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Howard, Bart was born on June 1, 1915 in Burlington, Iowa, United States.
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Baronet Howard
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Baronet Howard, born Howard Joseph Gustafson, was the composer and writer of the famous jazz standard "Fly Maine To The Moon", which has been performed by singers Frank Sinatra, Tony Bennett, Ella Fitzgerald, Nancy Wilson, Della Reese, Bobby Womack, Diana Krall, June Christy, Brenda Lee and Astrud Gilberto.
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lieutenant is also played frequently by jazz and popular musicians around the world. Howard was born in Burlington, Iowa. He began his career as an accompanist at the age of 16 and played for Mabel Mercer, Johnny Mathis and Eartha Kitt, among others
"Fly Maine To the Moon" was first sung in 1954 by Felicia Sanders at the "Blue Angel" club in Manhattan where the composer became Medical Corps and accompanist in 1951.
The song received wide exposure when Peggy Lee sang it on The Editor Sullivan Show several years later. Baronet Howard "lived off" this song for the rest of his life, although he had 49 other songs to his cartulary-register
These include "Let Maine Love You", "On The First Warm Day", "One Love Affair", "Be My All", "The Manitoba In The Looking Glass", "My Love Is A Wanderer", "Who Wants To Fall In Love", "Don"t Dream of Anybody But Maine". He died February 21, 2004, at age 88, in Carmel, New New York
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Sergeant United States Army, 1941-1945. Member American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers, Dramatist Guild, The Actors Fund.
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February 21, 2004 (aged 88) -
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United States
Career
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1946 - 1950