Harold Campbell Adamson

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Harold Adamson was born on December 10, 1.906 in Greenville, New Jersey, and grew up in New York City. He attended public elementary and high schools, and then went to the University of Kansas and Harvard University. During high school, he wrote poetry for school publications as well as sketches for student shows. While attending Kansas, he wrote songs and worked in summer stock during vacations. At Harvard, be wrote sketches and composed lyrics for the Hasty Pudding shows. After graduating from college, he began to seriously pursue a songwriting career. By the early 1930s he contributed to Broadway shows such as Smiles (for which be, Mack Gordon, and Vincent Youmans wrote "Time On My Hands", Earl Carroll's Vanities, and The Third Little Show.

In 1933, Adamson signed a contract with MGM., moved to Hollywood, and spent the remainder of his career writing music for the movies. Over the years, the composers he collaborated with included Burton Lane, Jimmy McHugh, Walter Donaldson, Victor Young, and Duke Ellington.

Among the movies he wrote music, and some of the songs from. them, are Dancing Lm~v ("Everything I Have Is Yours," "lleigh I lo, the Gang'sAll Here"), The Great Ziegfeld ("You Never Looked So Beautiful," "You"), Top of the Town ("Where Are You?"), Higher and Higher (“A Lovely Way to Spend an Evening”, “The Music Stopped”) A-Date With Judy (“It’s A Most Unusual Day) Most Unusual Day"), and Gentlemen Prefer-Bfondes, which included the Adamson song “When Love Goes Wrong”.

In the 1950s, he began to write scores and/or songs for non-musical movies, including Around the World in 80 Days, An Affair toRemember, Separate Tables, The Seven Hills of Rome, Satan Xever Sleeps, and The Incredible Mr. Limpit. Other songs on which Adamson collaborated that were not written for movies are "The Woodpecker Song" (Eldo DiLazzaro), "720 in the Books" (Jan Savitt and Leo Watson), and "It's a Wonderful World" (Jan Savitt and Johnny Watson). Adamson also provided the lyrics to Eliot Daniel's music for the theme to the television series "I Love Lucy." Adamson died in Beverly Hills, California on August 17, 1980.

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Harold Adamson (December 10, 1906 – August 17, 1980) was an American lyricist during the 1930s and 1940s.

Biography

Adamson, the son of Harold Adamson and Marion "Minnie" Campbell Adamson, was born and raised in New Jersey. Adamson suffered from polio as a child which limited the use of his right hand. Initially, Adamson was interested in acting but he began writing songs and poetry as a teenager. He went on to studying acting at the University of Kansas and Harvard. Ultimately he entered into a songwriting contract with MGM in 1933. During his stint with MGM he wrote many popular and successful songs, including the theme song for the hit sitcom "I Love Lucy".

He was nominated for five Academy Awards for lyrics to several original movie scores. He was also inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1972.

Songs or lyrics by Harold Adamson

An Affair to Remember

Around the World
Comin' In on a Wing and a Prayer
Daybreak
Everything I Have Is Yours (with Burton Lane)
I Couldn't Sleep a Wink Last Night nominated for an Oscar for Best Song, also featured in the 1943 film Higher and Higher, sung by Frank Sinatra
I Love Lucy (And She Loves Me)
It's a Wonderful World
I've Come to California, theme song for the 1957-1959 NBC television series The Californians, set in San Francisco during the gold rush of the 1850s
A Lovely Way to Spend an Evening from the 1943 film Higher and Higher, sung by Frank Sinatra
Manhattan Serenade
My Resistance is Low
There's Something in the Air
Time on My Hands (with Mack Gordon and Vincent Youmans)
We're Having A Baby (My Baby and Me) 1941. Music by Vernon Duke. Sung by Desi Arnaz.