
That Ain't Right
That Travelin' Two Beat
That's How It Is
That's Loneliness (Song After Sundown) (David Raskin, Ray Evans, Jay Livingston)
That's Not the Knot
That's the News! That's the News! That's the News!
That's You (Juan Calderon, Ray Evans, Jay Livingston)
There's No One Like You
There's Something About a Home
They Obviously Want Me to Sing
This Could Have Been Mine
This Happy Feeling
This Is Greater Than I Thought
Those Bad Old Days (David Raskin, Ray Evans, Jay Livingston)
Thousand Violins, A
Three Paradises
Times a Wastin' (Harold Johnson, Ray Evans, Jay Livingston)
To Each His Own
To Rome with Love
Todado
Tonight My Love (Theme from A Place in the Sun)
Two Little Bears
Unconquered
Vaquers
Vertigo Inspired by the Movie
Very Proper Town, A
Wait Until Dark (I Wait Until Dark)
Waiting in the Wings
Warm and Willing
Warm as Wine
Warm Sun, Cold Moon
We'll Love Again
We're Not Children
We've Loved Before
What a Deal
What Did We Do Last Night
What Do You Think About Me?
What Price Glory
What's My Name
What's Yours
Wheels
When World's Collide
When You Love Someone
Where Can You Be
Where Do I Go from Here
Who's Doing What to Erwin
Whoop Diddy Ay
Why Should I Believe in Love
Wildcat Smathers
Window Wiper Song
Wing Ding Tonight
Wish
Wish Me a Rainbow
Wonderin' When
Wow!
Ya Got Class
You Don't Know Him
You Gotta Be Different
You're so Right for Me
You're Wonderful
Your Own Little House

Note

Voci correlate

Altri progetti

Wikimedia Commons contiene immagini o altri file su Ray Evans

Collegamenti esterni

Ray Evans, in Archivio storico Ricordi, Ricordi & C..
(EN) Ray Evans, su AllMusic, All Media Network.
(EN) Ray Evans, su Discogs, Zink Media.
(EN) Ray Evans, su MusicBrainz, MetaBrainz Foundation.
(EN) Ray Evans, su SecondHandSongs.
(EN) Ray Evans(1915-2007), su IMDb, IMDb.com.
(EN) Ray Evans, su AllMovie, All Media Network.
(EN) Ray Evans, su Internet Broadway Database, The Broadway League.
(DE, EN) Ray Evans, su filmportal.de.
(EN) Ray Evans, Lyricist of Hit Song from Movies, Dies at 92, su nytimes.com. URL consultato il 28 febbraio 2017. (Necrologio sul The New York Times del 17 febbraio 2007, con breve biografia)
(EN) Songwriters Hall of Fame - Ray Evans, su songwritershalloffame.org. URL consultato il 28 febbraio 2017 (archiviato dall'url originale il 13 novembre 2014). (Biografia e lista canzoni)

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