Haven Gillespie(1888-1975)
- Music Department
- Composer
- Soundtrack
Songwriter ("Santa Claus Is Coming to Town," "Breezin' Along With the
Breeze", "You Go To My Head," "That Lucky Old Sun"), and composer who
left high school to enter the printing trade and soon became a "song
plugger" for the music industry. He worked for the New York Times and
other newspapers. After a bout with alcoholism and the loss of his
wife, he returned to his native Kentucky. Joining ASCAP in 1925, his
chief musical collaborators included Henry I. Marshall, Henry H. Tobias, Harry Tobias,
Charles Tobias, Richard A. Whiting, Rudy Vallee, Lee David, Larry Shay, Byron Gay, Seymour Simons, Peter De Rose,
Victor Young, Neil Moret, "Little" Jack Little, Pete Wendling, Egbert Van Alstyne, and J. Fred Coots. His
other popular-song compositions include "The Old Master Painter,"
"Drifting and Dreaming," "Honey," "The Sleepy Town Express," "Our Old
Home Team," "Don't Forget," "God's Country" (Freedom Foundation Award),
"You Happened to Me," "Tin Pan Parade," "The Wedding of Jack and Jill,"
"Right or Wrong," "By the Sycamore Tree," "Beautiful Love," "Until
Tomorrow", "Come Home," "There's Honey on the Moon Tonight," "Song of
the Navy," "Seeing You Again Did Me No Good," "Our Silver Anniversary,"
and "This Holy Love".
