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Jack Selig Yellen (Jacek Jeleń) (
July 6,
1892 -
April 17,
1991) was an
American lyricist and
screenwriter.
Born in Poland, Yellen emigrated with his family to the United States when he was five years old. He grew up in
Buffalo, New York and began writing songs in high school. He graduated with honors from the
University of Michigan in 1913 and after graduating became a reporter for the
Buffalo Courier, continuing to write songs on the side.
Yellen's first collaborator on a song was
George L. Cobb, with whom he wrote a number of Dixie songs including "Alabama Jubilee," "Are You From Dixie?," and "All Aboard for Dixieland."
He is best remembered for his collaboration with composer
Milton Ager. He and Ager entered the music publishing business as part owners of the Ager-Yellen-Bernstein Music Company. Yellen also worked with many other composers such as
Sammy Fain and
Harold Arlen.
Yellen's collaboration with vaudeville star,
Sophie Tucker, for whom he was retained to write special material, produced one of Tucker's most well known songs, "My Yiddishe Momme," a song in English with some Yiddish text. Yellen wrote the lyrics which were set to music by
Lew Pollack.[1]
Yellen wrote the lyrics to more than 200 popular songs of the early 20th century. Two of his most recognized songs, still popular in the 21st century, are "
Happy Days Are Here Again" and "
Ain't She Sweet."
Yellen's screenwriting credits included
George White's Scandals,
Pigskin Parade,
Little Miss Broadway, and
Submarine Patrol.
Yellen was on the board of
ASCAP from 1951 to 1969. He was inducted into the
Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1972 and the Buffalo Music Hall of Fame in 1996.
He died in Concord, New York, aged 98.
Broadway musicals
Film Scores
The Adding Machine 1969
The Affair of Susan 1935
Ali Baba Goes To Town 1937
Another Thin Man 1939
Artistic Temper 1932
Bells of Capistrano 1942
Blonde Crazy 1931
Broadway Melody Of 1938 1937
Bulldog Drummond 1939
Call of The West 1930
Captain January 1936
Chasing Rainbows 1930
The Christmas Party 1931
Crashing The Gate 1934
George White's Scandals 1934 1935
Glad Rag Doll 1929
Going Hollywood 1933
Happy Landing 1938
The Heart of New York 1932
Hell In The Heavens 1934
Hold That Co-Ed 1938
Honky Tonk 1929
Ice Follies of 1939
King of Burlesque 1935
The King of Jazz 1930
Little Miss Broadway 1938
Love Is News 1937
My Lucky Star 1938
Night and Day 1946
Our Little Girl 1935
Pigskin Parade 1936
Rain or Shine 1930
Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm 1938
Sally, Irene And Mary 1938
Sensations of 1945 - 1944
Sing, Baby, Sing 1936
Submarine Patrol 1938
They Learned About Women 1930
This Is Heaven 1929
Twentieth Century 1934
Unexpected Uncle 1941
Wake Up And Live 1937
You Can’t Have Everything 1937
Selected Songs
Alabama Jubilee (song) 1915
Down By The O-Hi-O 1921
There's a Garden in Hawaii with music by George B. McConnell 1917
Glad Rag Doll 1929
Louisville Lou 1923
Happy Feet 1930
Hard Hearted Hannah (The Vamp Of Savannah) 1924
I Wonder What's Become of Sally 1924
Cheatin' on Me 1925
In Your Green Hat 1925
My Yiddishe Momme 1925 with music by Lew Pollack and a huge success for Sophie Tucker.
Crazy Words, Crazy Tune 1926
Ain't She Sweet 1927
Happy Days Are Here Again 1930
Are You Havin' Any Fun? 1939Further Information
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