Kay Swift
Composer
1897 – 1993
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Who was Kay Swift?
Katharine Faulkner "Kay" Swift was an American composer of popular and classical music, the first woman to completely score a hit musical. Written in 1930, Fine and Dandy includes some of her best known songs; the title song has become a jazz standard. "Can't We Be Friends?" was her biggest hit song. Swift also arranged some of the music of George Gershwin posthumously, such as the prelude "Sleepless Night".
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- Born
- Apr 19, 1897
New York City - Spouses
- James Warburg
(1918 - 1934)
- James Warburg
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Profession
- Education
- Juilliard School
- Died
- Jan 28, 1993
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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