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MORRIS STOLOFF

“MOONGLOW AND THEME FROM PICNIC”

(STEVE ALLEN, Will Hudson, Eddie DeLang,

Irving Mills, George W. Duning)

Decca 29888  No. 2

June 2, 1956

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Born on August 1, 1898, and raised in Philadelphia, Morris studied violin with Leopold Auer and Theodore

Speiring.  After a position as concertmaster of the Para­mount Studio Orchestra, Stoloff in 1936 began his

reign as composer-conductor and general music direc­tor for Columbia Pictures.  His film scores for Cover

Girl (1944), The Jolson Story (1946), and Song Without End (1960) won Academy Awards.  Stoloff’s rendition

of this medley of tunes from the film Picnic was the more successful of the two versions that charted; the

other being by GEORGE CATES.  In addition to compos­ing the pop songs “A Song to Remember,” “Dream

Awhile with Me,” ” Love Comes But Once in Awhile,” Morris also created the film scores to The Eddie Duchin

Story (1956), Gidget (1959), They Came to Condura (1959), and The Last Angry Man (1974).

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Morris Stoloff died, April 16, 1980.  He was 82.