Happy Birthday Cy Coleman!
Cy Coleman was born Seymour Kaufman in New York, NY on June 14, 1929. A child prodigy, he first played the piano at Carnegie Hall when he was only 7 years old. Most of his performance career was spent with the Cy Coleman trio, a popular club attraction that also made many recordings.
His career as a composer began in popular music with a successful yet turbulent early partnership with Carolyn Leigh. Together they wrote many pop hits, including Witchcraft and The Best Is Yet To Come. Cy also wrote the instrumental "Playboy's theme" which become the signature music of the TV shows and specials that Playboy magazine produced, and is still remains synonymous with Hugh Hefner himself.
Cy Coleman and Carolyn Leigh collaborated on Lucille Ball's Broadway debut, Wildcat (1960), and Little Me (based on the novel "Auntie Mame").
In 1964 Cy met Dorothy Fields at a party and they formed a new much more pleasant collaboration. Together they created Sweet Charity, and Seesaw before Fields died in 1974.
Cy Coleman's later works include I Love My Wife, On The Twentieth Century, Barnum, City of Angels, The Will Rogers Follies, and The Life.
Cy Coleman died of cardiac arrest on November 18, 2004 at the age of 75.
His career as a composer began in popular music with a successful yet turbulent early partnership with Carolyn Leigh. Together they wrote many pop hits, including Witchcraft and The Best Is Yet To Come. Cy also wrote the instrumental "Playboy's theme" which become the signature music of the TV shows and specials that Playboy magazine produced, and is still remains synonymous with Hugh Hefner himself.
Cy Coleman and Carolyn Leigh collaborated on Lucille Ball's Broadway debut, Wildcat (1960), and Little Me (based on the novel "Auntie Mame").
In 1964 Cy met Dorothy Fields at a party and they formed a new much more pleasant collaboration. Together they created Sweet Charity, and Seesaw before Fields died in 1974.
Cy Coleman's later works include I Love My Wife, On The Twentieth Century, Barnum, City of Angels, The Will Rogers Follies, and The Life.
Cy Coleman died of cardiac arrest on November 18, 2004 at the age of 75.
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