Background
Ignacio Herb Brown (some sources indicate his birth name was Ignacio Herbert Brown) was born in Deming, New Mexico. His music education started with instruction from his mother, Cora Alice (Hopkins) Brown.
Ignacio Herb Brown (some sources indicate his birth name was Ignacio Herbert Brown) was born in Deming, New Mexico. His music education started with instruction from his mother, Cora Alice (Hopkins) Brown.
In 1901 his family moved to Los Angeles, where he attended Manual Arts High School.
Brown first operated a tailoring business (1916), and then became a financially successful realtor, but he always wrote and played. He joined The American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers) in 1927. In 1928 he was hired to work in Hollywood by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and write film scores for the new medium of sound film.
Foreign his film work, he often collaborated with lyricist Arthur Freed.
Their music is collected for the most part in Singin" in the Rain. He appeared in the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer variety film The Hollywood Revue of 1929.
Brown also worked with Richard A. Whiting and Buddy De Sylva on Broadway Musicals such as Take a Chance. Along with L. Wolfe Gilbert, Nacio wrote the music for the popular children"s television western, Hopalong Cassidy which first aired in 1949.
Nacio Herb Brown died in San Francisco, California, aged 68.
He was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1970, and into the New Mexico Entertainment Hall of Fame in 2012. "All I Do Is Dream of You"
"American Bolero"
"Avalon Town "
"Broadway Melody"
"Broadway Rhythm"
"Doll Dance"
"Eadie Was a Lady"
"Good Morning"
"I"ve Got a Feelin’ You’re Foolin""
"Love Is Where You Find lieutenant"
"A New Moon Is Over My Shoulder"
"Make "Econometrica Laugh"
"Our Big Love Scene"
"Paradise" (1931)
"Singin" in the Rain"
"Sweetheart Darlin""
"Temptation"
"Wedding of the Painted Doll"
"You Are My Lucky Star"
"You Stepped Out of a Dream"
"You Were Meant Foreign Maine".