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Ignacio Herbert "Nacio Herb" Brown (February 22, 1896 – September 28, 1964) was an American composer of popular songs, movie scores and Broadway theatre music in the 1920s through the early 1950s. Amongst his most enduring work is the score for the 1952 musical film Singin' in the Rain .
Nacio Herb Brown. Music Department: Singin' in the Rain. In spite of the fact, that he only had been on a conservatory for only short time, he was a very successful popular composer, who wrote with lyricist and later producer Arthur Freed not only the songs for MGM musical and non-musical films, e.g. "Broadway Melody" for the movie "The ...
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- Deming, New Mexico, USA
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- San Francisco, California, USA
Nacio Brown passed away on September 28, 1964, in San Francisco, CA. Hits included “Pagan Love Song,” “You Are My Lucky Star,” “I’ve Got A Feelin’ You’re Foolin’,” and “Broadway Melody.”
SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 29—Nacio Herb Brown, the composer of such songs as “Singing in the Rain,” “You Are My Lucky Star” and “Pagan Love Song,” died of cancer here yesterday after an illness of 18...
Nacio Herb Brown was a popular composer who wrote songs for MGM musicals, such as "Singin' in the Rain" and "Broadway Melody". He also worked with Arthur Freed, Richard A. Whiting and Buddy G. DeSylva on Broadway and Hollywood projects.
- February 22, 1896
- September 28, 1964
" You Stepped Out of a Dream " is a popular song with music written by Nacio Herb Brown and lyrics by Gus Kahn that was published in 1940. The song has become a pop and jazz standard, with many recorded versions.
The man who wrote the melody, Nacio Herb Brown, was one of the most successful of all Hollywood studio composers working during the first quarter-century of the film musical. And "Singin' in the Rain," with lyrics by Arthur Freed, is perhaps the one song which remains most closely identified with not only the MGM musical but the era itself.
