Gordon Jenkins
American arranger, composer, and pianist who was influential in popular music in the 1940s and 1950s
Gordon Hill Jenkins (May 12, 1910 – May 1, 1984) was an American arranger, composer, and pianist who was influential in popular music in the 1940s and 1950s. Jenkins worked with The Andrews Sisters, Johnny Cash, The Weavers, Frank Sinatra, Louis Armstrong, Judy Garland, Nat King Cole, Billie Holiday, Harry Nilsson, Peggy Lee and Ella Fitzgerald.
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Works
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- Closing
- Crescent City Blues
- Finale: Before the Music Ends
- Goodbye
- Goodbye: In Memory of Benny
- Green
- Happiness Cocktail
- Happy New Year
- How Am I to Know?
- How Old Am I?
- I Loved Her
- I Thought About Marie
- I'm Learnin' My Latin
- Married I Can Always Get
- Never Leave Me
- New York’s My Home
- Once Upon a Dream
- P.S. I Love You
- Repeat After Me
- Repeat After Me (reprise)
- San Fernando Valley
- The Future
- The Future (Conclusion): “Song Without Words”
- The Future (Continued): “I’ve Been There”
- The Magic Fire
- The Party
- The Statue of Liberty
- This Close to the Dawn
- This Is All I Ask
- Weep No More
- What Time Does the Next Miracle Leave?
- When a Woman Loves a Man
- World War None!