Biography
Composer, author and producer Richard Lewine was born in New York, NY on July 28, 1910 and was educated at Franklin Prep, Columbia University and NYU, and was a student of the Schillinger System. A captain in the Signal Corps during World War II, he joined CBS Television to direct special programs over a nine-year period, and produced "Cinderella", "Aladdin", and "Blithe Spirit". Joining ASCAP in 1967, he wrote the Broadway stage scores for "The Fireman's Flame", "Naughty-Naught", "The Girl From Wyoming", "Make Mine Manhattan" and "The Girls Against the Boys", and songs for the Ziegfeld Follies and Star and Garter and co-edited "The Encyclopedia of Theatre Music". His chief musical collaborators included Ted Fetter and Arnold Horwitt, and his popular-song compositions include "Let's Hold Hands", "I Like the Nose on Your Face", "Do My Eyes Deceive Me?", "Saturday Night in Central Park", "Love Makes the World Go Round", "I Fell In Love With You", "Gentleman Friend", "Mother Isn't Getting Any Younger", "Doing the Waltz", "Old-Fashioned Girl", "Home by the Sea", "Hootenanny Saturday Night", "I Gotta Have You", and "Lolita".
