Max Lief(1899-1969)

Songwriter and author Max Lief earned a BS degree at NYU, and at 22 was a reporter, columnist and drama editor for the New York Daily News, later writing short stories and verse for the Saturday Evening Post and the New Yorker. He authored the novels "Hangover" and "Bachelor's Guide to the Opposite Sex" and co-authored "The Missouri Traveler Cookbook" and the plays "Champagne for Everybody" and "Two for Tonight". His Broadway stage scores include "Luckee Girl", "Greenwich Village Follies of 1928" and "Pleasure Bound", and wrote songs for "Earl Carroll's Vanities of 1931", "Third Little Show", "Shoot the Works" and "Grand Street Follies". Joining ASCAP in 1931, he collaborated in lyrics authorship with his brother Nathaniel Lief and in music composition with Michael Cleary, Sholom Secunda, Maurie Rubens, Manning Sherwin, David Snell, Joseph Meyer, Arthur Schwartz, Louis Alter, Sammy Fain and Muriel Pollock, and his popular-song compositions include "I'm Back in Circulation Again", "It's in the Stars", "Dream of Me", "I'll Always Remember", "I'll Putcha Pitcha in the Papers", "Poor Little Doorstep Baby", "My Impression of You", "His Servant", "How Long Will It Last", and "Under the Stars".