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Ralph Blane (* 26. Juli 1914 in Broken Arrow, Oklahoma als Ralph Uriah Hunsecker; † 13. November 1995, ebenda) war ein US-amerikanischer Theater- und Filmkomponist sowie Musiker. In seiner jahrzehntelangen Partnerschaft mit Hugh Martin entstanden bekannte Lieder wie Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas .
Ralph Blane (July 26, 1914 – November 13, 1995) was an American composer, lyricist, and performer. Life and career. Blane was born Ralph Uriah Hunsecker in Broken Arrow, Oklahoma. He attended Tulsa Central High School. He studied singing with Estelle Liebling in New York City.
As the composer half of “Martin and Blane”, Ralph Blane has had one of the most successful songwriting teams from late Tin Pan Alley. Blane has created the timeless melodies such standards as “Buckle Down, Winsocki”, “Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas” and “Girls Were Made To Take Care of Boys” were created on.
"The Trolley Song" is a song written by Hugh Martin and Ralph Blane and made famous by Judy Garland in the 1944 film Meet Me in St. Louis. In a 1989 NPR interview, Blane said the song was inspired by a picture of a trolleycar in a turn-of-the-century newspaper.
- Meet Me in St. Louis
- Lyrics and Revisions
- Collaboration Controversy
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The song was written in 1943 for the film Meet Me in St. Louis, for which MGM had hired Martin and Blane to write several songs. Martin was vacationing in a house in the neighborhood of Southside in Birmingham, Alabama, that his father Hugh Martin had designed for his mother as a honeymoon cottage, located just down the street from his birthplace, ...
Some of the original lyrics penned by Martin were rejected before filming began. When presented with the original draft lyric, Garland, her co-star Tom Drake and director Vincente Minnelli criticized the song as depressing, and asked Martin to change the lyrics. Though he initially resisted, Martin made several changes to make the song more upbeat....
Although Ralph Blane is credited with writing the music for many of Martin's songs, Martin claimed in his autobiography that he wrote both music and lyrics to all of the songs in Meet Me in St. Louis and that "all of the so-called Martin and Blane songs (except for Best Foot Forward) were written entirely by me (solo) without help from Ralph or any...
Judy Garland's 1944 version of the song reached No. 27 on the Billboardcharts. In 2009, Keyshia Cole reached number 58 on the US Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songschart with a version of the song. In 2011, Michael Bublé's version reached number 98 on the top 100 charts.This version would reach a new peak of 41 in 2023. In 2014, English singer Sam Smith released...
The history of a popular holiday song at the Wayback Machine(archived 2020-05-21) – with the history of the song's lyrics, including three different versions
- Christmas Music
The Boy Next Door" is a 1944 popular song by Hugh Martin and Ralph Blane. It was introduced in the musical film Meet Me in St. Louis , where it was performed by Judy Garland to an arrangement of Conrad Salinger conducted by Georgie Stoll .
Ralph Blane (born Ralph Uriah Hunsecker, 26 July 1914, Broken Arrow, Oklahoma - 13 November 1995, Broken Arrow) was an American composer and singer. Blane was the son of Florence Hazel (Wilborn) and Tracey Mark Hunsecker, grocery store owners.
