Ned Washington

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Ned Washington (15 August 1901, Scranton, Pennsylvania – 20 December 1976 in Beverly Hills, California) was an American lyric writer.

Washington was nominated for eleven Academy Awards from 1940 to 1962. He won the Best Original Music award twice for "When You Wish Upon A Star" in Pinocchio in 1940 and "High Noon (Do Not Forsake Me, Oh My Darlin')" in High Noon in 1952.

Some of Washington's most famous songs include:

• "Rawhide" (music by Dimitri Tiomkin, 1958)
• "Wild Is the Wind" (music by Dimitri Tiomkin, 1956)
• "Gunfight at the O.K. Corral " (music by Dimitri Tiomkin, 1956)
• "The 3:10 to Yuma" (music by George Duning)
• "The High and the Mighty" (music by Dimitri Tiomkin, 1954)
• "My Foolish Heart" (music by Victor Young, 1950)
• "Green Dolphin Street" (music by Bronislau Kaper, 1947)
• "Stella by Starlight" (music by Victor Young), 1944)
• "The Nearness of You" (with Hoagy Carmichael, 1938)
• "Smoke Rings" (music by H. Eugene Gifford, 1933)
• "I'm Getting Sentimental Over You" (music by George Bassman, 1932)
• "I Don't Stand a Ghost of a Chance With You" (music by Victor Young, 1932)
• "Singin' in the Bathtub" (with Herb Magidson; music by Michael H. Cleary, 1929)

Ned Washington is a member of the Songwriters Hall of Fame.

[edit] External links

• Ned Washington at the Internet Movie Database
• [1] Do Not Forsake Me: The Ballad of High Noon and the Rise of the Movie Theme Song (Senses of Cinema)