Berlin at his first job with a music publisher,
aged 18.

Irving Berlin (Israel Beilin)
(May 11, 1888 – September 22, 1989)

Russian born Irving Berlin’s music forms a large
part of the Great American Songbook.

SANDY KOZEL

Burt Freeman Bacharach (May 12, 1928 – February 8, 2023)

(Bloomberg) — Burt Bacharach, who
became one of the 20th century’s most
celebrated songwriters with hits
such as Walk on By and Raindrops Keep
Fallin’ on My Head, has died. He was 94.

 

Monty Norman (Monty Noserovitch)
(4 April 1928 – 11 July 2022)

LONDON (AP) — Monty Norman, a British composer who wrote
the theme tune for the James Bond films, has died. He was  94.

A statement posted Monday on Norman’s official website said:
"It is with sadness we share the news that Monty Norman died
on 11th July 2022 after a short illness."

Deeply in debt and relegated to a shabby theater, the musical
Shuffle Along debuted at the Sixty-Third Street Music Hall on
May 23, 1921. The odds were stacked against the revue-style
show, written and performed by African Americans, but it ran
for over a year, making it the first major Black American musical
on the Great White Way.

Shuffle Along was written by Noble Sissle and Eubie Blake,
shown below,vaudeville veterans who worked together for
over six decades.