Harry Warren

From HitStory, the pop encyclopedia of School of Rock · Artist

Harry Warren (1893–1981) was born Salvatore Guaragna in Brooklyn and taught himself music. In the 1930s he wrote, with the lyricist Al Dubin, the songs for the Warner Bros. musicals for which Busby Berkeley created the big dance numbers. In 42nd Street (1933) and Gold Diggers of 1933 you hear optimistic songs such as We're in the Money, in the middle of the economic crisis. Later he wrote Chattanooga Choo Choo for 20th Century Fox, played by Glenn Miller in Sun Valley Serenade (1941). For MGM came The Harvey Girls (1946). He won three Oscars for best song, but his name remained less well known than his melodies.

Listening

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  We're in the Money · Ginger Rogers, 1933
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  Chattanooga Choo Choo · Glenn Miller and His Orchestra, 1941
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  On the Atchison, Topeka and the Santa Fe · Judy Garland, 1946

Discography

Studio albums

• 1957An Affair to Remember (soundtrack)
• 198142nd Street (soundtrack)
• 198942nd Street (soundtrack)
• 200142nd Street (soundtrack)
• 2006Piano Vignettes
• 2011The Belle of New York (soundtrack)
• 201742nd Street (soundtrack)
• 2019Serenade in Blue ~ Harry Warren Song Book
• ?Shangri-La (1960 Television Cast) / Shinbone Alley (1957 Studio Cast) (soundtrack)

Other work

• 1933Gold Diggers of 1933
• 1941Sun Valley Serenade
• 1946The Harvey Girls

In School of Rock

The chapters, maps and magazine stories of School of Rock are currently available in Dutch only.

• Film Music Map^NL Map
• The Dream Factory: Film Reel 4^NL Reader

See also

• Filmmusical