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Ted Snyder (
August 15 1881 -
July 16 1965), was a
U.S. composer and
lyricist. His hits include "The Sheik of Araby" (1921) and "
Who's Sorry Now?" (1923). In 1970, he was inducted into the
Songwriters Hall of Fame.
As of 2007, his compositions have been used in more than twenty motion pictures.
Biography
Born in
Freeport, Illinois, he grew up in
Boscobel, Wisconsin. He learned to play the
piano as a boy and as a young man returned to Illinois to work in
Chicago as a pianist in a café before being employed by a music publishing company. In 1907, Snyder had his first musical composition published and the following year set up his own music publishing business in
New York City. He gave
Irving Berlin his first break in 1909 when he hired him as a staff writer for his company and the two eventually became business partners. In 1914, Ted Snyder became one of the founding members of
ASCAP.
Snyder's growing name as a top-line composer led to his compositions being used in
stage plays with the first to make it to
Broadway in 1908. Following his teaming up with Irving Berlin, the two were hired to perform and sing their music in the 1910 musical
Up and Down Broadway. Snyder would become widely known to a later generation through hits such as 1921's "The Sheik of Araby" recorded by several artists including
Duke Ellington (in 1932),
Benny Goodman (in 1937), and
The Beatles (in 1962, Decca Audition). The most notable of Snyder's works is "
Who's Sorry Now?" written in 1923 in collaboration with
Bert Kalmar and
Harry Ruby. "Who's Sorry Now?" became a
No.1 hit on the
UK Singles Chart for
Connie Francis in 1958 and went to No. 4 on the American
Billboard charts. In 2000, it was named one of the
Songs of the Century by the
Recording Industry Association of America.
In 1930, Snyder retired from the songwriting business and moved to
California where he opened a
Hollywood nightclub.
As of 2007, his compositions have been used in about twenty-two motion pictures
from 1926's
The Sheik of Araby, to the 1946's
Marx Brothers'
A Night in Casablanca, to 1979's
All That Jazz, to 2002's
The Good Girl.
Ted Snyder died in 1965 in
Woodland Hills and was interred in the
Oakwood Memorial Park Cemetery in
Chatsworth, California. In 1970, he was inducted into the
Songwriters Hall of Fame.
Work on Broadway
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