Lester Lee

Songwriter ("Pennsylvania Polka", "Blue Gardenia"), composer and author educated at Manual Trades High School. (Some sources list his birth year as 1905.) He wrote many musical-production tunes, and signed his contract with a Hollywood film studio in 1943. From 1945, he wrote special material for radio. Joining ASCAP in 1942, his chief musical collaborators were Ned Washington, Allan Roberts, Zeke Manners and Bob Russell. His numerous other popular-song compositions include "All For Love", "Ambition", "And It's Yours", "Anyone But You", "Anyone For Love?", "At the Mardi Gras", "Away Aye Ay Aye O", "Baby Sitter", "A Bachelor's Life", "The Barn Dance Polka", "Baseball Is Your Game", "Be Careful, It's June", "The Bells in Her Earrings", "Blow the Whistle", "Bread and Butter Woman", "Bride and Groom Polka", "Bugle Blues", "The Call of the Wild", "Camp Potta Wotta Motta", "Chico's Love Song", "Christmas Dreaming", "The Christmas Season", "Cole Porter Thomas", "Come to California", "Cometo Where My Love Lies Dreaming", "Commercial College Writer", "Consumer's Lament", "Dahhling", "Darlene", "De La Hickory Room", "Do I Care? No, No", "Dreamer's Cloth", "Dreamer With a Penny", "Endlessly", "Every Baby Needs a Da-Da-Daddy", "Fair-Weather Friends", "Farewell", "Fifi From the Follies", "Fightin' Love", "Fire Down Below", "Fortune Teller Song", " Georgi", "Gimme a Man Who Makes Music", "Ginny Buys an Automobile", "Guy in the Middle", "Ha Ha Hacienda", "He Never Looked Better in His Life", "Hear No Evil, See No Evil", "The Heat is On", "Hello, Africa", "Hello, Hello the Riviera", "Hello, Students", "Here We Are, Tokyo", "Hillbilly from Piccadilly", "Hip-Hip Hooray", "His Honor, the Musician", "Horses Are a Hobby", "How Did It Happen?", "How Do I Know It's Real?", "Humphrey Bogart Rhumba", "I'd Rather Be Me", "I Fear Nothing", "I Keep Telling Myself", "I'll Never Say I Love You", "I'm Available", "I'm Phoning From the Jungle", "I've Been Kissed Before", "I Want to Learn About Love", "I Wish I Knew the Name", "If I Were a Colonel", "If the World Were a Theatre", " I'm Gonna Picket Your Heart", "Inflation", "Isn't This Divine?", "It's A Sad, Sad Day", "It Was Great While It Lasted", "Jack and the Beanstalk", "June", "Just Because", "Lady Love", "Lament of a Laundry Girl", "The Last Frontier", "Let's Do It Again", "Little Old Cape Cod Cottage", "Lonesome Little Money Clip", "Love and Learn", "Love Can Be Crazy", "Love is This", "Love, Love, Love", "Mademoiselle", "Man From Laramie", "Margie is the Girl for Me", "A Marine, a Marine, a Marine", "Meet Captain Kidd", "Merry Christmas to Everybody", "Mexican Disc Jockey", "Miss In-Between Blues", "Missouri", "Music of Love", "Mustang", "My Baby's Bored", "My Big Boy", "My Christmas Wish", "My Name is Marilyn", "My Old American Home", "Naughty Angeline", "No Time for Nothin' But You", "North of Nowhere", "Now's the Time", "O'Connor the Lover", "Old Magnolia Tree", "The Old Piano Polka", "The Old Professor", "On Santa's List", "Ooh Ah Oh", "Peace on Earth", "Poor Lil", "Prize of Gold", "Run to Me, My Love", "Sadie Thompson's Song", "Samba Sam", "Shave and a Haircut Shampoo", "She'll Drink Her Milk", "Showmanship", "Speak to Me of the Tall Pines", "Sweetheart Polka", "Take It Big", "Take Me to Town", "Takin' a Slow Burn", "Taxes", "Teahouse", "That's All There Is", "There Was a Time", "They Never Serve Tea", "They're Out to Trap You", "Today's the Day", "Town and Country Polka", "Trinidad Lady", "Under the Campus Moon", "Vacation Time", "We'll Build a Home", "We Sail Tonight", "When a Man's In the Army", "When Birds Want Romance", "When I Was Just a Little Lad", "When Prices Were Fixed", "Where Can We Do the Mambo?", "Which One?", "Words", "You Are So Different", "You'll Be Sorry Bye and Bye", and "You're Too Much for Me".