Al Hoffman was a Russian born American song composer. He has over 1,500 songs registered with A.S.C.A.P.
Background
Hoffman was born in Minsk, Belarus. His parents moved to Seattle, Washington in the United States when he was 6.
He died in New York City of prostate cancer, and was buried in New Jersey.
Hoffman is the great-uncle of New York songwriter, performer and writer Josh Max.
Career
After graduating from high school in Seattle, he started his own band, playing the drums, and moved to New York City in 1928 to pursue a music career. Though he continued playing the drums in night club bands and selling bagels door-to-door on Broadway, he began writing songs, collaborating with such other songwriters as Leon Carr, Leo Corday, Mann Curtis, Mack David, Milton Drake, Al Goodhart, Walter Kent, Sammy Lerner, Jerry Livingston, Dick Manning, Bob Merrill, Ed Nelson, and Maurice Sigler.
In 1934 he moved to London to work on stage productions and movies, co-writing the hit songs "She Shall Have Music" and "Everything Stops For Tea". He returned to the U.S. three years later.