In brief
Jay Livingston and Ray Evans met as students and spent a career finishing each other’s lines for Paramount and beyond. Silver Bells made a department-store Christmas sound like a city sidewalk.
Mona Lisa and Que Sera, Sera brought them Academy Awards. Two Jewish songwriters from Pennsylvania helped write the soundtrack of midcentury America.
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Edward Pola and George Wyle
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Edward Pola and George Wyle
1907–2003
Pair who wrote It’s the Most Wonderful Time of the Year.
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Felix Bernard
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Felix Bernard
1897–1944
Composer of Winter Wonderland, a standard that outlived him by decades.
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Mitchell Parish
1900–1993
Lyricist who put English words to Stardust and a dozen other standards.