Edward Heyman

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Edward Heyman (14 March 1907 in New York — 16 October 1981 in Jalisco, Mexico) was an American musician and lyricist. He studied at the University of Michigan where he had an early start on his career writing college musicals. After graduating from college Heyman moved back to New York City where he started working with a number of experienced musicians like Victor Young ("When I Fall in Love"), Dana Suesse ("You Ought to Be in Pictures") and Johnny Green ("Body and Soul", "Out of Nowhere", "I Cover the Waterfront", and "Easy Come, Easy Go").

From 1939 to 1954, Heyman contributed songs to film scores including That Girl From Paris, Curly Top, Kissing Bandit, Delightfully Dangerous and Northwest Outpost.

Arguably Heyman's biggest hit is his composition "Body and Soul", written in 1930, often recorded (in 1939 by Coleman Hawkins and since by many others), which frequently crops up in films, most recently in the 2002 film Catch Me If You Can. Heyman also wrote "Through the Years", "For Sentimental Reasons", "Blame It on My Youth" (with Oscar Levant), "Love Letters", "Blue Star" (Theme from the TV Series Medic), "The Wonder of You", "Boo-Hoo", "Bluebird of Happiness" and "You're Mine, You".
Heyman's other collaborators include Morton Gould, Nacio Herb Brown, Rudolf Friml, Al Sherman, Abner Silver,Vincent Youmans, John Jacob Loeb and Carmen Lombardo, Sandor Harmati and Harry Parr Davies, Oscar Levant, Sigmund Romberg, Arthur Schwartz and Ray Henderson.