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John Redmond

real name John Redmond Lynskey

John Redmond is credited on 937 releases across 300 albums tracked on Gatefold, active 1950–2023 — the collector-built map of who actually made the music.

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300

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American lyricist, singer, and music publisher.
Born in Clinton, Massachusetts on February 25, 1906 - died on August 26, 1982.
He was mostly known for his songwriting skills. With James Cavanaugh and Frank Weldon he wrote “The Man with the Mandolin” (1939) and two carols, “Christmas in Killarney” and “Thirty-Two Feet and Eight Little Tails (Dasher, Dancer, Prancer, Vixen, Comet, Cupid, Donner, Blitzen).” A collaboration with Cavanaugh and Nat Simon produced “The Gaucho Serenade” in 1939. May artists of that era has sung his tunes, a.o. Frank Sinatra, Billie Holiday and Rosemary Clooney. Redmond is best remembered for his contribution to “I Let a Song Go Out of My Heart,” written with Duke Ellington, Henry Nemo and Irving Mills in 1938.
Redmond was a past president of the Song Writers Guild of America and a lifetime member of ASCAP.

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937 releases · 300 albums · active 1950–2023

  • Performance · 950

Studios: Van Gelder Studio, Hackensack, New Jersey · Montreux Jazz Festival · The Hollywood Palladium · Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey

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