Stan Freeman(1920-2001)
- Music Department
- Composer
- Actor
Composer, songwrier, author and pianist, educated at the Hartl School
of Music. He served in the US Army during World War II and then, in
1946, he joined the Tex Beneke band. He was a piano soloist with the
Cincinnati, Buffalo and Washington symphony orchestras, and a pianist
in an all-Gershwin concert with the New York Philharmonic in 1951. He
played in night clubs across the USA and in London, and was featured as
a team with Cy Walter. He also had his own radio shows, and made many
records. Joining ASCAP in 1955, his chief musical collaborator was Jack
Lawrence, and his popular-song compositions include "Miss Satan", "My
Heart Will Tell You So", "Guy With the Voodoo", "Faith", "The Fickle
Finger of Fate", and "The Other Half of Me".
