Sonny Burke(1914-1980)
- Music Department
- Composer
- Soundtrack
Songwriter ("Midnight Sun", "Black Coffee"), arranger, conductor,
composer, and record executive, educated at the University of Detroit
and Duke University. He arranged for dance orchestras, and was
artists-and-repertoire director for Decca Records for fourteen years
and Reprise Records for three years. He joined ASCAP in 1942, and his
other song compositions include "Somebody Bigger than You and I" and
"How It Lies, How It Lies, How It Lies".
