Bart Howard(1915-2004)

Songwriter ("Fly Me To the Moon" [In Other Words], "The Man in the Looking Glass"), composer, author and pianist, educated at Juilliard and in private music study. He left home at 16 to tour the US as a dance-band pianist with the conjoined twins Daisy and Violet Hilton, then joined the US Army in World War II. He was an accompanist to Mabel Mercer, and between 1951 and 1959 an MC, intermission pianist and director of shows at the Blue Angel in New York, where he introduced Eartha Kitt, Johnny Mathis, Dorothy Loudon and others. A member of the Authors League, he joined ASCAP in 1952, and his other popular-song compositions include "My Love Is a Wanderer", "On the First Warm Day", "Let Me Love You", "Would You Believe It", "Perfect Stranger", "Sell Me", "Be My All", "Walk-Up", "Year After Year", "Everybody Wants to Be Loved", "It Was Worth It", "You Are Not My First Love", "Don't Dream of Anybody But Me", "You Are In Love", "Upstairs at the Downstairs Waltz", "Miracles", "I'll Be Easy to Find", "Forget Me Not", "Tomorrow Song", "Welcome Home, Angelina", "Beautiful Women", "To Be in Love", "Gather Your Dreams", and "Sky Full of Rainbows".