Editing Kay Swift (section)

{{Short description|American songwriter (1897–1993)}}

{{Infobox musical artist
| name            = Kay Swift
| image           = Kay Swift.jpg
| caption         =  
| background      = non_performing_personnel
| birth_name      = Katharine Faulkner Swift 
| birth_date      = {{birth date|mf=y|1897|04|19}}
| birth_place     = [[New York City]], U.S.
| death_date      = {{death date and age|mf=y|1993|01|28|1897|04|19}}
| death_place     = [[Southington, Connecticut]], U.S.
| years_active    = 1930–91
| origin          = 
| genre           = 
| occupation      = [[Composer]]
| spouse          = 
*{{marriage |[[James Warburg|James Paul Warburg]] |June 3, 1918 |December 20, 1934 |end=div}}
*{{marriage |Faye Hubbard |1939 |1946 |end=div}}
*{{marriage |Hunter Galloway |May 19, 1947 |1968 |end=div}}
| module          = {{Infobox person|child = yes |children = 3 |relatives= Katharine Weber (granddaughter) John Paul Kaufman (grandson) }}
}}

'''Katharine Faulkner''' "'''Kay'''" '''Swift''' (April 19, 1897 – January 28, 1993) was an American composer of popular and classical music, the first woman to score a hit [[musical theater|musical]] completely. Written in 1930, the Broadway musical ''[[Fine and Dandy (musical)|Fine and Dandy]]'' includes some of her best known songs; the song "[[Fine and Dandy]]" has become a jazz standard. "[[Can't We Be Friends?]]" (1929) was her biggest hit song.

Swift also arranged some of the music of [[George Gershwin]] posthumously, such as the [[Prelude (music)|prelude]] "Sleepless Night" (1946).