Editing Jule Styne (section)

==Career==
Before Styne attended [[Chicago Musical College]], he had already attracted the attention of another teenager, [[Mike Todd]], later a successful film producer, who commissioned him to write a song for a musical act that he was creating. It was the first of over 1,500 published songs Styne composed in his career. His first hit, "Sunday", was written in 1926.

In 1929, Styne was playing with the [[Ben Pollack]] band.<ref name="Boggs">{{YouTube|id=R1KJSlbpFOA |title="Songwriters Jule Styne, Martin Charnin, Charles Strouse, Walter Bishop, Sr."}}</ref>

Styne was a vocal coach for [[20th Century Fox]] until [[Darryl F. Zanuck]] fired him because vocal coaching was "a luxury, and we're cutting out those luxuries." Zanuck told him he should write songs because "that's forever." Styne established his own dance band, which got him noticed in Hollywood, where he was championed by [[Frank Sinatra]] and began a collaboration with lyricist [[Sammy Cahn]]. He and Cahn wrote many songs for the movies, including "It's Been a Long, Long Time" (No. 1 for three weeks for [[Harry James]] and His Orchestra in 1945), "Five Minutes More", and the [[Academy Awards|Oscar]]-winning [[Three Coins in the Fountain (song)|title song]] for ''[[Three Coins in the Fountain (film)|Three Coins in the Fountain]]'' (1954). Ten of his songs were Oscar-nominated, many of them written with Cahn, including "[[I've Heard That Song Before]]" (No. 1 for 13 weeks for Harry James and His Orchestra in 1943), "[[I'll Walk Alone]]", "[[It's Magic]]" (a No. 2 hit for [[Doris Day]] in 1948), and "[[I Fall In Love Too Easily]]". He collaborated with [[Leo Robin]] on the score for the 1955 musical film ''[[My Sister Eileen]].''

In 1947, Styne wrote his first score for a [[Broadway theatre|Broadway]] musical, ''[[High Button Shoes]],'' with Cahn, and over the next several decades wrote the scores for many Broadway shows, most notably ''[[Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (musical)|Gentlemen Prefer Blondes]],'' ''[[Peter Pan (1954 musical)|Peter Pan]]'' (additional music), ''[[Bells Are Ringing (musical)|Bells Are Ringing]],'' ''[[Gypsy: A Musical Fable|Gypsy]],'' ''[[Do Re Mi (musical)|Do Re Mi]],'' ''[[Funny Girl (musical)|Funny Girl]],'' ''[[Lorelei (musical)|Lorelei]],'' ''[[Sugar (musical)|Sugar]]'' (with a story based on the movie ''[[Some Like It Hot]],'' but all new music), and the Tony-winning ''[[Hallelujah, Baby!]].''

Styne wrote original music for the short-lived themed [[amusement park]] [[Freedomland U.S.A.]] that opened on June 19, 1960.

His collaborators included [[Sammy Cahn]], [[Leo Robin]], [[Betty Comden]] and [[Adolph Green]], [[Stephen Sondheim]], [[Bob Hilliard]], and [[Bob Merrill]].  
 
He wrote career-altering Broadway scores for a wide variety of major stars, including [[Phil Silvers]], [[Carol Channing]], [[Mary Martin]], [[Judy Holliday]], [[Ethel Merman]], and an up-and-coming [[Barbra Streisand]].

He was the subject of ''[[This Is Your Life (British TV series)|This Is Your Life]]'' for British television in 1978 when he was surprised by [[Eamonn Andrews]] in New York's Time Square.