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CARL SIGMAN WAS BORN in Brooklyn, New York in 1909. After a childhood highlighted by baseball games and classical piano lessons, he graduated from Thomas Jefferson High School, and his mother gave him the ultimatum of becoming a doctor or a lawyer. Since he did not like the sight of blood, he chose law. He attended NYU Law School and was admitted to the New York State Bar. But music was his love, and he never practiced law. As his wife Terry Sigman would later put it, Carl felt music was more up his (Tin Pan) alley.
One of Carl’s friends as a young man was Johnny Mercer, already an important songwriter. Carl’s first published song was “Just Remember,” a collaboration with Mercer that became a hit in England in 1936. Although he loved Carl’s melodies, Johnny advised him to write lyrics, on the theory that he had already shown he had a way with words and tune writers were a dime a dozen. Mercer moved to Los Angeles, embarking on one of the most remarkable careers in the history of popular music, while Carl continued to make his way in New York.
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A Day in the Life of a Fool
Arrivederci Roma: Goodbye to Rome
Arrivederci Roma (leadsheet)
Crazy She Calls Me
Ebb Tide
Ebb Tide (leadsheet)
I Could Have Told You
Love Story (Where Do I Begin)
Pennsylvania 6-5000
Pennsylvania 6-5000 (solo piano)
Shangri-La
What Now My Love
There's No Christmas Like ...
Walter Winchell Rhumba (solo piano)
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