Stan Freeman

Composer, songwrier, author and pianist, educated at the Hartl School of Music. He served in the US Army during World War II and then, in 1946, he joined the Tex Beneke band. He was a piano soloist with the Cincinnati, Buffalo and Washington symphony orchestras, and a pianist in an all-Gershwin concert with the New York Philharmonic in 1951. He played in night clubs across the USA and in London, and was featured as a team with Cy Walter. He also had his own radio shows, and made many records. Joining ASCAP in 1955, his chief musical collaborator was Jack Lawrence, and his popular-song compositions include "Miss Satan", "My Heart Will Tell You So", "Guy With the Voodoo", "Faith", "The Fickle Finger of Fate", and "The Other Half of Me".