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Kay Swift

real name Katharine Faulkner Swift

Kay Swift is credited on 1,185 releases across 327 albums tracked on Gatefold, active 1950–2025 — the collector-built map of who actually made the music.

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1,185

Credits

327

Albums

8

Decades active

193

In collections

Biography

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19 April 1897 – 28 January 1993
American composer of popular and classical music, first woman to score a complete musical, Fine and Dandy.
Married to banker James Paul Warburg from 1918 to 1934. Using the pen name Paul James, he wrote the lyrics of two hits of her musical: Can't We Be Friends? (1929) and Fine And Dandy (1930).

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Credited work

1,185 releases · 327 albums · active 1950–2025

  • Performance · 1,199
  • Other credits · 35

Studios: Carnegie Hall · Capitol Studios · Van Gelder Studio, Hackensack, New Jersey · The Complex

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