James Lamont "Haven" Gillespie (1888-1975) was a Tin Pan Alley composer and lyricist who died in 1975 in Las Vegas. Year 1888 ( MDCCCLXXXVIII) was a Leap year starting on Sunday (click on link for calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Year 1975 ( MCMLXXV) was a Common year starting on Wednesday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Tin Pan Alley is the name given to the collection of New York City -centered music publishers and Songwriters who dominated the popular Las Vegas ( Spanish: "The Meadows" is the most populous City in the state of Nevada, the seat of Clark County, and an internationally He was the writer of the classic Christmas song "Santa Claus Is Coming to Town" as well as "You Go to My Head", "Honey", "By the Sycamore Tree", "That Lucky Old Sun", "Breezin' Along With The Breeze, "Beautiful Love", "Drifting and Dreaming", and "Louisiana Fairy Tale" (which was used as the first theme song in the PBS Production of This Old House), each song in collaboration with other talented people such as Beasley Smith, Ervin R. " Santa Claus Is Coming to Town " (sometimes with Coming changed to Comin') is a Christmas song. "You Go To My Head" is a 1938 Popular song composed by J " That Lucky Old Sun " is a 1949 popular Song with music by Beasley Smith and words by Haven Gillespie. This Old House is an American Home improvement Magazine and Television series which is aired on the American public Schmidt, Wayne King, and Loyal Curtis.
Gillespie left High school at the age of 16 and became a typesetter at the Cincinnati Times Star. He left for New York and became a journalist and composer of songs for vaudeville shows. He first gained notice in 1925 with "Breezin Along With The Breeze", in collaboration with Egbert Van Alstyne, Ervin R. Schmidt, and Loyal Curtis, which was recorded by Josephine Baker among many others.
Gillespie worked in collaboration with many other artists including:
- J. Fred Coots
- Mitchell Parrish
- Henry Marshall
- Henry Tobias
- Charles Tobias
- Neil Moret
- Peter DeRose
- Egbert Van Alsyne
- Victor Young
- Jack Little
- Richard Whiting
- Peter Wendling
- Seymour Simons
- Byron Gay
- Rudy Vallee
- Larry Shay
- Lee David
- Earl Edmonds
He also wrote songs for:
- Dean Martin
- Frank Sinatra
- Michael Jackson
- Louis Armstrong
- Sarah Vaughn
- Margaret Whiting
- Bruce Springsteen
- George Straight
He was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1972.
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