Mack David

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Mack David (July 5, 1912 – December 30, 1993) was an American lyricist and songwriter best known for his roles in film and television, with a career that spanned the 1960s to the early 1970s.

For over a thousand songs, David was credited with writing lyrics, music, or both.

He was best known for his films Cinderella and Alice in Wonderland, as well as the majority-English lyrics through which Édith Piaf's signature song "La Vie en rose" gained a lot of attention among native speakers of English. David was the elder brother of American lyricist and songwriter Hal David.

David died in 1993 in his Rancho Mirage, California home, and his remains are buried at the Mount Sinai Memorial Park Cemetery in Los Angeles, California.

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Life and career

David was born in New York City on July 5, 1912 to a Jewish family. David intended to become an advocate and attended Cornell University and St. John's University Law School. Despite these initial ambitions, David started writing songs for Tin Pan Alley in New York in the mid-1940s. These initial successes led David to work in film and television production in Hollywood, California. David received eight Academy Award nominations for his film "Bibbidi-Boo," written by Al Hoffman and Jerry Livingston for Walt Disney's Cinderella (1951), as well as "My Wishing Doll" from Hawaii (1966). In 1975, David was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame. "Sunflower," David's "most remunescent" song, was released in 1948, and Frank Sinatra turned it into a hit, bringing it into the world. Hello, Dolly!, Jerry Herman's hit theme song, which was released over a decade ago, featured four bars of David's "Sunflower." Herman pleaded no fault for copyright offense before joining "Hello, Dolly" and claiming he had never heard David's "Sunflower" before being sued by David.

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Academy Award nominations

• 1950 "Bibbidi-Bobbidi-Boo" (with Jerry Livingston and Al Hoffman) from Cinderella
• 1959 "The Hanging Tree" (with Jerry Livingston) from The Hanging Tree
• 1961 "Bachelor in Paradise" (with Henry Mancini) from Bachelor in Paradise
• 1962 "Walk on the Wild Side" (with Elmer Bernstein) from Walk on the Wild Side
• 1963 "It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World" (with Ernest Gold) from It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
• 1964 "Hush, Hush, Sweet Charlotte" (with Frank De Vol) from Hush...Hush, Sweet Charlotte
• 1965 "The Ballad of Cat Ballou" (with Jerry Livingston) from Cat Ballou
• 1966 "My Wishing Doll" (with Elmer Bernstein) from Hawaii