Marvin Fisher, songwriter: Reference Sources
Marvin began his formal musical education at the Institute of Musical Art in New York, now the Julliard School, studying piano and theory. Along with the composing of pop songs such as "Cloudy Morning," "For Once in Your Life," and "When Sunny Gets Blue," he had an active career as pianist for the Justin Stone Orchestra and arranger for the orchestras of Glenn Miller, Jimmy and Tommy Dorsey, Les Brown and Johnny Green in the 1930's and 40's.
In the late 40's his musical training and experience, not to mention family ties, led to him becoming the West Coast representative for Fred Fisher Music Company, an organization begun by his father in 1907. By 1942, when his father died, he and his brother Dan took over the firm. Marvin branched out by creating a subsidiary of the original company called Marvin Music that published his own songs as well as those of Nat King Cole, Rosemary Clooney and Peggy Lee.
Research Resources: Marvin Fisher
- DBOPM (Database Of Popular Music: song list; awards; hit songs; co-writers)
- Discogs.com (songwriting and arranging credits)
- Internet Movie Database (brief biography, filmography, movie song credits)
- The New York Times (Fisher obituary)
- Songbook (a blog entry on Fisher song "When Sunny Gets Blue."
- ASCAP Biographical Dictionary, New York: American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers, Cattell/Bowker, Fourth edition, 1980 (dates, collaborators, shows/movies, songs, etc., entry p. 159.)
- Ken Bloom. The American Songbook, The Singers, The Songwriters and the Songs. New York: Black Dog and Leventhal Publishers, 2005 (entry, pp. xx-xx).
- David Jenness and Don Velsey, Classic American Popular Song: The Second Half-Century, 1950-2000, New York: Routledge, 2006 (pp. 251-253 and other references).
Notes
- "When Sunny Gets Blue" sheet music music by Marvin Fisher, words by Jack Segal
- Marvin Fisher died at the age of 76 in 1993.
- David Jenness and Don Velsey Classic American Popular Song: The Second Half-Century, 1950-2000 New York: Routledge, 2006
Questions
What is Marvin Fisher, songwriter?
Marvin began his formal musical education at the Institute of Musical Art in New York, now the Julliard School, studying piano and theory. Along with the composing of pop songs such as " Cloudy Morning ," "For Once in Your Life," and " When Sunny Gets Blue ," he had an active car
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Cite this page as "Marvin Fisher, songwriter: Reference Sources," Cafe Songbook, https://greatamericansongbook.net/pages/songwriters/f_sws/fisher_marvin.html
Which Cafe Songbook pages are related?
Also read "Cloudy Morning" (https://greatamericansongbook.net/pages/songs/c/cloudy_morning.html); "When Sunny Gets Blue" (https://greatamericansongbook.net/pages/songs/w/when_sunny_gets_blue.html); Arthur Freed, songwriter (https://greatamericansongbook.net/pages/songwriters/f_sws/freed_arthur.html); Carl Fischer, songwriter (https://greatamericansongbook.net/pages/songwriters/f_sws/fischer_carl.html).
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