Ben Ryan (composer)
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Bennett A. "Ben" Ryan was an American
songwriter
who wrote the music and lyrics to the popular song (The Gang that Sang) Heart of My Heart
. He also wrote or co-wrote many other popular songs including Inka Dinka Doo
, M-I-S-S-I-S-S-I-P-P-I
, No Nothing, Plus Je T'Embrasse, The Thrill of a New Romance, When Francis Dances With Me, and When I Send You a Picture of Berlin.
Born in Kansas City
, Missouri
, Ryan was also a vaudeville
performer, film actor and screen writer. Following a lengthy illness, on July 5, 1968, he died in Leonia, New Jersey
.
United States
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songwriter
Songwriter
A songwriter is an individual who writes both the lyrics and music to a song. Someone who solely writes lyrics may be called a lyricist, and someone who only writes music may be called a composer...
who wrote the music and lyrics to the popular song (The Gang that Sang) Heart of My Heart
Heart of My Heart
Heart of My Heart is a popular song. The music and lyrics were written by Ben Ryan in 1926. It reminisces about singing a song called "Heart of My Heart" in a youthful quartet.-History and Origins:...
. He also wrote or co-wrote many other popular songs including Inka Dinka Doo
Inka Dinka Doo
Inka Dinka Doo is a 1933 popular song with words and lyrics written by Jimmy Durante and Ben Ryan. By 1934 the song was a major hit record and it became Durante's theme song for the rest of his life....
, M-I-S-S-I-S-S-I-P-P-I
M-I-S-S-I-S-S-I-P-P-I
The song M-I-S-S-I-S-S-I-P-P-I was written by Ben Ryan for Frances White, who introduced it in the Florenz Ziegfeld revue Midnight Frolics in 1916, and it was used again two years later in a revue called Hitchy-Koo....
, No Nothing, Plus Je T'Embrasse, The Thrill of a New Romance, When Francis Dances With Me, and When I Send You a Picture of Berlin.
Born in Kansas City
Kansas City, Missouri
Kansas City, Missouri is the largest city in the U.S. state of Missouri and is the anchor city of the Kansas City Metropolitan Area, the second largest metropolitan area in Missouri. It encompasses in parts of Jackson, Clay, Cass, and Platte counties...
, Missouri
Missouri
Missouri is a US state located in the Midwestern United States, bordered by Iowa, Illinois, Kentucky, Tennessee, Arkansas, Oklahoma, Kansas and Nebraska. With a 2010 population of 5,988,927, Missouri is the 18th most populous state in the nation and the fifth most populous in the Midwest. It...
, Ryan was also a vaudeville
Vaudeville
Vaudeville was a theatrical genre of variety entertainment in the United States and Canada from the early 1880s until the early 1930s. Each performance was made up of a series of separate, unrelated acts grouped together on a common bill...
performer, film actor and screen writer. Following a lengthy illness, on July 5, 1968, he died in Leonia, New Jersey
New Jersey
New Jersey is a state in the Northeastern and Middle Atlantic regions of the United States. , its population was 8,791,894. It is bordered on the north and east by the state of New York, on the southeast and south by the Atlantic Ocean, on the west by Pennsylvania and on the southwest by Delaware...
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