Editing Harry Warren

{{short description|American composer and lyricist (1893–1981)}}
{{other people|Harry Warren}}
{{Infobox musical artist 
| name        = Harry Warren
| image       = HarryWarren1910.jpg
| caption     = Warren promoting songs <br />on [[Tin Pan Alley]], 1920
| image_size  =  
| background  = non_performing_personnel
| birth_name  = Salvatore Antonio Guaragna
| birth_date  = {{birth date|1893|12|24}}
| birth_place = [[New York City]], U.S.
| death_date  = {{death date and age|1981|9|22|1893|12|24}} 
| death_place = [[Los Angeles]], [[California]], U.S.
| instrument  = Piano
| genre       = [[Popular music]]
| occupation  = Composer
}}

'''Harry Warren''' (born '''Salvatore Antonio Guaragna'''; December 24, 1893 – September 22, 1981)<ref name="NYT"/> was an American composer and the first major American songwriter to write primarily for film. He was nominated for the [[Academy Award for Best Original Song]] eleven times and won three [[Academy Awards|Oscars]] for composing "[[Lullaby of Broadway (song)|Lullaby of Broadway]]", "[[You'll Never Know]]" and "[[On the Atchison, Topeka and the Santa Fe]]". He wrote the music for the first blockbuster film musical, ''[[42nd Street (film)|42nd Street]]'', choreographed by [[Busby Berkeley]], with whom he would collaborate on many musical films.

Over a career spanning six decades, Warren wrote more than 800 songs. Other well known Warren hits included "[[I Only Have Eyes for You]]", "[[You Must Have Been a Beautiful Baby]]", "[[Jeepers Creepers (song)|Jeepers Creepers]]", "[[The Gold Diggers' Song (We're in the Money)]]", "[[That's Amore (song)|That's Amore]]", "[[There Will Never Be Another You]]", "[[The More I See You]]", "[[At Last]]" and "[[Chattanooga Choo Choo]]" (the last of which was the first [[Music recording sales certification|gold record]] in history). Warren was one of America's most prolific film composers, and his songs have been featured in over 300 films.

==Biography==

===Early life===
Warren was born Salvatore Antonio Guaragna, one of eleven children of Italian immigrants Antonio (a bootmaker) and Rachel De Luca Guaragna, and grew up in [[Brooklyn]], New York. His father changed the family name to Warren when Harry was a child. Although his parents could not afford music lessons, Warren had an early interest in music and taught himself to play his father's [[accordion]]. He also sang in the church choir and learned to play the drums. He began to play the drums professionally by age 14 and dropped out of high school at 16 to play with his godfather's band in a traveling carnival. Soon he taught himself to play the piano and by 1915, he was working at the [[Vitagraph Studios|Vitagraph Motion Picture Studios]], where he did a variety of administrative jobs, such as props man, and also played mood music on the piano for the actors, acted in bit parts and eventually was an assistant director. He also played the piano in cafés and silent-movie houses. In 1918 he joined the [[U.S. Navy]], where he began writing songs.<ref name="PBS">[https://www.pbs.org/wnet/gperf/shows/songbook/multimedia/bio_warren.html PBS biography entry for Harry Warren.] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130103234349/https://www.pbs.org/wnet/gperf/shows/songbook/multimedia/bio_warren.html |date=2013-01-03 }} Accessed February 2009</ref><ref name=HWM>Jenkins, David. [http://www.harrywarrenmusic.com/frameset.html Biography] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120424031542/http://www.harrywarrenmusic.com/frameset.html |date=2012-04-24 }} at HarryWarrenMusic.com, accessed April 3, 2009</ref>

===Career===
Warren wrote over 800 songs between 1918 and 1981, publishing over 500 of them.<ref>[http://www.harrywarren.org/songlist.htm List of Warren songs at HarryWarren.org] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090305090947/http://www.harrywarren.org/songlist.htm |date=2009-03-05 }}</ref><ref name=Jenkins>Jenkins, David. [http://www.harrywarren.org/bio.htm "Harry Warren – Hollywood's Unknown Composer"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060426011516/http://www.harrywarren.org/bio.htm |date=2006-04-26 }}, HarryWarren.org</ref> They were written mainly for 56 feature films or were used in other films that used Warren's newly written or existing songs.<ref name="PBS"/>  His songs eventually appeared in over 300 films and 112 of [[Warner Bros. Cartoons|Warner Bros.]] ''[[Looney Tunes]]'' and ''[[Merrie Melodies]]'' cartoons.<ref name=Walls/> 42 of his songs were on the top ten list of the radio program "[[Your Hit Parade]]", a measure of a song's popularity. 21 of these reached number 1 on Your Hit Parade.<ref name=Jenkins/>  "[[You'll Never Know]]" appeared 24 times.<ref>Forte, p. 265</ref>  His song "[[I Only Have Eyes for You]]" is listed in the list of the 25 most-performed songs of the 20th Century, as compiled by the American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers ([[ASCAP]]).<ref>Zinsser, pp. 137 and 251</ref>  Warren was the director of ASCAP from 1929 to 1932.<ref name=HWM/>

He collaborated on some of his most famous songs with lyricists [[Al Dubin]], [[Billy Rose]], [[Mack Gordon]], [[Leo Robin]], [[Ira Gershwin]] and [[Johnny Mercer]]. In 1942 the Gordon-Warren song "[[Chattanooga Choo-Choo]]", as performed by the [[Glenn Miller Orchestra]], became the first [[Music recording sales certification|gold record]] in history. It was No.1 for nine weeks on the ''Billboard'' pop singles chart in 1941–1942, selling 1.2 million copies.<ref>[{{AllMusic|class=album|id=r143869|pure_url=yes}} "Chattanooga Choo Choo: The #1 Hits"], allmusic.com, accessed March 31, 2009</ref>  Among his biggest hits were "[[There Will Never Be Another You]]", "[[I Only Have Eyes for You]]", "[[Forty-Second Street]]", "[[The Gold Diggers' Song (We're in the Money)]]", "[[Lullaby of Broadway (song)|Lullaby of Broadway]]", "[[Serenade In Blue]]", "[[At Last]]", "[[Jeepers Creepers (song)|Jeepers Creepers]]", "[[You're Getting to Be a Habit with Me]]", "[[That's Amore]]", and "Young and Healthy".<ref name="PBS"/>

====Early hits and film years====

Warren's first hit song was "Rose of the Rio Grande" (1922), with lyrics by [[Edgar Leslie]].<ref>[http://nfo.net/cal/tw2.html Harry Warren] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120224094247/http://nfo.net/cal/tw2.html |date=2012-02-24 }} at Composers and Lyricists Database (1988)</ref>  He wrote a succession of hit songs in the 1920s, including "I Love My Baby (My Baby Loves Me)" and "Seminola" in 1925, "Where Do You Work-a John?" and "In My Gondola" in 1926 and "Nagasaki" in 1928. In 1930, he composed the music for the song "Cheerful Little Earful" for the [[Billy Rose]] [[Broadway theatre|Broadway]] [[revue]], ''Sweet and Low'', and composed the music, with lyrics by Mort Dixon and Joe Young, for the [[Ed Wynn]] Broadway revue ''The Laugh Parade'' in 1931.<ref name="PBS"/>

He started working for [[Warner Brothers]] in 1932, paired with Dubin to write the score for the first blockbuster film musical, ''[[42nd Street (film)|42nd Street]]'', and continued to work there for six years, writing the scores for 32 more musicals.<ref name=Walls>Walls, Robert. [http://www.guidetomusicaltheatre.com/biographies/warren_harry.htm "Who is Harry Warren????"] GuideToMusicals, accessed April 3, 2009</ref>  He worked for [[20th Century Fox]] starting in 1940, writing with Mack Gordon.<ref name="Zinsser, p. 137">Zinsser, p. 137</ref> He moved to [[MGM]] starting in 1944, writing for [[musical film]]s such as ''[[The Harvey Girls]]'' and ''[[The Barkleys of Broadway]]'', many starring [[Fred Astaire]]. He later worked for [[Paramount Pictures|Paramount]], starting in the early 1950s, writing for the [[Bing Crosby]] and [[Jane Wyman]] movie ''[[Just for You (1952 film)|Just for You]]'' and the [[Martin and Lewis]] movie ''[[The Caddy]]'', the latter containing the hit song "[[That's Amore (song)|That's Amore]]". He continued to write songs for several more [[Jerry Lewis]] comedies.<ref name="PBS"/>

Warren is particularly remembered for writing scores for the [[film]]s of [[Busby Berkeley]]; they worked together on 18 films. His "uptempo songs are as memorable as Berkeley's choreography, as [sic] for the same reason: they capture, in a few snazzy notes, the vigorous frivolity of the Jazz Age."<ref name=time>Corliss, Richard.[https://web.archive.org/web/20020702122930/http://www.time.com/time/sampler/article/0,8599,178367,00.html "That Old Feeling: We Need Harry Warren"], ''[[Time (magazine)|Time]]'', October 5, 2001</ref>

Warren won the [[Academy Award for Best Song]] three times, collaborating with three different lyricists: "[[Lullaby of Broadway (song)|Lullaby of Broadway]]" with Al Dubin in 1935, "[[You'll Never Know]]" with Mack Gordon in 1943, and "[[On the Atchison, Topeka and the Santa Fe]]" with Johnny Mercer in 1946. He was nominated for eleven Oscars.<ref name="PBS"/>

====Last years====
In 1955, Warren wrote "The Legend of Wyatt Earp", which was used in the [[American Broadcasting Company|ABC]]/[[Desilu Studios]] [[television series]], ''[[The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp]]''.  He also wrote the opening theme, "Hey, Marty" (lyrics by [[Paddy Chayefsky]]), for the film ''[[Marty (film)|Marty]]'', which won the Academy Award for Best Picture in 1955.<ref>Holloway, Ronald. [https://variety.com/1955/film/reviews/marty-3-1200417955 "''Marty''"], ''Variety'', March 22, 1955</ref> The last musical score that Warren composed specifically for Broadway was ''[[Shangri-La (musical)|Shangri-La]]'', a disastrous 1956 adaptation of [[James Hilton (novelist)|James Hilton]]'s ''[[Lost Horizon (novel)|Lost Horizon]]'', which ran for only 21 performances. In 1957, he received his last Academy Award nomination for the song "[[An Affair to Remember (Our Love Affair)|An Affair to Remember]]". He continued to write songs for movies throughout the 1960s and 1970s but never again achieved the fame that he had enjoyed earlier. His last movie score was for ''Manhattan Melody'', in 1980, but the film was never produced.<ref name=HWM/>

Warren composed a Mass, with Latin text, in 1962. This was performed a decade later at [[Loyola Marymount University]], but it has yet to be recorded commercially.<ref>Feinstein, p. 243</ref> He also wrote nearly three dozen short piano vignettes. The sheet music was first published by Warren's Four Jays Music Co.<ref>{{cite book| last=Thomas |first=Tony|year=1975| author-link=Tony Thomas (producer)| title=The Hollywood Musical: The Saga of Songwriter Harry Warren |publisher=Citadel Press|page=341|isbn=0-8065-1066-8}}</ref> A dozen of these were released on a 1975 album titled ''Harry Warren's Piano Vignettes'', played by Hugh Delain.<ref>[http://www.discogs.com/Harry-Warren-Harry-Warrens-Piano-Vignettes/release/5272156 "Harry Warren's Piano Vignettes"], Discogs.com, 1975, accessed December 6, 2014</ref> Several pianists have recorded the vignettes, including Warren himself.<ref>[{{AllMusic| class=album| id=mw0000917236|pure_url=yes}} "Harry Warren: Piano Vignettes"], ''[[AllMusic]]'', accessed December 6, 2014</ref>

===Personal life===
Warren married Josephine Wensler in 1917. They had a son, Harry Jr. (1919–1938), and a daughter, Joan (b. 1925). His wife died in 1993.

Warren died on September 22, 1981, in [[Los Angeles]].<ref name="NYT">{{cite news |last1=Holden |first1=Stephen |authorlink1=Stephen Holden |title=Harry Warren, Songwriter, Is Dead |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1981/09/23/obituaries/harry-warren-songwriter-is-dead.html |newspaper=[[The New York Times]] |date=September 23, 1981|page=A1}}</ref> He is interred in the [[Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery]] in Los Angeles. The plaque bearing Warren's epitaph displays the first few notes of "You'll Never Know".<ref>[http://www.seeing-stars.com/Buried2/PierceBros3.shtml#HarryWarren Warren, Westwood Village] Seeing-stars, accessed March 30, 2009</ref>

==Reputation and legacy==
According to [[Wilfrid Sheed]], quoted in ''[[Time (magazine)|Time]]'' magazine: "By silent consensus, the king of this army of unknown soldiers, the Hollywood incognitos, was Harry Warren, who had more songs on the Hit Parade than Berlin himself and who would win the contest hands down if enough people have heard of him."<ref name=time/>  [[William Zinsser]] noted: "The familiarity of Harry Warren's songs is matched by the anonymity of the man&nbsp;... he is the invisible man, his career a prime example of the oblivion that cloaked so many writers who cranked out good songs for bad movies."<ref name="Zinsser, p. 137"/> At least three episodes of the ''[[Lawrence Welk Show]]'' were devoted entirely to Warren's music: Season 18, Episode 5, October 7, 1972;<ref>[http://www.welkmusicalfamily.com/episodeguide9.html "Season 18: 1972–73"], Welk Musical Family, accessed June 24, 2013</ref> Season 25, Episode 10, November 24, 1979;<ref>[http://www.welkmusicalfamily.com/episodeguide13.html "Season 25: 1979–80"], Welk Musical Family, accessed June 24, 2013</ref> and Season 27, Episode 17, January 2, 1982<ref>[http://www.welkmusicalfamily.com/episodeguide14.html "Season 27: 1981–82"], Welk Musical Family, accessed June 24, 2013</ref> [[Susannah McCorkle]]'s debut album was ''The Music of Harry Warren'' (1976).

In 1980, producer [[David Merrick]] and director [[Gower Champion]] adapted the 1933 film ''[[42nd Street (film)|42nd Street]]'' into a [[42nd Street (musical)|Broadway musical]] that won the [[Tony Award for Best Musical]] in 1981, ran for 3,486 performances and has had several major revivals.<ref>[http://rockland.broadwayworld.com/article/Westchester_Broadway_Theater_Presents_42ND_STREET_With_Galantich_Stanley_and_More_Opens_924_20090908 "Westchester Broadway Theater Presents ''42nd Street'' with Galantich, Stanley and More"], BroadwayWorld.com, September 8, 2009, accessed October 7, 2014</ref> The score incorporated songs by Warren and Dubin from various movie musicals, including ''42nd Street, [[Dames (film)|Dames]], [[Go Into Your Dance]], [[Gold Diggers of 1933]]'', and ''[[Gold Diggers of 1935]]''.<ref>[https://archive.today/20130204135802/http://www.tonyawards.com/p/tonys_search?start=0&year=&award=&lname=&fname=&show=%3Ci%3E42nd+Street%3C/i%3E "42nd Street"], Tonyawards.com, accessed May 27, 2014</ref>

A theatre in [[Gravesend, Brooklyn]], New York, the Harry Warren Theatre, was named for Warren in 1982.<ref>[https://www.njtheater.com/Person/3660/HarryWarren/Display.rails "Harry Warren Biography"], ''NJ Theater''. Retrieved December 24, 2023</ref><ref>[https://www.timeout.com/newyork/theater/harry-warren-theatre "Harry Warren Theatre"], ''Time Out'', July 12, 2010</ref>

==Songs==
Music by Warren, unless noted:

===Academy Award nominations and winners===
;Winners
* "[[Lullaby of Broadway (song)|Lullaby of Broadway]]" (1935) w. [[Al Dubin]] for ''[[Gold Diggers of 1935]]''<ref name=JtoM>[http://www.harrywarren.org/songs/songs-j-to-m.htm "Songs J to M"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130121221155/http://www.harrywarren.org/songs/songs-j-to-m.htm |date=January 21, 2013 }}, HarryWarren.org, accessed February 25, 2012</ref>
* "[[You'll Never Know]]" (1943) w. [[Mack Gordon]] for ''[[Hello, Frisco, Hello]]''<ref name=UtoZ>[http://www.harrywarren.org/songs/songs-u-to-z.htm "Songs UtoZ"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130121221125/http://www.harrywarren.org/songs/songs-u-to-z.htm |date=January 21, 2013 }}, HarryWarren.org, accessed February 26, 2012</ref>
* "[[On the Atchison, Topeka and the Santa Fe]]" (1945) w. [[Johnny Mercer]] for ''[[The Harvey Girls]]''<ref name=NtoR>[http://www.harrywarren.org/songs/songs-n-to-r.htm "Songs N to R"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150307014035/http://www.harrywarren.org/songs/songs-n-to-r.htm |date=March 7, 2015 }}, HarryWarren.org, accessed February 26, 2012</ref>

;Nominations
*"Remember Me?" (1937) w. Al Dubin for ''[[Mr. Dodd Takes the Air]]''<ref name=NtoR/>
*"[[Jeepers Creepers (song)|Jeepers Creepers]]" (1938) w. Johnny Mercer for ''[[Going Places (1938 film)|Going Places]]''<ref name=JtoM/>
*"Down Argentina Way" (1940) w. Mack Gordon for ''[[Down Argentine Way]]''<ref name=DtoH>[http://www.harrywarren.org/songs/songs-d-to-h.htm "Songs D to H"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130224034404/http://www.harrywarren.org/songs/songs-d-to-h.htm |date=February 24, 2013 }}, HarryWarren.org, accessed February 25, 2012</ref>
*"[[Chattanooga Choo Choo]]" (1941) w. Mack Gordon for ''[[Sun Valley Serenade]]''<ref name=AtoC>[http://www.harrywarren.org/songs/songs-a-to-c.htm "Songs A to C"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130121221339/http://www.harrywarren.org/songs/songs-a-to-c.htm |date=January 21, 2013 }}, HarryWarren.org, accessed February 25, 2012</ref>
*"[[(I've Got a Gal In) Kalamazoo|I've Got a Gal in Kalamazoo]]" (1942) w. Mack Gordon for ''[[Orchestra Wives]]''<ref name=I>[http://www.harrywarren.org/songs/songs-i.htm "Songs I"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130121221036/http://www.harrywarren.org/songs/songs-i.htm |date=January 21, 2013 }}, HarryWarren.org, accessed February 25, 2012</ref>
*"[[Zing a Little Zong]]" (1952) w. [[Leo Robin]] for ''[[Just for You (1952 film)|Just for You]]''<ref name=UtoZ/>
*"[[That's Amore (song)|That's Amore]]" (1953) w. [[Jack Brooks (lyricist)|Jack Brooks]] for ''[[The Caddy]]''<ref name=t>[http://www.harrywarren.org/songs/songs-t.htm "Songs T"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130121220838/http://www.harrywarren.org/songs/songs-t.htm |date=January 21, 2013 }}, HarryWarren.org, accessed February 26, 2012</ref>
*"[[An Affair to Remember (Our Love Affair)]]" (1956) w. [[Harold Adamson]] and [[Leo McCarey]] for ''[[An Affair to Remember]]''<ref name=AtoC/>

===No. 1 hits===
* "By the River Sainte Marie"  (1931) w. Edgar Leslie<ref name=AtoC/>
* "Too Many Tears" (1932) w. Al Dubin<ref name=t/>
* "[[I Found a Million Dollar Baby (in a Five and Ten Cent Store)]]" (1932) w. Mort Dixon<ref name=I/>
* "[[You're Getting to Be a Habit With Me]]" (1933) w. Al Dubin<ref name=UtoZ/>
* "[[Forty-Second Street]]" (1933) w. Al Dubin<ref name=DtoH/>
* "Shadow Waltz" (1933) w. Al Dubin<ref name=s>[http://www.harrywarren.org/songs/songs-s.htm "Songs S"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130121221321/http://www.harrywarren.org/songs/songs-s.htm |date=January 21, 2013 }}, HarryWarren.org, accessed February 26, 2012</ref>
[[File:Chattanooga2.jpg|thumb|78 recording of "Chattanooga Choo Choo" by the [[Glenn Miller Orchestra]] with vocal solo by [[Tex Beneke]]]]
* "(You May Not Be an Angel, But) [[I'll String Along With You]]" (1934) w. Al Dubin<ref name=UtoZ/>
* "[[Lullaby of Broadway (song)|Lullaby of Broadway]]" (1935) w. Al Dubin<ref name=JtoM/>
* "She's a Latin from Manhattan" (1935) w. Al Dubin<ref name=s/>
* "I'll Sing You a Thousand Love Songs" (1936) w. Al Dubin<ref name=I/>
* "[[September in the Rain]]" (1937) w. Al Dubin<ref name=s/>
* "With Plenty of Money and You" (1937) w. Al Dubin<ref name=UtoZ/>
* "Remember Me?" (1937) w. Al Dubin<ref name=NtoR/>
* "[[Jeepers Creepers (song)|Jeepers Creepers]]" (1938) w. Johnny Mercer<ref name=JtoM/>
* "[[You Must Have Been a Beautiful Baby]]" (1938) w. Johnny Mercer<ref name=UtoZ/>
* "[[Chattanooga Choo Choo]]" (1941) w. Mack Gordon<ref name=AtoC/>
* "[[My Heart Tells Me (Should I Believe My Heart?)]]" (1943) w. Mack Gordon<ref name=JtoM/>
* "[[I Had the Craziest Dream]]" (1943) w. Mack Gordon<ref name=I/>
* "[[You'll Never Know]]" (1943) w. Mack Gordon<ref name=UtoZ/>
* "[[The More I See You]]" (1945) w. Mack Gordon<ref name=t/>
* "[[On the Atchison, Topeka and the Santa Fe]]" (1945) w. Johnny Mercer<ref name=NtoR/>

===Other selected songs from films===
* "[[You're Getting to Be a Habit with Me]]" (1932) w. Al Dubin for ''[[42nd Street (film)|42nd Street]]''<ref name=UtoZ/>
* "[[Forty-Second Street]]" (1933) w. Al Dubin for ''42nd Street''<ref name=DtoH/>
* "[[Shuffle Off to Buffalo]]" (1933) w. Al Dubin for ''42nd Street''<ref name=s/>
* "[[Boulevard of Broken Dreams (Al Dubin song)|The Boulevard of Broken Dreams]]" (1933) w. Al Dubin for ''[[Moulin Rouge (1934 film)|Moulin Rouge]]''<ref name=AtoC/>
[[File:DanceDollarsGoldDigs1933Trailer.jpg|thumb|"Dance of the Dollars" production number launched the song "[[The Gold Diggers' Song (We're in the Money)|We're in the Money]]" in ''Gold Diggers of 1933'']]
* "[[Keep Young and Beautiful (song)|Keep Young and Beautiful]]" (1933) w. Al Dubin for ''[[Roman Scandals]]''<ref name=JtoM/>
* "[[Pettin' in the Park (song)|Pettin' in the Park]]" (1933) w. Al Dubin for ''[[Gold Diggers of 1933]]''<ref name=NtoR/>
* "[[The Gold Diggers' Song (We're in the Money)|We're in the Money]]" (1933) w. Al Dubin for ''Gold Diggers of 1933''<ref name=UtoZ/>
* "[[I Only Have Eyes for You]]" (1934) w. Al Dubin for ''[[Dames (film)|Dames]]''<ref name=I/>
* "[[I'll String Along with You]]" (1934) w. Al Dubin for ''[[Twenty Million Sweethearts]]''<ref name=UtoZ/>
* "[[About a Quarter to Nine]]" (1935) w. Al Dubin for "[[Go into Your Dance]]"
* "[[Lullaby of Broadway (song)|Lullaby of Broadway]]" (1935) w. Al Dubin for ''[[Gold Diggers of 1935]]''<ref name=JtoM/>
* "[[September in the Rain]]" (1935) w. Al Dubin for ''[[Stars Over Broadway]]''<ref name=s/>
* "[[You Must Have Been a Beautiful Baby]]" (1938) w. [[Johnny Mercer]] for ''[[Hard to Get (1938 film)|Hard to Get]]''<ref name=UtoZ/>
* "[[Chica Chica Boom Chic]]" (1941) w. Mack Gordon for ''[[That Night in Rio]]''<ref name=AtoC/>
* "[[I, Yi, Yi, Yi, Yi (I Like You Very Much)]]" (1941) w. Mack Gordon for ''That Night in Rio''<ref name=I/>
* "[[Chattanooga Choo Choo]]" (1941) w. Mack Gordon for ''[[Sun Valley Serenade]]''<ref name=AtoC/>
* "[[I Know Why (And So Do You)]]" (1941) w. Mack Gordon for ''Sun Valley Serenade''<ref name=I/>
* "[[It Happened in Sun Valley]]" (1941) w. Mack Gordon for ''Sun Valley Serenade''<ref name=I/>
* "[[At Last]]" (1941) w. Mack Gordon for ''Sun Valley Serenade''<ref name=AtoC/>
* "[[I Had the Craziest Dream]]" (1942) w. Mack Gordon for ''[[Springtime in the Rockies]]''<ref name=I/>
* "[[Serenade In Blue]]" (1942) w. Mack Gordon for ''[[Orchestra Wives]]''<ref name=s/>
* "[[There Will Never Be Another You]]" (1942) w. Mack Gordon for ''[[Iceland (film)|Iceland]]''<ref name=t/>
* "[[You'll Never Know]]" (1943) w. Mack Gordon for ''[[Hello, Frisco, Hello]]''<ref name=UtoZ/>
* "[[On the Atchison, Topeka and the Santa Fe]]" (1945) w. [[Johnny Mercer]] for ''[[The Harvey Girls]]''<ref name=NtoR/>
* "[[The More I See You]]" (1945) w. Mack Gordon for ''[[Diamond Horseshoe]]''<ref name=t/>
* "[[This Heart of Mine]]" (1946) w. Arthur Freed for ''[[Ziegfeld Follies (film)|Ziegfeld Follies]]''<ref name=t/>
* "Cryin' For the Carolines" (1930) w. Sam Lewis and Joe Young for ''[[Spring Is Here (film)|Spring Is Here]]''<ref name=t/>
* "Have A Little Faith In Me" (1930) w. Sam Lewis and Joe Young for ''Spring Is Here''<ref name=t/>
* "[[(The Same Thing Happens with) The Birds and the Bees]]" (1956) [[Mack David]] for ''[[The Birds and the Bees (film)|The Birds and the Bees]]''<ref name=AtoC/>

===American songbook songs===
{{main|Great American Songbook}}
In his book ''American Popular Song'', Alec Wilder notes that Warren "wasn't in the category as the best theater writers, but he certainly was among the foremost pop song writers." He discusses songs he likes: "[[Would You Like to Take a Walk?]]" (1930, with [[Mort Dixon]] and [[Billy Rose]] for ''Sweet & Low''), "[[I Found a Million Dollar Baby (in a Five and Ten Cent Store)]]" (1931, with Dixon and Rose for ''Crazy Quilt''), "[[You're Getting to Be a Habit with Me]]" (1932), "Summer Night" (1936), "[[There Will Never Be Another You]]" (1942), "[[Serenade in Blue]]" (1942), "[[At Last]]" (1942), "[[Jeepers Creepers (song)|Jeepers Creepers]]" (1938), and "[[The More I See You]]" (1945).<ref>Wilder, pp. 395–404</ref>

;Other popular songs
* "[[Cheerful Little Earful]]" (1930) w. [[Ira Gershwin]] and [[Billy Rose]] for ''Sweet & Low''<ref name=AtoC/>
* "[[Nagasaki (song)|Nagasaki]]" (1928) w. Mort Dixon<ref name=NtoR/>

==Notes==
{{Reflist}}

==References==
* {{cite book | last = Feinstein | first = Michael | author-link = Michael Feinstein | title = Nice Work If You Can Get It: My Life in Rhythm and Rhyme | publisher = [[Hachette Books#Hyperion Books|Hyperion Books]] | year = 1995 | isbn = 0-7868-6093-6 |url = https://archive.org/details/niceworkifyoucan0000fein| url-access = registration |publication-place = New York City (NY)}}
* {{cite book|last = Forte|first = Allen|title = The American Popular Ballad of the Golden Era, 1924–1950|publisher = Princeton University Press|year = 1995|location = Princeton (NJ)|url = https://books.google.com/books?id=G5uvzcgVrscC|isbn = 0-691-04399-X}}
* {{cite book| last=Hemming | first=Roy| title=The Melody Lingers on: The Great Songwriters and Their Movie Musicals | chapter =Harry Warren| year=1999 | publisher=[[HarperCollins]]| isbn=978-1557043801| url = https://books.google.com/books?id=c-nEd2lSb_oC|publication-place = New York City (NY)|orig-year = 1986}}
* {{Cite book|title = Easy to Remember: The Great American Songwriters and Their Songs|last = Zinsser|first = William K.|publisher = [[David R. Godine, Publisher]]|year = 2006|isbn = 9781567923254|location = Boston (MA)|url = https://books.google.com/books?id=JUjFNpgoZD0C}}
* {{Cite book|title = American Popular Song: The Great Innovators, 1900-1950|last = Wilder|first = Alex|publisher = Oxford University Press|year = 1972|isbn = 9780195014457|location = New York City (NY)|editor-last = Maher|editor-first = James T.|url = https://archive.org/details/americanpopulars00alec|url-access = registration}}

==Further reading==
*{{cite book | last = Thomas | first = Tony  | author-link = Tony Thomas (film historian) | title = Harry Warren and the Hollywood Musical | publisher = Citadel Press | year = 1975  | isbn = 0-8065-0468-4}}
*{{cite book | last = Raymond | first = Stacia | author-link = Stacia Raymond (producer) | title = At Last a Novel Based on the Life of Harry Warren | publisher = The Mentoris Project | year = 2021 | isbn = 978-1-947431-43-0}}

==External links==
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20060426011645/http://www.harrywarren.org/welcome.htm The Harry Warren website]
** [https://web.archive.org/web/20060426011516/http://www.harrywarren.org/bio.htm Biography and list of Warren's "major song successes"]
** [https://web.archive.org/web/20060408165158/http://www.harrywarren.org/songs.htm Full song list]
* [https://www.pbs.org/wnet/gperf/shows/songbook/multimedia/bio_warren.html Biography] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130103234349/https://www.pbs.org/wnet/gperf/shows/songbook/multimedia/bio_warren.html |date=2013-01-03 }} at the Encyclopedia of Composers and Songwriters
* [http://nfo.net/cal/tw2.html Chronology of some of Warren's best-known songs] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120224094247/http://nfo.net/cal/tw2.html |date=2012-02-24 }}
* [https://adp.library.ucsb.edu/names/103142 Harry Warren recordings] at the [[Discography of American Historical Recordings]].
* {{Shof|id=22|name=Harry Warren}}
* {{IMDb name|912851|Harry Warren}}
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* {{TCMDb title|id=636968}} Harry Warren: America's Foremost Composer (1933)
*[http://www.guidetomusicaltheatre.com/biographies/warren_harry.htm Biography at Guide to Musical Theatre]
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20120424031542/http://www.harrywarrenmusic.com/frameset.html HarryWarrenMusic.com site]
*{{Find a Grave|1821}}

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