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Vincent Youmans (September 27, 1898 - April 5, 1946)cite book|last=Slonimsky|first=Nicolas|title=Baker's Biographical dictionary of musicians|year=1978|publisher=Schirmer Books|location=New York|isbn=0028702409|pages=1927-1928|edition=6th|chapter=Youmans, Vincent was an United States|American popular composer and Broadway theatre|Broadway producer.
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Life
Vincent Millie Youmans was born in New York City on September 27, 1898, and grew-up on Central Park West on the site where the Mayflower Hotel once stood. His father, a prosperous hat manufacturer, moved the family to upper-class Larchmont, New York .Suskin, Steven. "Vincent Youmans". ''Show Tunes: The Songs, Shows, and Careers of Broadway's Major Composers . Oxford University Press: 2000. Youmans attended the Trinity School in Mamaroneck (village), New York|Mamaroneck, NY and Heathcote Hall in Rye (city), New York|Rye, New York . Originally, his ambition was to become an engineer and he attended Yale for a short time. He dropped out to become a runner for a Wall Street brokerage firm before he was drafted to fight in World War I . He took an interest in the theatre when he produced troop shows for the Navy. After the war, he was a Tin Pan Alley song plugger for the T.B. Harms & Francis, Day & Hunter, Inc.|TB Harms Company and then as a rehearsal pianist for famed composer Victor Herbert ’s operettas. http://www.songwritershalloffame.org/exhibit_bio.asp? exhibitId=288 dead link|date=March 2012
No, No, Nanette was the biggest musical-comedy success of the 1920s in both Europe and the USA and his two songs " Tea for Two (song)|Tea for Two " and " I Want to Be Happy " are considered standards. From 1927, Youmans also produced his own shows. He had another major success with Hit the Deck (musical)|Hit the Deck! (1927; including ‘Hallelujah’), but his subsequent productions were failures, though many of their songs remain popular. His last contributions to Broadway were some songs for Take a Chance (1932 musical)|Take a Chance (1932).Gerald Bordman: 'Vincent Youmans', Grove Music Online ed. L. Macy (Accessed 12 July 2008), < http://www.grovemusic.com>
Youmans collaborated with the greatest songwriters on Broadway: Herbert Stothart , Otto Harbach , Oscar Hammerstein II , IrvingCaesar , Anne Caldwell , Leo Robin , Clifford Grey , Billy Rose , Edward Eliscu , Edward Heyman , Harold Adamson , MackGordon , Buddy De Sylva and Gus Kahn . He collaborated with lyricist Ira Gershwin on the score for Two Little Girls in Blue , which won wide acclaim. His next show, with lyrics by Otto Harbach and Oscar Hammerstein II , was Wildflower . His most enduring success, however, was No, No, Nanette , with lyrics by IrvingCaesar .
Youmans’ early songs are remarkable for their economy of melodic material: two-, three- or four-note phrases are constantly repeated and varied by subtle harmonic or rhythmic changes. In later years, however, apparently influenced by Jerome Kern , he turned to longer musical sentences and more free-flowing melodic lines.
Youmans was forced to retire in 1934, after a professional career of only 13 years, only returning to Broadway to mount the ill-fated extravaganza The Vincent Youmans Ballet Revue (1943), an ambitious mix of Latin-American and classical music, including Ravel 's Daphnis et Chloé . Choreographed by Leonide Massine , it lost some $4& nbsp;million.Vincent Youmans. (2001). In The Faber Companion to 20th Century Popular Music. Retrieved April 13, 2008, from http://www.credoreference.com/entry/4413590 More than any of his contemporaries, he made constant re-use of a limited number of melodies; he published fewer than 100 songs, but 18 of these were considered standards by ASCAP .
He died of tuberculosis in Denver, Colorado . At his death, Youmans left behind a large quantity of unpublished material.
In 1970, Youmans was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame .
" The Call of the Sea " with lyrics by Otto Harbach and IrvingCaesar
" Carioca (song)|Carioca " with lyrics by Gus Kahn and Edward Eliscu : Academy Award Nomination for Best Original SongIMDb name|0949207|Vincent Youmans
" Carry On Keep Smiling " lyrics by Harold Adamson
" Chinese Party, The " with lyrics by Clifford Grey and Harold Adamson
" Come On And Pet Me " with lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II and Otto Harbach
" Course I Will " with help from Herbert Stothart and lyrics by Otto Harbach and Oscar Hammerstein II
"Crystal Lady"
" Dancing Wedding " with lyrics by Clifford Grey and Harold Adamson
"Waiting for You" with lyrics by Otto Harbach and IrvingCaesar
" WeddingBells Ring On " with lyrics by Billy Rose|William Rose and Edward Eliscu
" (We're Off) On A Wonderful Trip " with lyrics by Ira Gershwin
" We're Off to India " with lyrics by Ira Gershwin
" What Can I Say? " with lyrics by Ring Lardner
" What's a Kiss Among Friends? " with lyrics by Clifford Grey and Leo Robin
" When I'm With the Girls " with lyrics by Ira Gershwin
"When We Are Married" with lyrics by Zelda Sears and Walter De Leon
" Where Has My Hubby Gone? " with lyrics by Otto Harbach and IrvingCaesar
" Who Wants to Love Spanish Ladies? " with lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II
" Who's Who With You " with lyrics by Ira Gershwin
" Why Ain't I Home " with lyrics by Ring Lardner
" Why Oh Why " with lyrics by Clifford Grey and Leo Robin
"Wildflower" with help from Herbert Stothart and lyrics by Otto Harbach and Oscar Hammerstein II
" Without a Song " with lyrics by Billy Rose and Edward Eliscu
" You Can Dance with Any Girl " with lyrics by Otto Harbach and IrvingCaesar
" You Started Something When You Came Along " with lyrics by Ira Gershwin
" You're Everywhere " with lyrics by Edward Heyman
"You're The One" with lyrics by J. Russel Robinson and George Waggner cite web|url= http://www.nfo.net/cal/ty1.html |title=de beste bron van informatie over nfo. Deze website is te koop& #33; |publisher=nfo.net |date= |accessdate=2012-03-16cite web|author=The Broadway League |url= http://www.ibdb.com/person.asp? ID=12607 |title=The official source for Broadway Information |publisher=IBDB |date= |accessdate=2012-05-21
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http://www.ibdb.com/person.asp? ID=12607 Vincent Youmans at the Internet Broadway Database
http://www.songwritershalloffame.org/exhibit_home_page.asp? exhibitId=288 Vincent Youmans at the Songwriter's Hall of Fame
IMDb name|0949207|Vincent Youmans at the Internet Movie Database
Vincent Youmans Persondata | NAME =Youmans, Vincent | ALTERNATIVE NAMES = | SHORT DESCRIPTION = American composer | DATE OF BIRTH =September 27, 1898 | PLACE OF BIRTH = New York City, New York | DATE OF DEATH =April 5, 1946 | PLACE OF DEATH = Denver, Colorado DEFAULTSORT:Youmans, Vincent Category:American musical theatre composers Category:American theatre managers and producers Category:Songwriters Hall of Fame inductees Category:Deaths from tuberculosis Category:1898 births Category:1946 deaths Category:People from Manhattan Category:Infectious disease deaths in Colorado
