Bud Green, songwriter: Reference Sources
Bud Green was raised in Harlem at the beginning of the 20th century after his family had emigrated from Austria where he was born. Writing was apparently a family penchant because Hannah Russell who wrote many scores for children's films was his sister and Bob Russell, a well known songwriter, was his brother. He's also the granduncle to Luther Russell a singer-songwriter of a later generation.
Green first worked as a writer for music publishers and by 1928 had written lyrics for songs like "Alabamy Bound," "That's My Weakness Now," which became a huge hit for Ukulele Ike and Helen Kane, as well as "I Love My Baby" and "In My Gondola," which are featured in music videos above. Green and Sam Stept became song publishers on their own eventually going to Hollywood and selling their company to Warner Bros.
Cafe Songbook Music-Video Cabinet: Bud Green
Bud Green and The Platters
"Once in a While" lyrics by Bud Green and music by Michael Edwards,
here performed by The Platters with Tony Williams* in a 1963 recording*
*Although Tony Williams had left the Platters by 1963 when "Once in a While" was recorded for a track on the album Sing of Your Moonlight Memories , "the master of this recording was sent to him and he overdubbed the lead vocal to create a new Platters recording with his lead. He did this for several tracks on the album." ILoveJenni47 . The Platters also recorded another Bud Green song, " Sentimental Journey " on the same album, also overdubbed by Williams.
Research Resources: Bud Green
- AllMusic.com (Brief biography, etc.)
- DBOPM (Database Of Popular Music: song list; awards; hit songs; co-writers)
- Discogs.com (songwriting and arranging credits)
- EBay Sheet Music (sheet music for sale of songs by this songwriter.
- Indiana University Sheet Music Collection (In Harmony): Bud Green
- Internet Broadway Database (Broadway productions and song credits)
- Internet Movie Database (brief biography, filmography, movie song credits)
- New York Public Library (catalog entries for books, personal papers, recordings, scores, etc.)
- Songwriters Hall of Fame (biography and song list)
- Wikipedia (Bud Green article)
- Bud Green, Writing Songs for Fame and Fortune, New York: Holiday, 1958.
- ASCAP Biographical Dictionary, New York: American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers, Cattell/Bowker, Fourth edition, 1980 (dates, collaborators, shows/movies, songs, etc., entry pp. 198-199)
- David A Jasen, Tin Pan Alley: The Composers, the Songs, the Performers and Their Times - The Golden Age of American Popular Music from 1886 to 1956, New York: Donald L. Fine, 1988. (entry: p. 164, plus other references to Bud Green).
- Elsie Carlyle and Ted Lewis recordings: bsgs98
- The Platters: ILoveJenni47
Notes
- Green left Hollywood to move back to Yonkers, New York, where he died in 1981.
Questions
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Bud Green was raised in Harlem at the beginning of the 20th century after his family had emigrated from Austria where he was born. Writing was apparently a family penchant because Hannah Russell who wrote many scores for children's films was his sister and Bob Russell , a well kn
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Cite this page as "Bud Green, songwriter: Reference Sources," Cafe Songbook, https://greatamericansongbook.net/pages/songwriters/g_sws/green_bud.html
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Also read Bob Russell, songwriter (https://greatamericansongbook.net/pages/songwriters/r_sws/russell_bob.html); Sam H. Stept, songwriter (https://greatamericansongbook.net/pages/songwriters/s_sws/stept_sam.html); "Once in a While" (https://greatamericansongbook.net/pages/songs/o/once_in_a_while.html); "Sentimental Journey" (https://greatamericansongbook.net/pages/songs/s/sentimental_journey.html).
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