The Gift of Acabar: A Warm and Shining Message of Inspiration
(All Tulo had wanted was some light and warmth to sustain ...)
All Tulo had wanted was some light and warmth to sustain him and his tiny sister through the terrible storm. But the star which he caught in the folds of his red kite promised far from more than that. Here is the shining, joyful message the star Acabar gave to Tulo - a message meant not only for the boy but for all those who dream of changing their lives for the better.
(The book tells how to create a title, establish a story, ...)
The book tells how to create a title, establish a story, take advantage of associated words, use popular song structures, and handle meter, rhyme, alliteration, imagery, and emotion, and discusses the business of music.
The Wisdom of Baltasar Gracian: A Practical Manual for Good and Perilous Times
(Advice from a seventeenth-century guide to human relation...)
Advice from a seventeenth-century guide to human relations and achieving success is accompanied by an account of the life of the author, a Spanish Jesuit.
(With warm and charming illustrations by Martha Alexander,...)
With warm and charming illustrations by Martha Alexander, this popular 1940s song by Buddy Kaye, Fred Wise, and Sidney Lippman makes a captivating board book. Complete with the music for the song, here is a ditty for your darling, a song for your sweetheart, a valentine for any time.
Jules Kaye was a United States educator, musician, producer, author, and songwriter. Kaye gained experience as a saxophone player before he achieved his greatest success as a lyricist, and had a hand in writing popular standards like 'A' You're Adorable (The Alphabet Song), Till the End of Time, Full Moon and Empty Arms, and the theme for the TV show I Dream of Jeannie, among many others.
Background
Jules Leonard Kaye was born on January 3, 1918, in New York, United States, on the lower east side of Manhattan. He created a business for himself at the age of eight by answering the corner pharmacy pay phone (the only phone on the block in those days). It was simple - when the phone rang, he'd ask the caller who they wished to speak with and then run to the recipient's apartment to notify them that there was a call waiting. For this endeavor he would be given a few pennies, then wait to repeat this service again. He also made midnight booze deliveries for his mother during the prohibition years, who, abandoned by her husband, did sewing and laundry and made bathtub gin in the kitchen sink to provide for the family.
Education
With little money he could save, Jules Kaye would take a 25-cent music lesson on clarinet and saxophone. Eager to learn, he began playing the popular melodies he heard on the radio. After graduating James Madison High in 1935, he enrolled in Brooklyn College but felt it was unproductive and instead spent his spare time at the library reading Shakespeare and classic literature, inspiring him to write poetry, which eventually evolved into writing lyrics.
Jules Kaye first entered the music business as a saxophonist, playing professionally with various bands in small clubs and on cruise lines. He later moved into composition, getting his start on animated shorts like Popeye and, particularly, Little Lulu. In the mid-1940s, he formed his own Buddy Kaye Quintet and was booking gigs on cruise ships, nightclubs, and summer jobs upstate New York. However, finding a composer to write with an unknown lyricist was a challenge, and he spent 10 years frequenting the Brill Building, soliciting his songs only to face rejection by music publishers.
His first success as a songwriter came with 1945's Walkin' With My Honey, a collaboration with Sam Medoff that was recorded by Sammy Kaye. Later that year, he teamed up with composer Ted Mossman to write lyrics for a melody adapted from Chopin's Polonaise in A Flat; the result, Till the End of Time, became crooner Perry Como's breakout hit, spending ten weeks on top of the charts and establishing the young singer's career. The classical-melody gimmick worked so nicely that Kaye and Mossman went back to the well one more time, borrowing from Rachmaninoff's Second Piano Concerto for 1946's Full Moon and Empty Arms, which was recorded for a hit by Frank Sinatra. Andy Russell recorded Kaye and Billy Reid's I'll Close My Eyes for a hit in 1947; it was later recorded by numerous other singers, and today remains most associated with Dinah Washington, thanks in part to its inclusion in the 1995 film The Bridges of Madison County. In 1948, Kaye contributed material to the Broadway revue Hilarities and wrote the title song for the Humphrey Bogart classic The Treasure of the Sierra Madre. The following year, his 'A' You're Adorable (The Alphabet Song) - written with Fred Wise and Sidney Lippman - was a smash hit for Como with the Fontaine Sisters. Additionally, Kaye made some recordings of his own with the Buddy Kaye Quintet, scoring minor chart hits with Thoughtless and his own version of 'A' You're Adorable; the former featured vocals by the Tunetimers, the latter by Artie Malvin.
In the 1960s, Jules Kaye traveled to Brazil to write English translations for Antonio Carlos Jobim's Corcovado (Quiet Nights) and Barquinho (Little Boat). He went to Paris, France to write English lyrics for Charles Aznavour songs, including After Loving You and All Those Pretty Girls. He wrote the title song for the 1961 film Twist Around the Clock, and in 1962, he teamed with Ethel Lee and David Hill for the novelty song Speedy Gonzales, which became Pat Boone's final Top Ten hit that year. He penned hits for several early United Kingdom rock artists, most notably Cliff Richard's ballad The Next Time from the 1963 film Summer Holiday, and went on to co-write (with Bea Verdi) two notable parts of Dusty Springfield's repertoire, Little by Little and In the Middle of Nowhere, over 1965-1966. In 1965, he established Budd Music, Ltd. in London and wrote The Next Time for the hit movie Summer Holiday, and three Dusty Springfield hits including All Cried Out with co-writer Phil Springer. After being called to Hollywood to write the title song for Otto Preminger's Hurry Sundown in 1966, he moved the family to Los Angeles to concentrate on film and television work, including co-writing the TV theme for I Dream of Jeannie with Hugo Montenegro - and five Elvis Presley movie soundtrack songs, including the main title of Change of Habit for MGM and United Artists. He reteamed with Montenegro for the title song to the 1967 film Hurry Sundown, which was recorded by Harry Belafonte. During the 1970s, Kaye wrote English lyrics for material by the great French songwriter Charles Aznavour, most notably 1974's After Loving You.
In his later years, Jules Kaye devoted himself to teaching songwriting classes and workshops around Southern California and authored several books on the subject. He taught songwriting at the University of California at Los Angeles for eleven years, as well as at the College of the Desert. At the time of his death, Kaye had just finished writing the book and lyrics for a musical about actress Greta Garbo.