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Jeff Alexander

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Jeff Alexander was a classically trained composer/arranger/conductor who spent almost 30 years working in movies and television. He was born Myer Goodhue Alexander in Seattle, WA, in 1910 and studied at the Brecker Conservatory — his teachers included Edmund Ross and Joseph Schillinger. Alexander joined the movie industry at the outset of the ’50s and joined ASCAP as a composer in 1952. His earliest credited assignments in movies were as an arranger and/or vocal director for Call Me Mister and On the Riviera, both 20th Century Fox films. He also wrote the score of Westward the Women (all 1951) at MGM. At the latter studio, he worked variously as an arranger, conductor, or vocal music supervisor on Singin’ in the Rain and a string of second-tier vehicles, including Small Town Girl, The Affairs of Dobie Gillis, and Athena — thanks to the movie’s constant revival and its use of perennially popular Freed/Brown songs, his vocal arrangements on “Singin’ in the Rain” remain some of Alexander’s most familiar work a half-century or more later. In his scoring of the Western Escape From Fort Bravo (1953), he wrote the popular song “Soothe My Lonely Heart,” the first in a string of songs that he authored in association with movies, usually in collaboration with Jack Brooks or Larry Orenstein.
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