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Nacio Herb Brown born Ignacio Herb Brown (February 22, 1896 – September 28, 1964) was an American
United States

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 writer of popular songs
Songwriter

File:Beethoven.jpgA songwriter is someone who writes the lyrics, as well the musical composition or melody to songs. One who writes only lyrics is a lyricist, while one who writes only music is a composer....
, movie scores, and Broadway theatre
Broadway theatre

Broadway theatre, commonly called simply Broadway, refers to theatrical performances presented in one of the 39 large professional theaters with 500 seats or more located in the Theatre District, New York in Manhattan, New York City....
 music in the 1920s through the early 1950s.

n was born in Deming, New Mexico
Deming, New Mexico

Deming is a city in Luna County, New Mexico, New Mexico, United States, located 60 miles west of Las Cruces, New Mexico. The population was 14,116 at the United States Census, 2000....
. In 1901 his family moved to Los Angeles, where he attended Manual Arts High School
Manual Arts High School

Manual Arts High School is a secondary school in Los Angeles, California.Manual Arts, which spans grades 9 through 12, is a part of the Los Angeles Unified School District ....
. His music education started with instruction from his mother, Cora Alice (Hopkins) Brown. Brown first operated a tailoring business (1916), and then became a financially successful realtor, but he always wrote and played.






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Nacio Herb Brown born Ignacio Herb Brown (February 22, 1896 – September 28, 1964) was an American
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
 writer of popular songs
Songwriter

File:Beethoven.jpgA songwriter is someone who writes the lyrics, as well the musical composition or melody to songs. One who writes only lyrics is a lyricist, while one who writes only music is a composer....
, movie scores, and Broadway theatre
Broadway theatre

Broadway theatre, commonly called simply Broadway, refers to theatrical performances presented in one of the 39 large professional theaters with 500 seats or more located in the Theatre District, New York in Manhattan, New York City....
 music in the 1920s through the early 1950s.

Biography

Brown was born in Deming, New Mexico
Deming, New Mexico

Deming is a city in Luna County, New Mexico, New Mexico, United States, located 60 miles west of Las Cruces, New Mexico. The population was 14,116 at the United States Census, 2000....
. In 1901 his family moved to Los Angeles, where he attended Manual Arts High School
Manual Arts High School

Manual Arts High School is a secondary school in Los Angeles, California.Manual Arts, which spans grades 9 through 12, is a part of the Los Angeles Unified School District ....
. His music education started with instruction from his mother, Cora Alice (Hopkins) Brown. Brown first operated a tailoring business (1916), and then became a financially successful realtor, but he always wrote and played. After his first hit "Coral Sea" (1920) and first big hit, "When Buddha Smiles" (1921), he eventually become a full-time composer. He joined The American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP) in 1927.

In 1928 he was hired to work in Hollywood by MGM and write movie
Film

Film encompasses individual motion pictures, the field of film as an art form, and the film industry. Films are produced by recording images from the world with cameras, or by creating images using animation techniques or special effects....
 music for the new medium of sound film
Sound film

A sound film is a film with synchronization, or sound technologically coupled to image, as opposed to a silent film. The first known public exhibition of projected sound films took place in Paris in 1900, but decades would pass before reliable synchronization was made commercially practical....
. For his film work, he often collaborated with lyricist Arthur Freed
Arthur Freed

Arthur Freed was born Arthur Grossman in Charleston, South Carolina. He was an United States lyricist and a Hollywood film producer....
. This collaboration produced Singin' in the Rain
Singin' in the Rain (song)

"Singin' in the Rain" is a song with lyrics by Arthur Freed and music by Nacio Herb Brown, published in 1929 in music. However, it is unclear exactly when the song was written with some claiming that the song was performed as early as 1927....
. He appeared in the MGM variety film The Hollywood Revue of 1929
The Hollywood Revue of 1929

The Hollywood Revue of 1929 is an United States musical film/comedy motion picture released in 1929 in film. It was the studio's second feature-length musical, and one of the earliest ventures into the talkie format....
.

Brown also worked with Richard A. Whiting
Richard A. Whiting

Richard A. Whiting was a composer of popular music songs.He was born in Peoria, Illinois, and grew up in Detroit, Michigan. He attended the Harvard Military School in Los Angeles, California....
 and Buddy De Sylva
Buddy De Sylva

George Gard "Buddy" DeSylva was an United States songwriter, film producer and record executive. He wrote or co-wrote many popular songs and along with Johnny Mercer and Glenn Wallichs he founded Capitol Records....
 on Broadway Musicals
Broadway theatre

Broadway theatre, commonly called simply Broadway, refers to theatrical performances presented in one of the 39 large professional theaters with 500 seats or more located in the Theatre District, New York in Manhattan, New York City....
 such as Take a Chance.

Along with L. Wolfe Gilbert
L. Wolfe Gilbert

Louis Wolfe Gilbert was a Russian-born United States songwriter....
, Nacio wrote the music for the popular children's Television Western
Television Westerns

Television Westerns are a sub-genre of the Western , a genre of film, fiction, drama, etc., in which stories are set primarily in the later half of the 19th century in the American Old West, Western Canada and Mexico during the period from about 1860 to the end of the so-called "Indian Wars."...
, Hopalong Cassidy
Hopalong Cassidy

Hopalong Cassidy is a cowboy-hero, created in 1904 by Clarence E. Mulford and appearing in a series of popular stories and novels. In print, the character appears as a rude, rough-talking 'galoot'....
 which first aired in 1949 on NBC. Brown died in San Francisco, California
San Francisco, California

The City and County of San Francisco is the fourth most populous city in California and the List of United States cities by population in the United States, with a 2007 estimated population of 799,183....
, and was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame
Songwriters Hall of Fame

The Songwriters Hall of Fame is an arm of the National Academy of Popular Music. It was founded in 1969 by songwriter Johnny Mercer and music publishers Abe Olman and Howie Richmond....
 in 1970.

Personal life

Brown was married five times, each ending in divorce. His first was Ruby Porter with whom he had one child, followed by a marriage to Jeanne Lochart. Then, in the 1930s he was briefly married to actress Anita Page
Anita Page

Anita Pomares, better known as Anita Page , was an American film actor who reached stardom in the last years of the silent film era, 1928....
. She was followed by another brief marriage this time with Beffie Kellogg. Finally Brown married Georgeann Morris with whom he had two children.

Published songs and music

  • All I Do Is Dream of You
  • American Bolero
  • Broadway Melody
  • Broadway Rhythm
  • Doll Dance
  • Eadie Was a Lady
  • I've Got a Feelin’ You’re Foolin
  • Love Is Where You Find It
  • A New Moon Is Over My Shoulder
  • Make 'Em Laugh
    Make 'Em Laugh

    "Make 'Em Laugh" is a song first featured in the 1952 film Singin' in the Rain , frenetically performed by Donald O'Connor. Written by Nacio Herb Brown and Arthur Freed, the song is closely based on Cole Porter "Be a Clown."...
  • Our Big Love Scene
  • Pagan Love Song
  • Paradise
  • Singin' in the Rain
    Singin' in the Rain (song)

    "Singin' in the Rain" is a song with lyrics by Arthur Freed and music by Nacio Herb Brown, published in 1929 in music. However, it is unclear exactly when the song was written with some claiming that the song was performed as early as 1927....
  • Sweetheart Darlin
  • Temptation
    Temptation (1933 song)

    "Temptation" is a popular music song, published in 1933 in music, with music written by Nacio Herb Brown and lyrics by Arthur Freed. The song was used in the film Singin' in the Rain and later in the 1983 Singin' in the Rain , and is prominently featured in Valerio Zurlini's Violent Summer ....
  • Wedding of the Painted Doll
  • When Buddha Smiles (1921)
  • You Are My Lucky Star
  • You Stepped Out of a Dream


External links

  • on SHoF site