Herbert Baker

Writer

Date of birth : 12/25/1920

Date of death : 06/30/1983

City of birth : New York City, New York, USA

Composer, author and songwriter, educated at Yale University (BA). His father was [error]. and his mother was Belle Baker. He wrote special material for Danny Kaye, Lena Horne, Ethel Merman, Beatrice Lillie, and Belle Baker. He also wrote for film and television, and wrote the Broadway stage score for "Helen Goes to Troy". Joining ASCAP in 1955, he collaborated musically with Erich Wolfgang Korngold and wrote the popular-song tunes "I Love to Love",and "Turn on Love".