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Gene Raskin

aka Eugene Raskin

Gene Raskin is credited on 2,097 releases across 575 albums tracked on Gatefold, active 1952–2025 — the collector-built map of who actually made the music.

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2,097

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575

Albums

Decades active

120

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Biography

Gene Raskin (born September 5, 1909, Bronx, New York, USA–died June 7, 2004, New York, New York, USA) was an American musician, songwriter, playwright, and author. In the early 1960s, Raskin and his wife Francesca played folk music around Greenwich Village in New York City. They released an album that included the song “Those Were the Days” (a Russian song composed by Boris Fomin (opens in a new tab) to which Raskin wrote the English lyrics and claimed as his own) that was initially covered by The Limeliters.
He also wrote three plays: “One’s a Crowd” (1949), a comedy about an atomic scientist who develops four personalities after his experiments go horribly wrong; “Amata” (1951), a romantic play; and later, “The Old Friend.” He published three books on architecture: “Architecturally Speaking” (1951); “Sequel to Cities” (1971); and “Architecture and People” (1974). He also wrote a novel, “Stranger in My Arms.”

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