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Thomas Montgomery Adair (June 15, 1913 – May 24, 1988) was an American songwriter, composer, and screenwriter.
Adair was born on 15 June 1913,[citation needed] in Newton, Kansas, where his father owned a clothing store; he was the only child of William Adair and Madge Cochran.
Around 1923, the family moved to Los Angeles, where Tom Adair attended Los Angeles Junior College. In his early career he worked as a complaints clerk at the local power company, while writing poetry and song lyrics in his spare time.
In 1941, Adair met Matt Dennis in a club and the duo began writing songs together. Adair's songwriting career took him to New York during the 1940s where he penned several Broadway hits, and worked with Tommy Dorsey and Frank Sinatra. He later returned to Los Angeles and worked with writer James B. Allardice on scripts for sitcoms.
In 1949, Adair married Frances Adelle Jeffords; in later life, they worked together on songs and teleplays for Disney. They had four children.
After meeting Matt Dennis in 1940, Adair started working with him, moving to New York when the duo were hired by Tommy Dorsey. Adair and Dennis wrote numerous songs for Dorsey, Bing Crosby, and Dinah Shore, and penned Frank Sinatra's hit "Let's Get Away from It All." In 1942, Matt Dennis joined the Army Air Corps. Adair moved on to work with Dick Uhl and hit song "In the Blue of the Evening" with Alfonso d'Artega. About the collaboration among Adair, Dennis, and Sinatra, Vanity Fair magazine said "Sinatra's first recording away from Dorsey took place at RCA’s Los Angeles studios on the afternoon of Monday, January 19, 1942. He had chosen the song for his attempt as a soloist, a ballad, naturally, all dripping with romance: it was 'The Night We Called It a Day', by these new kids Matt Dennis and Tom Adair, who’d written 'Let’s Get Away from It All' and 'Violets for Your Furs.' "
From June 1944, Adair worked with composer Gordon Jenkins in writing a complete score every week for the Auto-Lite radio show, which featured singer Dick Haymes.
He wrote many hit songs, including "Let's Get Away From It All", "Everything Happens to Me", "In the Blue of the Evening", "Will You Still Be Mine?", "Violets for Your Furs", "The Night We Called It a Day", "The Skyscraper Blues", "A Home-Sweet-Home in the Army", "How Will I Know My Love?", "Sing a Smiling Song", "Paul Bunyan", "There's No You", and "Weep No More".
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Tom Adair
Thomas Montgomery Adair (June 15, 1913 – May 24, 1988) was an American songwriter, composer, and screenwriter.
Adair was born on 15 June 1913,[citation needed] in Newton, Kansas, where his father owned a clothing store; he was the only child of William Adair and Madge Cochran.
Around 1923, the family moved to Los Angeles, where Tom Adair attended Los Angeles Junior College. In his early career he worked as a complaints clerk at the local power company, while writing poetry and song lyrics in his spare time.
In 1941, Adair met Matt Dennis in a club and the duo began writing songs together. Adair's songwriting career took him to New York during the 1940s where he penned several Broadway hits, and worked with Tommy Dorsey and Frank Sinatra. He later returned to Los Angeles and worked with writer James B. Allardice on scripts for sitcoms.
In 1949, Adair married Frances Adelle Jeffords; in later life, they worked together on songs and teleplays for Disney. They had four children.
After meeting Matt Dennis in 1940, Adair started working with him, moving to New York when the duo were hired by Tommy Dorsey. Adair and Dennis wrote numerous songs for Dorsey, Bing Crosby, and Dinah Shore, and penned Frank Sinatra's hit "Let's Get Away from It All." In 1942, Matt Dennis joined the Army Air Corps. Adair moved on to work with Dick Uhl and hit song "In the Blue of the Evening" with Alfonso d'Artega. About the collaboration among Adair, Dennis, and Sinatra, Vanity Fair magazine said "Sinatra's first recording away from Dorsey took place at RCA’s Los Angeles studios on the afternoon of Monday, January 19, 1942. He had chosen the song for his attempt as a soloist, a ballad, naturally, all dripping with romance: it was 'The Night We Called It a Day', by these new kids Matt Dennis and Tom Adair, who’d written 'Let’s Get Away from It All' and 'Violets for Your Furs.' "
From June 1944, Adair worked with composer Gordon Jenkins in writing a complete score every week for the Auto-Lite radio show, which featured singer Dick Haymes.
He wrote many hit songs, including "Let's Get Away From It All", "Everything Happens to Me", "In the Blue of the Evening", "Will You Still Be Mine?", "Violets for Your Furs", "The Night We Called It a Day", "The Skyscraper Blues", "A Home-Sweet-Home in the Army", "How Will I Know My Love?", "Sing a Smiling Song", "Paul Bunyan", "There's No You", and "Weep No More".