Jimmy Bryant
Singer, Musical Artist
1929 –
Who is Jimmy Bryant?
Jimmy Bryant is a singer, arranger and composer. He is most well known for providing the singing voice of Tony in the 1961 film musical West Side Story. While he received no screen credit, he states that Beymer was "a nice guy, and every time he did an interview he would mention my name." He also sang for James Fox in the 1967 film musical Thoroughly Modern Millie, and sang in "The Telephone Hour" number in Bye Bye Birdie. He also sang in the group that performed the theme song of the TV series Batman.
Bryant was born in Birmingham, Alabama and grew up in Tarrant, Alabama. He attended Birmingham Southern College and the Birmingham Conservatory of Music before receiving a Scholarship in Composition at the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston, Massachusetts. He then moved to New York in 1953 where he worked as a background singer. He later moved to Los Angeles and played bass in the house band at Puccini's, a Beverly Hills restaurant owned by Frank Sinatra.
His work as an orchestrator includes the movies Not with My Wife, You Don't!, Penelope and the TV series Lost in Space. He also composed music heard at Walt Disney World and Tokyo Disneyland.
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- Born
- Jun 2, 1929
Birmingham - Also known as
- James Howard Bryant
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Profession
- Education
- Birmingham–Southern College
- Lived in
- Alabama
- Birmingham
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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