Jay Livingston(1915-2001)

Music Department
Composer
Actor

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Jay Livingston was born March 28, 1915 in McDonald, Pennsylvania. He (along with his partner Ray Evans) composed many songs for movies such as À chacun son destin (1946), Tammy and the Bachelor (1957) and Academy Award winning songs "Mona Lisa" from the movie Le Dénonciateur (1949), "Buttons and Bows" from the movie Visage pâle (1948) and "Que Sera Sera" from the movie L'homme qui en savait trop (1956). Livingston and Evans also collaborated on several popular TV themes such as Bonanza (1959) and Monsieur Ed, le cheval qui parle (1961).

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Won 3 Oscars
- 7 wins & 6 nominations total

Known for

Doris Day, James Stewart, and Daniel Gélin in L'homme qui en savait trop (1956)

L'homme qui en savait trop

7.4

Soundtrack("Whatever Will Be, Will Be" (Que Sera, Sera), "We'll Love Again")

1956

Kim Basinger, Russell Crowe, Kevin Spacey, Danny DeVito, and Guy Pearce in L.A. Confidential (1997)

L.A. Confidential

8.2

Soundtrack("Silver Bells")

1997

Bob Hope, Jane Darwell, Oliver Blake, Fred Clark, William Frawley, Tor Johnson, Andrea King, Marilyn Maxwell, and Lloyd Nolan in Le môme boule-de-gomme (1951)

Le môme boule-de-gomme

7.0

Music Department("Silver Bells")

1951

Alan Ladd and Wanda Hendrix in Le Dénonciateur (1949)

Le Dénonciateur

6.4

Soundtrack("Mona Lisa")

1949

Credits

Music Department

Béa
8.4
Short
- composer: theme music
- 2018
Twisted Sister: Silver Bells
6.8
Music Video
- Music Department
- 2006
Ponderosa
5.9
TV Series
- composer: theme music
- 2001
Bonanza: La chevauchée punitive
5.8
TV Movie
- composer: original theme
- 1995
Bonanza: The Return
5.7
TV Movie
- composer: theme "Bonanza"
- 1993
Bonanza: The Next Generation
5.5
TV Movie
- composer: original theme "Bonanza"
- 1988
Bob Hope Buys NBC?
6.3
TV Special
- composer: theme music
- 1985
Doris comédie
7.2
TV Series
- composer: theme music
- composer: theme song "Que Sera, Sera"
- 1968–1973
Bonanza
7.3
TV Series
- composer: theme music
- 1959–1973
To Rome with Love
7.3
TV Series
- theme by
- 1970
The Good Guys
6.9
TV Series
- composer: theme music
- lyrics: theme song
- 1968–1970
Tammy
6.9
TV Series
- composer: theme music
- 1965–1966
Monsieur Ed, le cheval qui parle
6.9
TV Series
- composer: theme music
- 1961–1965
Karen
8.0
TV Series
- special songs
- 1965
Beetle Bailey
6.3
TV Series
- theme music composer
- 1963

Composer

Actor

Personal details

Alternative names
- Livingston
Height
- 1.91 m
Born
- March 28, 1915
- McDonald, Pennsylvania, USA
Died
- October 17, 2001
- Los Angeles, California, USA(pneumonia)
Spouses
Children
- Travilyn Elaine Livingston
Parents
Relatives

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Trivia
In their Television Archives interview, Ray Evans and Jay Livingston said when Desi Arnaz asked them to write a theme song for a Western television show, he told them he could not pay them much for a weekly salary, because the show was only going to last one year. The men made a deal with Desi to keep the rights to the song. When Bonanza became an unexpected smash-hit, owning the rights to the song, the men made millions.

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